1. 湖南长郡卫星远程学校
制作 13
2012年下学期

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

3. 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.

4. Lead-in
Father Christmas 4

5. Lead-in
Father Christmas is delivering gifts to people.

6. 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.

7. Skills Building 1:
Finding information about a legendary person

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. Skills Building 1
Pangu cutting open heaven and earth.

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

13. 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.

14. 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 …

15. 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.

16. 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 …

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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?

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

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

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

30. 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

31. 　　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