Listening practice for 3rdA&B students

Hope you and your families had a fantastic Christmas. But now it's time to start working again!!!
Here below you'll find a link to some videos about Christmas.

Watch them and correct the sentences which are false here below. The sentences are underlined and it seems they are linked but they are not. I wasn't able to attach a word file and this was the only way I found to make you read them. If you have any suggestions on the matter, please let me know.

http://www.history.com/video.do?name=christmas&bcpid=2647858001&bclid=1675979322&bctid=1586348684

1. Christmas is a holiday known as much as for shopping as for the birth of Christ child
2. Christmas is a mix of new and old traditions
3. Christmas was celebrated with another name many years before the birth of Jesus
4. Past societies celebrated the light and the dark (F)
5. The celebrations started on the 24th of December (F)
6. The name of those celebrations was Saturnalia (F)
7. The symbols at that time were evergreen branches and long logs
8. The logs symbolized life and the evergreens symbolized good fortune (F)
9. The Romans didn’t have celebrations in winter time (F)
10. Saturn was the god of the war (F)
11. The Ancient Romans worshipped Mithra, a goddess they thought was born on the 25th of December
12. We know exactly that Jesus was born on the 25th of December (F)
13. Only in the 4th century Christianity officially started to celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th to replace the birthday of Mithra
14. The symbols of the past celebrations were totally replaced (F)
15. The legend of Santa Claus is related to the Turkish bishop Saint Nicholas and started in the 4th century, too
16. Saint Nicholas is celebrated on the 8th of December but he doesn’t bring presents to children (F)
17. Saint Nicholas is celebrated in Turkey and it is called Santa Claus (F)
18. Santa Claus became popular after a story written by an American man called Nest (F)
19. Christmas tree was first a German tradition
20. In Germany Christmas trees’ decorations were glass baubles, tinsel and lights (F)
21. Christmas trees became famous after Queen Victoria asked his German husband to decorate for Christmas a tree like he did when he was a child in Germany
22. Bell was the inventor of the first Christmas trees’ lights (F)

I hope you'll enjoy the videos, see you on January 7th, 2010.
Mrs Marchetti