Unit 13. Festivals

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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Unit 13 FESTIVALS
Lesson 3
READ
CELEBRATIONS
Lunar New Year
Christmas Day
Mid-Autumn Festival
Valentine Day
Teacher’s Day
Warm up
Networks
Pre - reading
1. Pre-tech Voc
2. Set the scene
3. Pre - questions
While - reading
1. Fill in the grid
2. Answer questions
Post - reading
Matching
Homework
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
* Vocabulary:
- a Christmas tree :
- a Christmas card:
- Christmas Carols(pl.n):
- a Santa Claus :
- the patron saint :
- (to) decorate :
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Unit 13 FESTIVALS
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Lesson 3:
Thursday, March 17th , 2011
(P. 124-125)
Unit 13 FESTIVALS
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Unit 13 FESTIVALS
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Lesson 3:
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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
Matching
Homework
1. What do people often do at Christmas?
2. What are considered as parts of Christmas ?
The Christmas tree
Early 1500s
The Christmas card
England
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
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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lucky number
a) How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
More than a century ago
b) Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?
He wanted to Send
Christmas greeting
to his friends
c) When were Christmas songs first performed?
800 years ago
d) Who wrote the poem A Visit from
Saint Nicholas?
e) What is Santa Claus based on?
On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem
Lucky number
lucky number
A. He is also known as father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick...He is kindly, round – bellied, marry...in a red suit trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard. On Christmas Eve, he rides in his flying sleigh lifted by reindeer from house to house to give presents to children.
B.A beautiful decorated evergreen tree with colored lights . It is known Christmas Symbol.
It has played an important part in winter celebrations for many countries
C. Whether to greet the advent of the festival season, or for wishing each other well in Christmas, the evergreen Christmas Carols like “We wish you a merry Christmas” or “Jingle bells”. They have never failed to enliven our spirits.
D. An English man had someone design it to send Christmas greetings to his friends. Now it is a part of the Christmas tradition.
1. Christmas tree
2. Christmas card
3. Santa Claus
4. Christmas Carols
home work
Learn by heart all new words
Read the text several times
- Prepare Unit 13 : Lesson 4 : Writing (P.126) ( Vocabulary: a festival councilor, a competition, a communal house, (to) hold).

Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Lesson 3
Unit 13: FESTIVALS
READ
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
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