WARM- UP: Kim’s gameWrestling Festival Boat- Racing Festival Buffalo- Fighting Festival Christmas Festival Rice- cooking Festival Tet 4... Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings t
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Trang 9WARM- UP: Kim’s game
Wrestling Festival Boat- Racing Festival Buffalo- Fighting Festival
Christmas Festival Rice- cooking Festival Tet
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Trang 11Which festival is this?
Trang 14Listen to the paragraphs (page 124, 125) and answer the questions
a How many specials are there in Christmas?
b What are they?
Trang 15B It has been said he was the patron saint of children, a fat jolly man who wore a red suit and gave children
presents on Christmas Eve
A.They were stories put to music and enjoyed by most people First the
leaders of the church did not like them but later they became popular
C.An English man had someone design it
to send greetings to his friends Now it is
a part of the Christmas tradition
D The custom of decorating it and putting it in a common place, spread throughout Europe to America
2 The Christmas tree
1 The Christmas card
3 Christmas carols
4 Santa Claus
Matching
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More than two centuries ago.
b.Why did the Englishman have someone design a card ?
Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
c.When were Christmas songs first performed ?
800 years ago.
d.Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas ?
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
Trang 19Game “Christmas tree”
a.The Christmas tree came to the USA in the 1800s.
b In the twenty century, an Englishman
wanted to send Christmas greetings to his
friend.
c Christmas songs were performed for people in
towns and villages eight hundred years ago.
d The poem, which was written by Clement
Clarke Moore
e.Santa Claus isn’t based on the description of Saint
Nicholas in this poem.
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Trang 20Consolidation: Check the sentences Check the sentences
which are True or False
a.The Christmas tree came to the USA in the 1800s.
b In the twenty century, an Englishman wanted to
send Christmas greetings to his friend.
c Christmas songs were performed for people in
towns and villages eight hundred years ago.
d The poem “A visit from Saint Nicholas”
True False True True
Trang 21What did you do last Christmas?
Answer about you:
-Read the text several times.
-Learn by heart new words.
Trang 23How long ago did the Christmas tree
come to the USA?
More than two centuries ago
Trang 24Why did the Englishman have
someone design a card?
He wanted to send Christmas greetings to
Trang 25When were Christmas songs first performed?
800 years ago
Trang 26Who wrote the poem A Visit from
Saint Nicholas?
An American professor, Clement Clarke Moore
Trang 27What is Santa Claus based on?
On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem