关于圣诞节的英语作文四年级【经典20篇】

Chrismas Father was the descendant of a deity called Odin. It‘s also said that Chrismas Father comes from San Nichola, so he is also called St.Nicholas. He was the bishop of Asia

Minor city of Rafah and he was called a man of God after his death. He is an old man in red clothes and he wears a red hat.He has white mustache. He comes from the north on a blowmobile every Chrismas Day. He went into people‘s houses by the track and he put the presents into children‘s socks. So in western countries,parents put the gifts to their kids in kids‘ socks and put them on the head of the bed on Chrismas Eve. On the second day, the first thing after kids wake up is to find the presents from Chrismas Fathers.

It is said that there was a goodness man went broke his domain. He lived a hardlife and he has three daughters. The three daughters were being married but he didn‘t have money to buy dower for his daughters. On the happy Chrismas Eve three girls went to bed early. They didn‘t know that their father was so worried. At last the Chrismas father decided to help them . He besprinkled gold through the stack and the gold fell into the socks of the man‘s daughters. They lived a happy life from then on… Chrismas socks was origined by this.

I like candy very much. On my birthday, my grandma gives me a bag of candy. Fruit candy is my favorite. They are colourful. The banana candy is yellow, the strawberry candy is red, and the apple candy is green. My mother doesn’t want me to eat too many candies, it is bad for tooth.

我非常喜欢糖果。在我生日那天，我奶奶给了我一袋糖果。水果糖果是我的最爱。它们五颜六色。香蕉糖果是黄色的，草莓糖果是红色的，苹果糖果是绿色的。我妈妈不想让我吃太多的糖果，它对牙齿不好。

Heaven is a beautiful Christmas eve. As soon as I finished school， I went home with my classmates.

As soon as I got home， my father told me that today I went to the restaurant outside with my uncle and aunt， and I listened and jumped more happily. But mom hasnt come back yet， so shes going to wait for her mother to go home.

After a while， my mother came home， and I urged my father to take my mother out. Along the way， I saw tonights pedestrian faces are filled with smiling faces， giving people a detailed， warm feeling. Walking to the entrance of International Building， I felt a warm current. The cold wind outside the glass door pushed the door into the warm spring. The Santa Claus in the mansion waved to us all the time. The green branches of the Christmas tree are covered with thousands of colorful lights. Twinkle， twinkle， twinkle， eyes.

As soon as I entered the building， I went straight to the 2 floor. There was a Christmas song in the western restaurant. The songs were melodious and comfortable. On the wall is a picture of an affable Santa claus. Uncle and aunt already arrived， my father and mother walked over， greeted them， and sat down， everyone seems to be a big family.

Christmas DayChristmas Day falls on the twenty-fifth of December. It is a very happy day for many boys and girls . Before the term ends in some schools , the children act a nativity① or “birth” play, showing how Jesus② was born in a stable③。

On the twenty-fourth of December, all children are very excited. Usually they are sent to bed early so that their parents can get the presents ready. the younger children think that Father Christmas will come down the chimney or fireplace , so they hang up a sock for him to put presents in. the GREedy ones even hang up a pillow-case④ or a sack⑤ to try to get more presents. Later that night, Father or Mother will put presents in the sock, and leave others at the side of the bed. On Christmas morning, the children wake up very early. Some even turn on the light at two oclock, and most of them are awake by six oclock although it is not light in England for another hour or two at this time of the year.Children look for their presents , and the young ones play while the dinner is prepared. At about one oclock in the afternoon, the Christmas dinner is brought in . the turkey or chicken is quickly eaten . Children search in their Christmas pudding for new coins which are hidden in it . the rest of the day is full of games and eating until the happiest of all Christmas hollidays comes to an end.

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随着时代的进步与社会的发展，英语学习的重要性已是不言而喻。对于众多望子成龙、望女成凤的父母们，幼儿英语学习是他们子女教育历程中的第一课。研究表明，发展的关键期是在6岁以前。这一时期，如果对幼儿进行良好的语言教育，给予丰富、适量的信息刺激儿童的语言功能就能得到比较充分的发展，使其一生受益。相反如果错过语言萌发增长的关键时期，再多量的刺激也难以达到充分发展的水平。

根据有关言语神经生理机制的研究，认为4～10岁是开始学习外语的最佳年龄。因为在年龄幼小时，左脑引起的失语症，可以靠右脑机能来弥补，年龄大些后，左脑损伤引起的失语症就无法补救，这说明，儿童时期的大脑机能有较大的可塑性。所以，这一时期幼儿是有能力学习外语的。儿童从6岁起，其辨音能力、认知能力、语调和语音大体上已开始退化。日本著名幼儿教育专家也认为0～6岁是语言发展的最佳时期，处于这一时期的幼儿有形成两个以上言语中枢的可能性。若在最佳时期只接受母语的刺激，那么，母语中枢以外的言语中枢就逐渐退化。儿童进入学龄后，母语中枢已形成一整套固定的控制模式，这时再学习第二种语言，母语中枢就很难接受。因此，如果我们能抓住幼儿期对幼儿进行第二语言的教育，其潜力和发展是无限的。

而且，幼儿英语学习还有利于儿童各方面的均衡发展。因为幼儿英语学习是一种积极的智力活动，对幼儿的语言、认知发展，无疑起到促进作用。在幼儿英语的学习中，教师通过设计各种各样的教育活动，让幼儿在轻松自然的氛围中积极愉快地学习口语，形成初步的语感，激发幼儿学习的兴趣和好奇心，为幼儿进入小学、初中认读阶段的学习打下良好的基础。同时在英语的学习中还能培养幼儿的语言表达能力与交往能力。另外，幼儿英语的学习不单纯是语言知识的获得，作为启蒙教育，他还有利于幼儿各种基本能力和良好个性、习惯的培养。通过英语的学习，可以在增长幼儿知识、开阔幼儿视野的同时，促进其个性的全面发展，因此，实施幼儿英语教育不但可以，而且还有利于幼儿各方面的发展。

那么，作为父母应如何对自己的孩子进行成功的英语教育呢？

首先，最重要的是为自己的孩子选择一个英语氛围良好的。只有让孩子在一个轻松自然的自然英语环境中生活成长，在潜移默化中接受学习熏陶，才能够真正的学习好英语。其次，要为孩子学习英语创造良好的家庭氛围。因为对于适龄儿童来说，除了学校生活外，占比重最大的就是家庭生活了。有条件的家庭，应当尽可能的将英语中的一些日常用语融入日常生活中，这样既可以起到辅助幼儿英语教学的作用，又可以使孩子产生对英语学习的兴趣，使英语更融入生活，更容易被其接受。

[英语学习黄金时期四年级作文

Once upon a time. There was a house. Beside the house there was a bird cage. One day a cat went to eat the bird, So the cat jumped and hit the bird cage. The bird cage fell down to the ground knocking the bird cage‘s door open. The bird then flew away. So the cat started to chase the bird and the dog chased the cat. However the bird flew on top of the tree. So the cat started to climb the tree and the dog barked at the cat. Before the cat could reach the bird, the bird flew away. this caused the cat to fall out of the tree. The dog then ran away, The bird quickly flew back into his cage and the man from the house carried him safely home.

Time flies. In the past six years, primary like by the breeze. May the joy of my school to make my unforgettable. It is recorded in the process of growing I recorded my dribs and drabs, after the success of joy, also with my hard sweat...

Remember the sports meeting, our class in the class, and sports scores and back to the moral FengShangJiang two awards. This news, as a member of the class is glad I. "Because," the relay a key for my class won the honour.

Until now, I even never chu remember classmates in the preparation of the determination and the spirit of striving, when there is a classmate off, they quickly grabbed the baton toward the opposite end, every student rushed the look in the eyes are filled with firmness: it is certain to win. In the game of "red-hot", in the first player to finish in the "go" by NaHanSheng neutralization of cheering, we won!

When the footprints on the school playground strings, when the sunset dyed red in the face, we when we heartily cheers and flip the moment, are deeply in my memory album frames. The red in the face and smile and smile and even the waist. I know, that is the joy of success to my school.

