Unit 13. Festivals

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Check homework
1. Write vocabulary part speak listen.
2. What do your family do to prepare for Tet?
Suggested answer:
Buy food and flower
Tidy the house
Cook special foods
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Unit 13: FESTIVALS
Part: READ
Week period
Eakly secondaryschool
Teacher: Phạm Thị Kim Anh
Year:2009-2010.
Festivals
Networks
Tet
Mid -Autumn
Christmas
Cooking
Harvest
Flower
2. People often decorate a tree and give greeting cards to others.
Which festival is this ?
1. This is the biggest festival in western countries.
3. It is on December 25.
Christmas
Christmas tree (n)
Cây giáng sinh
VOCABULARY
decorate (v)
trang hoàng
Christmas card (n)
thiệp giáng sinh
design (v)
thiết kế
Christmas carol (n)
Bài thánh ca giáng sinh
Church (n)
Nhà thờ
Santa Claus (n)/ Father Christmas
Ông già Noel
Matching
Christmas tree
Christmas card
Christmas Carols
Santa Claus
Discuss in groups of four:
What do people do on Christmas Eve?
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.
Activities people do on Christmas Eve:
decorate a Christmas tree
send Christmas greetings
perform Christmas songs
give presents to children
Exercise:

Chrismtas Specials
Place of origin
Date
The Christmas tree
Riga
Early 1500 s
The Christmas card
English
Mid19 th century
Christmas Carols
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
USA
1823
Christmas Specials
1. Complete the table
2. Answer the questions.
A. How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
In 1800s, over 200 years ago.
b. Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?
He wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
c. When were the Christmas songs first performed?
800 years ago.
d. Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?
An American professor named Clement Clarke Moore.
e. What is Santa Claus base on?
On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem.

Grammer:
What did an Englishman do to send Christmas greetings to his friend?
He had someone design a card.
Have someone do something: yêu cầu ai làm gì
Yestday teacher had us do a lot of exercise.
Complete the following sentences:
1. In the early…………., some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place in the Latvian city of Riga.
2. In the……………………century, an Englishman wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends, so he had someone design a card.
3. In……………, the patron saint of children, Saint Nicholas appeared in a poem call A Visit from Saint Nicholas.
4. ……………….years ago, Christmas song were peformed for people in towns and villages.
1500s
mid- nineteenth
1823
800
Home work
Learn vocabulary by heart
Translate the text by heart
Read the text and do the text again