O, Christmas Tree

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• fake
• stories
• tradition
• catch on

• heaps
• ornaments
• go to town
• fined

• downside
• artificial

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When I was a child, one of the most exciting things about Christmas – apart from getting heaps of gifts – was decorating the Christmas tree. My parents would set out boxes of ornaments and my brother, sister and I would go to town hanging bulbs and tinsel from the tree.

Real trees are great because they make your whole house smell like a forest of pine trees. The downside is that they shed needles all over the carpet. Many people get artificial trees because they don’t create such a mess.

Listen to Steph and Derek talk about their Christmas trees.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Steph

Derek

Steph:  Hey, Derek, does your family have a Christmas tree?

Derek:  Um, yeah, we just set one up last night actually.

Steph:  Cool. Is it real or is it fake?

Derek:  It’s a fake one.

Steph:  Mm hm.

Derek:  We used to, when I was growing up, we used to have a really large natural Christmas tree that we would cut down from our field. And it was like, ya know, almost two stories high.

Steph:  Oh, my gosh. That’s really tall!

Derek:  Yeah. We had an open living room, so.

Steph:  Oh yeah. We don’t, we don’t have one that’s that big. We’ve got one that’s, like, eight feet tall, but.

Derek:  Eight feet?

Steph:  Yeah.

Derek:  Do you like the real or the fake?

Steph:  I like the real ones ‘cause, you know, they smell good and you can, you know, it smells like pine forest right in your house. It’s wonderful.

Derek:  Yeah. That’s a nice smell to have around Christmas time.

Steph:  Yeah. It’s totally fun. I love it. Fresh trees are the way to go for me.

Derek:  I think so.

Steph:  Yeah.

 

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