**Santa Claus**

I'm looking into "Santa Claus".






And this is a draft of a speech.



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I'm going to tell you about "Santa Claus". As you know, Santa Claus is an old man who brings presents to children every year. He has a white beard, wears red suits, lives on the North Pole and flies around in a sleigh with 8 reindeer.
The Americanversion of a "Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas" originally came from the Ducth version called "Sintaklaas". The Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) brought this fun tradision to America in the 17th century. He did not become an important person at Christmas until he was put in a novel in 1809. This first Santa Claus didn't have his red suit and fly without any reindeer. Modern ideas of Santa Claus were made by an American cartnoonist in 1863. Santa was illustrated by him having red suit, pipe, and his reindeer and sleigh.
USA is a big country, so there are various Santa Claus. For example, in California and Hawaii Santa do surfing. In Hawaii the coming of the Christmas Tree Ship and arriving Santa Claus by boat are the symbol of beginning Christmas.

novel name: "History of New York" by Washington Irving

cartoonist name: Thomas Nast "Harper's Weekly"
**Forewell**

***Christmas & Santa Claus***

Next presentation is about "Christmas".

Our group research "U.S.A.'s Christmas" And I am researching about "Santa Claus".

Do you know why Santa is wearing red suit? Why we call him Santa Clause?

If you want to know Santa's information, please check it.

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http://www.santas.net/americanchristmas.htm

***bye-bye***

***Presentation***

★☆Today we had a presentation!!☆★

Group1: Perfume I think perfumers are a wonderful person because they can classify into perfume types (there are 3,000? types). Good information & Cute PowerPoint!!

Group3: Fireworks I like fireworks,so it was exciting information.

Group4: Violin I could know new violin's information. (eg. Violins started in Mongolia. It was easy to understand.

Group5: Christmas cake Nice & Cute Power Points→I came to want to eat cakes!!

Group6: Contact Lenses It was a interesting & amazing information (how to make and contact lenses' risk).

Group7: Cup Noodle I thought it is an interesting topic.

Group8: Girlfriend Interesting information!!（*皿*） They were good actors!!

Group9: Contact Lens Their way to read was lively, so it is easy to hear!! And nice power points they helped me understand.

Group10: Soccer ball Power points were simple, but it was easy to understand.


Every group's presentation was very good!!!

I think my speech (about JEANS) was not good because my voice control was not lively and so monotonous :*( I'm SORRY that...


***toodle***

**Levi Strauss**

Do you know Levi Strauss???

He is the founder of Levi's!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He was born in Löb Strauß (German) . His parents are Jewish.

Young Levi sailed from Bremerhaven(German) to America . Then, he lived in San Francisco and he became an American citizen.

He became a dry goods tradesman because his brother run a dry goods company.

In San Francisco, Gold rush was happening in 1800's. So, Levi thought that miners need strong cloth. At first, he sold the cloth which are used in making tents.

He brought the denim into America and he used it to make strong pants.

He dyed pants by indigo to avoid insects and snakes.⇒ origin of the jeans!!!

Now, many people wear jeans. We should give thanks to Levi!!! Hah!! (・皿・)

***SEE YOU***

James Dean

Do you know James Dean???

James dean is the one of great actors in the 20th.

He is an American film actor. He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two such nominations posthumously. He died young, at 24 years old.

He was the famous among the young people, so the young were influenced by him. For example, →→Jeans!!

His famous movies are "East of Eden", "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giants".

He is a handsome and cool man, isn't he? Please check these movies and watch James Dean!!

**TTFN**

***Jeans' History***

This is my speech.→→

I'm going talk about jeans' history. Now, jeans are worn by many people,from the young to the old. Do you know where and when did jeans is made?
According to one view, the word "jeans" comes from "Genoese". Genoese were sailors in port town, Genoa in Italy in the 15th century. And they were wearing the pants, which are made from thick and strong cloth. And then, in the 18th century Levi Strauss, dry goods tradesman, brought denims which were made in Europe into America. He dyed the denims by indigo to avoid insects and rattle snakes. It is the origin of a blue jeans. In 1995, jeans came into fashion among young people all over the world because James Dean wore jeans in the movie "Revel Without a Cause". In these days jeans' image changed from "the labor cloth" to "the style of fashion". In Japan jeans became popular after the Second World War.
Through the centuries jeans, especially Levi's, has established the position as the young people's status symbol. And today, jeans are loved by many people.

thank you for watching!!!

****See you again****

***Jeans***

Hello!!!

Next presentation, our group will introduce about

"jeans". And I am searching about jeans's history.

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I think our subject is interesting because a lot of people always wear it now.

Of course, I wear jeans and I like JEANS!!!!!

You like jeans, don't you?

☆★TTFN★☆