E 8 - Unit 13 (Read)

People often decorate a tree and give greeting cards to others.Which festival is this?. Christmas tree Christmas card Christmas Carols Santa Claus... The Christmas TreeOne Christmas Eve

Check homework

1 Write vocabulary part speak listen

2 What do your family do to prepare for Tet?

Suggested answer:

-Buy food and flower

-Tidy the house

Flower

2 People often decorate a tree and give greeting cards to others.

Which festival is this ?

1 This is the biggest festival in western countries.

3 It is on December 25.

(Week: 28 - Period: 80)

Christmas tree (n)

Cây giáng sinh

VOCABULARY

decorate (v)

trang hoàng

Christmas card (n)

thiệp giáng sinh

design (v) thiết kế

Christmas carol (n) bài thánh ca giáng sinh

Church (n) Nhà thờ

Santa Claus (n)/ Father Christmas

Ông già Noel

Christmas tree Christmas card Christmas Carols Santa Claus

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

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

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

Activities people do on

Christmas :

decorate a Christmas tree

send Christmas greetings

perform Christmas songs

vui nhộn, vui vẻ bài hát vui, bài thánh ca

thánh bảo hộ

không phù hợp

jolly

1- olljy 2- pmoe 3- caorl 4- csutmo 5- dcoetrae 6- tronpa sinta

Christmas tree Christmas card

Complete the table

Christmas

Specials

Place of origin

Date

(3) (4) mid – 19 th

century Christmas carols (5) (6)

1 How long ago did

the Christmas tree come to the USA?

2. Why did the Englishman

have someone design a card?

3 When were Christmas songs

first performed?

4 Who wrote the poem A Visit

from Saint Nicholas?

Hãy tìm ông già tuyết trong 6 ngôi nhà

Mở ngôi nhà có câu hỏi, trả lời đúng được 1 điểm, trả lời sai nhường cơ hội ghi điểm cho đội bạn Đội may mắn tìm thấy cây thông

hoặc tấm thiệp giáng sinh sẽ được tặng điểm thưởng ( trả lời đúng được 1,5 điểm ) Nếu tìm thấy ông già tuyết được 2 điểm mà không cần trả lời câu hỏi.

Question 3 Question 4

Question 3

When were Christmas songs first performed?

800 years ago.

Question 4

Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?

An American professor Clement Clarke Moore.

Question 5

What is Santa Claus based on ?

Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in Professor

Moore’s poem.

1 More than a century ago.

2 Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings

to his friends.

3 800 years ago.

4 An American professor Clement Clarke Moore.

5 Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in Professor Moore’s poem.

Is there Christmas in Viet Nam?

Is there Christmas in Viet Nam?

Yes, there is.

True or False

1.First Christmas tree was decorated in America in the

2 An Englishman had someone design a card in the

mid-nineteenth century.

3.Cards were a part of the Christmas tradition 40 years later.

4 Christmas carols were performed for people in towns and

villages six hundred years ago.

5 These songs were stories put to music.

6 Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas

in “A visit from Saint Nicholas” poem.

He gives children presents

His family name is Nguyen.

There’s a famous saying in vietnamese:”Hỏa hồng…Kiếm bạc ”

He is a hero in Kien Giang.

Who is he?

- Learn vocabulary by heart.

- Make a list of things people often do at Christmas.

- Rewrite the answers in their notebooks.