May Day

Hello, today is May Day. I and My father, mother and sister went shopping. We bought, lollipops, ice creams, cornflakes, toasts, butter, orange, milk and rolls. And my mother bought toys for me. Such as: train, ball, balloon, car, doll, plane and skateboard. After that we went to zoo. I saw rabbit, tigers, snails, and lions, hamsters, budgies and zebras. My sister asked me “what do your like?” I answered “I like skipping rope. That’s very nice.” She said “Here is you prize, Sunny!” “Oh, thank you! I love it!” I shouted. We sat under a tree. After lunch we drank some milk.

Today I am very happy!

my favorite season

If you ask to me favorite season? I to say: my favorite season is fall. Because fall is cool and windy but isnt hot and cold. I like readar relaxed and happy feeling. moreover fall will come, farmers can harvest theirs "fruits of lador" The most exciting still can eat many tasty fruits. Such as: oranges， mangos, bananas, apples, pears.

Listen to my introduce, do you know why I like fall?

I like fall best.

I really had a wonderful summer holiday. I finished doing my homework on time and prepared for the new lessons. I visited my grandparents and spent a week with them. There I helped my parents with the housework and climbed the mountain with them. I do sports with my friends nearly every afternoon. Besides, my parents and I went to visit Shanghai and we enjoyed ourselves very much. Whats more, I also read some interesting books and went to movies with my friends. What a happy and meaningful summer holiday.

As the Christmas Day is coming, our class decided to send some gifts to our

teachers, because we wanted to show our gratitude to them. At first, we had no

idea what to buy, because we wanted to do something special. So at last an idea

came to my mind. I advised to write a card, pasting some pictures of classmates

on it. Everybody agreed with me, so we spent a day to take some funny pictures,

and everybody wrote down their names on the card. When we sent this gift to the

teachers, they loved it so much. They were so impressed by this precious

surprise and would keep it forever.

christmas is coming

i like christmas, it is just like our spring festival.

maybe the spring festival is much more important and interesting than christmas, but i like christmas day better. because we can spend time with our friends and classmates during christmas. when it is snowy,

christmas becomes much more lovely, just like in fairytales. i can imagine i am in a fairytale, the girl who sold the matches is my friend, the ugly duck becoming more and more beautiful and so on. what a beautiful place! so we can also call christmas “snowy lovely day.”

on christmas day, shops are red and green. there are so many christmas cards, christmas hats, christmas dolls and many colourful things. so shops look very beautiful. we can give a card or a doll to our friends and say “merry christmas.” by the way, i think studying can also become much more interesting.

christmas is coming, it also means a new year will come. let’s study harder to welcome the new year!

After a semester busy learning, we finally ushered in the summer vacation. In order to have a meaningful summer vacation, I especially ahead of the summer vacation plans, hope I can complete according to the plan.

My summer vacation plan is mainly divided into three parts. The first part is: finish the summer vacation homework. Before summer vacation homework because I have no plan, every time is close to the school before hurriedly catch up on my homework. Plan in this summer vacation I all do for an hour every morning and afternoon summer vacation homework, I believe the efforts of the two hours a day will make me high quality finish the homework during the summer vacation. The second part is: learn to swim. Can see other children in the pool before free swimming, I very envy, also learned last year, but he did not insist on, no society. This years summer vacation, Im going to night ok and dad go to swimming pool to swim, let my dad taught me, I also want to serious efforts to study. The third part is to help my mother do housework. Already in the sixth grade, but I also seldom help mother do the housework, every time the holiday at home are bustling about mother, I just play. This summer vacation, I help my mother do one thing must be at least once a day, reduce the burden of the mother.

With the above detailed plan, I determined to: must complete according to the plan, change your procrastination is lazy, let oneself have a meaningful summer vacation.

经过一学期忙碌的学习，我们终于迎来了暑假。为了过一个有意义的暑假，我特别提前做好了暑假计划，希望自己能按照计划完成。

我的暑假计划主要分为三部分。第一部分为：完成暑假作业。以前的暑假作业都是因为我没有做好计划，每次都是快到开学前才急急忙忙的赶完作业。我计划在这个暑假里每天上午和下午各做一小时的暑假作业，相信每天两小时的努力一定会让我在暑假里高质量的完成作业。第二部分是：学会游泳。以前看见别的小朋友可以在泳池里面自由自在的游来游去，我就十分羡慕，去年也学过，但是自己没有坚持下去，也没有学会。今年的暑假里，我准备晚上没事都和爸爸去游泳馆游泳，让爸爸教我，我也要认真努力的学习。第三部分是帮助妈妈做家务。已经上了六年级了，可我还很少帮助妈妈做家务，每次放假在家都是妈妈忙来忙去，我只管玩。这次的暑假，我一定每天至少帮妈妈做一件事情，减少妈妈的负担。

有了上面详细的计划，我下定决心：一定要按照计划完成，改掉自己拖拉懒惰的毛病，让自己过一个有意义的暑假。

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of our country. Every year, every household will eat dinner, paste couplets, fireworks, but busy!

