Let's celebrate together
” Let’s celebrate together”
“Every country has its customs”
“So many countries, so many customs”
Objectives:
• to broaden students` knowledge of English and Ukrainian holidays and
traditions;
• to improve students’ skills in reading and listening comprehension;
• to develop communicative and writing skills, pupils` curiosity, quick reaction,
speech competence;
• to teach students to respect our native traditions and English ones.
Visual Aids: proverbs on the board, presentation, pupil’s presentations, cards with
tasks, computer, DVD projector, decorations.
PROCEDURE
І. Preliminaries.
1. Greeting and Aim.
Т: - Good morning, boys and girls. I’m glad to see you.
Ps: - Good morning, teacher. We are glad to see you, too.
T: - Children, today we have many guests at our lesson. Greet them, please.
Ps: - Good morning, dear guests.
T: - Sit down, please. How are you?
Ps: I’m very well. I’m perfect. I’m all right. I’m good. I’m fine because the weather
is fine. It’s snowy, it’s frosty, everything is beautiful.)
T: Yes, it is, because it’s winter. Do you like winter?
P: Yes, we do. We’ve got a lot of holidays in this season.
T: Look at this video and try to guess what we are going to speak about?
Ps: To my mind we are going to speak about holidays.
T: You are right. The theme of our today’s lesson is “Let’s celebrate together”. So, we’ll speak about winter holidays in our country and in Great Britain, about the way of celebrating and the traditions connected with them. It seems to me all people like holidays, don’t they?
Ps: Yes, they do.
2. Phonetic drill
T: So, let’s start the lesson and train our Mr. Tongue. Look at the screen and
repeat after me.
[t] New Year tree, tradition, First Foot, celebrate
[ə] Christmas, carol, dinner, present
[i:] greetings, sweets, eat, meal
3. Warming up.
T: So, traditionally every celebration brings us a lot of joy and merriment. Now, go to the blackboard one by one and choose the words which we associate with holidays?
cakes greetings greeting cards
sweets
toys Holidays
games
dances presents
parties flowers
T: Good of you. Do you like winter games?
Ps: Yes, we do.
T: So, let’s play snowballs. Catch them and wish something good to your friends and
guests. I’ll start “I wish you to have a nice day today”.
Ps: I wish you good health.
I wish you to be happy.
I wish you to be wealthy and wise
I wish you love and be loved.
I wish you to have good friends.
I wish you peace.
T: You know that every country has its own history. That’s why different countries have different customs and traditions and their lifestyle differs from our one. So, describe the British and their lifestyle as you can:
- The British are polite and well-mannered people.
- They are great home lovers. They often say: “My home is my castle”.
- Englishmen are fond of gardening.
- They are great tea lovers.
- They are great animal lovers, especially dog lovers.
- They are also friendly and honest to foreingers.
- A family is very important for the British.
- The Royal family is a symbol of the British monarchy.
- Englishmen keep their traditions and do not like any changes.
- Many family traditions of them are connected with different holidays such as Christmas, Easter, St.Valentine’s Day.
T: How do they greet each other on Christmas? Ps: Merry Christmas.
II. Main Part of the Lesson
4. Speaking
T: May be you know what winter holidays and celebrations are in Great Britain?
Ps: Christmas, The New Year’s Day, St. Valentine’s Day.
T: Very well. Do we celebrate such holidays in Ukraine?
Ps: Yes, we do. But we also have St.Nicholas Day in winter.
T: Ok.What winter holidays do you like most of all and why?
Ps: As for me I like Christmas (The New Year’s Day, St. Nicholas Day)
T: OK. Taras can you tell us about St. Nicholas Day.
P1: As for me I like St. Nicholas Day. It is celebrated on the 6th of December. At night Saint Nicholas brings presents to every child that has been good, polite and helpful in the past year. He puts small gifts, toys or books under their pillows. I always get very good presents. Last year I got a laptop.
T: OK. But do the Englishmen have St. Nicholas Day? And who brings presents to British children?
Ps: No, they don’t have St. Nicholas Day in Britain. The children are told that Father Christmas with white beard and red suit comes into the house through the chimney at night and leaves presents for them in the Christmas stockings.
T: When do they celebrate Christmas in Britain and what is the traditional celebration? So, meet Mary. She has prepared a presentation about Christmas in Great Britain. Let’s go.
P2: English people celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December. It is the main public holiday in Great Britain. It goes on for three days: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. There are a lot of Christmas traditions. They buy presents, cook turkey and decorate the Christmas tree on the Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day all people open their presents and go to church. All the family usually meets for the big Christmas dinner. For dinner they have a roast turkey, mashed potatoes, pudding and vegetables. There are some good traditions to find a coin in the Christmas pudding and Christmas crackers. Also they like to sing traditional Christmas songs — carols. The 26th of December is also a public holiday, called Boxing Day. On this day people visit their friends and relatives, giving them presents in boxes.
T: And what about Christmas traditions in our country. Sofiia has prepared a presentation about it. Are you ready?
P3: In Ukraine Christmas is one of the most favourite holidays of the year. It is
also celebrated on the 25th of December. The evening before Christmas is called the Holy Evening. As soon, as the first star appears in the sky the head of the family
brings a traditional decoration made from wheat, so-called "Didukh". All the family
gathers around the dining table for the Holy Supper. There are twelve ritual dishes
on the table. They are beans, fish, boiled potato, cabbage rolls, stewed fruit, plums
and others. A traditional Christmas dish is "kutya. It is cooked of wheat with honey,
poppy seeds and nuts. On Christmas Day boys and girls go from house to house sing
carols and wish everything good. We usually go to the church and have a Vertep Show during Christmas.
