Lesson 46

Help people

The story of Santa Claus

Once a rich man’s wife died ,leaving him three daughters.He had to look after them on a farm himself and became very poor .When the daughters got the time to marry ,he had no money to buy anything . At night ,the daughters washed their stockings and hung them near the fire . Nicholas saw this and threw three bags of gold through the chimney because he didn’t want others to know that ,and the bags fell in one of the stockings.

When the girls wake up the second morning,

they were so happy to see that the gold was enough for them to buy many things .From that time children all over the world hang their stockings ,but in different countries ,there are different ways .

Do you know Santa Claus?

1.Where does Santa live?

2.What animal pull Santa’s sleigh?

3.How does Santa get into children’s houses?

A. In the United States B. In Holland

C. At the North Pole

A. Reindeer B. Cow C. Elephant

A.He comes through the front door.

B.He comes down the chimney.

C.He comes through the window.

C

A

B

Learning tip 1 :

Listen to the tape and answer the questions .

1.What color is Santa Claus’ clothes?

2.In North America,is his name changed?

They are red .

Yes,it is .

Learning tip 2 :

Read the text for 4 minutes ,and answer the following questions .

1.What does he look like?

2.What do the old stories say about Saint Nicholas?

He is in red clothes. He has a long white beard .He wears black boots .

The stories say he saved sailors from storms, help young children and gave gifts to the poor .

His name was famous in Europe .

In the 16oos,people from Holland brought the stories to North America .

3.Where was his name famous?

4. When and who brought stories of Sinter Klaas to North America?

Read the text carefully for 5 minutes and try to find out the details in the text in groups .

Group work

Language points :

1.go together 一同…

e.g. He and his classmates go to school together .

2.save sb/sth from sth/doing sth 从…中挽救…

e.g. The police saved an old man from the fire.

He saved a boy from drowning ( 溺水 ).

3.pronounce…as 把…读成

e.g. Don’t pronounce met as meet.

Group work 2 ：

Discuss for 3 minutes :What can we learn from Santa Claus ?

To be helpful !

Exercises : 根据首字母和句意填空1.Children believe that Santa Claus comes down the c________ and visits them before C_____ .

2. Does he have much b______ around his mouth?

3. Time is money .So we must try to s_______ it .

4. Do you like to be a s______ in the future ?

5. People began to p________ “Sinter Klass” as Santa Claus in the 1600s.

6. Santa Claus lives at N ________ P______ .

7.The doctor s______ a wounded patient last week.

himney hristmas

ave

ronounce

orth ole

aved

eard

ailor

单项选择：1.He came up with an idea for a hybrid race _______.

A in the 1969 B in 1960s C at 1960s D in the 1960s

2. The police went _______ the forest and found the wounded bear .

A across B through C cross D though

3.Don’t pronounce “ G” ______ “J ”.

A to B like C as D for

C

B

D

Discuss :

1.Is Christmas as popular as Spring Festival in China ?

2.Does your family exchange gifts at Christmas ?