Урок "Пасха у Великій Британії"

Outline of the Lesson

 

Date:                                                                                               Form:  10

 

Тheme: Traditions in English speaking countries.

Тype of the lesson: summarizing and systematization nonstandard lesson

Aims of the lesson: to practice active vocabulary; to introduce new lexics; to develop listening skills on the basis of the video; to develop learning skills; to develop English sounds pronunciation skills; to enlarge pupils’ knowledge about traditions in Great Britain and Ukraine; to develop listening and speaking skills through monologues and dialogues; to develop sociocultural competence; to impart love to different cultures; to develop cultural competence of pupils; to develop the awareness of foreign language learning.

 

Equipment: textbooks, whiteboard, flashcards, PC.

 

Sketchy plan of the lesson:

1. Greeting and organization.                                                                          3 min.                                                 

2. Warm up.                                                                                                     4 min.

6. Listening activity.

         a) Pre-listening activities.                                                                        4 min.

         b) Watching the video aiming to catch its general idea.                         6 min.

         c) Control of video understanding.                                                          9 min.

         d) Post-listening activity.

7. Lesson summary and hometask.                                                                   3 min.

8. Assessment.                                                                                                   3 min.

 

Course of the lesson.

1. Greeting and organization.

Teacher: Good morning, class! Today I am your English teacher!

Pupils: Good morning, teacher!

Teacher: Today we have an unusual lesson. The theme of our lesson is “Traditions in Ukraine and in Great Britain”. I’m sure that you’ve already learnt a lot of information on this topic, but today I suggest you to have an extraordinary lesson.

 

2. Warm up.                                                                                                    

Teacher: Today we shall appear in a travel agency! And each of you is to persuade, to give his/her reasons to visit his country with its sights.

Teacher: First of all let’s remind our clients what national British and Ukrainian holidays exist. Name them please.

Pupil 1: New Year and Christmas

Pupil 2: Easter

Pupil 3: St Valentine’s Day

Pupil 4: Mother’s Day

Pupil 5: St.Patric’s Day….

Teacher: Well done! There are so many holidays! What are the main holidays in Great Britain and in Ukraine?

Pupil 1: They are Christmas and Easter

Teacher: Yes, you are right! And the coming holiday is Easter! I suggest you to persuade our guests to visit your country during Easter holidays.

Pupil 1: ….

Pupil 2: ….

Pupil 3: …

 

Listening activity.

1. Pre-listening activities.

Word list:

Teacher: Easter – what kind of holiday is it?

Religious – религиозный

Observance – обряд, церемония

Teacher: What does this religious event always coincide with?

Coincide – совпадать

Teacher: What does it symbolize?

Resurrection – воскрешение

Crucifixion – распятие

Bonnet – шляпа

Alongside – вместе с тем

 

Teacher: Let’s read the words once again.

 

2. Watching the video aiming to catch its general idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3U5QCRH6s

Teacher: And now you are to watch the video about English Easter. While watching the video, please spot interesting, maybe unusual British traditions.

 

Teacher: What is Easter Egg Hunt?

Pupil 1: Small eggs are hidden in an area, usually a garden or public place and then people try to find them.

Teacher: What is Egg Rolling competition?

Pupil 2: It is a competition where hard boiled eggs are rolled down a slide or a hill and the egg that travels the furthest without breaking apart wins.

Teacher: Excellent work class!

 

c) Control of video understanding.             

Teacher: And now we shall watch the video once again and  while watching this time think of differences in Easter celebrations in Ukraine and UK.

                      

d) Post-listening activity.

Teacher: So, let’s discuss the differences in celebrations that you’ve pointed out.

Great Britain	Ukraine
Buy	Decorate
Chocolate	Real
Easter Bunny	-
Church	Church

 

Teacher: At the beginning of the video Gina asked you a question: how do you think how many chocolate eggs are eaten in the UK at Easter?

Who has what suggestions? Let’s listen to the correct answer. 

Teacher: Just imagine 80 million of eggs are eaten every year! Please, look at this sentence: 80 million of eggs are eaten every year! You see in this sentence that make some actions (eat) are made on the eggs. And if we say:  People eat 83 million of eggs every year! Does it make any difference in meaning? And what about grammar?

Teacher: Sometimes we use active voice and sometimes passive. Look at the sentences:

Peter writes a post-card. – A post-card is written by Peter.

A postman brings letters. – Letters are brought by postman.

 

Teacher: Please look at the blackboard you can see a text there! It is based on our video! In the first part of the exercise I suggest you to fill inn the gaps with our active vocab.

Religious – религиозный

Observance – обряд, церемония

Coincide – совпадать

Resurrection – воскрешение

Crucifixion – распятие

Bonnet – шляпа

Alongside – вместе с тем

a) 1.After Christmas, the second biggest ____________ event of the year is Easter.

2. Even for those who don’t celebrate Easter as a religious ____________, it is an important time of the year.

3. The date changes every year, but it always _____________ with the start of spring.

4. Easter eggs symbolize the ______________.

 

Teacher: And the next part is to open the brackets using the passive voice.

1. Small eggs________________ (to hide) in the area, usually a garden or a public place.

2.  Hats ________________ (to decorate) with Easter-related decorations.

3. Hard boiled eggs ________________ (roll down) a slide or a hill.

4. About 80 million eggs ________________ (to eat) in the UK at Easter.

 

 

Teacher: Well done! Please, tell me do you like traditions of celebrating Easter in the UK? You see, that both these countries have rich and very captivating traditions. And if you want to touch them you are to visit Great Britain. And for you to feel more confident and more comfortable abroad, you need to know the English language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

	Great Britain	Ukraine
1	Letters:	Letters:
2	Presents:	Presents:
3	Crackers:	Crackers:
4	Headdress:	Headdress:
5	Main dish:	Main dish:
6	Dessert:	Dessert:
7	Message from:	Message from:
8	The following day:	The following day:
9	Traditional song, dance, etc:	Traditional song, dance, etc:
10	Taking down the Christmas tree:	Taking down the Christmas tree:
11	It is observed on:	It is observed on:

 

 

 

c) Post-listening activity.

Teacher: So, you’ve watched the video. What other traditions can you name?

Well done! And now, look at the blackboard! You can see a table there. It compares British and Ukrainian Christmas. Let’s fill it in.

	Great Britain	Ukraine
1	Letters to Father Christmas	Letters to Father Frost
2	Presents in hanging stockings	Presents under the tree
3	Crackers with plastic prise, paper crown and a terrible joke	Crackers with confetti
4	Christmas crowns	Christmas hats
5	Main dish: roast turkey	Main dish:
6	Dessert: Christmas pudding	Dessert:
7	The Royal Christmas message	The President message
8	Boxing day
9	Pantomime	Kolyadnitsy
10	Taking down the Christmas tree (within 12 days)
11	It is observed on: 25/12	It is observed on: 07/01

 

Teacher: well done. You see now some similarities and differences in celebrating different holidays in Ukraine and the UK.

 

7. Lesson summary and hometask. 

Teacher: Today you’ve learnt about English traditions and compared them with Ukrainian ones. I hope you likes the video and one day you’ll have a possibility to celebrate traditional English Easter.

                                                                

8. Assessment