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

2. presents
turkey
candle

3. Christmas cake
Christmas stockings

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

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

6. snowmen
snow
Christmas stockings
presents

7. balloons
Christmas tree
Christmas pudding
alcohol

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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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.

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

17. 舞龙：dragon dance
making dumplings
setting off fireworks

18. 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

19. 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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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