Открытый урок "Пасха в Британии"
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (9 класс) по теме

Тема: Пасха в Великобритании

Цели:

Познавательная:

- познакомить учащихся с празднованием Пасхи в Великобритании

- практиковать учащихся в диалогической и монологической речи

- совершенствовать навыки выразительного рассказывания стихотворений

- тренировать составлять предложения с заданными словами

Развивающая:

- развивать у учащихся способности к догадке, воображению, самостоятельности

Воспитательная:

- воспитывать у учащихся уважение к национальным традициям, праздникам

- поддерживать интерес к изучению иностранного языка

Оснащение: цветы, шары, выставка открыток «С днем Пасхи», раскрашенные яйца, карточки, стенгазеты

Ход урока:

- Good morning, boys and girls! I am glad to see you! Today we shall find out how people celebrate the Easter in Britain. Do you know what Easter is?

- It is a religious holiday, which is celebrated from the 22nd of March to May. It comes to an end of the Christian Holy Week. There are 3 favourite symbols of Easter: Easter Cross, Easter Egg and Easter Bunny. The Cross represents Christ's victory over death. The Egg is a simbol of life. The Easter Bunny is really a hare. The hare was a favourite animal of Easter, the spring goddness, so Bunny represents love and growth.

The dialogue

1. How are you?
2. Fine, thanks.
3. What is the season now?
4. It’s spring.
5. What day is it today?
6. The 22nd of March.
7. Do you know what holiday is it today?
8. It is Easter today.
9. Do you know anything about this holiday? Let’s listen.

A story about Easter

        In Britain, as well as in many other countries, Easter is an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is observed on the first Sunday after the fool moon that occurs on or next after March 21, the day of the spring equinox2. In some countries Easter is a celebration of the arrival of spring and warmth. The idea of the new birth is marked by giving each other eggs — the symbol of new life. In the long past some people believed that the Earth was hatched from a gigantic egg. Eggs have been exchanged for centuries. Ancient Egyptians dyed eggs and gave them to friends as gifts. In England friends wrote messages on coloured eggs. The practice of colouring and exchanging eggs has been carried on in many parts of the world today. Some of the most elaborately decorated eggs are kept in museums.

        Nowadays people give each other chocolate or even artificial eggs but they did not displace the true Easter eggs, which always grace breakfast tables and are opened and eaten on Easter Sunday. Sometimes they are hidden about the house for the children to have fun in finding them.

        There are some Easter games like egg-rolling and egg-shacking which are very popular among children and youngsters.

Egg-rolling flourishes in northern England, Scotland, Ulster, the Isle of Man and Switzerland. Coloured hard-boiled eggs are rolled down a slope by the owners. In some districts it is a competitive game. The winner is the player whose egg remains longest undamaged, but more usually the fun consists simply of the rolling and eating. Formerly in the Hebrides egg-rolling was the opportunity to foretell the future. Each player marked his or her egg with some identifying sign and then watched it speed down the slope. If it reached the bottom unbroken, the owner could expect good luck in the future. But if it was broken, misfortune would follow before the year is out. In Argyllshire it was customary for young men and young women to roll eggs in different places. The man or girl whose egg went farthest and most smoothly would be the first person to marry in that group.

        And now children let’s play Easter games.

1. Easter Egg Race. (2 representatives)

Mark “Start” and “Finish” line with a piece of chalk. Give an egg to each player. Tell each player to roll the egg only with his or her nose. Well, go! The player who pushes his or her egg across the finish line first wins the race.

        To celebrate the arrival of the holiday and spring Easter parades often take place on Easter Sunday afternoon, where people can wear new clothes as a sign of the changing seasons, and competitions are held to find the best Easter bonnet. Traditionally every year London greets the spring with Easter Parade in Battersea Park which begins at 3 p. m. A similar parade is held in Atlantic City, New Jersly, USA.

        Easter Monday is a national holiday in many countries, when games and sports are played. In Sydney, Australia, the Royal Easter Show is held — an enormous agricultural show with displays of flowers, fruit and vegetables, cattle, sheep and art and craft. This is followed by a huge fun-fair and fireworks I display in the evening.

10. Why did you put on this hat?
11. I am going to the Easter parade.

Конкурс шляпок.

