Easter

Aims: to develop pupils’ speaking, reading, listening writing skills; to develop group communicative skills; to organize pupils’ creative work; to foster the interest for learning and discovering new things

Equipment: pictures, texts for reading, tasks for group work.

Course of lesson:

1. Warming-up (song)

Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,

One a penny, two a penny,

Hot cross buns.

If you have no daughters,

Give them to your sons,

One a penny, two a penny,

Hot cross buns.

2. Listening:

Listen to the text and complete the sentences using the words below.

One sunny Easter (morning)

With a basket in his hands

The Rabbit walked. And he was going

To visit relatives and friends.

Blue and yellow, white and (red)

Flowers nodded their heads.

The sun was brightly shining.

And our friend was smiling.

A garland of violets on Rabbit’s head

Carrying a basket of chocolate eggs

You are(handsome), brother dear.

Cross the wood and do not fear.

He met the Bear on the way.

Said (“Good morning”) to the friend,

Didn’t notice a stump

Oh, dear! He fell down!

What a pity! We are sorry!

Brother Rabbit, please, don’t worry!

Easter (eggs)and all the toys

Rolling down making noise.

The children came into the wood.

They have seen the Rabbit’s foot

Hidden in the grass

And they began (to laugh)

Then they picked the presents up.

Ate some red cross (buns)

Kissed the rabbit and began to play

Rolling eggs on green grass the whole day.

Keys: Good morning, to laugh, buns, eggs, handsome, red, morning,

3. Reading

Pre-reading:

1. When do we celebrate Easter?
2. What do we colour?

While-reading;

Easter is the most important festival in the church year: more important than Christmas. It begins with Good Friday which is the day the Romans killed Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem, about two thousand years ago. Two days later, on Easter Sunday, Christian believe that Jesus returned to life. Easter is now a Christian festival but the word ”Easter” comes from ”Eostre”, the pagan goddess of spring.

Easter Day is Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring. It is different every year, but always between 22 March and 25 April.

Many animals and birds are born in the spring. So when people started to send Easter cards in the nineteenth century, the cards often had baby sheep, rabbits, birds on them.

Eggs are an important part of Easter because they mean spring and new life.

One Easter tradition is “egg-rolling”. People decorate eggs with different colours, then take the eggs to the top of a hill and the eggs roll down. The first egg to get the foot of the hill is the winner.

On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate Easter eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early nineteenth century and came to Britain in the 1870s.Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small chocolates inside;

Some are very small, some very big.

Some mothers and fathers tell their children that the Easter Rabbit brings the eggs and hides them in the garden. The children must go outside and look for them.

Many people also eat hot cross buns at Easter. These are small loaves of bread, made with fruit and spices, and they have a cross on top.

Some women and girls decorate hats, called Easter bonnets. They put a lot of spring flowers on them, and wear them in Easter bonnet parades. Many people go to church on Easter Day. There are a lot of flowers in the churches and people sing special Easter songs. Children usually have a week or two holidays from school around Easter.

Post- reading:

Fill in the gaps:

1. Easter is a _______ festival.
2. Easter Rabbit (Bunny) brings _________.
3. Eggs are __________.
4. Many people also eat __________.
5. Hot cross buns are made _________.
6. Some women and girls decorate ______________.
7. Children usually have _____________.

4. Group work.

Read short texts about the way the Australian children celebrate Easter and share this information with your classmates.

The 1^st group:

I celebrate Easter by going to church in the morning and with Easter eggs too. I like getting up in the morning to look for eggs and sometimes my sisters wake me up in their search.

At church it’s a little bit boring and a little bit good, too but I still really like they sing and play. At church we all have some bread and red cordial.

                                                                                            By Joshua.

The 2d group:

On Easter Day all the family gets together to celebrate Easter. We have Easter on Sunday. When we get together, we give each other Easter eggs and Easter Bunny comes that night. We have an Easter lunch and dinner and open our presents that we get and eat them for dessert with hot chocolate or Milo.

By Samantha

The 3d group:

First I wake up at 6.30 am. on Sunday to find some eggs in the backyard, then count them. After we have finished counting them, I eat a couple. In the Afternoon, we sometimes eat a turkey for lunch and watch the horse races. The next night I go to sleep and my mum to hide them again. All the time, we give the Easter Bunny some milk and a biscuit.

By Shannon.

The 4^th group:

The night before Easter, my family invite friends and family to dinner. At night, we go to sleep and place a basket at the end of our bed. In the morning, there are lots of chocolate eggs in the basket. On Sunday, when we go to church, we learn what Easter is about.

By Anita

5. Hometask. Write the way you celebrate Easter in your country/