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Unit 13 festivals
Lesson 3 Read
A. The objectives
- Content: Christmas festival, past simple tense
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to read the text about Christmas
festival to understand the general ideas and details. They’ll complete the tasks
and use the language to talk about the Chrismas festival
B. Materials: pictures, songs, OHP, transparencies, CD player,...
Work arrangements: Individuals, pairs, groups, T-WC
Anticipated problems: difficult vocab
C. Procedure
I. Warmer
Guessing game
Which is this festival?
 Christmas
Can you tell us more about this
important festival?
Now listen to one of the songs
sung at Christmas

II. Checking the old lesson
Tell us what you do at Tet
III. New lesson
Pre-reading
Preteach
Eliciting: explanation, translation,
visual, examples
Modelling, choral repetition
Individual repetition
written record
VN meaning
Pronunciation
Checking vocab: Rub out and
remember
Open Prediction
Set the scene: Christmas is an
important festival in many
countries in the world.

Clue 1: It’s one of the biggest
festivals in western contries
Clue 2: People often decorate a
pine tree and exchange best
wishes by giving cards to each
other
Clue 3: It’s on December 25th

I. Vocab
- decorate (v):
- custom (n):

- spread (v):
- greeting (n):
- design (v):
- perform (v):
- leader (n):
- unsuitable (adj):
- poem (n):
- jolly (adj):
II. Read
The Christmas tree
The Chrismas card
Chrismas carols
Santa Claus

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What Christmas speacials can you
think are mentioned in the text?
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While-reading

- Ask ss to skim the text and check
their predictions
Christmas specials:
- Ask ss to read the text again and
complete the table

Work individually on the
transparencies, pair and compare
T gets feedback on the OHP
- Ask ss to read the text again and
answer the questions. Ss work
individually, write the answer in
their books
T gets some pairs to ask and
answer
- Ask some ss to read aloud
paragraph by paragraph to check
their pronunciation

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Post-reading

Ask ss to listen and complete one
of Christmas songs
Prediction
Listen and complete the song
Practise singing the song

1. Complete the table
Christm Place of
as
origin
specials
Christma Riga
s tree

Christma
s cards
Christma England
s carols
Santa
USA
Claus

Date

Early
1500s
Mid-19th
century
800 years
ago
1823

2. Answer the questions
a. More than a century ago
b. He wanted to send Christmas
greetings to his friends
c. 800 years ago
d. An American professor, Clement
Clarke Moore
e. on the description of Saint
Nicolas in professor Moore’s poem
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas2
We wish you a merry Christmas

and a happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring to you and
your kin. Good tiding for Christmas
and a happy New Year.
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding2
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a
cup of good cheer
We won’t go until we get some2
We won’t go until we get some, so
bring some out here
We wish you a merry Christmas3
and a happy New Year

IV. Consolidation
V. Homework

Study vocab by heart
Read the text again and write
dictation and translation
Write questions and answers again
Practise talking about the

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Christmas festival
Prepare new lesson

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