Topic: Christmas

Aims: Developing speaking, reading and listening skills;

Educating students with respect to the world’s culture;

Equipment: Sources of reading, tape

Course of lesson:

1. Warming-up:
Song:”We wish you a merry Christmas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OF7KGyDis

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
Oh, bring us some figgy pudding
Oh, bring us some figgy pudding
Oh, bring us some figgy pudding
And bring it right here
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
So bring it right here
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
We all like our figgy pudding
We all like our figgy pudding
We all like our figgy pudding
With all its good cheers
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year

2. Giving the topic

Teacher: We are going to speak about one of the most important holiday of the world-Christmas.
At first I propose you to do the activity which is called “Christmas Similes”

A simile is a phrase or sentence that compares one thing to another using the words “like” or
“as”
For example: Rudolph’s nose is as red as a berry.
Now it is your turn. Complete the following similes and write some of your own.
1. A Christmas tree is like a________________________________.
2. Santa is as _____________ as ___________________.
3. The bells sounded like __________________.
4. On Christmas day I am as ________ as a __________.
5. The present was as ___________________.
6. The present was like a __________________.

3. Reading
Christmas
At Christmas, people remember when Jesus Christ was born and the Christian religion
started. Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem, about two thousand years ago. The people who
followed Jesus’ teaching were the first Christians.
Today Christmas is a very important time in the Christian year, but it is also very important
to those who do not go to church. It is a time for buying and giving presents, having parties, and
being with family. People start to get ready for Christmas in late October or early November.
Shop-keepers decorate their shop with lights, trees and other decorations, and shoppers start to
look for presents. People with family and friends in other countries often send cards and
presents, and everyone begins to make plans for the coming holiday.
The cards say things like “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” or “Season’s
Greetings” These two traditions both started in the middle of the nineteenth century. Many
children learn about the baby Jesus at school. Sometimes they do a play about the story and sing
Christmas songs, called carols, for their mothers and fathers.
The Christmas holiday begins on 24 December: Christmas Eve. People often stop work
early and have a drink together, or finish their Christmas shopping. They cover the presents in
special paper, and put them under the tree. Children leave a stocking for Santa Claus is a big man
with white hair and red clothes who brings presents for children during the night. If the house
has a fireplace, the children sometimes leave their stocking by the fire because Santa Claus
comes down the chimney. Mothers tell their children that if they are good children, he leaves
presents in the stockings, if they are bad he leaves a piece of coal.
Many people go to church at midnight on Christmas Eve. Christmas dinner is in the
afternoon and is the biggest meal of the day. Before they start to eat, people pull crackers. Dinner
is usually turkey with lots of winter vegetables and then hot mince pies or a Christmas pudding.
At three o’clock many people in Britain turn their television on because the Queen says: ”Happy
Christmas” to everyone. Boxing Day (26 December) is also a holiday in Britain
The Christmas season ends on the twelfth day after 25 December, which is 6 January.

Post-reading:
T/F sentences:
1. Jesus was born in the town of Nazareth about 2000 years ago.
2. Christmas is a very important time being with family.
3. People start to get ready for Christmas in late November.
4. The tradition to send cards started in the seventeenth century.
5. Many children learn about Christmas at school.
6. The children leave their stockings by the fireplace, because Santa Claus comes down the
chimney.
7. In the evening, people eat cold meat, Christmas cake, fruit and nuts.
8. The Christmas season ends on the twentieth day after 25 December.
 4. Filling in the blanks with words from the box:

Checks nice sing fills

naughty beard Boxing Eve
North Pole decorate elves workshop
lap baked turkey lights
cards presents under chimney
sleigh holiday reindeer family
coal toys merry spirit

Christmas

Christmas is a __________ when people get together with _________. People give ___________
to each other or send _______ wising each other a ____________ Christmas. As well, people
_________ carols to get into the Christmas trees and put up __________ around the house. A
common Christmas dinner is _________. There are also lots of __________ goodies for kids.
Christmas begins on the day before Christmas, or Christmas _________ and continues until
_______ day, when many people go shopping for sales.

Santa Claus:
Santa Claus is an old man with a white ____________ that lives at the ________. Children sit on
Santa’s _________ and tell him what they want for Christmas. Santa ________ his list to see if
the children have been _______ or ______ .If the children are good Santa brings them _______.
If the children are bad Santa brings them __________. The toys are made in Santa’s _________
by _________. Santa travels around the world pulling by flying ________. When stops at a
house, he goes down the _______ and puts presents ______ the tree and then he _______the
stockings.

5. Christmas Quiz
1. What is traditionally eaten on Christmas Day in Britain?
a) roast beef
b) tripe
c) roast turkey

2 Which country gives a Christmas tree to the British people every year to put up in
Trafalgar Square?
a) Norway
b) Sweden
c) Finland

3. What is inside Christmas pudding as a surprise?

a) gold
b) silver
c) bronze

4. What did people use to put inside mince pies in medieval times?
a) fruit
 b) mince meat
c) nuts

5 Whose annual speech is broadcast on Christmas Day?

a) the Prime Minister
b) the Archbishop of Canterbury
c) .the Queen

6 In Britain the 26 the of December is known as

a) Boxing Day
b) St. Stephen Day
c) Christmas eve
6. Writing: “A letter to Santa”

7. Summarizing