Day 57 Thanksgiving

Day 57-英语学习打卡
Date:22nd Nov 8：30-9：30
Topic:English Central-Thanksgiving

明天，也就是每年11月的第四个周四，是美国的感恩节，今天分享一段English Central上关于感恩节的小对话。

You know, Thanksgiving is coming up soon.

Sure, but I don't know too much about it. We have a different Thanksgiving celebration in Korea.

Here in the US, we always celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.

Right, so it's next Thursday then?

Yes. I really like Thanksgiving because it's a family holiday and it's not overly commercialized.

What do you mean?

Well, it's not all about spending lots of money on presents,...
...and you are not inundated with television advertising around Thanksgiving the way you are around Christmas time.

I see what you mean.

On Thanksgiving, the main focus is to get together with your family and have a huge, delicious meal.

Oh, I see.

学习笔记：
最近交流英语写作的特别多，觉得Raz的阅读选文逻辑条理特别清晰，框架和表达思路的方式特别赞。也有的父母开始发愁，Raz高级别的Quiz除了选择题，开始出现开放性的问题，不知道该如何指导。不仅仅是Raz，我们平时在学英语的时候不妨都多留意，最好的写作起步就是仿写。当然，绝对不是生搬硬套的仿写，而是要读懂吃透行文架构的模仿，和再创造。

以今天的这个感恩节对话为例，就是一个内容完整，层次清晰的段落，回答了Why do you like Thanksgiving这个开放性的问题。

→Topic sentence开头：I really like Thanksgiving because it's a family holiday and it's not overly commercialized.

这里要注意Restate the question，答题要完整，不能简略回答，直接说because...

→Detail 1对比：Well, it's not all about spending lots of money on presents,...
...and you are not inundated with television advertising around Thanksgiving the way you are around Christmas time.

→Detail 2 经过上面和圣诞节的对比，所以感恩节是怎么样的节日：On Thanksgiving, the main focus is to get together with your family and have a huge, delicious meal.

所以，回答开放性的问题大体就是这样的思路：主题句+若干个支持性的细节+总结。