1. 1 A Gift Passage 6

2. 2 What gift All about gifts Let’s read the story About Bible Retell the story Time for fun

3. 3 What Gifts ☻ What gifts do you expect for the following special days?

4. 4 Your Birthday What gifts do you want for your birthday? How will/did you spend your birthday this year?

5. 5 Your Graduation Day 1.Who are you going to invite to your graduation ceremony? 2.What are you going to do on you graduation day? 3.What gifts do you expect from your parents and friends ？

6. 6 What gifts do you want to do on Valentine’s day? Valentine’s Day What gifts will you prepare for Valentine’s Day?

7. 7 Christmas Who are you going to send gifts to for Christmas? What gifts are you going to send for Christmas? Why?

8. 8 Do you Know? There are other occasions, which are also very important for westerners, for example: ☻ Baby shower ☻ House –warming

9. 9 About Gifts ☻ Do Chinese people always send expensive gifts on special occasions? What about westerners? ☻ How to receive gifts? ☻ How to show your gratefulness?

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11. … he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom…

12. …and knowing his father could well afford it,…

13. 13 As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car.

14. 14 Finally, on the morning of his graduation,…his father called him into his private study.

15. 15 His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him.

16. 16 He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.

17. 17 Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man’s name embossed in gold.

18. 18 Angry, he rose his voice to his father, and said “With all your money, you give me a Bible ？ ”

19. 19 …and stormed out of the house.

20. 20 …He had a beautiful home… and wonderful family… Many years passed…

21. 21 But realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. &

22. 22 …Mr. Smith has passed away … willed all his possessions to John Smith Jr… B efore he could make arrangements…

23. 23 When he arrived at his father’s house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.

24. 24 … saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had left it years ago.

25. 25 With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse,

26. 26 “And if ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly father which is in heaven, give to those who ask Him?” --- Matt 7:11

27. 27 Jul. 5 th, 1983. paid in full As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible.

28. 28 How many times do we miss God’s blessings because we can’t see past our own desires?

29. 29 How much do you know about the Bible? Christianity

30. 30 ♣ Why is it 2006 now? ♣ What does cross mean? ♣ What is Adam’s apple? ♣ What does “fig leaf” mean? ♣ Why are there seven days in a week?

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33. 33 Directions Prepare a gift and a card. Pick a student number. Send the card and gift to the classmate, whose students number you have picked. Wrote some greetings and blessing on the card.

34. 课件作者： 作者单位： 刘仙泉 西安交通大学