Which pictures are about Christmas ?
a
b
c
e
f
Jingle bell
d
1. Decorate (v):
trang trí, trang hoàng
2. Christmas carol (n) :
thánh ca
3. Patron saint (n) :
thánh bảo hộ
4. Jolly (a) :
vui tính
5. Base on (v) :
dựa trên
6. Design (v) :
Jingle bell
thiết kế
He had someone design a card
He asked someone to design a card
Jumbled Words
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1. nsedgi
2. npaort tasin
3. coeratde
4. raclo
5. seab
oljyl
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1. design
2. patron saint
3. decorate
4. carol
5. base
6. jolly
Christmas Specials
The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Card
Christmas carols
Santa Claus
Place of origin
Riga
England
(no information)
USA
Date
early 1500s
mid –19th century
800 years ago
1823
a)
a How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA ?
More than a century ago
b Why did the Englishman have someone design a card ?
b)
He wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends
c)
c When were Christmas songs first performed ?
800 years ago.
d) Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas ?
d
An American professor Clement Clark Moore
e) What is Santa Claus based on ?
e
On the description of Saint Nicholas in Professor Moore ’ s
poem
Christmas
Banana is a great festival. It is on 25 December. On that day people
decorate
banana their houses and Christmas trees. Somebody banana
designs cards and
sends greetings to their friends and relatives. They sing a lot of Christmas
carols . The children are very happy because Santa Claus, a patron
saint
banana.
banana
.
wil give them a lot of gifts. He is very kind and jolly
banana.
Exercise 1:
Read the paragraphs and do the exercises 1 and 2 on
the pages 124, 125, 126 - textbook again .
Exercise 2:
Do the exercise 7 and 8 on the page 82 - workbook .