高二英語Festival around the world教案
li fang: i don’t think she will come to meet me. i look forward to being alone all my life. she is laughing at me. oh, my god. i look like a fool, being alone on this valentine’s day, with nobody loving me in this world.
manager: so hold your breath for me to calm you down. don’t drown your sadness in coffee.
li fang: it is obvious that you want me to leave, don’t you? what ar e you doing? are you wiping the table? why did you sit down and turn on the tv?
manager: no, i won’t ask you to go. look! it’s a sad chinese story about love, on tv.
li fang: i do not watch tv plays very much.
manager: but this one you must watch! it tells about a weaving girl and a herd boy. they have fallen in love with each other.
li fang: are they married?
manager: yes, they got married secretly. but the mother of the girl, the goddess, doesn’t lik e her daughter to be married to a human. see she becomes angry and orders her to return to the heaven.
li fang: how about niulang? will he follow the girl back to the heaven?
manager: yes, he tries to follow her. but…
li fang: but what?
manager: see the river? the milky way? it is impossible for this boy to cross the river.
li fang: i see. the mother has decided to let the couple meet once a year. but how do they cross the river, the milky way?
manager: the heavenly magpies make a bridge of their wings so the couple can cross the river to meet.
li fang: when do they meet?
manager: they meet once every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
li fang: the tv play is over and i have to be off now, to meet my girl. but where is my girl?
hu jin: why? it’s you, li fang? why didn’t you come to meet me? i have been waiting for you ever since 7 this evening.
li fang: i am heart-broken. you leave me alone in the coffee shop, waiting for you the whole evening. are you in love with someone else?
hu jin: i was waiting for you at the tea shop. did you forget that we agreed to meet there?
li fang: is it the tea shop, not the coffee shop?
hu jin: absolutely!
li fang: sorry! i apologise to you. my memory failed me.
hu jin: so you set off for home? anyway you are here. now here you are, the gift from me. you know it’s the valentine’s day?
li fang: but, but i have thrown mine away?
hu jin: why?
li fang: because i don’t want them to remind me of you. i thought you would never turn up in front of me, to see me, to love me.
hu jin: i passed a man on the corner on my way here looking for you. i heard him singing the song of qiqiaojie. i thought it was you. so i waved at him. but it turned out to be a stranger.