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
Xiềng xích của thói quen thường quá yếu khiến ta không cảm nhận được cho tới khi chúng quá mạnh để ta có thể thoát ra.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
