READ. Unit 13: FESTIVALS – Lễ hội. Hướng dẫn giải bài tập số 1, 2 trang 124 SGK Tiếng anh lớp 8 cơ bản.
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Christmas is an important festival in many countries around the world.
The Christmas Tree
One Christmas Eve in the early 1500s, some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place in the Latvian city of Riga. This custom spread throughout Europe, and finally to America in the 1800s 
The Christmas Card
In the mid-nineteenth century, an Englishman wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends, so he had someone design a card. Forty years later, cards were a part of the Christmas tradition.
DỊCH
Nếu anh bịt miệng sự thật và chôn nó xuống đất, nó sẽ lớn và ngưng tụ sức mạnh bùng nổ tới mức vào cái ngày mà nó mọc lên, nó sẽ thổi bay mọi thứ.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Emile Zola
