Welcome to our class
Listen to the song and answer the questions:
What’s the name of the song?
What is it about?
1. It’s Jingle Bells
2. It’s about Christmas
UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
Lesson 2: Read
CHRISTMAS
I. Vocabulary :
Christmas tree ( n ):
Cây Nô-en
(To ) decorate :
Trang trí
Christmas card : (n)
Thiệp Nô-en
I. Vocabulary :
Christmas tree ( n ):
Cây Nô-en
(To ) decorate :
Trang trí
Christmas card : (n)
Thiệp Nô-en
(To) Spread
Spread
Spread :
Lan rộng
Santa Claus : (n)
Ông già Nô-en
= Patron saint : (n)
Thánh bảo hộ
Christmas Carol : (n)
Bài hát về Nô-en
Christmas Eve: (n)
Đêm Nô-en
Christmas is an important festival in many countries around the word. Guess four special things at Christmas?
(to) design
(to) perform
Poem (n)
Jolly (adj)
Description (n)
Sự mô tả
Thiết kế
Biểu diễn
Bài thơ
Vui nhộn
II. MATCHING
Column A
Column B
III/ TRUE / FALSE STATEMENTS
F
T
T
T
1500s
READ.
1
2
The Christmas Card
The Christmas tree
4
6
4
5
7
3
8
1823
USA
Santa Claus
800 years ago
No information
Christmas Carol
mid-19th century
England
early 1500s
Riga
Date
Place of origin
Christmas Specials
IV. COMPLETE THE TABLE
V. Answer the 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 Nicholas?
e. What is Santa Claus based on ?
LUCKY NUMBERS
1
3
2
6
4
5
8
7
Group 1
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Group 2
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1
1. How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA ?
The Christmas tree came to the USA in the 1800s .
2
Lucky Number
Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
3
3. Why did the Englishman have someone
design a card ?
4
4. When were Christmas songs first performed ?
Christmas songs were first performed 800 years ago .
5
Lucky Number
Lucky Number
6. Who wrote the poem
A Visit From Saint Nicholas ?
An American professor named
Clement Clarke Moore wrote
A Visit From Saint Nicholas .
6

LUCKY NUMBER
7

LUCKY NUMBER

LUCKY NUMBER
8
8.What is Santa Claus based on?
Santa Claus is based on the description
of Saint Nicholas in this poem.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS


How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA ?
The Christmas tree came to the USA in the 1800s.

Why did the Englishman have someone design a card ?
Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends

When were Christmas songs first performed ?
Christmas songs were first performed 800 years ago .

d. Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas ?
An American professor named Clement Clarke Moore wrote A Visit From Saint Nicholas.
e. What is Santa Claus based on ?
Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in this poem.

Christmas
Tree
Christmas
Card
Santa
Claus
Christmas
Carol
HOMEWORK
Learn by heart the new words
Practice reading the text again
Prepare the next lesson
GOOD BYE
SEE YOU AGAIN
VI. Fill in the gaps with the suitable words from the text
The Christmas tree was …1 ……..….and put in the
market place in the Latvian city of Riga in the
…..2……….1500s.
In the mid – nineteenth century , An Englishman
wanted to ….3……...…Christmas greetings to his
friends , so he …..4.…….. Someone design a card .
Eight hundred years ago , Christmas songs were……5…..…
for people in towns and villages .
In 1823 , The Patron Saint of children , Saint Nicholas
appeared in a poem called A Visit From saint Nicholas .
Santa Claus is based on the ……….6……. of Saint
Nicholas in this poem .
decorated
early
send
had
description
performed