5. Role playing
Scene Father: Dear children, help your mother to lay the table. Today we have an unusual supper. It’s called “Holy Supper”. This is “didukh”. It represents the spirits of this holiday.
1st child: Father! Mother! I see the First Star!
Mother: We can start our supper.
2nd child: Let me light the candle.
Father: Or, there are so many good things on the table.
Mother: Yes we have prepared 12 symbolic dishes. This is “kutia”. These are cabbage rolls, varenyky, mushrooms, fish.
Father: “Khrystos rozhdayetsia!”
The family: “Slavimo Yoho!”
1st child: Carolers are at our door. Let’s ask them to sing!
Carolers: Christ is born!
The family: Praise to him! Let’s sing the carol.
6. Physical activity
Silent night, Holy night
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Свята ніч, тиха ніч!
Ясність б’є від зірниць,
Дитинонька Пресвята,
Така ясна, мов зоря,
Спочиває в тихім сні.
T: Nice, isn’t it? And what holiday do both countries mark on the 1st of January?
Ps: It’s New Year.
T: Right you are. Who wants to tell us about it.
P4: In Ukraine the New Year's Day is celebrated on the first of January. In the
evening on the thirty-first of December Ukrainian families get together to welcome
the New Year. They decorate the New Year's Tree with coloures lights and bulbs. Mothers prepare lots of tasty food for festive table. It is a warm family holiday. Ukrainians like to stay at home on this day. Young people arrange parties and strikes fireworks into the air.
T: Does the way of celebrating the New Year in Ukraine differ from that one in Britain?
P5: Yes, it does. Not all English people celebrate the New Year. In general, the young people celebrate it on the 31st of December in one way or another. Some of them have a New Year Party. It begins in the evening and goes on until morning. Some people stay at home and watch the celebration of the New Year on television. Another way of celebration is to go to New Year's dances. The most famous celebration is to go to Trafalgar Square to see the Christmas tree and hear the chimes of Big Ben.
(Listen somebody is knocking at the door.)
Alinka: - Who’s there? Come in. Welcome, dear guest.
Vadym: - Happy New Year!
Alinka: - The same to you. We are glad to see you.
Vadym: - I’m glad to see you, too. I’ve brought a piece of coal to wish you warmth, a piece of bread to wish you food, a carton of juice to wish you drink and a silver coin to wish you wealth.
Alinka: - Thank you very much. You’ve brought good luck to us.
T: Do you know who this boy is?
Ps: Yes, he is the First Foot?
T: What do you know about this funny New Year tradition?
P6: The First Foot is the first visitor to enter a house in New Year’s morning. He must be a man. Traditionally, the first visitor of the year must carry food, drink and coal into the house. Coal helps to make a fire in midwinter and there will never be lack of food and drink during the coming year.
T: - So, we’ve met a First Footer. He is a man. It’s a good sign, isn’t it?
7. Work in pairs.
T: Now, take these cards, look at the poems and complete them with the words from
the box. Then guess what holiday we are going to speak about? Let’s start, but
remember that the poems must rhyme.
T: So, are you ready?
Ps: We are going to speak about St.Valentine’s Day.
T: Yes, It’s one of the most romantic holidays which is celebrated nowadays all over
the world. I think all of you like this holiday and know a lot about its celebration.
Who wants to tell us about it?
P7: I want. St Valentine's Day is celebrated on the 14th of February in England and Ukraine. This holiday is called so because St Valentine is the patron of lovers. On this day people buy or make Valentine cards and send them to people they love. They should not write their names on the cards. Those who get them must guess who sent them. On that day grown-ups and children send each other love messages, sweets and roses. I like this holiday very much.
T: Have you already bought Valentine cards? If no, don’t forget about your friends and lovers. And now let’s speak about another winter holiday, it’s connected with pancakes. Do you like pancakes?
Ps: Yes, we do.
T: Have you an idea that Englishmen eat a lot of pancakes on Pancake Day.
8. Reading.
T: Now, read the text “Pancake Day” and be very attentive because then you’ll have another task.
Pancake Day
English people mark Pancake Day in February at the beginning of Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days before Easter. On this day English families usually have pancakes for dinner. At schools the children and teachers have pancakes for dinner, and in restaurants customers order pancakes, too. But, do you know that in England people not only eat them but race with them? Cooks throw pancakes on the frying pans in the air and race at the same time. Another tradition is the pancake fight when a cook tosses a pancake high into the air. The boys fight for the pancake. The winner is the boy who gets the biggest piece of the pancake.
9. Writing.
T: Are you ready? So, your next task is to match the parts of the sentences.
- Pancake Day is a) 40 days before Easter.
- Lent is a period of b) race with pancakes.
- Families usually have c) in February.
- English people also have a d) the pancake is the winner.
- One more famous tradition is the e) pancakes for dinner.
- The boy who gets the biggest piece of f) pancake fight.
T: Very well. But what tradition is connected with pancakes in Ukraine?
P: We have got Masliana in winter.
III. Final Part of the Lesson.
10. Summerizing.
T: So, our lesson is over. During the lesson you spoke, sang a song, role played, read
and wrote. I liked your work at the lesson and your marks are ……..
11. Homework.
T: Your homework for the next lesson is to make up a crossword “My favourite
holiday”. Goodbye.
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