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Ⅰ. Talking ab out the pictures Look at the pictures above and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the above pictures.
2. Were you the same in your childhood?
Ⅱ. Pair wor k
1. Tell your partner about some interesting experiences in your childhood.
2. What impressed you most when you were a child?
3. Read the following letters and try to appreciate the fun.
Childr en??s Letters to GOD
Dear God,
My imaginary friend said you don??t exist. He is a giant turtle named Rosy and I believe him.
Dear God,
Carl Marx said that you are the opiate of the masses. Well，it??s obvious to me that Carl Marx never did opiates because this shit is excellent!
Dear God,
My mommy must like you. She shouts your name really loud when my uncles come to visit.
Dear God,
I have been a good boy this year. For Christmas I want a lionel train set，a red bike with a banana seat and sissy bars，some mighty morphing Power rangers，and one of those hops with a hose head on it.
And would you please give my stupid sister leprosy?
Dear God,
I know what you are but what am I?
Dear God,
I have cancer，and even I don??t believe in you.
PS: please make the pain stop.
Dear God,
Why do you make war? It is because you like to see people get blowed up，like in Star Wars? When I grow up I want to kill people just like you and Steven Segal.
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Ⅰ. Grou p d iscu ssion
Describe the pictures above and answer the following questions:
1. What??re the real differences between being a child and being an adult?
2. Is it necessary or significant to keep a sense of wonder all one??s life?
3. Have you ever been criticized by your parents because of your curiosity?
4. How will you treat your kids??curiosity?
Ⅱ. A game: telling fa iry ta les
Have you ever read the English versions of the following books? Try to recall some of the tales and tell them to your classmates. You may also retell the story of The Pr incess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen given below.
《安徒生童话》( Anderson??s Fairy Tales)
《格林童话》( Grimms??Fa iry Ta les)
《木偶奇遇记》( The Adventures of Pinocchio)
《艾丽斯漫游奇境记》( Alice in Wonder land)
《指环王》( The Lord of the Rings)
《哈利·波特与魔法石》( Har ry Potter and the Sorcerer??s Stone)
The Pr incess and the Pea
by Hans Christian Andersen
( 1835)
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to try to find one，but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough，but it was difficult for him to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad，for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning，and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate，and the old king went to open it.
It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But，good gracious!
what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.
“Well，we??ll soon find that out，”thought the old queen. But she said nothing，went into the bedroom，took all the bedding off the bedstead，and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea，and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.
On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
“Oh，very badly! ”said she.“I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed，but I was lying on something hard，so that I am black and blue all over my body. It??s horrible! ”
Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
So the prince took her for his wife，for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum，where it may still be seen，if no one has stolen it.
There，that is a true story.
Ⅳ. A song
Sweet Child O??mine
by Gun??s & Roses
She??s got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stared too long
I??d probably break down and cry
Oh sweet child o??mine
Oh sweet love of mine
She??s got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me
Of a warm safe place
Where as a child I??d hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by
Oh sweet child o??mine
Oh sweet love of mine
Oh sweet child o??mine
Oh sweet love of mine
Oh sweet child o??mine
Oh sweet love of mine
Where do we go
Where do we go now
. . .
Sweet child o??mine