Unit13-read

Monday, March 18th,2010
Unit13: Festival
Period 58: READ (Page 124-126)
Unit 13: Festival
The Christmas tree (n):
(to) decorate :
Custom (n)
(to) Spead
Throughout (adv)
(to) Design
(to) Perform
Lead
Church
Santa Claus
Patron saint
Poem
Professor
(to) Base on
Description

Cây thông nôen
Trang trí
Phong tục
Lan truyền
Rộng
Thiết kế
Trình diễn
Người đứng đầu
Nhà thờ
Ông già nôen
Thánh bảo hộ
Thơ
Giáo sư
Dựa trên
Sự miêu tả

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 greeting to his friends, so he had someone design a
card . Forty years late, cards were a part of the Christmas
Tradition .
Christmas Carols

Eight hundred years ago, Christams 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, didn’t. 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, Santa Nicholas
appeared in a poem called ‘A Visit From Nicholas’. The
character in the poem was a fat jolly man who wore a red sui
and gave children presents on Christmas Eve . The poem ,
which was written by Clement Clarke Moore, an American ‘
professor