Игра "Своя игра"

Final

competition

Movie

Sport

Holidays

Lakes

Customs & traditions

Youth subculture

Money

On the 28 th of December, 1895 they made their first three-minute film which was demonstrated to the public.

Golf was first played in

Scotland, but its name

comes from another

place.

It is a legal holiday in the U.S., was first celebrated in early colonial times in New England. The actual origin is probably the harvest festivals that are traditional in many parts of the world.

It contains a rich variety of fish & plants, including 1,300 rare species that do not exist anywhere else in the world.

Traditionally boys from the shops in each town asked for money at Christmas. They went from house to house on December 26 th & took boxes made of wood with them.

It is a member of a group of a young people who developed their own style different from others. They usually have white shirts, short jackets & narrow trousers.

Why 100 ruble’s bill in tsarist Russia was called “ катя ”?

The Lumiere

brothers

The Dutch

Thanksgiving Day

Lake Baikal

Boxing Day

Mod

The bill had a picture

of Catherine II on it.

Intellectual Game.

The English language surrounds us like a sea, and like the waters of a deep sea it is full of mysteries.

Themes of the first round.

• “ Famous people”
• “ Cartoons”
• “ Alice”
• “ All about everything”
• “ A visiting card”

“ Famous people”

100

“ Cartoons”

“ Alice”

200

100

300

100

“ A visiting card”

200

100

“ All about everything”

400

200

300

100

500

200

300

400

400

300

500

200

500

400

300

500

400

500

Who wrote “Winne-the-Pooh”?

What is Humpty Dumpty?

• A toy
• An egg
• An animal
• A bird

“ One side of the mushroom will make you grow taller, & the other side will make you grow shorter”. Who gave this advice to Alice?

Whom did Beladonna look for ?

Who was their Stepsister?

What animal left only his smile after disappearing?

`The Queen of Hearts,

she made some …… ,

All on a summer day:

The Knave of Hearts,

he stole those ……. ,

And took them quite away!'

What did she make?

The most popular hobby of the Queen of Hearts.

You can’t play this game with hedgehog & flamingo , but Alice could.

“ We quarrelled last March .I t was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts ”

Whom did the Hatter quarrel with?

With the time

Alan Alexander Milne

An egg

Caterpillar

Funtik

Snow White

Cockney is...

• A bird
• A dish
• An accent
• A town

In the United States “down town” means…

• Away from the center
• In the center
• In a suburb
• A small town

The official language of Canada is…

• English
• French
• English & French
• English & Spanish

In Britain people’s weight is measured in…

• Tons
• Kilos
• Stones & pounds
• Pints

Who presides over the House of Commons?

The author of

“ Tom Soyer”.

He is famous for his novels about sea.

Russian writer, the most famous translator of English poems & rhythms.

Whose figure is

at the top of the monument in Trafalgar Square.

Whose portrait can you see on British bank notes?

An accent

In the centre

English & French

Stones & pounds

Speaker

Mark Twain

Ernest Hemingway

Samuel Marshak

Elizabeth II

The Statue of Liberty (New York. Liberty Island)

The Bronze Horseman (St. Petersburg. Russia)

Great China Wall (China)

The House of Parliament (London. Great Britain)

Minin and Pojarsky (Red Square. Moscow.)

Admiral Nelson

Themes of the second round

• Phrases of famous people
• Money
• Idioms
• Animals & birds
• The world of Art

Phrases

Money

100

100

200

Animals & birds

200

The world of Art

100

300

Idioms

100

400

200

300

500

400

100

200

300

200

500

300

400

500

400

300

500

400

500

“ Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”

“ All the world’s a stage, & all the men & women merely players”

“ A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

“ Hell is a city much like this – a populous & smoky one”

Percy Bushy Shelly

“ Music is a treasure, where every nationality makes its own contribution, for the public good.”

John F. Kennedy

William Shakespeare

King Richard III

London

P. I. Tchaikovsky

A stitch in time saves nine.

Сделал дело – гуляй смело

To feel like a lemon

Казаться самому себе глупым

If you are faced with a difficult problem, you could say it is a hard ____to crack

Nut - Крепкий орешек

He hasn’t got a penny to his name

У него нет ни гроша

Once bitten, twice shy

Береженного, Бог бережет

If you look at the job advertisement in an English newspaper, you will often find the proposed salary given as £25K, £40K, etc. What does “K” stand for?

Complete the following:

Look after the penny & the ______ will look after themselves.

Everyone is familiar with the pound sing “ £”.

But do you know what Latin word it comes?

In the US, a dollar is sometimes called a …

If your bank account is overdrawn, it is said to be in the ____

£ - Libra, kind of measure in Ancient Rome.

Pound - Копейка рубль бережет.

“ K” means thousand

“ Greenback”

In the red

What is the

national bird of

the UK?

When the Queen appears at streets, everybody tries not to look at her, it’s forbidden, everybody, accept her…

What English game has an animal in its name?

What is the national symbol of Canada?

The world of Australia is very rich. The name of what animal means “no water”?

Robin

Cat

Koala

Leap-frog

Beaver

He lived in the USA, was a film director, master of comedy, was born in 1820. He liked to wear a black hat.

Ch. Chaplin

John Constable

Elvis Presley

You’ve all heard of Agatha Christie & some of you have read some of her works.

Name the longest-running play in London’s West End which was written by her.

The Mousetrap

What literary character has his own museum in London in Baker Street?

Sherlock Holmes