Unit 13. Read. Lop 8

Unit 13: Festivals Section 4: Read Vocabulary Christmas tree n Christmas card n Christmas Carols n Santa Claus n Patron saint n Decorate V Cây thông Noel Thiếp mừng Noel Những bài hát th

Teacher: Nguyen Thi Thom

Unit 13: Festivals

Section 4: Read

Vocabulary

Christmas tree (n)

Christmas card (n)

Christmas Carols (n)

Santa Claus (n)

Patron saint (n)

Decorate (V)

Cây thông Noel Thiếp mừng Noel Những bài hát thánh

ca Giáng sinh Ông già Noel Thánh đỡ đầu Trang trí

Wishing you a very Happy and warm Christmas

Wishing you a very Happy and

warm Christmas

Christmas tree (n)

Christmas card (n)

Christmas Carols (n)

Santa Claus (n)

Decorate (V)

Patron saint (n)

Christmas tree

Christmas card

Santa Claus

Christmas Carols

He is also known as father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick He is kindly, round – bellied, marry in a red suit trimmed with white fur, with

a long white beard On Christmas Eve, he rides in his flying sleigh lifted by reindeer from house to house to give presents to children.

A beautiful decorated evergreen tree with colored lights It is known Christmas Symbol.

It has played an important part in winter celebrations for many countries

Whether to greet the advent of the festival season, or for wishing each other well in Christmas, the evergreen Christmas Carols like

“We wish you a merry Christmas” or “Jingle bells” They have never failed to enliven our spirits.

An English man had someone design it to send Christmas greetings to his friends Now it is a part of the Christmas tradition.

Matching

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Christmas

Riga

Mid-19th century Christmas carols

USA

The Christmas tree Early 1500s

The Christmas card England

No information 800 years ago

Santa Claus 1823

Complete the table

1 2 3 4 5

How long a go did the Christmas

tree come to the USA?

More than a century ago

Why did the Englishman have

someone design a card?

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?

An American professor Clement Clarke Moore

What is Santa Claus based on?

On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem

Lucky number

Filling the missing words in the song

Jingle Bells

Dashing though the snow

In a one – horse open sleigh, O’er the fields we go

Laughing all the way on bobtail ring, Making spirits bright, What fun it is to ride and ,

A sleighing song

Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!

Jingle all the way!

, what fun it is to ride

In a one – horse open sleigh!

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4

Bells

sing

tonight !

Oh

Oh, sing, bells, tonight.

Write it up:

Use the information in the grid to write

the brief paragraphs.