* Checking vocabulary: R.O.R
2. Presentation text:
- Ask Ss to listen to the text and answer the
question: How many specials are there in
Christmas?
- Ask them to practice reading the text.
- Call on some Ss to read the text.
II. While-reading: (18’)
1. Complete the table:
- Asks Ss to read the text again and complete the
table.
- Collect some posters and correct before class.
* Answer:
Christmas specials Place of origin Date
Christmas tree Riga Early 1500s
Christmas card England Mid-19th century
Christmas carols (no information) 800 years ago
Santa Claus USA 1823
2. Comprehension questions:
- Go through the questions and ask ss to answer
them.
- Call on some Ss to answer the questions.
- Correct.
* Answer:
a. More than a century ago.
b. Because he wanted to send Christmas greetings
to his friends.
c. 800 years ago.
d. An American professor named Clement Clarke
Moore.
e. On the description of Sain Nicholas in frofessor
Moore's poem.
III. Post-reading (10’)
- Ask ss to work in pairs to draw a mindmap about
Christmas.
- Ask ss to give out their answers
- Ask others to remark and correct
- Remark and give out the answer key
- Play the game.
- Listen to the tape and answer
the question.
- Work individually.
- Practice before class.
- Work in groups, read the text
again and complete the table on
posters.
- Check the answer with
teacher.
- Work in pairs to ask and
answer the questions.
- Give out the answer.
- Write down.
- Work in pairs.
- Give out the answer.
- Give comments.