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Wishing you a very Happy and warm Christmas... Vocabulary Decorate V Trang trí, trang hoàng Custom n Phong tục, tập quán Greeting n Lời hỏi thăm Poem n Bài thơ Thursday, March 24th 2011

CHECK – UP:

Talk about the school festival.

Wishing you a very Happy and

warm Christmas

Unit 13: Festivals

Lesson 3 : Read

I Vocabulary

Decorate (V) Trang trí, trang hoàng

Custom (n) Phong tục, tập quán

Greeting (n) Lời hỏi thăm

Poem

(n)

Bài thơ

Thursday, March 24th 2011

Week 28

Anh chị khoẻ không?

II Structures

Passive voice in the simple past tense:

S + was/were + V3 + (by) O.

Ex: Christmas songs were performed for people in

towns and villages.

Reported Speech (Statement):

S1 + said + S2 + V(thay đổi thì) + O/A.

Ex: They said the songs were unsuitable…

custom

greeting

poem

Something you say or do to greet somebody.

To make something look more beautiful by putting things on it.

A piece of writing in which words are contained meaning and musicality.

The way of behaving of doing things in a community.

Matching

Christmas

Riga

Mid-19th century

Christmas carols

USA

The Christmas tree Early 1500s

The Christmas card England

No information 800 years ago

Complete the table

7

2

1

8

How long ago did the Christmas tree

come to the USA?

More than a century ago

Why did the Englishman have

someone design a card?

He wanted to send Christmas greeting to

his friends

When were Christmas songs first performed?

800 years ago

Who wrote the poem A Visit from

Saint Nicholas?

An American professor Clement Clarke Moore

What is Santa Claus based on?

On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem

Filling the missing words in the song

Jingle Bells

Dashing though the snow

In a one – horse open sleigh, O’er the fields we go

Laughing all the way on bobtail ring, Making spirits bright, What fun it is to ride and ,

A sleighing song

Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!

Jingle all the way!

, what fun it is to ride

In a one – horse open sleigh!

1

2

3

4

Bells

sing

to night !

Oh

Write it up:

Learn by heart the new words

Use the information in the grid to write the brief paragraphs.