"Get up, get up..." On February 17th, early in the morning, mother urged me to get up, said to take me to buy necessities. I am a listen to immediately get out of bed, dressed quickly, in a hurry after breakfast, and mother go to the market. We came to a couplet of the stall. A: wow! There were so many styles, our eyes are spent. Suddenly I saw a pair of couplets, top allied: happiness chardonnay thousand music, bottom allied write: offer the old plum Singapore flavours. I feel very good, then show it to the mother, mother also feel good, bought it. Today, we went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables much more special, my mother and I managed to squeeze in. Mom bought a roast duck, sausage, vegetables, meatballs, etc. A lot of delicious, we cant carry it all. Back home, the home has come a lot of relatives, sister, brother, uncle, aunt... Good lively! They gave me money, I was really big harvest!

In the afternoon, my brother and I together stick couplets, paste, my brother and I ran upstairs together, waiting for a big family reunion dinner on the table, by the way, I also help make dumplings, ha ha. The fireworks in the evening, my in the mind very happy! "Chip, pa" "dong, dong," came the voice of fireworks exploded outside the window, a chain of moments of fireworks fly in the sky, colorful, beautiful! Look at the others fireworks, there isnt much to take, I also went downstairs fireworks! When we have a good time, father shouted upstairs "come on, the Spring Festival evening party started! We have a listen to, and scrambled upstairs.

This year the Spring Festival is fun! More and more, I like the Spring Festival.

春节是我国的传统节日。每到大年三十，家家户户都会吃年夜饭、贴对联、放烟花，可热闹了!

“起床了，起床了……”，大年三十一大早，妈妈就催促我起床，说要带我去购买年货。我一听立刻从床上爬起来，急忙穿好衣服，匆匆吃完早饭，和妈妈一起去市场。我们来到一个卖对联的小摊上。哇!样式可真多啊，挑的我们眼睛都花了。忽然我看到了一副对联，上联写着：岁岁瑞霞千家乐，下联写着：献岁梅花万里香。我觉得挺好的，便拿给妈妈看，妈妈也觉得不错，就买下了。我们又去了菜市场，今天来买菜的人特别多，我和妈妈好不容易才挤了进去。妈妈买了烤鸭、香肠、青菜、肉丸等好多好吃的，我们都拿不动了。回到家里，家里已经来了好多亲人，有大姨、哥哥、舅舅、舅妈……好热闹啊!他们还给了我压岁钱呢，我可真是大丰收啊!

下午，我和哥哥一起贴对联，贴好后，我和哥哥一起跑上楼，等着丰盛的年夜饭上桌，对了，我还帮忙包饺子了呢，呵呵。到了晚上，该放烟花了，我心里好开心呀!“噼、啪”“咚、咚”，窗外传来烟花爆炸的声音，一串串的烟花飞上了天空，五彩缤纷的，漂亮极了!看别人放烟花，没有自己放好玩，我也下楼放烟花喽!正当我们玩的开心时，爸爸在楼上喊道：“快上来啦，春节晚会开始了”!我们一听，又争先恐后的拥上楼去。

今年过春节真好玩啊!我越来越喜欢春节了。

【摘要】时间飞逝，2014年的寒假如约而至。新的一年，新的希冀。对于广大小学生朋友来说怎样才能度过一个既快乐又充实的寒假呢?为此小学频道为大家搜集整理了四年级寒假英语日记400字，让大家在享受假期的同时，轻松愉快的安排好自己的学习生活!

