Unit13 Read(Christmas pictures)

Vocabularya Christmas tree : a Christmas card : Christmas Carols pl.n: Santa Claus : the patron saint : to decorate : Cây thông Noel Thiếp mừng Noel Những bài hát thánh ca Giáng sinh Ông

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CELEBRATION

Lunar New Year Christmas Day

Mid-Autumn festival Valentine Day

1 Vocabulary

a Christmas tree :

a Christmas card : Christmas Carols (pl.n):

Santa Claus : the patron saint : (to) decorate :

Cây thông Noel Thiếp mừng Noel Những bài hát thánh ca Giáng sinh Ông già Noel

Thánh đỡ đầu Trang trí

Wishing you a very Happy and warm Christmas

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Wishing you a very Happy and

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a Do you know when the Christmas was first decorated?

Matching sentences and

pictures

1- The patron saint of children ,a

fat jolly man who wore a red

suit and give children presents

on Christmas Eve

2-The trees were decorated and

put in the common place

3-They were stories put to music

and enjoyed by most people

4-People send together by it

A

B

C

D

The Christmas Tree

• One Christmas Eve in the

early 1500s , some people

decorated a tree and put it

in the market place in the

Latvian city of Riga This

custom spread throughout

Europe, and finally to

America in the 1800s

The Christmas Card

• In the mid-nineteenth century , an

Englishman wanted to send

Christmas greetings to his friends ,

so he had someone design a card

Forty years later , cards were a part

of the Christmas tradition

Christmas Carols

Eight hundred years ago , Christmas

songs were performed for people in towns

and villages

These songs were

Stories put to music

And most people

enjoyed them The leaders

of the Church , however,

did not They said

the songs were unsuitable,

but about 180 years ago, the songs became popular again

Santa Claus

In 1823 , the patron saint of children , Saint Nicholas appeared in a poem called A Visit From Saint Nicholas

The character

in the poem was a fat jolly man

who wore a red suit and gave children

presents on Christmas Eve, The poem , which was written by

Clement Clarke Moore, an American professor, became popular in the USA Santa Claus is based on the description

of Saint Nicholas in this poem

Christmas specials Origin Date

Riga

Mid-19 th century

Christmas carols

USA

Christmas tree Early 1500s

Christmas card England

No information 800 years ago

3 Questions:

a. How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA ?

b. Why did the Englishman have someone design a card ?

c When were Christmas songs first performed?

d. Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?

e. What is Santa Claus based on ?

1

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

"A Visit From Saint Nicholas"

(1822) was written as a Christmas gift

for his children.

Who wrote the poem A Visit from

Saint Nicholas?

A Visit From Saint Nicholas

was written in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his

children

Moore

What is Santa Claus based on?

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

Lucky number

4 Discussion:

Do you like Christmas Day ? Why ?

*Homework:

- Learn by heart vocabulary

- Copy down exercises 1,2 / 126

- Prepare write / 126,127 ( vocabulary , questions on page 127 )

Filling the missing words in the song

JINGEL BELL Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way,

Oh what (1) …… .it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh, O Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way,

Oh what fun it is to (2) ………….

In a one-horse open sleigh.

Dashing through the (3) ………….

In a one-horse open sleigh Through the fields we (4) … …….

Laughing all the way.

Bells on bob-tail ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing (5) ……… tonight.

fun

ride snow

song

go

Write it up:

_Use the information in the grid to write the brief paragraphs _ Learn by heart all new words.

_ Prepare unit 13 part: write (p.127)

( new words: competition, to hold, to win , communal house )

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