Урок «Celebration of Christmas according to British traditions».

Script  of  the  lesson (by Viktoriia Polovko)

Theme:  «Celebration of  Christmas according to British  traditions»

Goal settings:

- improve listening and reading skills as components of language-cognitive competence

- pupils can use new information according to communicative and pragmatic competence of learning English

- pupils are able to communicate with English-spoken people, share own knowledge about Ukrainian traditions and compare its with foreign experience (sociocultural competence)

Learning technology

Cooperative technology – think-work in pairs – share (structure), projected technology.

Structure of lesson

Teacher: Let me explain structure of our unusual lesson for today. We are going to travel abroad and find out interesting information about Christmas in Great Britain. We will read the text about British traditions, play game, sing a song and watch the presentation. Enjoy your lesson!

І Let*s  begin from the presentation!

 http://www.myshared.ru/slide/1079114/

Why do English people celebrate Christmas on 25^th of December? (They are Catholics)

When do Ukrainian people celebrate Christmas? (on 7^th of January) Why? (Ukrainian people are  Orthodox Christians)

commemorate – to do something to show that you remember and respect someone important or an important event in the past пом*янути,  згадати.

Christianity /ˌkrɪstiˈænəti/

Сhristmastide – святки

beforehand - before something else happens or is done

! Slide #11 ( Read the text about Father Christmas)

commission – призначити на посаду.

Swedish /ˈswiːdɪʃ/ - шведський

trim – убрання

clay – глиняний

lump – грудочка

pudding /ˈpʊdɪŋ/

roast /rəʊst $ roʊst/

ІІ Work with text «How do the British start their new year?» (from «Teen») https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHgphUhnv-A

III Listening https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/christmas-gift-experiment

IV Pictures and the game «Find words and write them on the blackboard»

V Song «It the most wonderful time» andy williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvokYRRuaA

VI Kahoot or questions