February9201Ihavelosttwocomputers,butIhadanotherone.Iboughtitaboutfiveyearsago.Itcanbecalledcurio.Thoughitwasold.Butitcanstillwork.Althoughitworksslowly,Iwaspleased.Icangooninternetagain.Chattingwithmyfriendsisagoodrelaxing.Intheinternet,oneofmyoldfriendsinvitedmetotomorrow’sparty.Hetoldmethatsomefriendswouldgo,too.SoIpromisedtogo.A-ha!Icanseemyoldfriends.Iwasveryhappyandhopeful.

圣诞节临近，提前预祝大家圣诞节快乐。下面是小编给大家整理的与圣诞节有关的英语单词的内容，欢迎大家查看。

圣诞the birthday of Jesus Christ

圣诞歌Christmas carol

圣诞卡Christmas card

圣诞老人Santa Claus

圣诞树Christmas tree

圣诞快乐Merry Christmas

圣诞柴yule log(圣诞节原木形大蛋糕)

圣诞节的次日Boxing Day

圣诞晚会Christmas party

圣诞节日历menology

圣诞节前夕(12月24日)Christmas Eve

圣诞节期Christmastime

圣诞季节yule，yuletide，yuletime

圣诞祝贺Christmas greetings

圣诞采购Christmas shopping

驯鹿reindeer

圣诞节前夕Christmas Eve

糖果candy

圣诞节Christmas Day

烟囱chimney

圣诞节节日Christmas season

壁炉fireplace

圣诞节假期 (自十二月二十四日至一月一日或一月六日)Christmas time

由东方来朝见初生的耶稣的三个贤人Magi

蜡烛candle

烛台candle stick

圣诞大餐Christmas feast

包裹package

圣诞礼物Christmas gift

耶稣基督Jesus Christ

圣诞礼物Christmas present

圣婴Christ Child

圣诞树Christmas tree

圣诞颂歌Christmas carol

圣诞气氛Christmas spirit

圣诞音乐Christmas music

天使angel

圣诞圣歌Christmas hymn

圣诞佳节Christmas festival

圣诞节用的装饰物品Christmas ornament

圣诞节暂停营业、上学、工作期间Christmas recess

子夜弥撒midnight mass

望弥撒to hear mass

圣诞节景象Christmas scene

报佳音to go caroling

圣诞节用的装饰Christmas decoration

金银丝tinsel

圣诞节假期Christmas holiday

圣诞老人Santa Claus

常青树枝编的花环evergreen garland

(英)圣诞老人Father Christmas

圣诞邮件Christmas mail

常青树枝evergreen bough

圣诞舞会Christmas dance

花环wreath

圣诞布丁Christmas pudding

红丝带red ribbon

圣诞袜Christmas stocking

烤火鸡roast turkey

包装纸wrapping paper

小红莓果酱cranberry sauce

玻璃纸cellophane

番瓜饼pumpkin pie

冰柱icicle

干果布丁plum pudding

雪橇铃(系于雪橇或拖雪橇之鹿上的小铃)sleigh bells

闪烁的电灯泡twinkling electric light

行宪纪念日(十二月廾五日亦为我国)Constitution Day

多采多姿的装饰colorful decorations

银色圣诞White Christmas

欢乐气氛joyful atmosphere

圣诞采购Christmas shopping

圣诞玩具Christmas toy

疯狂采购shopping madness

庆祝圣诞celebrate Christmas, to

the christmas day is the christianity world greatest holiday.why can decide as december 25 christmas day? because december 25 is jesuss birthday. the westerner take red, green, white tricolor as the christmas color. what is red is the christmas flower and the christmas candle. what green is the christmas tree. what red and white intersection is santa claus, he is the character who the christmas day moves most receives welcome. in the west, acts santa claus is also one kind of custom. the christmas song mainly has three, one is "christmas eve"; one is "listens, angel newspaper good news"; third is "bell makes a sound dingdong". the foreign countrys christmas day is equal to chinas spring festival is equally important.。

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在圣诞节是基督教世界最大的holiday.why可定为12月25日圣诞节吗?由于12月25日是耶稣的生日。西方人以圣诞色红，绿，白三色。什么是粉红色的有圣诞花和圣诞蜡烛。什么绿色的是圣诞树。什么是红色和白色相交圣诞老人，他是字符谁是圣诞节活动中最受欢迎的人物。在西方，扮演圣诞老人也是一种习俗。圣诞歌曲主要有三个，一个是“平安夜”，一个是“听，天使报喜讯”，三是“贝尔发出声音叮咚”。外国的圣诞节相当于中国的春节也同样重要。

In the survival of our planet, there are lovely animals bring us laughter, has plants the smell, heady mist. But in recent years, the human is relentlessly destroy the natural ecological environment.

