PeaceSymbols和平标志.ppt

Glossary mythology（神话） renewal（复活） Holy Ghost（圣灵） Iris（彩虹女神） Scandinavian斯堪的纳维亚的 Noah（诺亚） Biblical（圣经的） mistletoe（槲寄生） sacred （神圣的） Jigsaw Reading Activity (30 minutes) Step 1: Find all the new teammates. Sit together to read your piece of text carefully. Try to understand the main ideas and major supporting details. Ask for clarification from each other if necessary. (5 mins) Step 2:. Take turns to retell your paragraph to your new teammates without reference to the reading material. When recounting, use your own words to cover the main ideas and include as many supporting details as possible. (10 mins) Step 3: The one who best reconstructs the original information will be the winner of the group and will retell his / her paragraph to the class. (10 mins) The dove The dove has been a symbol of peace and innocence for thousands of years in many different cultures. In ancient Greek mythology（神话）it was a symbol of love and the renewal（复活）of life. In ancient Japan a dove carrying a sword symbolised the end of war. There was a tradition in Europe that if a dove flew around a house where someone was dying then their soul would be at peace. And there are legends which say that the devil can turn himself into any bird except for a dove. In Christian art, the dove was used to symbolise the Holy Ghost（圣灵）and was often painted above Christs head. But it was Pablo Picasso who made the dove a modern symbol of peace when he used it on a poster for the World Peace Congress in 1949. The rainbow The rainbow is another ancient and universal symbol, often representing the connection between human beings and their gods. In Greek mythology it was associated with Iris（彩虹女神）, the goddess who brought messages from the gods on Mount Olympus（奥林帕斯山）. In Scandinavian（斯堪的纳维亚的） mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the gods and the earth. In the Bible a rainbow showed Noah（诺亚）that the Biblical（圣经的）flood was finally over, and that God had forgiven his people. In the Chinese t