Unit 13 lesson 3 read w28 p79

The objectives - Content: Christmas festival, past simple tense - By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to read the text about Christmas festival to understand the general ideas and

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Unit 13 festivals Lesson 3 Read

A The objectives

- Content: Christmas festival, past simple tense

- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to read the text about Christmas festival to understand the general ideas and details They’ll complete the tasks and use the language to talk about the Chrismas festival

B Materials: pictures, songs, OHP, transparencies, CD player,

Work arrangements: Individuals, pairs, groups, T-WC

Anticipated problems: difficult vocab

C Procedure

I Warmer

Guessing game

Which is this festival?

 Christmas

Can you tell us more about this

important festival?

Now listen to one of the songs

sung at Christmas

Clue 1: It’s one of the biggest festivals in western contries Clue 2: People often decorate a pine tree and exchange best wishes by giving cards to each other

Clue 3: It’s on December 25th

II Checking the old lesson

Tell us what you do at Tet

III New lesson

Pre-reading

Preteach

Eliciting: explanation, translation,

visual, examples

Modelling, choral repetition

Individual repetition

written record

VN meaning

Pronunciation

Checking vocab: Rub out and

remember

Open Prediction

Set the scene: Christmas is an

important festival in many

countries in the world

I Vocab

- decorate (v):

- custom (n):

- spread (v):

- greeting (n):

- design (v):

- perform (v):

- leader (n):

- unsuitable (adj):

- poem (n):

- jolly (adj):

II Read The Christmas tree The Chrismas card Chrismas carols Santa Claus

What Christmas speacials can you

think are mentioned in the text?

 While-reading

- Ask ss to skim the text and check

their predictions

Christmas specials:

- Ask ss to read the text again and

complete the table

Work individually on the

transparencies, pair and compare

T gets feedback on the OHP

- Ask ss to read the text again and

answer the questions Ss work

individually, write the answer in

their books

T gets some pairs to ask and

answer

- Ask some ss to read aloud

paragraph by paragraph to check

their pronunciation

 Post-reading

Ask ss to listen and complete one

of Christmas songs

Prediction

Listen and complete the song

Practise singing the song

1 Complete the table

Christm as specials

Place of origin

Date

Christma

s tree

1500s Christma

s cards

Mid-19th

century Christma

s carols

England 800 years

ago Santa

Claus

2 Answer the questions

a More than a century ago

b He wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends

c 800 years ago

d An American professor, Clement Clarke Moore

e on the description of Saint Nicolas in professor Moore’s poem

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas2

We wish you a merry Christmas

and a happy New Year.

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin Good tiding for Christmas

and a happy New Year

Oh, bring us a figgy pudding2

Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a

cup of good cheer

We won’t go until we get some2

We won’t go until we get some, so

bring some out here

We wish you a merry Christmas3

and a happy New Year

IV Consolidation

Read the text again and write dictation and translation

Write questions and answers again Practise talking about the

Christmas festival Prepare new lesson