[00:20.19]Pre-read
[00:22.83]Answer the following questions.
[00:26.59]1.When is Christmas?
[00:34.53]2.Do you celebrate Christmas?
[00:43.00]If so,what do you do?
[00:51.15]3.What holiday is your favourite?Why?
[02:05.13]Read CHRISTMAS DAY
[02:26.18]During the Christmas season friends get together
[02:34.33]and go from house to house singing christmas songs.
[03:13.31]They do this for fun and to bring the spirit of christmas to the people in cach house.
[03:45.07]Then on Christmas Eve-the night before Christmas Day
[03:51.55]-Children put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep.
[04:34.81]Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.
[04:42.98]Some people even put up stockings for their pets as well.
[05:18.96]Father Christmas is a very kind-hearted man.
[05:24.70]He lands on top of each house all over the world and climbs down the chimney.
[05:34.37]He then fills the stockings with Christmas presents.
[07:35.65]But who is Father Christmas?
[07:43.80]Can a man really climb down the chimney of every house in the world in a single night?
[07:52.45]Of course not.
[08:11.70]Father Christmas is based on a real person in history.
[08:30.56]In Turkey,there once was a man named Saint Nicholas.
[08:37.83]He was a very shy person.
[08:41.48]He wanted to give money to the poor.
[09:15.65]But he did not want them to know that the money come from him.
[09:33.41]he didn't know what to do.
[09:40.68]It is said that one day he climbed to the top of a house
[09:48.12]and dropped some money down a chimney.
[10:17.30]It went into a stocking that a little girl had hung by the fireplace to dry!
[10:57.45]Even though Father Christmas is no longer living,
[11:04.11]his spirit of generosity lives on today.
[13:02.79]Christmas Day always begins before breakfast.
[13:08.53]Children wake up very early,and can't wait to open the presents in their stockings and under the tree.
[13:45.78]They wake up the other family members,
[13:57.04]calling,"Merry Christmas!"
[14:04.90]After all the presents are opened,the family will usually have a delicious breakfast.
[14:31.18]They spend the day playing with the new toys and visiting their relatives and friends.
[14:59.13]They greet each other with a hug and say,"Merry Christmas! |