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Holidays and traditions in Ukraine and Great Britain

Objectives:

-to develop reading skills;

-to refine  monologue and  dialogue speech;

-to develop listening skills;

-to develop the vocabulary related to the topic;

-to cultivate respect to the culture of our native country and other countries.

Procedure

1.Greeting

T.Good day,children! I’m glad to see you!

Ps. Good day,teacher! We are glad to see you,too!

T.Sit down,please! Let’s start our lesson!

2. Warm-up.

T.Look, what I have, It’s  a Magic bag. I think Santa Claus left it for us.Let me see what there is inside.Ha, there are cards with some tasks inside.Choose one of the cards and do the tasks.

Cards:

Smile to your friend.

Make a compliment to your deskmate.

Wave to your friend.

Shake hands with your deskmates.

Hug your deskmates.

3.Theme of the lesson and objectives of the lesson.

T.You were very good at warming-up.I would like you to unscramble some words.We need 3 groups.Each group gets a set of letters.Try to unscramble the word and then you will guess the theme of our lesson.

H  O L I D A Y

T R A D I T I O N   E A S T ER

T.Who is ready?

Ps. We are ready.

T. Read your words, please .

Ps. Holiday, tradition, Easter.

T. Can you guess what we are going to speak about at our lesson today?

Ps. We’ll speak about holidays, traditions and Easter.

T.Yes,you are right. At our lesson we are going to speak about holidays and traditions in Ukraine and Great Britain .At our lesson we are going to develop your vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking and writing  skills .By the end of the lesson you will be more aware of the  Ukrainian and British Easter traditions.

4.Phonetic drill

T.To read and to speak about holidays correctly we need to do some phonetic drills.Look at the screen and read the words after me:

Jesus  [ ˈʤiːzəs ]

Origin [ ˈɒrɪdʒɪn ]

Ancient [ ˈeɪnʃənt ]

Ritual [ ˈrɪt.ju.əl ]

Associated [ əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪd ] 

Foreign [ ˈfɒrən ]

Christ [ kraɪst ]   

Precios [ ˈpreʃ.əs ]

Church [ tʃɜːtʃ ]

5.Vocabulary development

Now you are going to work in pairs.

T.On your desks you have sets of words, make up the collocations.Matching the words.Read and translate them.

Collocations

 

1.religious                                                         a)cultures

2.ancient                                                           b)holiday   

3.Christ                                                              c)church

4.go to                                                                d)risen

5.eat                                                                   e)museum

6.painted                                                           f)countries

7.pysanka                                                          g)Easter cakes

8.foreing                                                            h)egg        

Keys:1-b;2-a;3-d;4-c;5-g;6-h;7-e;8-f.

6.Reading.

T.So,we have brushed up the words and you are ready to read the text.What  is the title of the text?

Ps.Easter

T.You can see that there are 5 sentences missing.You can find them below the text,you task is to read the text and guess which sentence matches each gap.

Easter

Easter is a great religios holiday.

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. On Easter morning many  people go to church. They carry Easter baskets where they have Easter cakes and Easter eggs,sausages,  salt,  butter, meat. Then they come home and have a holiday breakfast.In Ukraine we usually eat Easter cakes called «paskas» and coloured eggs called «pysankas» and «krashankas».

Pysanka and krashanka are  the traditional Ukrainian Easter egg.

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There are usually beautiful ornaments and symbols on pysankas.

The symbol of an egg is present in many ancient cultures of the world.

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Many rituals are associated with pysanksa. The first Easter meal begins with an Easter egg.

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In the Ukrainian town of Kolomyya, there is a Pysanka museum,  the only museum of this kind in Ukraine.

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Put the sentences into the correct order.

A) It”s collection has more than 10.000 pysankas from every region of Ukraine and from four foreign countries.

B) People celebrate this holiday on Sunday in spring.

C)The head of the family cuts into small pieces and gives them to each member of the family with the words «khrystos voskres» (Christ risen).

D)Pysanka is a decorated egg and krashanka is a painted egg.

E)Easter eggs can be made of stone, metal, or wood and decorated with precious ( дорогоцінний) stones.

T.So, you have to fill in the blanks with the missing sentences.

T.Are you ready to check?

Ps.Yes, we are ready.

7.Check up homework. T. Let’s see what have you learned about the symbols  from the text?

P1.Pysanka and krashanka are the traditional Ukrainian Easter egg.

P2. Pysanka is a decorated egg and krashanka is a painted egg.

T.Your homework was to surf the Internet, find the information about the British Easter symbols and make your posters.Who wouid like to be the first?Show us the poster and tell us about Easter symbols.

