Pre-read
Answer the following questions.
1.When is Christmas?
2.Do you celebrate Christmas?
If so,what do you do?
3.What holiday is your favourite?Why?
Read CHRISTMAS DAY
During the Christmas season friends get together
and go from house to house singing christmas songs.
They do this for fun and to bring the spirit of christmas to the people in cach house.
Then on Christmas Eve-the night before Christmas Day
-Children put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep.
Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.
Some people even put up stockings for their pets as well.
Father Christmas is a very kind-hearted man.
He lands on top of each house all over the world and climbs down the chimney.
He then fills the stockings with Christmas presents.
But who is Father Christmas?
Can a man really climb down the chimney of every house in the world in a single night?
Of course not.
Father Christmas is based on a real person in history.
In Turkey,there once was a man named Saint Nicholas.
He was a very shy person.
He wanted to give money to the poor.
But he did not want them to know that the money come from him.
he didn't know what to do.
It is said that one day he climbed to the top of a house
and dropped some money down a chimney.
It went into a stocking that a little girl had hung by the fireplace to dry!
Even though Father Christmas is no longer living,
his spirit of generosity lives on today.
Christmas Day always begins before breakfast.
Children wake up very early,and can't wait to open the presents in their stockings and under the tree.
They wake up the other family members,
calling,"Merry Christmas!"
After all the presents are opened,the family will usually have a delicious breakfast.
They spend the day playing with the new toys and visiting their relatives and friends.
They greet each other with a hug and say,"Merry Christmas!