高中英语 Christmas课件 56张PPTPPT

Some Facts
• Christmas is celebrated on December 25th. It is said to be the day Jesus was born. No one knows Jesus’ exact birthday, but since 336 AD people around the world have said His birthday is December 25th.
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Christmas carols
• Christmas carols are special songs that tell about the events of Jesus’ birth. The first Christmas songs were written in 400 AD. Carols, however, didn’t become really popular until the 1800s.
Christmas Trees
• At Christmas time, most people decorate their homes with a Christmas tree. This is a green fir tree (冷杉) decorated with colored balls, lights or candles, and stars.
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Talk about it…
1. What are some symbols of Christmas? Are these religious or not religious?
2. What are some of the traditions we’ve talked about so far?
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Wise Men (Magi)
• At the time Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a very bright star appeared in the sky. Wise men, called Magi, saw the star and knew it meant something great had happened.
• The first people to be told about Jesus’ birth were shepherds (牧羊人). Angels (天使) came to them while they were watching their sheep and announced the good news. Shepherds were the first visitors to see the baby Jesus.
Christmas
• In English, the word for ‘Christmas’ is made from two parts:
CHRIST (from Greek 希腊语) = Jesus Christ
MAS (from Latin 拉丁文) = to send
• Christmas is the celebration of a holy birth or birthday, the sending of God’s Son Jesus to earth.
Christmas
Christmas
• What is ‘Christmas’ in Chinese? 圣诞节
• What is the meaning of 圣? Of 诞? (sheng = holy; dan = be born/birthday)
• What is the meaning of ‘Christmas’ in English?
• There are some Christmas traditions that are common around the world, and there are other customs that are special to each country. Some are religious 宗教的 and come from the story of the first Christmas told in the Bible 圣经. Others are not religious.
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Candles
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Bells
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Christmas Eve Church Service
Christmas traditions and symbols
• Christmas is one of the world’s largest holidays. Almost every country has some people who celebrate this holiday.
Gingerbread Houses
• Many people in various countries will make edible model houses out of gingerbread and various candies.
• Not only will people enjoy building these ‘gingerbread houses’, but they will also enjoy eating the houses during Christmas.
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
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• In some cities there are contests to see who can put up the most and most beautiful display of lights around their house. People often drive around the city during the Christmas season to look at the lights and to sing Christmas carols.
• The day before Christmas, December 24th, is called Christmas Eve. On this night, many people attend special Christmas programs at church 教堂. This night is considered a quiet, holy night. Families get together on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Angels and Shepherds
• God promised hundreds of years before that Jesus would be born in the town of Bethlehem in Israel (以色 列). He would be God’s messenger. Jesus came to earth to bring peace with God.
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Stars and Lights
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Too many lights??
Angels and Shepherds
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Stars and Lights
• Lights are common decorations inside and outside the house at Christmas. Stars are also common decorations at Christmas time as a way to remember the bright star that led the wise men (Magi) to the baby Jesus. The lights are often of different colors and are turned on at night.
• The top of the tree is often decorated with a star or with an angel (天使) to remember the events from Jesus’ birth. The tradition of decorating a Christmas tree began in Germany in the 1500s.
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Wise Men (Magi)
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Nativity
• It is still common for groups of people, often from a neighborhood (街道), school or church to spend an evening walking through a neighborhood singing Christmas carols. This is a fun way to enjoy the company of others and to share the joy of the season.
3. What is a nativity?
4. What are ‘magi’?
5. When is Christmas celebrated?
6. Where is Christmas celebrated?
高中英语 Christma源自文库（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
Christmas Carols, Carolling Parties
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
高中英语 Christmas（圣诞节相关介绍）课件 56张PPT
• They traveled “from the east” to find and worship (礼拜) the baby Jesus and to give him gifts. The gifts they brought were gold and spices (香料)—gifts for a king.