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 “What? Where? When?”

Good morning, everybody! Today you have a chance to show your knowledge. We shall play the intellectual game “What? Where? When?” l hope you all enjoy it very much.

  Let’s start our game by introducing our two teams. The first team is called… Its captain is… The second… Its captain is… 

Now each participant has to say her or his name and adjective beginning with the letter of the name. For example, I’m Galya and I’m gentle.

1. What Ukrainian expression does this drawing mean?

Translate it into English

(Key: Сім п’ятниць на тиждень-  as changeable; as a weathercock- мінливий як флюгер).

2. What is in this box? Try to guess.     

I’m grey and I’m very big, I live in the jungle, but you can also find me in the zoo or in the circus. I don’t eat meat. I like vegetables, leaves, grass and fruit. (An elephant)

3. Now each team is given a card. You must match the famous couples.

1. Adam                              A.  Jane
2. Romeo                            B.  Cleopatra
3.  Rhett                              C.  Beast
4.  Ruslan                            D.  Eva                    
5.  Beauty                            E. Tatiana  Larina
6.  Tarsan                            F. Juliet
7.  Caesar                            G. Scarlet O’Hara
8.  Eugene                           I. Ludmila

Onegin                           

(Key:  1D; 2F; 3G; 4I; 5C; 6A; 7B; 8E)

4. The funniest jokes are those that Scottish people tell about them – selves. Listen to one of them.

A Scottish gentleman was spending his holiday in Vienna.  The town was very beautiful and his guide was a very beautiful young lady too.  She was his guide in the town and in the country. “I will have the best memories of her”, he thought. Before he left he decided to give her some present to thank her for her kindness. He wanted to be sure that the present was something that she liked and he asked her what presents she liked best of all.

“You know very well”, she said “that I like to look beautiful and to put on beautiful things. Give me something for my neck, for my ears or my fingers!”

 Next morning the Scottish gentleman appeared with a present –a diamond ring? a gold bracelet? Nom try to answer the question: what present did he give her?

(Key: he gave her a piece of soap!)

Music break (A song A, E, I, O, U I love you or any other)

5. Nоw we’ll continue our game.

What theatre did Shakespeare write most of his plays for?

(Answer: Shakespeare wrote most of his plays for the Globe Theatre)

   6. You’ve learn a lot of English proverbs at your English lessons. Now try to fill in the following proverbs.

1. Actions speak louder than…(Words)

2) A friend in need is… (A friend indeed)

 3) All is well that… (Ends well)

 4) Business before… (Pleasure)

 5) First think, then… (Speak)

7. Now try to guess: what is in this box?

    There stood a house,

    All marble while.

    One day

    A knock from inside

    Broke down.

    Those walls of marble

    Out sprang.

           (An egg and a chick)

8. How many white stars are there on a field of American Flag? What do they represent?

(Answer: There are 50 white stars on the flag of the USA. They represent the 50 states.)

 Look at these portraits. You can see many famous composers. You must listen to the information and say the y name of one of them showing his portrait.

He is a well-known British composer who was born in 1913. He has composed a great number of operas and choral works. One of his greatest works is the opera “Pete Grimes” about a poor fisherman.

(Answer: Benjamin Britten)

9.  Who were these people?

1.  Cleopatra was

1.  an actress
2.  queen
3.  a prime minister

2.  Caesar was

1.  a Roman general
2.  an artist
3.  a king

3.  Isaac Newton was

1.  a scientist
2.  a doctor
3.  an actor

4.  Mozart was

1.  an engineer
2.  a scientist
3.  a composer

5.  The Beatles were

1.  engineers
2.  pop singers
3.  doctors

6.  Neil Armstrong was

1.  a composer
2.  an artist
3.  a spaceman.

The jury sums up and announces the score of the game.