各位同學，大家好，我是來自樸新環球教育北京學校的口語老師焦海雲。今天給大家解析一道2019一月份的一道輪換題 An event in history in your country。我們先來看下具體題目內容：
An event in history in your country
You should say:
o When and where it happened
o How you know it
o What happened
o And how you feel about this event
這道題目是一道典型的事件類題目，我們需要解釋清楚整個事件的過程，可以按照5W1H（what 什麼事件，when 什麼時間發生的；where 在哪裡發生的；who 主要人物有誰；why 發生這個事件的起因是什麼；How 我對這個事件的感受，如給我帶來了怎樣的啟示）的形式來描述事件。
今天，我們就以屈原投江這個事件為例，給大家解析這個題目。
先來看一些我們在歷史題目裡面會用到的話題相關詞。
Warring States Period 戰國時代
chaos n. 混亂 economic/political chaos
advocate v. 提倡
fail to do sth 未能做成某事
competent a. 稱職的
prosperous a. 繁榮的，興盛的 SYN flourishing/ affluent
achieve one's ambition 實現雄心壯志
commit subside 自殺
nobility n. 高貴的品質
integrity n. 正直
commemorate v. 記念
enjoy quality time with sb. 享受(增進感情的)黃金時光
The historical event that I would like to talk about is Qu Yuan Tou Jiang. The ancient Chinese poet Qu committed suicide by drowning himself on 5th day of the 5th lunar month.
Basically, what happened was that during the Warring States Period, the country Chu was a chaos. (And the high taxes made life impossible for the common people. )In order to improve this situation, Qu advo-cated reformation. But his expectation failed to meet the reality. (The king wasn't competent to run the country, people only cared about themselves instead of putting their country first. )For people like QuYuan who had great ambition to make his country more prosper-ous, failing to achieve his political ambition was unbearable and to live was meaningless. So he committed suicide by drowning himself in Mi Luo River to show his nobility and integrity.
As for the way I knew it, actually when I was a kid, my grandpa used to tell this story to me and it has been compiled in our history textbook as well.
Finally, with regard to my feeling about it, (well first of all, I have great admi-ration for Qu Yuan, not just because of his integrity, but for the persistency in pursuing his ambition. ) And as well as that, this historical event is the origin of Dragon Boat Festival. On 5th day of the 5th lunar month, we eat sticky rice dumplings and hold dragon boat race to commemorate Qu. And it's also a public holiday in which we can get together and enjoy quality time with our family.
So this is basally the historical event I want to share with you. I guess that's it
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