Unit 13. Read. Lop 8

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
A
B
C

D
1
2
3
4
Christmas
Christmas
specials
specials
Place of origin
Place of origin
Date
Date
Riga
Riga
Mid-19
Mid-19
th
th
century
century
Christmas carols
Christmas carols
USA
USA
The Christmas tree
Early 1500s
The Christmas card England
No information 800 years ago
Santa Claus 1823

Complete the table
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
10
10
How long a go did the Christmas
How long a go did the Christmas
tree come to the USA?
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!

1
2
3
4
Bells
sing
tonight !
Oh
Oh, sing, bells, tonight.
Write it up:
Use the information in the grid to write
the brief paragraphs.