Unit 13. Festivals

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CELEBRATION
Lunar New Year
Christmas Day
Mid-Autumn festival
Valentine Day
Teachers’ Day
Warm-up
Net -work
Pre-stages
1. Pre-tech Voc
2. Set the scene
3. Pre- questions
While-stages
1. Matching
2. Fill in the grid
3. Answer questions
Post-stage

Homework
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
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Pre-stages
1. Pre-tech Voc
2. Set the scene
3. Pre- questions
While-stages
1. Complete the table
2. Answer questions
Post-stage
Matching
Homework

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a. Do you know when the Christmas was first decorated?
Warm-up
Net -work
Pre-stages
1. Pre-tech Voc
2. Set the scene
3. Matching
While-stages
1. Complete the table
2. Answer questions
Post-stage
gap fill
Homework
b. Who is Santa Claus?
Matching sentences and pictures
Matching
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 tree
Early 1500s
Christmas card
England
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
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 ?
LUCKY NUMBERS
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2
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lucky number
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.
lucky number
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
By an American professor Clement Clarke Moore
What is Santa Claus based on?
On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem
Lucky number
lucky number
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
home work
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..)

March 24th,2009
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