Unit 13: Festivals Period 82: Lesson 3: Read pdf

Unit 13: Festivals
Period 82: Lesson 3: Read


I. Objectives:
-After the lesson Ss will be able to know more about the festivals in the world.
The Christmas festival.
-To drill Ss the traditional customs of the Christmas festival: The Christmas tree,
the Christmas card, the Christmas Carols, , and Santa Claus.
-To drill Ss reading skill.
II.Teaching aids
Textbook + pictures.
III. Teaching procedure.
1. Class organization:
2. Oral test:
Ask Ss to do exercise 1 in the work book (Page 76)?

3. New lesson:
A. Warm up.
-Ask ss to play the Guessing game:
1
st
clue; this is the biggest festival in the western countries.
2
nd
clue: People often decorate a tree and exchange the best wishes by giving
cards to others.
3
rd
clue: It is on December 25.
-Ask Ss to work in pairs to discuss the correct answer.

-Give the correct answer.
B. Pre- reading.
- Introduce the topic of the lesson and asks Ss to give some things they know
about the Christmas.
-Give some new words:
Christmas tree: c©y th«ng Noel. Christmas cards: thiÕp chóc
mõng.
Christmas Carols: Nh÷ng bµi th¸nh ca. Santa Claus: «ng giµ Noel
Patron Saint; th¸nh ®ì ®Çu. Design: thiÕt kÕ.
Spread: lan truúªn
-Ask Ss to read the new words in chorus.
C. While- reading.
-Ask Ss to read the reading in silence and complete the table about the history and
the origins of some Christmas specials.
- Work in pairs to discuss the answers and the share the answers to the partners.
-Write the answers on the BB.
-Read the answers aloud.




Christmas Place of Date.
Specials origin

The Christmas Riga Early 1500s
Tree
The Christmas England Mid-19
th
century
Card

Christmas No 800years ago
Carols information
Santa Claus USA 1823
-Ask Ss to read the reading again and then answer the questions in the text book.
-Call Ss to write the answers on the BB.
-Read aloud the answers.
a) More than a century ago.
b) He wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
c) 800 years ago.
d) An American professional Clement Clarke Moore.
e) On the description of Saint Nicholas in Professor Moore’s poem.
-Check if necessary.
-Explain the new words:
Have sb do smt : yªu cÇu ai ®ã lµm g×. Unsuitable: Kh«ng trë l¹i
Popular again: Phæ biÕn trë l¹i Fat jolly man:Ngêi ®µn «ng mËp m¹p,
vui tÝnh.
D. Post –reading:
-Ask ss to give the history of the Christmas.
4. Consolidation
-Ask Ss to retell the main content of the reading: Christmas.
5. Home work.
-Ask ss to do the exercise 2+3+4 in the work book.