Pre:5/3/ 2015
Tea
Period 81 : Unit 13: Festivals
Lesson 3: Read.
I. Objectives :
-After the lesson, Ss will be able to know more about the festivals in the world: The Christmas festival:traditional customs of the Christmas Festival: The Christmas tree, the Christmas card, the Christmas Carols, and Santa Claus.
-To drill Ss reading skill.
II.Teaching aids
Materials: Textbook, workbook.
Equipments:Tape - cassette, extra-board.
III. Teaching procedure.
1.Organization :
8A................
8B...............
2.Oral test:
S1: do exercises 2 in the work book ( Page 76)?
S2: write new words
3.New lesson :
Warm up.
-Ask ss to play the Guessing game:
1st clue: This is the biggest festival in the western countries.
2ndclue: People often decorate a tree and exchange the best wishes by giving cards to others.
3rd clue: It is on December 25.
-Ask Ss to work in pairs to dicuss the correct answer.
-Give the correct answer.
Presentation.
*Pre- reading.
- Introduce the topic of the lesson and aks Ss to give some things they know about the Christmas.
-Give some new words:
Christmas tree(ncây thông Noel. Christmas cards(n):thiếp chúc mừng.
Christmas Carols(nNhững bài thánh ca. Santa Claus(nông già Noel
Patron Saint(nthánh đỡ đầu, thánh bảo hộ Design(vthiết kế.
Spread(vlan truyền, phân phát jolly(a) : vui nhộn
-Ask Ss to read the new words in chorus. Poem(n): bài thơ
- Check voc: Slap the board.
- Ask Ss to predict *grid : p126.
*While- reading.
-Ask Ss to read the reading in silence






1- The patron saint of children , fat jolly man who wore a red suit and give children presents on Christmas Eve
2-The trees were decorated and put in the common place.
3-They were stories put to music and enjoyed by most people.
4-People send together by it. and check their guessing about the history and the origins of some Christmas specials.
Key: 1. B 2. A 3.D 4.C
- Work in pairs to dicuss the answers and the share the answers to the partners.

Christmas Specials
Place of origin
Date

The Christmas tree
Riga
Early1500s

The Christmas Card
England
Mid-19century

Christmas Carol
No information
800 years ago

Santa Claus
USA
1823

-Ask Ss to read the reading again and then answer the questions in the text book.
-Call Ss to write the answers on the BB.
-Read aloud the answers.
More than a century ago.
He wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
800 years ago.
An American professional Clement Clarke Moore.
e) On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moores poem.
-Check if necessary.
-Explain the new words:
Have sb do smt : yêu cầu ai đó làm gì. Unsuitable: Không phù hợp
Popular again: Phổ biến trở lại
Fat jolly man:Người đàn ông mập mạp, vui tính.
*Post –reading:
-Ask ss to give the history of the Christmas.
4. Consolidation
-Ask Ss to retell the main content of the reading: Christmas.
5. Home work.
-Ask ss to do exercises 2 + 3 + 4 in the work book.
- Learn new words by heart.
- Prepare: write.