(1) About the Term Explanation
How to write? Just Following the three questions: " What is it? What is that for?
Why should we care?"
(2) The usage of writing down a name of a book or a story
a. The name of a short story--> using the quotation eg. "The Little Mermaid"
b. The name of a whole book--> using the underline eg. Charlotte's Web
(3) Essay
While describing the leadership qualities, we must list the speciality of the character. Take
Charlotte for instance, she was friendly and trust-worth, and she kept her promise.
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2. Christmas Song－ It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
(1) It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (lyrics)－ From Andy Williams
(2) Good word and phrases in the lyrics
a. go caroling 報佳音
b. marshmallow 棉花糖 *They always toast the marshmallow first before eating it.
c. be glowing
c. be glowing
d. mistletoe 檞寄生
*They believe kissing underneath the mistletoe can make their love last forever.
eg. There is a scene showed this tradition in the movie－ While You Were
Sleeping.
-- Jack and Lucy happened to stand underneath the
mistletoe, and
Jack's family asked them to kiss
each other because it's the
tradition.
e. gay---> Initially, it only means the feelings of happy and enjoyed but now it is the
another name of Homosexual.
f. holiday greeting
g. call on someone 拜訪....
(3) Skills of reading the lyrics
a. Put emphasis on nouns and verbs.
b. Pause while you are reading the "of".
c. Indicate the pause for the students.
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3. Mother Goose
(1) Introduction of the book－ Mother Goose
a. Mother Goose is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
* There are not only nursery rhymes in Mother Goose, but some short fairy tales.
b. The real author of this book, Mr. Charles Perrault, gathered some oral literature and
created this book.
c. Some of the stories were re-written by the Brothers Grimm.
d. There are some famous short stories in the book such as "Little Red Riding Hood" and
"The Queen of Hearts".
e. "Little Red Riding Hood"--> Hood is a kind of hat. When students faced the graduation,
they would have a Hood Ceremony.
f. "The Queen of Hearts"--> The illustrator of this short story is William Wallance Denslow.
The Queen loves to off someone's head. She has bad temper.
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
a. In reality, Mother Goose is an imaginary author.
b. She always wear a bonnet hat.
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4. Genres in Mother Goose
(1) Definition of the nursery rhymes
Nursery rhyme is used for traditional poems and songs for young children. The oldest
children's songs of which we have records are lullabies.
* nursery--nurse (有照護.養育之意)-- nursing mom (照顧嬰兒的母親)
(2) Definition of the fairy tales
Fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such
as fairies, goblins, elves,trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and
usually magic or enchantments.
* Ogre- It is a large, hideous creature which loves to eat human-beings.
Shrek is a typical feature of an ogre.
(3) 補充 Christmas Pantomime
a. It is a form of musical comedy stage production, designed for families. It was developed in
the United Kingdom and mostly performed during the Christmas and New Year season.
b. Some may think this kind of performance is a little bit tacky.
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5. Comparing the fable, parable, and allegory. (中文都稱寓言)
(1) Fable
A fable is a succinct fictional story that features animals or inanimate objects which
are anthropomorphized, and that leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson. eg. Aesop's fable
(2) Parable
a. Parable differs from a fable in that fables employ animals and inanimate objects, or forces
of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. (It means there is no
any animal in parables)
b. It was always used in New Testament (新約聖經).
eg. Prodigal Son (who was wastefully extravagant) 浪子回頭
eg. Lost Sheep 迷途羔羊
Prodigal Son 
Lost Sheep 
Lost Sheep
(3) Allegory
a. Allegory is a literary device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art
form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. As a literary device, an allegory in its most
general sense is an extended metaphor.
b. Authors commonly uses names associated with morality and virtue.
eg. The Faerie Queene and Edmund Spenser
c. Paradox literature (似是而非的文學) --> critical thinking or dilemma
*di- 有分割的意思 eg. divide
Quotes: Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would
have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.
eg. Othello (a tragedy), these are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh in the alehouse.
* alehouse 小酒館--ale 餐前酒-- ginger ale薑汁汽水
(I love this brand)
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6. Vocabularies and Phrases
(1) go caroling 報佳音
(2) call on someone 拜訪
(3) nurse 照護;養育 *nurse(s) (英式)幼稚園說法
(4) folkloric 民俗的;大眾的 *folk 大眾
(5) tavern 小酒館 (alehouse)
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