Saint Lucias Day December 13th
On December 13th, one of the shortest days of winter, girls in Sweden dress up as Santa Lucia wearing a white dress and a crown of candles . Boys carry a candle and wear a kind of white pyjama. They wear hats that are pointy with golden stars on them.
In Sweden we do not wear candles anymore because before girls caught their hair on fire very often. Today we use modern candles with batteries in them.
After lunch most schools close on Santa Lucia day around noon. It is a national holiday which comes on the 13th of December. There are also special foods for Lucias Day like spicy gingerbread biscuits. In big cities in Sweden there are beauty contests where some women dress up as Santa Lucia and the judges and the people vote for the Santa Lucia of the year. In schools people sing Santa Lucias song. The words in Swedish and English are in the right-hand column.
Who was Saint Lucia?
Saint Lucia was a saint because of her kindness and her love. She was an Italian Christian who lived in Sicily in the 4th century. Some people believe she once visited Sweden. December 13th is also her feast day.
The way she became a saint was that a man who loved her and Lucia didnt like him, Lucias mother asked her to marry the man but she refused so the man heard about this and he said he would burn her. But Lucia prayed to God to have the power to survive the fire. Because of her kindness to others her wish was granted. The man tried to burn her but she had the power to withstand fire so the man got a sword and stuck it into Lucias throat. Still Lucia survived for three more hours speaking beautiful words.
There is also another story for her being a saint which goes like this.
Saint Lucia was a very kind person and there was a man who loved her very much but she didnt like him very much. The thing the man loved most about Saint Lucia was her eyes. Then she gave him her eyes but a miracle happened she grew back her eyes but this time they were even more beautiful then ever. The man asked for those eyes but she refused to give them so the man wanted to kill her and he killed her with a knife into her heart.
Song for Santa Lucia
The night goes with weighty step round yard and round earth. The suns departure leaves the woods brooding. There in our dark house, appears with lighted candles Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia.
用助动词进行强调句类型
动词的语态
过去完成时的应用
主谓一致的概念
反意疑问句的结构
一般现在时代替完成时
need/want/require/worth doing sth.
部分倒装句的应用
主动形式表示被动意思的情况
短语动词的被动语态形式
过去进行时的应用
现在进行时的应用
将来进行时的应用
一般将来时的用法
将来完成时的应用
否定词开头的部分倒装句的情况
一般现在时代替进行时
表示“据说”“相信”的词组
不用进行时的动词
时态与时间状语
as, though 引导的倒装句
动词let的用法
句子的种类
be going to / will的区别
used to / be used to的区别
since的四种用法
过去式和现在完成时的区别
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一般过去时的用法
only在句首要倒装的情况
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