PI: Ladies and gentlemen!
P2: Dear friends!
PI: We are glad to welcome you in our holiday dedicated to the beginning of the ten- day festival of foreign languages.
P2: As you know, foreign languages play a very important role in the life of people. Everybody knows that knowledge of foreign languages opens many doors, gives many opportunities and advantages.
PI: We learn four foreign languages in our gymnasia: English, French, German and Russian.
P2: But today’s holiday is devoted to English!
PI: Knowledge of foreign languages was the indication of high culture and level of development.
P2: People in Europe began to study foreign languages in the XI century.
PI: There is one saying: “How many languages you know, so many times you are a human being”.
There is no land Like England!
Where ’er the light Of day be;
There are no hearts Like English hearts,
Such hearts of oak As they be:
There is no land Like England,
Where ’er the light Of day be:
There are no men Like Englishmen,
So tall and bold As they be!
And these will
Strike for England, And man and maid
Be free. To foil and
Spoil the tyrant
Beneath the
Greenwood tree.
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
P3: Oh my God! What is there? The water is boiling! Is it a ship? Oh, maybe it’s Loch Ness monster? No,no... It’s a submarine! What a strange colour it has!
Sailor 1: Where are we?
Sailor 2: The coast of what country is it?
PI: The official name of this country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
P2: The Kingdom unites four countries - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They lie on the British Isles..
Sailor 1: It’s rather interesting to know!
Sailor 2: We would like to get acquainted with the information about each part of Great Britain.
PI: Scotland is considered to be the most beautiful. Its capital is Edinburg. Scottish people wear specific clothes. One of them is called kilt. But you are to know, that kilt is worn only by men. The patron of Scotland is St. Andrewand its symbol is a thistle.
P2: Wales is mainly the mountainous land. The landscape is beautiful. Cardiff is its capital. There are many old castles there and every castle has its ghosts. They say that Glammis Castle has nine of them. St. Davidis the patron of Wales. Its national symbols are — a leek and a daffodil.
P3: England is the richest country of Great Britain. Everybody knows that Stonehenge is an ancient circle of stones in Southwest England. St. George is the patron of England. And a red roseis its national symbol.
P4: Northern Ireland
There is an old Irish saying “Ireland must be the cleanest place in the world, because God washed it every day”. Ireland is also called the Emerald Isle because of its beautiful green fields. The patron of Ireland is St. Patrick and its symbol is a shamrock.
Sailor 1: Thanks a lot for such interesting facts about Great Britain!
Sailors 2: We want to thank you with a famous song “Yellow Submarine”.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines,
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found a sea of greens,
And we lived beneath the waves
in our yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
And our friends are all aboard,
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
As we live a life of ense
Everyone of us has all we need:
Sky of blue and sea of green
In our yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
PI: So, we wish you good luck at your lessons, at quizes and competitions!
P2: Thank you for attention. Good luck!