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British and American holidays.ppt
British and American holidays
Lesson for 8-11 forms pupils English teacher G. N. Gavrilevich
Choose a holiday to the picture
Match the holidays
go to church | |
to give roses | |
dress up as the witches | |
chocolate eggs | |
hang stockings near the fireplace | |
hug and kiss each other |
Easter
New Year
St. Valentine’ s Day
Halloween
Easter
New Year
Christmas
Find the mistakes
New Year’s Day | 25 December |
St. Valentine’s Day | 31October |
Easter | 1 January |
Halloween | March or April |
Christmas | 14 February |
Name the Holiday
The Day of Dark Spirits
The Day of fun
The Day of Love and Friendship
The Day of Wonderful Presents
The Day for Making a New Start
The Day of Honouring the Birth of Jesus Christ
What holidays are the sentences about?
1.In London people gather to celebrate this holiday in Trafalgar Square.
2.People make up lamps of pumpkins.
3.This holiday means spring, new life after winter, flowers, green trees.
4.On this day everyone opens presents and sits down to the table to have a big dinner.
5.On this day people send a special greeting card to those who they love.
Look through some dates that people in Britain celebrate. Guess which days British people associate with the objects in the pictures below.
Happy New Year!
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1stJanuary, people visit friends, relatives, and neighbours. There is plenty to eat and drink when you just drop in to wish your loved ones and friends the best for the year ahead.
New Year
All Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve on the 31st of December.
British people don’t like this holiday and go to sleep before midnight.
Young people in London go to Trafalgar square to see the New Year’s Day in there.
It is also a memorable occasion to make New Year's resolutions.
Christmas
Christmas Day , December 25, is probably the most popular holiday in Great Britain and the USA. It is a family holiday. Traditionally all relatives and friends get together and give each other presents.
Christmas
People send X-mas cards to their friends and relatives. People buy Christmas trees and decorate them with toys, tinsels, coloured balls and lights. Children wake up early to find stockings full of small presents on their bed.
Christmas Dinner
The typical dinner consists of turkey
with potatoes and other vegetables
such as carrots and sprouts.
In Britain this is followed by Christmas
pudding - a sweet pudding containing
a lot of dried fruit and often covered
with burning brandy. Other traditional
dish in Britain is a Christmas cake –
a cake containing a lot of dried fruit
and usually having a covering of icing.
Santa Claus
Santa Claus, also called Santa, Father Christmas (in Britain), or Kriss Kringle (in America) is an imaginary old man in red clothes and with a long white beard.
Stockings
Christmas - is a holiday for the whole family, but children love it most of all and wait for it.They hang out stockings near the fireplace for gifts.
The 14th of February is called Valentine’s Day. It is a day of lovers. That is when every man and every woman thinks about his or her sweetheart. On this day you can buy cards in shops or you can make cards yourselves.
Violets are blue
Roses are red,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you!
St. Valentine’s Day is a religious holiday.Do you know,who was St.Valentine? One of the legend says,he was a Christian priest,who had been thrown in prison for his teaching. On February,14 Valentine was beheaded,not only because he performed a miracle-he cured the jailer’s daughter from her blindness the night before he was executed-but he wrote a letter to the girl signing it «From your Valentine».
St. Valentine’s Day
Famous couples
Romeo
Captain Grey
Lady Hamilton
Juliet
Prince
Othello
Margaret
Master
Admiral Nelson
Cinderella
Ophelia
Hamlet
Assol
Eve
Adam
Desdemona
April Fool’s Day
April Fools’ Day is a fun day that’s celebrated on April 1st every year.
Why does an ostrich have such a long neck? Because its head is so far from its body.
JOKES
April Fools’ Day is a fun day that’s celebrated on April 1st every year.
April Fools'! Day, also known as All Fools' Day is certainly not a holiday, but everybody likes it so much
This is the day
upon which we are reminded
of what we are on the
other three-hundred and sixty-four.
Mark Twain
JOKES
April Fool's practical jokes should not harm anyone, they are just a good fun. The best jokes are the clever ones where everyone laughs, especially the person who had the joke played on them.
Some examples:
put food colouring in milk
* go with a couple of friends, stand near some busy street corner – stare and
point up at the sky. Watch the reactions of people around you!
* Draw funny eyebrows and moustache on someone's face while she/he is
asleep.
