Tuesday, January 12, 2016

WeChat ESL Class on Jan, 16, 2016 The First People Disobeyed God.

A. High Lights of your week
B. Breaking News in the world
C. Short Story: Cat and Dog Discuss Humans
The cat and the dog were talking. The cat said, "Humans treat us better than you. If we turn up our nose at the cat food they serve us, they buy us another brand. If we're sleepy, we can sleep on the pillows in their bed." The dog said, "But humans take us out for walks. They throw Frisbees for us to catch. They put us in their tub and give us baths." The cat said, "They don't take us for walks because there's a litter box in the house. If we want to catch something, we catch birds or mice. They don't give us baths because we clean ourselves. And one more thing—they respect our independence. They don't put a chain on our neck and a leash on the chain." The dog said, "I'd rather have a leash than have their kids pulling my tail all the time."

D. American Idioms
  1. Back Seat Driver
  2. Back To Square One: 
  3. Back To The Drawing Board: 
  4. Baker's Dozen:
  5. Barking Up The Wrong Tree: 
  6. Beat A Dead Horse: 
  7. Beating Around The Bush: 
  8. Bend Over Backwards: 
  9. Between A Rock And A Hard Place: 
  10. Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: 

E. Use the simple present tense. Put the following words into a sentence.
  1. a / fix / mechanic / cars
  2. at / the / cry / night / baby
  3. east / the / rise / the / in / sun
  4. eat / she / breakfast / for / carrots
  5. her / children / worry / always / about / she
  6. brush / breakfast / his / he / after / teeth
  7. speak / students / the / the / classroom / English / in
  8. people / lawyer / a / in / defend / trouble

F. Bible Lesson
Lesson Two: The First People Disobeyed God 
A. Discuss the following questions before reading. 
1. Was the Garden of Eden a nice place to live? Who lived there? 
2. In your opinion, where is the nicest place to go for vacation? 
3. When you go to that nice place, are there things you can and cannot do? 
4. Who decides what you can and cannot do? 

B. Read the following passage. 
The snake was sneakier than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. One day it came to the woman and asked, “Did God tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” The woman answered, “God said we could eat fruit from any tree in the garden, except the one in the middle. He told us not to eat fruit from that tree or even to touch it. If we do, we will die.” “No, you won‟t!” the snake replied. “God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does.” The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too. Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves. Late in the afternoon a breeze began to blow, and the man and woman heard the Lord God walking in the garden. They were frightened and hid behind some trees. The Lord called out to the man and asked, “Where are you?” The man answered, “I was naked, and when I heard you walking through the garden, I was frightened and hid!” “How did you know you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat any fruit from that tree in the middle of the garden?” “It was the woman you put here with me,” the man said. “She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.” The Lord God then asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The snake tricked me,” she answered. “And I ate some of that fruit.” 8 So the Lord God said to the snake: “Because of what you have done, you will be the only animal to suffer this curse—for as long as you live, you will crawl on your stomach and eat dirt. You and this woman will hate each other; your descendants and hers will always be enemies. One of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.” Then the Lord said to the woman, “You will suffer terribly when you give birth. But you will still desire your husband, and he will rule over you.” The Lord said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food. Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles. You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.” The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live. Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife. The Lord said, “These people now know the difference between right and wrong, just as we do. But they must not be allowed to eat fruit from the tree that lets them live forever.” So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made. Then God put winged creatures at the entrance to the garden and a flaming, flashing sword to guard the way to the life-giving tree. Genesis 3:1-24 (CEV)

C. Answer the following questions by writing a complete sentence. 
1. What did the snake want the woman to do? 
2. How did the snake trick the woman? 
3. Why did the man and woman hide from God? 
4. What will it be like for the man and woman outside the garden? 
5. How long will the man and woman live outside the garden? 

No comments:

Post a Comment