【精品】高中英语（人教大纲）第三册：Unit7 A Christmas Carol(备课资料).docVIP

Reference for Teaching Ⅰ.异域风情 Christmas Day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on the twenty-fifth of December.The Christian calender starts in the year in which Jesus was born.The letters A.D. with a year mean “Anno Domini” or “in the year of Our Lord”. Christmas Day is a very happy day for many boys and girls.Before the term ends in some schools,the children act a nativity or“birth” play,showing how Jesus was born in a stable. Many of the celebrations at Christmas are old customs.Some fathers dress up in a red cloak and put on a long white beard.They pretend to be Father Chr