Easter
In April or at the end of March English people celebrate Easter Day.
On Easter Sunday children get chocolate eggs and rabbits.
Today on Easter Sunday, children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier tat week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house.
The Easter Bunny and Egg
Easter is the oldest and one of the most important festivals of the Christian community that is celebrated to mark the beginning of the spring season. There are a few things, such as the Easter eggs, bunnies and chocolates that are common to Easter celebrations. Easter is considered as a day of parties, gift-giving and moreover, the rise of the good from the evil. Easter is celebrated in England over a long week. The three most important days are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The main symbols of Easter and spring include bunnies and rabbits.
It is tradition to eat hot cross buns on Good Friday, as they symbolize the cross on which Jesus was crucified. People exchange Easter Eggs, Easter bread, hot cross buns and other gifts. Easter bunnies are made and sold in large numbers and are an integral part of Easter celebrations in England. These bunnies are hidden along with Easter eggs in the house. Children are supposed to search and find these sweet treats. Easter greeting cards are confined to close friends and family only.
Give the English for:
1. Христианский календарь
2. Во всем мире
3. Три самых важных дня
4. Основные символы пасхи
5. Обмениваться пасхальными яйцами
6. Празднования
Begin or complete the sentences:
1. ……. that are common to Easter celebrations.
2. Easter is considered as a day of parties, gift-giving and moreover…..
3. The three most important days are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday ….
4. The main symbols of Easter and spring…..
5. …… hot cross buns and other gifts.
6. …… find these sweet treats.
Mother’s Day (Second Sunday in May)
On the second Sunday in May, British children of all ages treat their mothers to something special. It is the one day out of the year when children, young and old, try to show how much they love and appreciate their mothers.
Happy Mother’s Day!
On this day people in the family try to help their mother in anyway they can and give them presents and bake them a cake.
Father’s day
In June English people celebrate Father’s Day.
On that day children send cards and give presents to their father’s.
On Father's Day children usually give ties to their fathers and grandfathers .
Independence Day July 4
It is the birthday of the USA.
On the 31st of October there is Halowe’en. The symbol of this holiday is “ Jack o’lantern”. People make it from a pumpkin.
Halloween for children
Halloween, the last day of October, has a special significance for children, who dress in funny or ghostly costumes and knock on neighborhood doors shouting "Trick or Treat!" Pirates and princesses, ghosts and witches all hold bags open to catch the candy or other goodies that the neighbors drop in.
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THANKSGIVING DAY
Another traditionally American holiday is Thanksgiving Day which falls on the fourth Thursday of November. It has been celebrated since the 17th century, when the English colonists decided to celebrate the end of the first year in America and to give thanks to God. They invited the local Indian chief and ninety Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had brought popcorn.
Thanksgiving Day
It is a family holiday with a large traditional dinner including turkey,pumpkin pie and many other tasty things.
Holiday Cards
People around the world send cards to their friends and family.
Why celebrate holidays?
To go to festivals and parties
To give and get presents
To visit new places
To meet relatives, friends and other people
To buy souvenirs
To enjoy yourselves
To relax and have much fun
To learn something new
Complete the sentences
1.May Day is a Day when…
2.The first of January is the Day when…
3. The ninth of May is the Day when …
4. The eight of March is the Day when…
5. The fourth of July is…
6. The seventh of January is…
A) people celebrate the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
b) people honour mothers and all women.
c) the Christmas Day.
d) people see the New Year Day in.
e) people welcome spring and honour labour.
f) The Independence day.
Make Your Own Holiday
Name _________________________
Date __________________
Think about the holidays you celebrate throughout the year. Then, complete the
questions below.
Which holiday is your favorite?________________________________________
Why? ___________________________________________________________
Did you know March 26 is Make Your Own Holiday Day? You can make this day
a special day for any reason you want. In the space below, name and describe
your holiday. Then, write a paragraph about how you will celebrate it.
Holiday name: ____________________________________________________
Holiday description: ________________________________________________
How will you celebrate this holiday? ___________________________________
Good luck!
Thank you for your work!
Используемые ресурсы
http://www.easterbunnys.net
http://www.indobase.com/holidays/easter/easter-traditions-around-the-world/index.html
http://holidays.kaboose.com/
http://www.allcrafts.net/holidays.htm
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