A party of English poetry

A party of English poetry

Болотова Ю.Ю.

 

Цель мероприятия: приобщение учащихся к культуре англоязычных стран.

Задачи мероприятия:

Образовательная: познакомить учащихся с поэтическими произведениями на английском языке, формировать фонетические, лексические и грамматических навыки.

Воспитательная: воспитывать уважение к культуре англоязычных стран, чувство сопричастности к памятникам мировой литературы и искусства.

Развивающая: развивать умение декламировать, выступать на сцене.

 

         Ведущий: Good evening, dear friends. We are glad to see you at our party of English poetry. My little friends want to greet you too with a song “Hello! Hello!”

 

-         Hello! Hello! What’s your name?

What’s your name?

-         My name Mike. My name Jane.

That’s my name.

-         Hello! Hello! What’s your name?

What’s your name?

-         My name John. My name Pam.

That’s my name.

 

Ведущий: “He who doesn’t know any foreign language, doesn’t know his own one”, said Goethe. And what language is the most popular nowadays? Certainly, English. English poetry, folk and author, gives us an opportunity to understand culture of Great Britain and to improve our English. So let’s begin! Meet our first poem “Autumn”.

 

This is the season

When fruit is sweet;

This is the season

When school friends meet,

When noisy and gay,

And brown in the sun,

With their books and bags

To school they run.

Down, down, down

Red, yellow, brown

Autumn leaves fall down.

 

Ведущий: Autumn... It’s a very beautiful season when we go to the forest to gather mushrooms or colourful leaves. But sometimes unexpected meetings happen in the forest such as in the next verse “A grizzly-bear”.

 

If you ever, ever meet a grizzly-bear

You will never, never ask him

“Where are you going?”

Or “What are you doing?”

If you ever, ever stop a grizzly-bear

You will never meet another grizzly-bear.

 

Ведущий: A grizzly-bear… It’s so scary. Maybe another poem about smaller and prettier animals make you relax and smile. Listen to the poem “Ten little squirrels”.

 

Ten little squirrels sitting in a tree.

The first two said: What can we see?

The next two said: A man with a gun.

The next two said: Let’s run. Let’s run.

The next two said: Let’s hide in the shade.

The last two said: We’re not afraid!

But BANG went the gun and away they all ran.

 

Ведущий: All those poems were about wild animals and I suppose all of you think, “And what about domestic animals?” Meet our next performance “I’m a brave, brave mouse”.

 

I’m a brave, brave mouse.

I go marching through the house,

And I’m not afraid of anything.

For danger I’m prepared,

And I’m never, never scared.

No, I’m not afraid of anything.

What about a cat?

What – a cat?

Yes a cat!

Big and fat.

Well, except for a cat –

I’m not afraid of anything.

 

Ведущий: “Big and fat”. Are these all the treats of cats? I suppose the animal mentioned in the poem is silly and lazy and I know a cat that is very clever, friendly and lovely. Meet a song “A super cat”.

 

My cat can sing, my cat can walk,

My cat can watch TV,

My cat can do so many things

And it can play with me!

My cat can’t play computer games

And can’t sit on my bed

But all in all,

But all in all

It is a super cat.

 

Ведущий: This part of party was devoted to poems for children and now we are going to make you think. Do you know any English poets? Which poems did they write?

The greatest English playwright and poet is William Shakespeare. His name is well-known all over the world. The last half or the 16-th and the beginning of the 17-th centuries are known as the Golden Age of English Renaissance and sometimes are called “The Age of Shakespeare”. The English often call him “Our National Bard”, “The Immortal Poet of Nature”. I hope all of you read his plays or sonnets. And now you have an opportunity to listen to his LXXIII sonnet “Goodbye love” on Shakespeare’s native language.

 

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few . do hang

Upon those boughs which shade against the cold,

Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou seest the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by-and-by black night doth take away,

Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.

In me thou seest the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the deathbed whereon it must expire.

Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.

This thou perceiv’st. which makes thy

Love more strong,

To love that well which thou must

Leave ere long.

 

Ведущий: Robert Burns didn’t live to forty but became the greatest poet of Scotland. He described the beauty of his Motherland and human feelings. Listen to his poem “A red, red rose”.

 

O my luve is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June:

O my luve is like the melodie

That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,

So deep in luve an I:

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

 Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve,

And fare thee weel a while!

And I will come again, my luve,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

 

Ведущий: Robert Louis Stevenson is known with his adventure books but he is a great poet too. Listen to one of his poems “Requiem”.

 

Under the wide and starry sky,

Dig the grave and let me die,

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:

Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor, home from the sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.

 

Ведущий: The next performance is a poem of A.E. Houseman “A handful of poems”.

 

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hang with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my three score years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

 

Ведущий: We want to finish our party with a beautiful song “A ballad of Stonehenge”.

 

Three thousand years before Christ was a child,

England was beautiful, young and wild.

There were people, forests and rivers there,

And the magic stones hung in the air.

The people who brought them were strong and brave,

And under these stones they found their graves.

Where did they come from? Where did they go?

Who were these people? We’ll never know.

Was it a temple? An ancient god’s house?

Was it a compass for friends from the stars?

They built it five thousand years ago,

But why did they do it? We’ll never know.

Now these days are gone and the people are gone,

But the midsummer sunrise still shines on the stone.

And the midwinter sunset still comes with the rain,

 

Ведущий: Our party is coming to an end and we have only to sum up and name the best reciters. Let’s listen to our jury.

We congratulate the winners and hope you didn’t waste time but spent it with pleasure and benefit. We say goodbye and want to see you at out next party of English poetry and culture.