Unit 13. Festivals

Welcome to our class
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!
Oh! What …….. it is to ride
In a one – horse open sleigh!
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Bells
sing
tonight !
fun
UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
Lesson 4: Reading
CHRISTMAS
1. Vocabulary:
The Christmas tree (n)
The Christmas card (n)
Christmas Carols (n)
Santa Claus (n)
The Patron saint (n)
(to) decorate (v)
Cây thông Noel
Thiếp mừng Noel
Những bài hát thánh ca Giáng sinh
Ông già Noel
Thánh đỡ đầu
Trang trí

Unit 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 4: READ

I. Pre – reading:
Jolly (a) = funny
Vui vẻ, vui nhộn
5, Christmas tree (n)
1, Christmas card
4, Christmas Carols
3, Santa Claus
6, Decorate
2, Patron saint
1. Vocabulary:

Unit 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 4: READ
I. Pre – reading:
2. Grammar:

2.1 Past tense:

1/ In the mid-nineteenth century, an English man wanted to send a Christmas greeting to his friends

2/Forty years later, cards were a part of the Christmas traddition.
Ordinal Verb
S + V-ed/2
To be
S + was/ were
1. Vocabulary:

Unit 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 4: READ
I. Pre – reading:
2. Grammar:

2.2 Passive voice:

Ex: Eight hundred years ago, Christmas songs
were performed for people in towns and villages.

Công thức chung
S + be + V-ed/3
Passive voice (past)
S + was/ were + V-ed/3
Be + V-ed/3
1. Vocabulary:

Unit 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 4: READ
I. Pre – reading:
2. Grammar:

2.3 Phrase:

Ex: He had someone design a card
Have/ has/ had + someone + Vo + something: nhờ ai đó làm gì
Vo
1. Vocabulary:

Unit 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 4: READ
3. PREDICTION:
Guess four special things at Christmas ?
I. Pre – reading:
2. Grammar:

II. While - reading:
Christmas is an important festival in many countries around the word.
II. WHILE - READING.
1. Listen and check.
1. Listen and check.
How many
Christmas
special are there?

B. 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
2. Complete the table.
The Christmas Tree
early 1500s
The Christmas Card
England
(no information)
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
Designed by J. Horsley
Unit 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 4: READ
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 ?
III. Post - reading:
How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
The Christmas tree came to the USA
more than a century ago
Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?
He wanted to send
Christmas greetings to
his friends
When were Christmas songs first performed?
The Christmas songs
first performed
800 years ago
Who wrote the poem A Visit from
Saint Nicholas?
What is Santa Claus based on?
Santa Claus based
on the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem.
3, Retell
home work
Write it up:
- Use the information in the map to write the brief paragraphs.
- Learn grammar: passive voice
Do exercises 1,5,6 in the workbook.
- Prepare Unit 13 : Write
HOMEWORK
1, Use the information in the map to write the brief paragraphs
2, Learn passive voice to do exercises 1,6,5
3, Prepare - write
Thank you all !