Dear Santa, please give me a thin body and a big fat bank account this year. Please don't
mix it up. Hello, my name is Niharika; well I just made a Christmas wish to my dear Santa,
have you guys made your wish yet? Well, today we are going to talk about Santa Claus. Who
is he? Well you might have spotted him in these advertisement posters, in Christmas
parades and of course in departmental stores in malls distributing gifts to little children.
So who is this guy? All you people out there might have several questions like where does
he come from? Where does he live? Why is he always dress in red? Well that's what we are
going to learn today. We are going to have all of these answers to these questions.
Alright, so let's have a look here. St. Nicholas, now who is Saint Nicholas? Well he was a monk
who was born in Turkey and this is hundreds of years ago. He was a person who had given
all his inherited wealth to the poor and sick and all the needy children. The best known
story about St. Nicholas is that he had saved these three poor sisters who were being sold
into slavery and prostitution by their father because he could not afford to pay dowry.
Therefore St. Nicholas who was such a kind person helped the father by giving him his
wealth for them to get married. So this is how St. Nicholas was known for his kindness
and for his generosity. So he eventually died on December 6th and therefore December 6th
was celebrated as St. Nicholas day. now since December 6th is in the month of Christmas,
it eventually got associated with Christmas because on St. Nicholas day, people used to
gift toys and different things to needy children or to poor children and that's what Santa
Claus does, isn't it? He gives gifts to children, right? So that's the history of Saint Nicholas.
So where does the name Santa Claus come from? Well it comes from a Dutch nickname that is
Sinterklass and this name has evolved into the name, Santa Claus, okay. Then have you
guys wondered that why Santa Claus is always dressed up in red? Well I’ll tell you why?
because in 1930s the company coca cola had a Swedish artist whose name was Hayden Sundblom
and he drew pictures of a very happy, fat man that is Santa Claus wearing a red coat
with white fur, red trousers and a huge black leather belt. And he was sitting and enjoying
his drink. Now that's the image that cemented in everybody's mind because this advertisement
almost ran for 30 years. So that's where we know that Santa Claus always wears red. So
there's no religious reason why Santa Claus is in red. It's just coca cola who changed
the image or who gave the image of Santa Claus in red. Now have you wondered where does Santa
Claus live? Well, he lives, it is believed that he lives in the North Pole and in the
North Pole, he has this huge factory and with the help of the elves, he manufactures toys
that are distributed to children. That’s interesting, isn't it? Then on December 24th,
that's the Christmas Eve, he distributes these gifts to little children. he enters it is
believed that he enters the houses through chimneys and there are so many people who
prepare cookies and also a glass of milk and they set it up on the table, so that the Santa
Claus might come to distribute or to give gifts to children and might eat some of those
cookies. Okay and how does he travel from North Pole? Well he travels with the help
of the reindeers. They are called as the flying reindeers and he is on his sleigh. Do you
remember the song, jungle bell, jingle bell; well that's what it is. He travels on his
sleigh and that is pulled by 8 reindeers and the lead reindeer is called as Rudolph. Well
Rudolph is of course known for his red nose, okay.
So these are the facts about Santa Claus and I was doing a lesson the other day, where
in many of my students asked these real funny questions. So I would like to share these
questions with you so that you may ask these questions and may be in a Christmas party.
So let's have a look.
So let's have some fun. Let's have a look at this question here. Should Santa go on
a diet plan? Well what do you think about it? Well I guess definitely not because no
one would like to see a skinny Santa, would you like to see a thin, skinny, a zero size
Santa? No I don't think so. The fat, joyous, happy Santa looks awesome, isn't it? So I
don't think so a diet plan would be a great idea for Santa Claus, right.
The next question is who is Santa's girlfriend? Hmm.... so do you think that he is dating
someone? I guess so and if he is dating someone, what kind of a girl is he in love with? Is
she as chubby and as joyous and sweet and adorable as Santa Claus is? Or is she really
pretty and skinny girl? Well, what do you think? Hmm... Do let me know; you can also
write in the comments, what do you think his girlfriend would be like? Also we have another
question here that is what does Santa do the entire year? We know for a fact that Santa
Claus is really busy during Christmas days because he is busy distributing gifts, but
then what does he do in the rest of the year? Well I believe that he is designing and manufacturing
toys with the help of these elves. Maybe he is bossing around these elves. Elves are these
little midgets. and or maybe he is dating his girl friend, right he is hanging out with
her and having a good time, right? And here we have another funny question for you that
is, does that Santa Claus use an iPad? Well what do you think? These days we really enjoy
using our iPads. We are on face book, we are on twitter. Do you think Santa Claus also
is on iPad? Does he really like it? Does he play angry birds or does he really enjoy chatting
with people who are his friends? Wow that would be really interesting to know. Well
so these are some questions that you can ask in Christmas parties, that you would attend
and hope this lesson is helpful to you. And this brings me to the end of this lesson;
wish you a merry Christmas and a happy, Happy New Year.