Lesson 4 Christmas 单 位：合肥商贸科技学校 授课人：喻林

presents turkey candle

Christmas cake Christmas stockings

Do you want to know more about Christmas? Now let’s open our books.

Before you start Please look at the two pictures on your books to find out some key words in exercise 1.

snowmen snow Christmas stockings presents

balloons Christmas tree Christmas pudding alcohol

While reading 1. Fast-reading Read the story quickly to match the paragraphs with the headings.

b）Decorations outside Para 2 a）Activities on Christmas Eve Para 1 b）Decorations outside Para 2 c) The beginning of Christmas Para 3 Para 4 d) Activities after lunch Para 5 e) Activities on Christmas morning

2. Careful Reading Read the text again and try to get some detailed information Task 4: Answer the multiple-choice questions in Ex.4 on page 43, following the reading strategies.

Reading Strategies: Multiple-choice questions Read the questions and answers. Try to get the correct answer. Find the place in the text where you think the answer is (e.g. question 1= paragraph 1) Read the text and check your answers. Make sure the other two answers are not possible.

Let’s get a thorough understanding of the story Read the text again and try to finish the table bellow. Para.1 The beginning of Christmas Time In the middle of _________ Activities Wrote a ______ to Father Christmas Feeling Eager to tell Father Christmas all the ___________ we wanted November. letter presents

Para 2 Decorations outside Time _________ Activities Send and receive ______________, attend town _________________, have snowball fights Feeling Feel ________ December Christmas cards carol service excited

Activities Feeling adults Para3,4,5 Happy children Christmas Eve Decorate the house, put ___________ at the end of the beds _______ Christmas morning Open the stockings to see the_________ Go to the _______ Play in the garden Have lunch Sang charismas carols Happy After lunch adults _______ on the sofa children Played cards Had tea with a huge _______ went to sleep Tired but _______ stockings curious presents church slept Tired cake happy

Post-reading Group work: students work in group of 6 to compare Chinese Spring festival with Christmas in Britain. Then invite some groups to talk about Spring Festival.

Some materials for you to refer to blessing Spring Festival couplets firecrackers

舞龙：dragon dance making dumplings setting off fireworks

春节 The Spring Festival 正月 lunar January, the first month by lunar calendar 除夕 New Year’s Eve 初一 the beginning of New Year

红包： red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper，symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year) 压岁钱： gift money, money given to children as a lunar New Year gift 团圆饭 family reunion dinner 年夜饭 the dinner on New Year’s Eve 饺子 dumpling 过年 Guo-nian, have the Spring Festival

Christmas VS Spring Festival Type Christmas Spring Festival Time Food Activities decorations Similarities

Christmas VS Spring Festival Type Christmas Spring Festival Time Dec.25th The first day of the first lunar month Food turkey, pudding, Cake… Dumpling, sweet dumpling Activities sending Christmas cards decorating the house, going to the church… dragon dance, setting off fireworks, making dumplings… decorations Christmas tree, colorful lights, presents, candles, stockings… Blessing, Spring Festival couplets… Similarities People celebrate the festival in order to welcome the new year

Summary The time sequence order of the story The beginning of Christmas (in the middle of November) Decorations outside (In December) Christmas Eve Christmas morning After lunch

Let’s sing a song We wish you a merry Christmas And happy New Year Good tidings we bring To you and your kin Good tidings for Christmas and Happy New Year