美国联邦假日"总统日"为谁庆祝?（from XWSW）
Before you watch
Do you know who is honored by Presidents Day?
Background
What is the origin of Presidents Day?
总统日的由来
Presidents' Day was originally established in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government.
When is Presidents Day?
Traditionally celebrated on February 22—Washington's actual day of birth—the holiday became popularly known as Presidents' Day after it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers. (美国统一假期法案,假期挪到周一，3天小长假)
Who is George Washington？
美国“国父”，首任总统 (图1)
Who is on the US one dollar bill?
George Washington (图2)
Who is on the US five dollar bill?
Abraham Lincoln 被称为“伟大的解放者”，他代表了美国人“人人生来平等”的基本价值观。 (图3)
Whose Faces are on Mount Rushmore?
Mount Rushmore National Memorial 俗称总统山，正式名称是“国立拉什莫峰纪念地”,位于South Dakota(美国南达科他州),山上刻着4位美国总统的巨型半身雕像。 (图4)
从左到右分别是George Washington（“国父”）， Thomas Jefferson（《独立宣言》 执笔人）、 Theodore Roosevelt（昵称Teddy，美西战争中战功显著，又称老罗斯福，他的侄子Franklin D.Roosevelt 带领美国赢得二战胜利），Abraham Lincoln（大解放者，发布了“解放黑奴宣言”）
Vocabulary
1.precedent
If there is a precedent for an action or event, it has happened before, and this can be regarded as an argument for doing it again.
[例]Those, after all, are the precedents.
While you watch
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2 Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说- Abraham Lincoln最著名的演说
3 Can you name all U.S. Presidents?
True or false（30%）
1.Most Americans believe Presidents Day is about every president we've had. But that's kind of wrong, at least as far as its origin goes.
2.It became a state holiday in 1885, and as far as the U.S government's concerned, it's still Washington's birthday, not Presidents Day.
3.Even though Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday were only days apart, Congress refused to combine them in the Presidents Day, though that's what many Americans do.
Choice （more than one answer is possible）（30%）
1.Presidents Day is celebrated on _________
A.Sunday
B.Monday
C.Tuesday
D.Thursday
2.Presidents Day was originally __________'s birthday,on February 22nd.
A.George Washington
B.Thomas Jefferson
C.Abraham Lincoln
D.Washington
3.Which of following President is mentioned in the first video?
A.Thomas Jefferson
B.Calvin Coolidge
C.Teddy Roosevelt
D.George Washington
E.Abraham Lincoln
Fill in the blanks（40%）
We have come to d_________ a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their l______ that this nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and p________ that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot d_________…we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow…this ground.
The brave men,living and dead, who s________ here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The worldwill little note nor long r_______ what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather, to be d_________ here to the u__________ work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here d_________ to the great task remaining before us…that from these h_________ dead we take increased d________ to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of d__________; that we here highly r_________ that these dead shall not have died in v_______; that this nation, under G_____, shall have a new birth of f_______; and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not p______ from the earth.