Позакласний захід на тему: "How useful is school for you?"

1. Questions for captains

How much do you know? Choose the best answer for the questions.

1. Do they have a 4^th of July in England?

1. Yes   b) No

2. How many birthdays does the average man have?

a) 1  b)66   c)72

3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?

a) 12   b)1   c)6

4. Is legal for man in California to marry his widow’s(вдова) sister?

a) Yes   b) No

5. Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What is the answer?

a) 25  b)70  c)35

6. If there are 3 apples and you take away2, how many do you have?

a) 1   b)2   c)3

7. A doctor gives you 3 pills telling you to take one every half hour. How many minutes would the pills last?

a) 60   b)90  c)120

8. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9died. How many are left?

a) 17   b)8   c)9

9. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark(ковчег)?

a) 1000   b)499   c)0

10. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen (12)?

a) 6   b)9   c)12

Answers:

1a, 2a, 3a, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7a, 8c, 9c, 10c

2. Questions for teams

Do you know the history and culture of English-speaking countries? Answer the questions:

1. What the name of the country that we call England? (the UK)
2. Who founded London? (Romans)
3. What London library is the biggest one? (The British museum library)
4. Who was the first president of the USA? (George Washington)
5. Where does the president of the USA live and work? (The White House)
6. What is the real name of Mark Twain? (Samuel Clemens)
7. What is the name of rock’n’roll’s king? (Elvis Presley)
8. Where were “The Beatles” born? (Liverpool)
9. Englishmen prefer tea with milk. What tea do they call “Russian”? (Tea with lemon)
10.  What was the hometown of Shakespeare? (Stratford-on-Avon)
11.  When did Christopher Columbus land in America? (1492)
12.  How many states are there in America? (50)
13.  What is the largest state of the USA? (Alaska)
14.  Who populated New York area in early times? (Indians)
15.  What is the largest park in London? (Hyde Park)
16.  Who was called “An iron Lady”? (Margaret Thatcher)
17.  How many stars and stripes has the US flag? (50 stars, 13 stripes)
18.  What is the most famous statue in the USA? (The Statue of Liberty)
19. Who presented The Statue of Liberty to the people of America? (The people of France)
20.  What is the famous airport in London? (Heathrow)
21.  What was the industrial symbol of Great Britain? (wool)
22. What saint is the saint patron of London?  (St. Paul)
23. What does the word “Avon” mean? (river)
24. What is the real name of Robin Hood? ( Robert Locksley)
25. What were the names of Robin Hood’s followers? (Merry Men)
26.  What does the word “Utopia” mean? (no place – nowhere)
27. Whose son was King Arthur? (Pendragon)
28. Who brought up King Arthur? (Magician Merlin)
29. Where is the principle church in the UK? (Canterbury)
30. How many collages are there in Oxford University? (39)

3. Magic Fifteen

Put a number in each square, using the number from 1 to 9. No number can be used more than once. It should be explained that the number must be placed so that they total 15 anyway they are added – horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Answer:

4. Word changing

Change the words into different ones by adding one letter at the beginning or the end.

Example: Change a word meaning a place for skating (rink) into what you do when thirsty (drink).

1. Change the reason for umbrellas into a quick means of travel.
2. Change something very cold into something used for pudding.
3. Change a measure of distance into a little laugh.
4. Change part of the head into a measure of time.
5. Change a scheme into something growing in the garden.
6. Change a place for ships into athletic games.
7. Change to go quickly into one step of a ladder.
8. Change a rule into animal’s “finger”.

Answers: 1 (rain-train), 2 (ice-rice), 3 (mile-smile), 4 (ear-year),

5 (plan-plant), 6 (port-sport), 7 (run-rung), 8 (law-claw)

5. True or false

1. Apples, not coffee, are better at waking you up in the morning.
2. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
3. People don’t get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more/
4. When you sneeze ( чхати ), all body functions stop, even your heart!
5. Only 7 per cent of population are lefties (лівша).
6. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
7. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.
8. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines (черга).
9. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
10.  The average housefly (кімнатна муха) lives for one month.
11.  The average computer user blinks (жмуритися) 7 times a minute.
12. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
13.  Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
14.  The REAL reason an ostrich (страус) sticks its head in the sand is to search for the weather.
15.  The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the Rabbit and the Parrot.
16.  In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used instead of real milk.
17. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used tomato can for carburetor.
18.  Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords (пуповина) cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
19.  Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7^th cousins.
20.  If colouring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

Answers:

All statements are true.

The world of Shakespeare

1. Name the dates of life and birthplace of W.  Shakespeare.

a) 1564-1616 Stratford –on-Avon

b) 1616-1654 London

c) 1616-1654 Stratford –on-Avon

2. What was the period when great Shakespeare was born?

a)  Romanticism b) Enlightenment c) Renaissance

3. How old was W.  Shakespeare when he married?

a) 21 b) 18 c) 24

4. What was his wife name?

a) Marie b) Anne c) Susan

5. Anne Hathaway was the daughter of …

a) merchant b) farmer c) lawyer

6. They had … children.

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3

7. What was his first theatre he worked at?

a) the Globe b) the Swan c) the Miracle

8. Shakespeare himself played in one of his plays. Which part did he played in “Hamlet”?

a) Hamlet b) Horatio c) the Ghost

9. He bought a great mention in …

a) London b) Edinburg c) Stratford –on-Avon

10. In his last years he wrote more …

a) fairy-tails b)tragedies c) comedies

Complete the famous proverbs or sayings

• All is well …
• To kill two birds with …
• One head is good….
• There is no place…
• Think before …
• Strike iron …
• There is no bad weather…
• A sound mind ….
• Measure twice …
• East or West …
• A man is known by ….
• Little children, little sorrow….
• Like father, …
• To know everything is …
• So many languages you know ….
• He laughs best …
• Laugh today…
• Make hay …
• Family …
• A white …
• Health is better…

активізувати лексичний матеріал; перевірити рівень сприйняття іншомовного мовлення на слух та уміння реагувати; розвивати ерудицію та логічне мислення; розширити учнівський кругозір;виховувати бажання вчитися.

Зайковські С.А. English at Leisure. Цікава англійська: Посібник. – Тернопіль: Богдан, 2005, С.35, 37.

Урок-свято у старших класах “St. Valentine Day” // Англійська мова та література №4 (266) – лютий 2010, С.34.

Розробка інтелектуальної гри “Brain-Storming” // Англійська мова та література №26 (288) – вересень 2010, С.35.

Get Ready to School // Teenglish- Jun 2010, pp.12-13

Чоповська О. Magic Poetry: Позакласні заходи з англійської мовию – Тернопіль: Підручники і посібники, 2008, С.47-53