Unit 13. Festivals

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English 8
Unit 13:READ
Nguyen Thanh Tuan
Unit 13: Festivals
Section 4: Read
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 đỡ đầu
Trang trí
Christmas tree (n)
Christmas card (n)
Christmas Carols (n)
Santa Claus (n)
Decorate (V)
Patron saint (n)
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.
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
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.
An English man had someone design it to send Christmas greetings to his friends. Now it is a part of the Christmas tradition.
The Christmas tree
Early 1500s
The Christmas card
England
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
LUCKY NUMBERS
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lucky number
How long a go 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
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
lucky number
lucky number
Marks for you
1 Lucky number ( 20 )
2 Question (10 )
3 Question (10 )
4 Question (10 )
5 Lucky number ( 15 )
6 Question (10 )
7 Question (10 )
8 Lucky number (20 )
9 Question (15 )
10 Lucky number (20 )
Filling the missing words in the song
Jingle Bells
Dashing though the snow
In a one – horse open sleigh,
O’er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
........... on bobtail ring,
Making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and .........,
A sleighing song ...........
Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!
Jingle all the way!
.........., what fun it is to ride
In a one – horse open sleigh!
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Bells
sing
to night !
Oh
home work
Write it up:
Use the information in the grid to write the brief paragraphs.
Thank you all !