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You’re welcome to our Easter Party. You’ll see how Easter is celebrated in English-speaking countries. We hope you’ll enjoy our Easter contest. . Here are some words you will need to know when you hear or talk about Easter in English.

In the UK Easter is one of the major Christian festivals of the year. It is traditionally about Jesus Christ’s resurrection from death, according to Christian belief. However, Easter in Britain has its beginnings long before the arrival of Christianity. Many theologians believe Easter itself is named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn and spring — Eostre.

In Britain Easter is observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. This means that the festival can occur on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25. Not only is Easter the end of the winter it is also the end of Lent, traditionally a time of fasting in the Christian calendar. It is therefore often a time of fun and celebration!

Easter Week is called Maundy Week in the English-speaking world. This name comes from the Latin word “mandatum”, In Anglo-French it is “mandet”.

Maunde ceremony is a ceremony of washing the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday. Jesus said, “A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

The week of Easter begins on Palm Sunday. Why Palm Sunday? Well, in Roman times it was customary to welcome royalty by waving palm branches. So, when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on what is now known as Palm Sunday, people welcomed him with palm branches in their hands. Today, on Palm Sunday, Christians carry palm branches in parades, and make them into crosses and garlands to decorate the Church.

Task 1. We invite one student from each team to come here and choose 3 branches. In your groups then you are welcome to make Easter Trees.

On Monday they decorate their Easter Trees.

Task 2. Now we want you to decorate your trees with the eggs that you have prepared.

Then they make Easter Garden out of some special things.

Task 3. Here are lists with the things for Easter Garden. We invite one student from each team to come here. You are welcome to find the things on the table as quickly as possible and make your gardens in the groups.

Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter. Christians remember it as the day of the Last Supper, when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and established the ceremony known as the Eucharist /[´ju:kərɪst]/. In Britain, the Queen takes part in the Ceremony of the Royal Maundy, which dates back to 13^th century. This involves the distribution of Maundy Money to deserving senior citizens (one man and one woman for each year of the sovereign’s age), usually chosen for having done service to their religious community. They receive ceremonial red and white purses . The white purse contains coins made especially for the occasion — one coin for each year of the monarch’s reign. The red purse contains money in place of the gifts that used to be given to the poor.

Up to the 17th century the King or Queen would wash the feet of the selected poor people as a gesture of humility, and in remembrance of Jesus Christ, but now it doesn’t happen any more.

Task 4. We invite one student from each team to come here. In your team you are welcome to choose the 3 things they give from the list and then read out aloud.

Then comes Good Friday that is also called God’s Friday. On this day of the week Christ was crusified. So it’s the saddest day of the week. In England people bake hot-cross buns. We’d like to sing the song about them with you.

Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross Buns, hot cross buns, If you have no daughters, give them to your sons,

One a penny, two a penny, One a penny, two a penny,

Hot cross buns. Hot cross buns.

On Easter Saturday they colour eggs. In GB children put the coloured eggs in green, pink, red or yellow baskets. Easter eggs are a very old tradition going to a time before Christianity. Eggs are a symbol of spring and new life. Exchanging and eating Easter eggs is a popular custom in many countries. Many children believe that the Easter bunny or rabbit comes to their house or garden to hide eggs. Some businesses and attractions hold special Easter egg games. These can be competitions to see who can collect the most eggs or something else.  For example in the north of England they still carry out the custom of egg rolling. Hard boiled eggs are rolled down the slope  of a hill to see whose egg goes furthest. In other places another game is played. You hold an egg in the palm of the hand and bang against your opponent’s egg. The loser is the one whose egg breaks first.

Task 5. It was your home task to prepare a picture for colouring Easter eggs. You are welcome to present it.

On Easter morning in the USA children get Easter baskets full of sweets, chocolates and candy eggs. Their parents hide Easter eggs all over the house or in the garden, they say that the Easter Bunny has hidden them, and the children hunt for the eggs.

Task 6. We have also hidden … eggs. You’re welcome to find them.

Then people go to church. In GB they usually put on new clothes for this occasion. Easter means the beginning of new life, because Christ is risen. They come to church to show that they understand it. After church they have Easter dinner. They put a special candle on the table.

Task 7. Can you make up (unscramble) the names of 3 traditional Easter dishes? A person from each team is invited to take an envelope with the scrambled dish names.

Simnel /’sɪmn(ə)l/Cake

A traditional way of breaking the Lenten fast is to eat some Simnel cake. It is a fruit cake with marzipan covering and plenty of candied lemon peel and dried fruit.An old Shropshire tale has it that long ago there lived an honest couple, Simon and Nelly, and it was their custom to gather their children around them at Easter. Nelly had some leftover unleavened dough from Lent, and Simon reminded her there was some plum pudding still left over from Christmas. So they decided to make some treats for their family.Nell put the leftovers together, and Sim insisted the cake should be boiled, while she was just as certain that it should be baked. They had a fight and came to blows, but compromised by doing both. They cooked the cake over a fire made from furniture broken in the scuffle, and some eggs, similarly broken, were used to baste it. The delicacy was named after this couple.

On Easter afternoon in England (London) and the USA (New Jersey, Atlantic City) Easter Parades are organized. People put on new clothes as a symbol of the changing seasons. During the Parade, competitions are held to find the best Easter bonnet.

Task 8. We are going to have our own competition. You’re welcome to show your wonderful bonnets and to tell us about them. In the USA funny competitions are held. Children and grown-ups compete in rolling eggs.

Task 9. Would you like to play? One member of each team is invited. You have to roll one off the eggs from the start line to the finish line.

On Easter Monday in Sydney (Australia) the Royal Easter Show is organized. It’s an agricultural show with displays of flowers, fruit and vegetables, cattle, sheep and art and craft. There is fun-fair and firework.

We can make our firework of good ideas and good deeds in honour of the holiday and the great Commandment of Christ. Take (Look at) the lists of good deeds. Which of the following things can you do to make the people around you happier?

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