Unit 3 Festivals and celebrations at home and abroad-高中趣味英语口语话题场景对话（上）

Unit 3 Festivals and celebrations at home and abroad 国内外的节日和庆祝活动 Part One (第一小节) vocabulary（词汇）: abroad /əˈbrɑːd/ 到国外，在海外 commercial /kəˈmɝːʃəl/ 商业的；贸易的；营利的 countless /ˈkaʊntləs/ 无数的，多得数不清的 discount /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ 折扣；贴现率 origin /ˈɔːrədʒɪn/ 起源；原点；出身；开端 trend /trend/ 趋势；倾向；方位 occur /əˈkɝː/ 发生；出现；存在 Dialogue（对话）: A: How do you like festivals at home and abroad. （你对国内外的节日有什么看法？） B: Nowadays, there are so many traditional and public festivals. It is fun and fantastic!（现在有很多的传统节日和公共节日。很有意思，很棒！） A: But they aren’t all important. In my opinion, merchants are more willing to celebrate each festival.（但是它们并不都是重要的。在我看来。是那些商家们更愿意庆祝每个节日。） B: Sounds reasonable. Whenever a festival comes, shopping seems to be the only event.（听起来有道理。无论什么节日来临，购物好像都是唯一的活动。） A: Take Christmas for example, most people just take it as a shopping time. （比如圣诞节，大部分人只是把它当作购物时间。） B: But I don’t think it is a bad trend.（可是我不认为这是一个坏趋势。） A: I still think we should have better ways to celebrate festivals, especial those traditional