Unit 5. Study habits

TRƯỜNG THCS QUYẾT THẮNG
Tiếng Anh lớp 8C
Chào mừng các thầy cô giáo về dự giờ môn:
GV: ĐÀO THUÝ NGA
They have decorated it
A christmas tree
Spread
Christmas card
Someone has designed it
Santa claus
Patron saint
Christmas tree
A Christmas card
Christmas Carols
A Santa Claus
Decorate
A Patron saint
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
tree
Early
1500s
The Christmas tree
Early 1500s
The Christmas card
England
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
Reread the text and answer the questions
1. How long a go 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 ?

? How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
More than a century ago
Reread the text and answer the questions
1. How long a go 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 ?

? 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
? 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
Tell something about Christmas
Christmas / important festival.
It / celebrate / world.
The first Christmas tree / appear / Riga/1500s
People / send / Christmas cards / friends / in order / say / Merry Christmas.
5.Children / love / Santa Claus / best / because / he / give / gifts / Eve.
Homework
- Do the exercises 1,2 ( p-126) into your notebooks.
- Use the information in the grid to write
the brief paragraphs.