The recent rise in global temperatures, penguins and polar bears are being destroyed, become the direct climate refugees. Dressed in a black "tails" penguins have to tow, a large number of large Numbers of immigrants. Simple and honest lovely polar bears because cant find the food cold and hunger, tummy "loud gurgling" straight. Charming scenery of the maldives is a good place for leisure vacation, every year thousands of tourists come to sightseeing. But in the near future, there will be inundated by the Antarctic melting glaciers. Residents of the panic, some even abandoned the upbringing of their homeland, migrate.

Also dont understand the people of low carbon life consciousness soon! For humans, animals and nature in harmony forever. Each one of us should be low carbon environmental small guards, start from the self, from small start bit by bit, with a grateful heart, to build our beautiful earth.

在我们赖以生存的星球上，有可爱的动物带给我们欢笑，有植物散发芳香，醉人心脾。但近几年里，人类正在无情地破坏自然生态环境。

最近全球气温上升，企鹅和北极熊的家遭到了严重的破坏，成了直接的气候难民。穿着黑色“燕尾服”的企鹅不得不拖儿带女，大批大批地移民。可爱憨厚的北极熊也因为找不到食物饥寒交迫，肚子饿得“咕噜咕噜”直叫。风景迷人的马尔代夫是人们休闲度假的好去处，每年都有成千上万的游客前来观光旅游。但在不久的将来，这里会被南极融化的冰川所淹没。那里的居民各个惶恐不安，有的甚至抛弃养育他们的故土，远走他乡。

还不懂得低碳生活的人们快点觉悟吧!让人类、动物和自然永远地和谐共存。我们每一个人都要低碳环保小卫士，从自我做起，从点点滴滴的小事做起，怀着感恩的心，共建我们美好的地球。

It is said that there was a goodness man went broke his domain. He lived a hard life and he has three daughters. The three daughters were being married but he didnt have money to buy dower for his daughters. On the happy Chrismas Eve three girls went to bed early. They didnt know that their father was so worried. At last the Chrismas father decided to help them . He besprinkled gold through the stack and the gold fell into the socks of the mans daughters. They lived a happy life from then on... Chrismas socks was origined by this.

Christmas Day falls on the twenty-fifth of December. It is a very happy day for many boys and girls . Before the term ends in some schools , the children act a nativity① or “birth” play, showing how Jesus② was born in a stable③.

On the twenty-fourth of December, all children are very excited. Usually they are sent to bed early so that their parents can get the presents ready. The younger children think that Father Christmas will come down the chimney or fireplace , so they hang up a sock for him to put presents in. The greedy ones even hang up a pillow-case④ or a sack⑤ to try to get more presents. Later that night, Father or Mother will put presents in the sock, and leave others at the side of the bed.

On Christmas morning, the children wake up very early. Some even turn on the light at two oclock, and most of them are awake by six oclock although it is not light in England for another hour or two at this time of the year.

Children look for their presents , and the young ones play while the dinner is prepared. At about one oclock in the afternoon, the Christmas dinner is brought in . The turkey or chicken is quickly eaten . Children search in their Christmas pudding for new coins which are hidden in it . The rest of the day is full of games and eating until the happiest of all Christmas hollidays comes to an end.

【词语解释】

①nativity [n+tiviti] n.出生;诞生;(宗教)耶稣诞生

②Jesus [dNi:z+s] n.耶稣

③stable [steibl] n.厩;马棚;牛棚

④pillow-case [pil+ukeis] n.枕套

⑤sack [s$k] n.袋;布袋

【写法指要】

这是一篇用一般现在时写成的记叙文，所以叫做现在记叙文(present narration)。现在记叙文适合于写经常发生的事情，比如圣诞节就是每年都要过的节日。这种记叙文一般按照人物行为情节的时间顺序安排文章结构，本文分为“圣诞前”、“圣诞夜”和“圣诞当天”三个时间顺序的行为情节。

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