湖南长郡卫星远程学校 制作 13 2012年下学期

Lead-in Christmas. Which is the most popular festival celebrated by Christians? Christmas. What do you know about Christmas

A brief introduction of Christmas Lead-in A brief introduction of Christmas Christmas is the day when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, whom Christians believe to be the son of God. Children are excited about this holiday because they believe Father Christmas will bring them gifts.

Lead-in Father Christmas 4

Lead-in Father Christmas is delivering gifts to people.

Lead-in But do you believe Father Christmas really exists? No. Although Father Christmas is very famous and people talk a lot about him, he is just a legendary person. The story of Father Christmas is just a legend. Then what is a legend and what kind of person is a legendary person? Please read the top of page 58 in Skills building 1 and find out the answers.

Skills Building 1: Finding information about a legendary person

Skills Building 1 What do you think is a legend? Legend refers to the traditional story of a famous person or an event. Some of the stories can be true. However, most of the stories include things that are untrue, impossible or do not exist.

Skills Building 1 Then what is a legendary person? A legendary person is often a real person who lived a long time ago, and the information about this person might be true but some of it might be untrue and just part of a legend.

Examples of traditional Chinese legends Skills Building 1 Examples of traditional Chinese legends

Skills Building 1 Pangu cutting open heaven and earth.

Skills Building 1 Nüwa patching the sky with five-colour stones.

Skills Building 1 In such legends, who are legendary people? Pangu and Nüwa. So in the legends about Father Christmas, who is a legendary person? Father Christmas.

Expressions used to describe a legendary person/figure Skills Building 1 Expressions used to describe a legendary person/figure He/she is said/supposed to … He/She is known/described as … People believe that … According to the stories, he/she … Apparently, he/she … I have heard that he/she …

Skills Building 1 Practice: Rewrite the following sentence with the expressions above. e.g. Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. Father Christmas is said/supposed to deliver/bring presents to people.

Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. Skills Building 1 Practice Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. He/she is said/supposed to … He/She is known/described as … People believe that … According to the stories, he/she … Apparently, he/she … I have heard that he/she …

Skills Building 1 Examples Father Christmas is known as a person who delivers/brings presents to people. People believe that Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people. According to the stories, Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. Apparently, Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. I have heard that Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people.

A Reading Read the web page about St Nicholas Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas A Reading Read the web page about St Nicholas and work in pairs to ask and answer the questions on the top of Page 59.

Pair work Ask and answer the questions below Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Pair work Ask and answer the questions below 1. Where did St Nicholas come from? 2. Why is Father Christmas modelled after him? 3. What is the origin of Father Christmas coming down the chimney? 4. Why do many Europeans give gifts to their children on St Nicholas Day? 5. What does St Nicholas look like?

1. Where did St Nicholas come from? Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas 1. Where did St Nicholas come from? St Nicholas came from a village called Myra in Turkey. 2. Why is Father Christmas modelled 　after him? Because he was very kind, merciful and generous.

Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas 3. What is the origin of Father Christmas 　coming down the chimney? St Nicholas threw small bags of gold down the chimney to help the three daughters in a poor family get married. 4. Why do many Europeans give gifts to their 　children on St Nicholas Day? To honor St Nicholas, who gave aid to others. 21

5. What does St Nicholas look like? Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas 5. What does St Nicholas look like? He is tall and thin with no beard or moustache and wears the neat, traditional clothes of a religious leader.

B Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Listen to a TV program about Father Christmas and fill in the table below according to what you have heard and the web page on Page 58.

What he looks like white Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas What he looks like a happy, fat man with long (1) _________ hair and a long white beard and moustache, dressed in a (2) __________ with a black belt and the same colour boots white red suit

near the (3) __________ Pole Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Where he lives North near the (3) __________ Pole Who his friends are toys elves: help make (4) __________ reindeer: twelve in number, help (5) __________ the presents deliver

Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas What he does goes down chimneys and places (6) _________ in stockings, in front of the Christmas tree, by children’s (7)________ or by the fireplace presents beds

was usually drawn wearing (8) __________ before a famous Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Interesting facts was usually drawn wearing (8) __________ before a famous advertisement used a picture of him wearing red in (9) _______ green 1931

St Nicholas (10) ________________ Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Who is Father Christmas based on? St Nicholas (10) ________________

Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Summary Give a summary about St Nicholas about what you have learned today.

A summary of St Nicholas The story of Father Christmas is _______ _____ St Nicholas, the bishop of a village called Myra in ________ over 1,600 years ago. He is ______ and _______ with no _______ and wears the neat, traditional clothes of a religious ________. He is one of the most popular _________ in Christianity and the saint of people because he is said to be very kind, __________ and generous. based on Turkey tall thin beard leader figures merciful

　　People believe that once he threw small bags of gold down the _______ to help the three daughters in a poor family to get ________. This is the ________ of Father Christmas _______ down the chimney. __________ ____ the legends, one of his bags of gold fell into a ________ hanging up to dry over the _________. This is where the idea of hanging stockings near the fireplace came from. chimney married origin coming According to stocking fireplace