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Teacher: Good morning! Glad to see you! Today we are speaking about main holidays and traditions connected with them in Great Britain, America and in our country Russia. I hope you’ll be active and friendly to each other and enjoy today’s lesson.
Task 1. Traditions, connected with different holidays, are very important in all countries. Of course, they play an important role in the UK, the USA and in our country.
We have already learnt some English and American traditions and holidays. I think, you remember such holidays as St.Valentine’s Day, St.Patrick’s Day, Christmas and Halloween. People in Russia like people all over the world have their own traditions and customs, they are for example New Year’s Day, Christmas and others.
And now let’s listen to your classmates, who will tell you about different holidays and traditions, connected with them.
Презентации и сообщения детей, которые они готовили к уроку заранее.
Christmas is the most popular holiday in English speaking countries. People of Norway give Londoners a big Christmas tree as a present. It is situated in Trafalgar Square. Christmas day is celebrated on December 25th ( in Russia on January 7th) in honour of the birth of Christ. It is a family holiday. Relatives usually meet for the big Christmas dinner of turkey and Christmas pudding- traditional dishes- and everyone gives and receives presents. Children put stockings at the end of their beds or on the chimney, and in the night Santa Clause comes down the chimney and put there presents.
New Year’s Day is the first holiday of the year. People see the New Year in at midnight on the 31st of December. There are many New Year traditions in Russia. There is a New Year tree decorated with coloured lights and toys almost in every house. Children always wait for Father Frost to come and give them presents. I like New Year’s Eve because my parents allow me to stay up all night! We make fireworks at midnight to announce the beginning of a new year. Some people go out into the streets, sing and shout “ Happy New Year!”
Easter is celebrated on a Sunday in April or May. The week before Easter people colour eggs and cook Easter cakes. On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that Easter Bunny has left them a basket of candy.
Maslenitsa is one of various Russian special traditions. It is the holiday, which lasts for a week, to say “ good bye” to winter. People celebrate it at the end of February or at the beginning of March. During this holiday they celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring. People usually cook pancakes, on fires they burn straw scarecrows of winter, sing songs and dance. They invite their friends to see each other and eat pancakes with sour cream, fish, caviar or butter, sugar, honey.
St.Valentine”s Day is one of youth’s favourite holiday. It is celebrated on the 14th of February. It is a day of love and friendship. Young people send greeting cards to their sweethearts and friends and ask them to “ Be My Valentine”. This means “ be my friend of love”. People decorate rooms with big red hearts and give roses and chocolate to their sweethearts, friends and family.
T: Let’s watch how people celebrated Maslenitsa in old Russia. (Слайд №2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENzkpcHAlzs
Halloween is one of funniest holidays for children. Halloween is much more popular in the USA than in Britain. People celebrate this holiday on the 31st of October. Groups of children dressed as ghosts, witches, black cats, and wizards, knock at their neighbors doors and sing out “ Trick or treat!” The neighbors usually give each child a sweet and a bun or cookies. People collect money, buy food and medicine for orphanages, hospitals and homeless people. In Russia people also decorate their houses and schools in the traditional Halloween colours: orange and black. Popular decorations are witches, ghosts, skeletons, black cats and jack-o-lanterns. Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins carved like faces. Everyone tries to look scary on Halloween.
Task 2. T: And now let’s start a quiz.
What holiday is it? When is it celebrated?
When and where is it celebrated?
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(Предполагаемые ответы)
It’s Hallowe’en. It is celebrated on the 31st of October.
People celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December in Great Britain and in the USA and in Russia people celebrate it on the 7th of January.
It’s New Year’s Day. It is celebrated on the 31st of December.
It’s St.Valentine’s Day (Maslenitsa, Easter ). It is celebrated on the 14th of February ( March or April).
(Учащиеся отвечают на вопросы и вывешивают даты с названиями праздников под картинками у доски).
Task 3. Quiz (Слайды№9-11)
1. When do people get anonymous greeting cards?
2. What may happen when people don’t give children a treat?
3. What is the name of “Дед Мороз” in America?
4. When and who brings children colourful eggs?
5. What is jack-o-lantern and how should it be made?
6. On what holiday do American,British and Russian children honour their mothers?
7. What holiday do Americans celebrate to honour God for good harvest?
8. When can people see ghosts and witches in the streets and why?
9. What is the most scary day of the year?
10. What are traditional colours on Halloween?
11. When are children allowed to stay up until midnight?
12. When do children bring their fathers breakfast to bed?
13. When do people in Russia burn a straw scarecrows of winter?
T: Guess what people usually wish to each other on holidays. Make a wish, please.
I swhi a liohayd oyu papyh !
(Key: I wish you a happy holiday!)
T: Today we’ve worked well. You’ve learnt a lot about holidays and traditions in America, Russia and Great Britain. Please, express your opinion about our lesson and draw a picture of our lesson in 3-4 minutes.
