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
Phần lớn con người sẽ đáp lại những ơn huệ nhỏ, thừa nhận ơn huệ trung bình và trả ơn huệ lớn
bằng sự vô ơn.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones
with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
