Unit 13. Festivals

WELCOME TO OUR CLASS
Checking the previous lesson
List some festivals:
Rice – cooking
Water – fetching
Fire – making
Flower festival
Harvest festival
School festival
Christmas
Tet
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WARM - UP
List some Christmas songs:
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
Jingle Bell.
Silent Night.
Joy to the world.
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Unit 13: Festivals
Lesson 3: Read
I. Vocabulary
Christmas tree (n)
Christmas card (n)
Christmas Carols (n)
Santa Claus (n)
Patron saint (n)
Decorate (V)
Cây thông Noel
Thiếp mừng Noel
Những bài hát thánh ca Giáng sinh
Ông già Noel
Thánh bảo hộ
Trang trí
Design (V)
Thiết kế
Perform (v)
Jolly (adj)
Description (n)
Base (v)
Trình diễn
Vui nhộn, vui vẻ
Dựa vào
Sự miêu tả
Professor (n)
Giáo sư
Spread (v)
Lan truyền
Custom (n)
Phong tục
Christmas Eve (n)
Đêm noel
Christmas tree (n)
Christmas card (n)
Christmas Carols (n)
Santa Claus (n)
Decorate (V)
Patron saint (n)
II. PRACTICE
The Christmas tree
Early 1500s
The Christmas card
England
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
COMPREHENSION QUESTION
Group works: answer the questions/ p. 126.
Compare the answer to partner.
Read the answer.
LUCKY NUMBERS
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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 greeting 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
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True or False statements
One Christmas Eve in the early 1500s, some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place.
Christmas tree came to the USA in the 1500s.
In the mid- nineteenth century, an Englishman had someone design a card to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
Christmas songs were first performed about 180 years ago.
Christmas songs were stories put to music.
The poem” A visit from Saint Nicholas” was written by Clement Clarke Moore.
Santa Claus is based on Christmas songs.
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homework
Learn by heart vocabulary.
Complete the answers.
Prepare next lesson: Unit 13- Write/ p. 127.
Thank you for listening!