8.Relaxation Song “Have you seen the Easter Bunny”

T.You’ve been working hard.Let”s have a rest.Taras has told us about Easter Bunny.Now let’s sing a song about her.

Have You Seen the Easter Bunny?

Have you seen the Easter Bunny,
The Easter Bunny, the Easter Bunny,
Have you seen the Easter Bunny who comes on Easter Morning?

CHORUS
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, the Easter Bunny,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the Easter Bunny.

She's nice and fluffy and cute and funny,
The Easter Bunny, the Easter Bunny,
She's nice and fluffy and cute and funny,
She comes on Easter morning.

Chorus

She brings us chocolate eggs and honey,
The Easter Bunny, the Easter Bunny,
She brings us chocolate eggs and honey.
She comes on Easter Morning.

Chorus

Hop, hop, hop, goes the Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny, the Easter Bunny,
Hop, hop, hop goes the Easter Bunny
Who comes on Easter Morning.

 

T.Well done.

 

9.Listening.

T.Now let’s see how you understand English when you hear it.You are going to listen to the text and do the task. Let’s read, translate and try to remember some words first.

Naomi-Наомі (ім’я дівчинки)

Sarah-Сара(ім’я дівчинки)

Hot cross buns-паска у британців

Penny-пенні (грошова монета)

Finish-(закінчувати)

T.You will have to mark true or false.Read these sentences.

1. Sarah is 14 years old.

2. They have got school holidays at Easter.

3. People go to work on Good Friday.

4. Sarah buys presents for her parents.

5. Naomi likes Easter apples.

6. People decorated eggs for Easter.

T. Now ,listen to the girl from England telling about Easter in her family. After that you will have to mark False/True sentences.

Listening

• Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m 12 years old and this is how we celebrate Easter in my family. I buy Easter presents for my friends.
• Did you go shopping?
• Yes, we did. What did you buy?
• I bought an Easter egg and a chocolate Easter Bunny.
• Let’s see.
• That looks good.
• Mmm. Yes, can I have the egg?
• No, Dad!
• We’ve got school holiday at Easter. We give Easter presents to our friends.
• Thanks for my chocolate Easter bunny!
• Thank’ OK.
• I’m really happy we finished school today. It’s the Easter holidays!
• Here you are. Naomi – Happy Easter!
• Thanks, Sarah.
• Oh, thanks you! I love Easter eggs!
• What are you going to do for the Easter holidays?
• I’m going to eat Easter eggs!

People don’t go to work on Good Friday, it’s a holiday. We decorate eggs for Easter.

• Hello, Oh. I like you eggs! I bought Hot Cross Buns. Do you want one?
• Yes, please. Can we have them hot with a lot of butter, please?
• Yes, of course. You finish decorating you eggs.

Hot Cross Buns , Hot Cross Buns

       One a penny, two a penny

       Hot Cross Buns

• Look at my Easter egg.
• That’s great, Sarah.
• Thanks. Yellow and red are my favorite colours.
• Here you are. Hot Cross Buns with a lot of butter.
• Yum. Thanks Mum.
• Thanks.

T.Let’s check up your answers.(на екрані відповідіі).

Who has got no mistakes?Raise your hands.Good for you.

10 Grammar practice. T.We can’t  have a good command of English without grammar.At the previous lesson we learnt to use much,many,few,little.What do much,many mean?What do few,little mean?

Ps.Many,much mean багато. Few,little mean мало.

T.When do we use many,few? When do we use much,little?

Ps.We use many,few with countable nouns. We use much,little with uncountable nouns.

T. Fill in much/many in the following sentences. (граматика 11 сл)

Ex.1

1.People like to colour…eggs on Easter.

2.There is …fresh air in this room.

3.There  are…pysankas in Pysanka museum in Kolomyya.

4. We have …work to do before Easter.

5. … rituals are associated with pysanka.

few/little

Ex.2

6.There are…noise in the church on Easter.

7.There is…sugar in this cake.

8. On Easter…shops are closed.

9.There is…rain in our region.

11.Summing-up.

T.What have you learnt at the lesson today?

Ps. We have learnt about Easter in Ukraine and Great Britain?

T. What do these holidays have in common?

P1 People celebrate Easter in spring in Ukraine and in Great Britain.

P2 It’s a big religious holiday.

T. What is the difference between this holidays?

P.  People  have different symbols.

   What can you do now?

           I can read and understand the text…

           I can use much …

           I can speak about Easter traditions…

12. Home assignment.

T .Write  5-6 sentences about a tradition of celebrating Easter in your family.

13 You were very active, energetic. You worked very hard at the lesson. Your marks are…