Holidays in the USA and Kazakhstan

Holidays in the USA

and

Kazakhstan

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Do you know the translations of these words?

• Decorate-
• Celebrate-
• A pumkin-
• Give a blessing-
• Custom and traditions-
• Hung up-
• fill-
• Firework-
• Visit the mosque-

Do you Know? What holidays in Great Britain do you know? What holidays in Kazakhstan do you know? What holidays in the United Kingdom are celebrated in spring? At what time of the year is Halloween celebrated ? What is the capital of Great Britain? What is the state language in the UK? what river does Astana stand on? What river does London stand on?(

Relaxtion

• Let's listen to the song « C ristmas » all together.

In the USA there are 50 states, and there are many holidays. Such as New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and so on.

• There are many interesting holidays in Kazakhstan. Such as Nauryz, New Year, Kurban ait, Mother’s day ,victory day, Independence day, the day of president, the day of Astana and so on.

Make up the poster and protect it.

• American holidays
• Kazakh holidays

celebrates the start of a new year. Americans celebrate New Year’s Day on the first day of January, but the celebration actually begins on December 31, New Year’s Eve, the night before New Year’s Day. Some people blow horns and whistles at midnight to announce the beginning of a new year. Some people shake hands, kiss, sing, and shout ‘’ Happy New Year!”

People celebrate this holiday on February 14. It is day of love and friendship. They send greeting cards to their sweethearts and friends and ask them to “Be My Valentine”. This means be my friend or love.

This holiday is celebrated on a Sunday in April or May. The week before Easter people color eggs. On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them a basket of candy.

On July 4, the United States celebrate Independence Day. It is called Independence Day, because on July 4, 1778, founding fathers declared that the United States would be free and independent from England.

is one of the best holidays for children. American children celebrate Halloween on October 31. Children wear masks and colorful costumes. The most popular costumes are ghosts, witches, and skeletons. The children walk door to door in the neighborhood and shout “ trick or treat!”. Most people give them a treat – candy or fruit.

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November. This is a family holiday. On this holiday American families meet for a special dinner, usually with turkey and pumpkin pie. They give thanks to God for the past year.

Americans celebrate Christmas on December 25. Christmas is a religious holiday and one of the happiest holidays of the year, because it is the day that Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Nauryz

• Nauryz is celebrated on the 22 nd of March. For kazakhs Nauryz is symbol of spring renew, grand of love, fertility and friendship.  «Nauryz» means «spring's born». This is the most main and old festival for east nations. Properly speaking, the 22nd day of March is New Year in line with east calendary. It has other name, Ulys Kuni (New Year’s First Day) or Ulystyn Uly Kuni (People’s Great Day).  The main ritual course of this holiday is Nauryz-kozhe, which consists of 7 ingredients, which symbolized 7 elements of live: water, meat, solt, fat, flour, grass (rise, maize/corn or wheat) and milk. This ingridients symbolizes joy, luck, wisdom, health, welfare, speed, growth and divine protection.

Independence Day

• This day is the National Holiday of Kazakhstan and is celebrated annually on 16 December Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country by land area
• The day is also a time to remember the victims of the events of December 1986. Resentment against the replacement of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR Dinmukhamed Konayev with Gennady Kolbin from the Russian SFSR erupted into mass demonstrations by young ethnic Kazakhs in December 1986. Government troops suppressed the unrest, resulting in the deaths of several people and the incarceration of many demonstrators.
• Kazakhstan Independence Day is marked by festivities in the presidential palace and many Kazakhs will dress up in traditional clothes. Kurts (traditional tents) will be set up in many villages where local delicacies will be served.

Mother’s Day

• In March there is a holiday for Kazakh women – Mother ’ s Day.
• People in the family try to help them.
• On that day they visit their mothers, congratulate and give them presents and “ A Mother ’ s Day Card ”

Who is the quickest?

Match the holidays with their symbols .

Eggs

Postcards

Nauryz kozhe

Flowers

A pumkin

Christmas tree

boxes

Christmas Day

Easter Sunday

Boxing day

Halloween

Nauryz

Mother’s day

St. Valentine’s Day

Match the holidays with the dates of their celebration.

• Christmas Day
• Easter Sunday
• New Year’s Day
• Day of the first president of Kz
• Halloween
• Nauryz
• The day of Astana,
• St. Valentine’s Day

• On the first of December
• on the 14 th of February
• on the 31 st of October
• on the 25 th of December
• late March or early April
• In July
• on the 31 st of December/
• on the 1 st of April

“ Polyglot ” (Answers should be given in 3 languages.)

• 1. Every country has its ... 2 . Better late, than... 3 . First think, then... 4 . It is never too late to...
• 5 . So many countries, so many ...
• 6 . East or West , … is best.
• 7 . Knowledge is ... (power, куат, сила) 8 . In what month is Kazakh New Year celebrated? (March, Наурыз, Март)

Questions:

• What new information have you got?
• Are there more holidays in Kazakhstan or in G.B?
• What holidays in G.B are unusual ?
• Is the New year’s day in G.B. coincide ( с әйкес келу ) with the New year’s day in Kazakhstan?

The result of the lesson:

• – Let’s make a conclusion. What have you learnt today?
• – Was the lesson interesting for you?
• The home work is to write an essay about holiday you want.