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ENGLISH 8

Designed by: Mạc Thị Huyền

5) Mid- Autumn festival 7) Rice-cooking festival

3) Lim festival

6) Hung Temple festival

2) Tet festival1) Christmas festival

Look at these pictures in 20 seconds and try to remember the names of these festivals

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1. Vocabulary

The Christmas tree (n):

The Christmas card (n):

Christmas Carol (n):

Santa Claus (n):

Patron saint (n):

cây thông noel

thiệp giáng sinh

thánh ca

ông già noel

thánh đỡ đầu

MATCHING

1) Santa Claus

3) The Christmas tree

2) Christmas Carols

4) Patron saint

b) ông già noel

a) thánh ca

d) Cây thông noel

c) thiệp giáng sinh

e) Thánh đỡ đầu4) Christmas card

Match picture with the tittle

1. Some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place in the Latvian city of Riga

2. This is a person who were a red suit and give children presents on Christmas Eve

3. The songs were stories put to music and most people enjoys them

4. An English man wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends, so he had someone design a card

a)

b)

c)

d)

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

most people enjoyed them. The

leaders of the Church, however,

did not. They said the songs were

unsuitable, but about 180 years ago

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

Match picture with the tittle

1. Some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place in the Latvian city of Riga

2. This is a person who were a red suit and give children presents on Christmas Eve

3. The songs were stories put to music and most people enjoys them

4. An English man wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends, so he had someone design a card

a)

b)

c)

d)1- c 3- d2-b 4- a

Christmas specials

Place of origin

Date

Riga

Mid-19th century

Christmas carols

USA

The Christmas tree Early 1500s

The Christmas card England

No information 800 years ago

Santa Claus 1823

3.Complete the table

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?

5. What is Santa Claus based on ?

4. Who wrote the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas?

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How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?

More than a century ago

Why did the Englishman have someone design a

card?

Becausehe wanted to send

Christmas greetings to his friends

When were Christmas songs first performed?

Christmas songs were

first performed800 years ago

Who wrote the poem A Visit from

Saint Nicholas?

Clement Clarke Moore, an American

professor,wrote this poem

What is Santa Claus based on?

Santa Claus is based on the

description of Saint Nicholas in the

poem

More than a century ago.

Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.

On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem

800 years ago.

An American professor Clement Clarke Moore

a. How long ago did the Christmas Tree come to USA ?

b. Why did the Englishman have someone design a card?

c. When were Christmas songs first performed?

d. Who wrote the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas?

e. What is Santa Claus based on?

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all the wayOh, what fun it is to rideIn a one horse open sleighJingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all the wayOh, what fun it is to rideIn a one horse open___(1)___

5. Filling the missing words in the song. Use the words in the box

spirits sleigh side snow upsot

Dashing through the__(2)____In a one horse open sleighO'er the fields we goLaughing all the wayBells on bob tails ringMaking __(3)____ brightWhat fun it is to laugh and singA sleighing song tonight

A day or two agoI thought I'd take a rideAnd soon Miss Fanny BrightWas seated by my _(4)____The horse was lean and lankMisfortune seemed his lotWe got into a drifted bankAnd then we got __(5)____

JINGLE BELLS

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all the wayOh, what fun it is to rideIn a one horse open sleighJingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all the wayOh, what fun it is to rideIn a one horse open sleigh

5. Filling the missing words in the song. Use the words in the box

spirits sleigh side snow upsot

Dashing through the snowIn a one horse open sleighO'er the fields we goLaughing all the wayBells on bob tails ringMaking spirits brightWhat fun it is to laugh and singA sleighing song tonight

A day or two agoI thought I'd take a rideAnd soon Miss Fanny BrightWas seated by my sideThe horse was lean and lankMisfortune seemed his lotWe got into a drifted bankAnd then we got upsot

JINGLE BELLS

• Write 5 main ideas about Christmas.• Do exercise in the workbook • Prepare Unit 13 - Write