Essential Question

What peculiarities are between Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain?

Age Range: 14 – 16 years

Level: Intermediate

It is challenging: Students want to know about peculiarities of the Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain because they live in the country where they should know three languages, and tea is one of the main traditions of the countries of these languages.

It is open-ended: It is open – ended, because students can find different information about the topic. When students start the same research some years later, they can find some new and different information from today’s information; and they will create completely different end – product.

According to the level of complexity, this question requires students to find, synthesize and analyse different types of information.

According to the level of coherence, this question provides the project activities, which involve students in the research and helps students to understand and know more about Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain.

According to the level of authenticity, it is connected with real life: What peculiarities should we know about Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain? What should we exactly do, how should we behave ourselves, if we take part in Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan or in Great Britain?

Time: 5 lessons (1 lesson – research, 2 lesson – making mind maps “Traditions of the English Tea ceremony” and “Traditions of the Kazakh tea ceremony”, 3 lesson – creating the dictionary “To Tea Lover”, 4 lesson – creating the phrase booklet “To Tea Lover”, 5 lesson – presentation of the project results)

General aims

• To create the mind maps about traditions of Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain;
• To create the dictionary “To Tea Lover”;
• To create the phrase booklet “To Tea Lover”;
• To encourage confidence and increase understanding of the traditions and history of Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain;
• To get acquainted students to the traditions of Tea ceremony in Kazakhstan and Great Britain.

Language aims

• To practice reading and writing skills;
• To practice research skills, analytical skills, and skills of synthesis;
• To expand range of vocabulary;
• To develop speaking skill by oral presentation of the project results and end – product.