Nguyễn Hữu Phước
Giáo viên Trường THCS Đông Hưng 2
An Minh - Kiên Giang
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Check homework
1. Write vocabulary part speak listen.
2. What do your family do to prepare for Tet?
Suggested answer:
Buy food and flower
Tidy the house
Cook special foods
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Festivals
Networks
Tet
Mid -Autumn
Christmas
Cooking
Harvest
Flower
2. People often decorate a tree and give greeting cards to others.
Which festival is this ?
1. This is the biggest festival in western countries.
3. It is on December 25.
Christmas
UNIT 13.
LESSON 3: READ
(Week: 28 - Period: 80)
Christmas is an important festival in many countries around the world.
Christmas tree (n)
Cây giáng sinh
VOCABULARY
decorate (v)
trang hoàng
Christmas card (n)
thiệp giáng sinh
design (v)
thiết kế
Christmas carol (n)
bài thánh ca giáng sinh
Church (n)
Nhà thờ
Santa Claus (n)/ Father Christmas
Ông già Noel
Matching
Christmas tree
Christmas card
Christmas Carols
Santa Claus
The Christmas Tree
One Christmas Eve in the early 1500s, some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place in the Latvian city of Riga. This custom spread throughout Europe, and finally to America in the 1800s.
The Christmas Card
In the mid -nineteenth century, an Englishman wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends, so he had someone design a card. Forty years later, cards were a part of the Christmas tradition.
Christmas Carols
Eight hundred years ago, Christmas songs were performed for people in towns and villages. These songs were stories put to music and most people enjoyed them. The leaders of the Church, however, did not. They said the songs were unsuitable, but about 180 years ago, the songs became popular again.
Santa Claus
In 1823, the patron saint of children, Saint Nicholas appeared in a poem called A Visit from saint Nicholas. The character in the poem was a fat jolly man who wore a red suit and gave children presents on Christmas Eve. The poem, which was written by Clement Clarke Moore, an American professor, became popular in the USA. Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in this poem.
Activities people do on Christmas :
decorate a Christmas tree
send Christmas greetings
perform Christmas songs
give presents to children
Christmas
Vocabulary
- decorate (v):
- poem (n):
- patron saint (n):
- custom (n):
- carol (n):
- jolly (a):
- unsuitable (a):
trang trí
phong tục, tập quán
bài thơ
vui nhộn, vui vẻ
bài hát vui, bài thánh ca
thánh bảo hộ
không phù hợp
Jumbled words
decorate
poem
patron saint
custom
carol
jolly
unsuitable
1- olljy
2- pmoe
3- caorl
4- csutmo
5- dcoetrae
6- tronpa sinta
7- nusuiablet

Christmas tree
Santa Claus
Christmas card
Christmas carols
Match the pictures with their names.
1)
2)
3)
4)
Complete the table
The Christmas Tree
early 1500s
The Christmas Card
England
(no information)
800 years ago
Santa Claus
1823
1. How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
2. Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?
3. When were Christmas songs first performed?
Answer the questions
5. What is Santa Claus based on ?
4. Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?

Hãy tìm ông già tuyết trong 6 ngôi nhà. Mở ngôi nhà có câu hỏi, trả lời đúng được 1 điểm, trả lời sai nhường cơ hội ghi điểm cho đội bạn. Đội may mắn tìm thấy cây thông hoặc tấm thiệp giáng sinh sẽ được tặng điểm thưởng ( trả lời đúng được 1,5 điểm ) Nếu tìm thấy ông già tuyết được 2 điểm mà không cần trả lời câu hỏi.
Where is Santa Claus?
Question 3
Question 4
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Where is Santa Claus?
Question 1
Question 1
How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
More than a century ago.
Question 2
Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?
Because he wanted to send
Christmas greeting to
his friends.
Question 3
When were Christmas songs first performed?
800 years ago.
Question 4
Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?
Question 5
What is Santa Claus based on ?
Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in Professor Moore’s poem.
Answers
1. More than a century ago.
2. Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
3. 800 years ago.
4. An American professor Clement Clarke Moore.
5. Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in Professor Moore’s poem.
Is there Christmas in Viet Nam?

Yes, there is.
True or False
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1500s
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Shakespeare
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(Clement Clarke Moore)
He gives children presents on Christmas Eve.
He often wears red suit.
He is an old man.
Who is he ?
Santa Claus
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His family name is Nguyen.
There’s a famous saying in vietnamese:”Hỏa hồng…Kiếm bạc...”
He is a hero in Kien Giang.
Who is he?
Nguyen Trung Truc
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- Learn vocabulary by heart.

- Prepare the next lesson (Unit 13 - Write :on page126, 127).
- Make a list of things people often do at Christmas.
Ex: - decorate the Christmas tree
- Rewrite the answers in their notebooks.