Урок-соревнование "Новогодний фейерверк"

УРОК-СОРЕВНОВАНИЕ «НОВОГОДНИЙ ФЕЙЕРВЕРК»

(тема «Праздники»)

Цели:

1. Обобщение изученного материала по теме «Новый год в разных странах».

2. Активизация лексических навыков.

3. Тренировка навыков чтения и аудирования.

Ход урока.

1. Организационный момент.

Good morning, boys and girls! I am glad to see you. How are you, children? Today we will find out how people celebrate New Year in different countries. I want you to divide into three teams and then we will start our work. And two pupils or judges will help me to check up your answers. Let’s start our competition with the song “Jingle, Bells”.

1. Конкурс 1.

Read the short texts how people celebrate New Year in different countries and choose the correct variant.

1. In this city a lot of people gather in Times Square and watch the “Big Apple” fall. The “Big Fall” isn’t a real apple. It’s a moving picture of an apple on the side of one of the big buildings in Times Square. Every New Year’s eve during the last few seconds before midnight it starts to “fall” down the building, and when it gets to the bottom it’s the start of a New Year. (Madrid, New York, Moscow.)

2. In this country housewives start cooking special food for New Year’s day and all the members of the family do a big cleaning up. The idea is to get rid of the dirt of the past year, and welcome the new year without it. On the television or radio you can hear 108 bells. The 108^th bell rings just a second before the midnight. People eat the special food and drink rice wine during the meal. (Japan ,Italy, Canada.)

3. People call the New Year’s Eve “Hogmanay”. They visit their friends’ houses just after midnight on the New Year’s night. The first person who comes to your house brings you luck. At midnight when the clock begins to strike 12, the head of the family goes to the entrance door, opens it wide and holds it until the last stroke. Then he shuts the door. He has let the old year out and let the New Year in. (The USA, Scotland, India.)

4. This country is sometimes called “the upside down world”. It lies in the Southern Hemisphere. During the Christmas holidays people often sunbathe on the beach or swim and surf in the ocean. On the 31^st of December many people go to the country for the picnic. In January the temperatures are from 20 to 30 C above zero or higher. (Egypt, Ireland, Australia.)

5. In this country it can be dangerous to have a walk at night at the end of December. People usually throw the old things from the house through the window: broken cups and plates, old clothes and boots and sometimes different pieces of furniture. People believe that on the New Year’s Eve the magician Befaniya comes to the houses through the chimney and put the presents for children in their stockings or shoes. (France, Italy, Germany.)

1. Конкурс 2.

Make up the new words using the letters of the word “CONGRATULATIONS”. You will have 3 minutes.

1. Конкурс 3.

Now you will listen to the song and write down the missing words on the cards. You will listen to the song twice. Be careful, please.

I wish I were … (a Snowman),

So tall and … (big) and white.

I’d never have to clean my … (teeth),

Or go to bed at … (night).

But … (maybe) Mister Snowman

Is wishing he were me,

For I’ll be here when … (summer) comes,

But where will the Snowman … (be)?

1. Конкурс 4.

It’s time for the last task now. I want you to put the words in a logical order and read the poem.

Poem:

Every little girl would like to be

The fairy on the Christmas tree.

Up above the party, dressed in white,

Shining in the candle light.

Every little boy has lots of fun

With his trumpet and his gun.

Every little girl, you understand,

Is really the queen of the fairy land.

There is little secret she must keep,

That she can fly when she’s asleep.

1. Подведение итогов.

That’ll do for today. You were active today. Now we will decide who is the winner of our competition today. Our congratulations! Good-bye!