Listen to the song and answer the questions:
1.What's the name of the song?
2.What is it about?

1. It's Jingle Bells
2. It's about Christmas

I. Vocabulary :
Christmas tree ( n ):
(To ) decorate :
Christmas card : (n)

Cây Nô-en
Trang trí
Thiệp Nô-en

I. Vocabulary :
Christmas tree ( n ):
(To ) decorate :

Cây Nô-en
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?

II. MATCHING
Column B

Column A

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

(to) design
(to) perform
Poem (n)
Jolly (adj)
Description (n)

A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

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III/ TRUE / FALSE STATEMENTS
T/F
1/ The Christmas Eve was decorated in
the early 1500s
1800s in the Latvian city of Riga.

F

2/ An Englishman wanted to send Christmas
greetings to his friends on Christmas day.

T

3/ The character of the Santa Claus in a
poem was a fat jolly man who wore a red
suit and gave children presents on
Christmas Eve.

T

4/ The Christmas carols became popular
again about 180 years ago.

T

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Specials
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tree

Place of origin

Date

Riga

early 6
1500s

The Christmas
2
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4
England

mid-19th4 century

Christmas Carol

5
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800 years
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USA

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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?
What is Santa Claus based on ?

LUCKY NUMBERS
Group 1
2

Group 2

1

2

3

2

4

4

6

6

8
10
12

4
5

8
6

7

8
10
12

14

14

16

16

1. How long ago did the
Christmas tree come to the
USA ?

1
The Christmas tree came
to the USA in the 1800s .

Lucky Number

2

3. Why did the Englishman have someone
design a card ?

3
Because he wanted to send
Christmas greetings to his
friends.

4. When were Christmas
songs first performed ?

4
Christmas songs
were first performed
800 years ago .

Lucky Number

5

6. Who wrote the poem
A Visit From Saint Nicholas ?

6
An American professor named
Clement Clarke Moore wrote
A Visit From Saint Nicholas .

LUCKY NUMBER
NUMBER
LUCKY

7

8.What is Santa Claus based on?

8
Santa Claus is based on the description
of Saint Nicholas in this poem.

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
a.

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

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 ?
 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.

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Card
Tree

Santa
Claus

Christmas
Carol

1. Learn by heart the new words

2. Practice reading the text again
3. Prepare the next lesson

VI. Fill in the gaps with the suitable words from the text

The Christmas tree was …1
……..….and put in the
decorated
market place in the Latvian city of Riga in the
…..2……….1500s.
early
In the mid – nineteenth century , An Englishman
wanted to ….3……...…Christmas
greetings to his
send
friends , so he …..4.……..
Someone design a card .
had
performed
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 thedescription
……….6……. of Saint
Nicholas in this poem .