Unit 13. Festivals

LE QUY DON SECONDARY SCHOOL
Teacher : Chau Thi Duyen
Welcome to class 8B
1. This is the biggest festival in Western countries.
A guessing game :
2. People often prepare a beautiful tree and carve and exchange best wishes by giving cards to each other
3. It’s on December 25th
Christmas






Unit 13 :
FESTIVALS
READ
Lesson 3 :
Unit 13: Festivals
Lesson 3 : Read
Christmas tree (n) :
Christmas card (n) :
Christmas Carol (n) :
Santa Claus (n) :
Decorate (v) :
Patron saint (n) :
* Matching :
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thiếp mừng Nôel
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READ.
Christmas is an important festival in many countries around the word.
READ.
The Christmas tree
Early 1500s
The Christmas card
England
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
* Answer the questions :
1. How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
2. Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?
3. When were Christmas songs first performed?

4. Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?
5. What is Santa Claus based on?
LUCKY NUMBERS
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2
3
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8
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4
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?
Because he wanted to
send Christmas greetings
to his friends
When were Christmas songs first performed?
800 years ago
lucky number
Who wrote the poem A Visit from
Saint Nicholas?
What is Santa Claus based on?
On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem
Lucky number
* Answer the questions :
a. More than a century ago.
b. Because he wanted to send Christmas
greeting to his friends
c. 800 years ago.
d. An American professor Clement Clarke
Moore.
e. On the description of Saint Nicholas in
professor Moore’s poem.
1. The Christmas tree came to the USA in ..
A. 1950s
B. 1970s
C. 1980s
* Choose the best answer to complete each sentence :
2. An Englishman wanted to send his Christmas greetings by using a ....
A. card
C. present
B. picture
3. Christmas Carols were first performed about ...... ago .
A. 800 years
C. along
B. 180 years
4. Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem :
A visit from Saint Nicholas , came from ...
A. England
C. Germany
B. America
5. Santa Claus is based on the . of Saint Nichonas.
A. picture
C. drawing
B. description

Write it up : Use the information in
the grid to write the brief paragraphs
- Learn new words, answer the questions again
Prepare new lesson : Unit 13
Lesson 4 : Write
Homework :
Thank you all !