Unit 13. Festivals

“Do you like listening English songs?Please listen to me and then answer the questions.”
1.What is it about?
2.When is the Christmas day?
3. Who often bring the children presents on Christmas Eve?
4. What do people often eat on Christmas ?
- spread
Date:
Unit 13: Festivals
Lesson 4: Read
1. Vocabulary
- Christmas carol
- Patron saint
- jolly
- decorate
(v):
(n):
(n):
(adj):
(v):
phổ biến, mở rộng
thánh bảo hộ
vui nhộn, vui vẻ
trang trí
thánh ca
- custom
(n):
phong tục, tập quán
- design
(v):
phác hoạ
,
,
,
,
,
spread
Christmas carol
Patron saint
jolly
decorate
custom
design
3
7
6
4
5
2
1
spread
Christmas carol
Patron saint
jolly
decorate
custom
design
3
7
6
4
5
2
1
Date:
Unit 13: Festivals
Lesson 4: Read
1. Vocabulary
2. Read
* Matching:
Please match the pictures with the statements.
1. It has been said he was the patron saint of children, a fat jolly man who wore a ed suit and gave children presents on Chrismas Eve.
2.The custom of decorating it and putting it in a common place, spread throughout Europe to America.
3. They were stories put to music and enjoyed by most people . First the leaders of the Church did not like them but later they became popular.
4. An English man had someone design it to send Christmas greetings to his friends. Now it is a part of Christmas trandition..
1
4
3
2
(England)
(the Cristmas tree)
(The Christmas card)
(early 1500s)
( Santa Claus)
USA
(800 years ago)
(1823)
(no information)
** Read the paragraph again and complete this grid
* Comprehention 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 Nicolas ?
e, What is Santa Claus based on ?
Lucky numbers
1
6
2
7
8
3
4
5
Lucky numbers
1
6
2
7
8
3
4
5
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?
Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
c, When were Christmas songs first performed ?
800 years ago
d, Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicolas ?
An American professor named Clement Clark Moore.
e, What is Santa Claus based on ?
On the discription of Saint Nicolas in professor’s poem.
** Please recall the Christmas specials base on the information in the table 1(p126)
- Learn the words by heart.
- Do exercise 1(P79- workbook)
- Prepare for lesson 5: Write.
Date:
Unit 13: Festivals
Lesson 4: Read
1. Vocabulary
2. Read
3. Homework