План урока на тему "Easter in Great Britain" 5-6 класс

• Hello, children. Good morning our guests.

I’m happy to see you here. Today we’ll have an unusual lesson with you - we’ll speak about the most important religious holiday in GB. I hope it will be interesting for all of us. Shall we start now?

How do you like the weather today?

The air is fresh , the sky is blue, it’s sunny.

Listen to music ( звучит музыка П.И. Чайковского -Времена года. Весна.)

What season is it about ?

Yes, of course , its about spring.

Spring is in the air! People call it the season of hope and happiness. And we all like it because in spring we celebrate some very important holidays.

Look at the photo, please.

Do you know what holiday is it?

Yes, it`s the most important religious holiday for Christians –Easter.

Lesson words and phrases:

• Easter eggs

• a basket 

• a chick

• Easter

• to decorate Easter eggs 

• Easter Egg

• hot cross buns

• an Easter bunny

• Easter flowers

• egg rolling

What do you know about Easter in Great Britain?

1.Easter is a religious holiday in March or April; a festival of spring and new life.

2.Easter starts on the Friday before Easter Sunday. The British call it Good Friday.

3.On this day they eat hot cross buns and give children chocolate eggs and chocolate rabbits. Eggs and rabbits are some of the Easter symbols.

4.In the morning on Easter Sunday people go to the church. After that, they have dinner with their families.

5.Children like Easter very much because it is a tasty holiday. All families colour eggs and put them into green, yellow and pink baskets. Next morning little children are busy with hunting eggs.

6.A very popular Easter tradition is to have an “Easter egg hunt”. Parents hide the Easter eggs and their children have to look for them.

Let's watch the video Easter in GB.

Now we have a text. Listen and read.

Match the pictures and words.

Easter eggs, a basket, a chick, Easter, to decorate Easter eggs, Easter Egg Hunt, a nest, a church, hot cross buns, an Easter bunny, Easter flowers.

Task 1: match the halves to make sentences.

Key: 1) d 2) a 3) e 4) b 5) c

Task 2: do the crossword.

Task 3: find 9 words in the wordsearch.

Task 4: complete the text with the questions.

• What do people do?

• When is Easter?

• What is Easter?

• How do people prepare for the holiday?

A. __________
Easter is a spring festival when people celebrate the return of nature and greenery after the cold, snowy winter. It is also the most important time in the Christian calendar. Christians celebrate the day when Jesus came back from death. Both the Christian and pagan versions of Easter celebrate life and rebirth.

B. __________
The date of Easter varies each year as it is based on the lunar calendar and the position of the moon. Easter is celebrated on the Sunday after the full moon following March 21st. This can be any Sunday between March 22nd and April 25th.This year Easter Day is on Sunday, the 1st of April.

C. __________
Preparation for Easter starts a few weeks before Easter weekend. People buy hot cross buns and Easter presents, for example Easter bunnies and eggs. They send postcards to their family and friends.

D. __________
People go to the church in the morning on Easter Sunday. Many children boil eggs and paint them with bright colours. Some people boil eggs together with some flowers, so that the eggshell gets pattern from the plants. People often put eggs and bunnies into Easter baskets and decorate the house. Some people visit relatives and friends and exchange eggs. All over the world children have an Easter egg hunt. Adults hide eggs and the children hunts and collects them. The one with the most eggs is the winner. Another interesting game is egg rolling. Hard-boiled eggs are rolled down a hill. The winner’s egg may be the one that rolls the farthest survives the most rolls.

Key: A. What is easter? B. When is Easter? C. How do people prepare for the holiday? D. What do people do?

Discuss the questions with your partner. Talk about Easter in your country.

1. Do you celebrate Easter? If yes, what do you do? What’s your favourite part of the Easter holiday?

We celebrate Easter. My mother usually bakes куличи and cakes. My favourite part of Easter holiday is beating eggs.

1. At Easter do people paint eggs in your country? What about your family? When do you do it?

Eggs are a big part of Easter celebrations! Many people paint chicken eggs and decorate them with bright colours, and a lot of children receive chocolate eggs as presents . In my family we do it on Saturday evening.

1. What do people do on Sunday? Do people go to church?

Sunday is the day of Easter. People visit each other on this day and go to church.

1. Do children have an Easter egg hunt or egg rolling?

No, in Russia children don`t have egg hunt or egg rolling, but they play a game - t They beat with eggs and who's egg didn 't break - won.

Let`s sing a song

Well my dear friends, our lesson is over. I give you fives. But before you leave I want you to estimate our lesson and your work today. If you liked the lesson, and everything was clear and interesting for you, and you were very active and positive today hang on this red egg the red. If you didn’t like the lesson, and there was something unclear, uninteresting for you hang on this yellow egg the yellow.

Happy Easter to you all!