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Advance with English
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Unit
4
Task
Telling a story about Father Christmas
The First Period
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Revision The most popular religions in the
world
Lead-in

• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Judaism

• Christianity
• Islam
• Etc.

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Lead-in
Which is the most popular religion in western
countries?

• Christianity

What do we call people believing in Christianity?

• Christians.

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Lead-in
Which is the most popular festival celebrated by
Christians?

• Christmas.

What do you know about Christmas
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A brief introduction of Christmas
Lead-in
Christmas is the day Christians celebrate the
birth of Jesus Christ, whom Christians believe to
be the son of God. Childeren are excited about
this holiday because they believe Father
Christmas will bring them gifts.
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Lead-in
Father Christmas
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Father Christmas is delivering gifts to people
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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.

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Skills Building 1

• Finding information about
• a legendary person

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So what is a legend?
Skills Building 1

• 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.

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What is a legendary person?
Skills Building 1

• A legendary person is a person who is very famous
  and who is talked about by a lot of people.
  Often, a legendary person is a real person who
  lived a long time ago, so the information about
  this person might be true but some of it might be
  untrue and just part of a legend.

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Skills Building 1
Examples of traditional Chinese legends
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Skills Building 1
Pangu cutting open heaven and earth
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Skills Building 1
Nuwa patching the sky with
five-colour stones
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In such legends, who are legendary people?

• Pangu and Nuwa.

So in the legends about Father Christmas, who is
a legendary person?
Father Christmas.
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Expressions used to describe a legendary person/
figure
Skills Building 1

• 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

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Practice Rewrite the following sentence with
the expressions above
Skills Building 1
e.g.

• Father Christmas delivers/brings presents
• to people.

Father Christmas is said/supposed to deliver/
bring presents to people.
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Practice
Skills Building 1
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

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Examples
Skills Building 1

• 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.

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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas
A

• You have been asked to tell a story at your
  friends party. You decide to tell a legendary
  story about Father Christmas. Listen to a TV
  program about this legendary figure and fill in
  the notes 1- 8 and 13 -14.

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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas
What he looks like
a happy, (1) __________ man with long __________
hair and a long white beard, dressed in a (3)
__________ with a (4) ______ belt and the same
colour boots
fat
white
red suit
black
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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas
Where he lives
North
near the (5) __________ Pole
Who his friends are
elves help make (6) __________ reindeer (7)
__________ in number help (8) __________ the
presents
toys
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deliver
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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas
Interesting facts
was usually drawn wearing (13) __________ before
a famous advertisement used a picture of him
wearing red in (14) _______
green
1931
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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas
B Listen to the second half in Part B and fill
in the notes 9-12.
What he does
goes down chimneys and places (9) _______ in
stockings, in front of the Christmas (10) _____
by childrens (11)________ or by the fireplace
presents
tree
bed
The food he likes
sweet mince (12) ________
pies
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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas
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Reading
Read the web page about St Nicholas and work in
pairs to ask and answer the questions at the
bottom of Page 59.
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Pair workAsk and answer the questions below
Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas

• 1. Where did St Nicholas come from?
• 2. Why is Father Christmas modelled after him?
• 3. What is the origion of Father Christmas
• coming down the chimney?
• 4. Where did the idea of hanging stockings near
• the fireplace come from?
• 5. What does St Nicholas look like?

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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 and generous especially
to young people.
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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. Where did the idea of hanging stockings
near the fireplace come from?
One of his bags of gold fell into a stocking
hanging up to dry over the fireplace.
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Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas

• 5. What does St Nicholas look like?

He is tall and thin with no beard and wears the
traditional clothes of a priest.
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Summary
Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas

• Give a summary of the passage according to the
  questions and answers about St Nicholas you
  practised just now.

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A summary of St Nicholas
based

• 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 traditional clothes
• of a ________. He is one of the most
• popular _________ in Christianity and the
• saint of people because he is said to be
• very kind, __________ and generous,
• especially to young people.

on
Turkey
thin
tall
beard
priest
figures
merciful
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believe

• People ________ 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
origion
coming
According
to
stocking
fireplace
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Homework

• Practise telling a legendary story about
  Father Christmas, with the Expressions used to
  describe a legendary person . Your story needs
  to cover the following aspects.

• What he looks like
• Where he lives
• Who his friends are
• What he does

• The food he likes
• Interesting facts
• St Nicholas

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Thanks, goodbye!