        Let’s listen to the stories about the history of the holiday.

        The word "Easter" comes from "Eastre", or "Eostre", the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn whose spring festival was celebrated in April. Before the arrival of Christianity the people believed that the sun died in winter and was born again in spring. On the day of spring equinox they would sing and dance when the sun rose in the sky.

        Many countries took their name for Easter from the Jewish festival of Passover. In France Easter is called Paques, in Italy Pasqua, in Sweden Pask, in Spain Pascua, in Denmark Paaske, in. Wales Pasg, in Russia Paskha. The Jewish Passover celebrates the escape from slavery from the Egyptians and release from the grips of winter. The first Easter took place during the Passover feast, which is always celebrated at full moon, so to keep Easter Day on a Sunday it was decided that Easter should always be celebrated on the Sunday following the full moon after the spring equinox (March 21).

        Many countries and cultures hold spring festivals around Easter time. The Hindu festival of Holi lasts for 3—5 days during which there are processions, singing, dancing in the streets and spraying one another with coloured water or powder in remembrance of the games played by Lord Krishna and the cowherds and milkmaids. In some parts of Africa young women dressed in white go from house to house at dawn singing Easter hymns to wake people on Easter morning. In the United States some people stay awake all night waiting for the sun to rise. Long ago the Chinese held the Lantern Festival (Teng Chien) to celebrate the new birth of the world. Brightly coloured lanterns were hung everywhere to symbolise increasing light and warmth after the winter of cold and darkness, the lanterns were carried in processions and fireworks were set off.         Nowadays some Chinese still celebrate the spring festival.

12. Do you know what events Easter is preceeded by? Let’s listen to the students.

Lent

        Easter is preceeded by Lent which lasts for 40 days and nights as a reminder of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. Many people fast all 40 days or less time, many give up something they like as a sacrifice to remind them not to be selfish and perhaps to give the money which has been saved to help others.

Shrove Tuesday,

 the day before Lent begins, is celebrated in many countries with carnivals, feasts, parties and masquerades. In France the day is known as Mardi gras, or Fat Tuesday in Russia it is Maslennitsa — because people would eat pancakes with a lot of butter and fat. In Britain it is known as Pancake Day. Pancakes are made, and races and competitions with them are held.

Palm Sunday

 is called so because Jesus is said to have ridden into Jerusalem on a donkey just before his death welcomed by the people waving palm branches. Churches are decorated with palm branches on this day. In Britain people used to go "palming" two or three days before Palm Sunday, to collect yew2, hazel3 or willow branches, since palm trees do not grow in northern countries.

On Maundy Thursday

 the day when Jesus was said to have washed the feet of his disciples, a tradition developed in Britain, Austria, Russia, France and Spain for rich or noble people to give money or food to the poor. In Britain Queen Victoria began the custom of giving specially minted money in white leather bags with more money in small red bags instead of food. Queen Elizabeth continues this tradition, giving money coins in a white purse (one coin for each year of her reign) and some extra money in red purse. The money is given to old people — one man and one woman for each year of the Queen's age.

        In the Middle East, Armenian and Syrian Christians still hold foot-washing ceremonies where priests wash the feet of beggars and offer them gifts.

The word "Maundy" comes from the Latin word "man-datum" which means "command". And it was on Thursday that Jesus gave his disciples a new command — "to love one another".

Good Friday

 is the day on which Jesus died. In Eastern churches it is known as Great Friday, and in Germany — Silent Friday as no hells ring. The next day is a day of preparation for Easter in many parts of the world.

On the eve of Easter Sunday many church services are held to celebrate Jesus's ressurrection. Some are held after sunset, some at midnight and some take place on Easter morning.

13. Have you prepared presents for the holiday?
14. Not yet. And what about you?
15. What present is the best?
16. The best present is a postcard.

        Ученики показывают свои открытки к дню Пасхи и читают стихотворения.

17. And now look at this fortune tree. We wrote the fortunes on a piece of paper and put them with the sweets on the tree. There are the wishes in the sweets. Let’s read them. (учащиеся берут конфеты, разворачивают и читаю пожелания).

18. At Easter the children organize festivals and they enjoy singing songs. Let’s sing that song:

Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,

One a penny, two a penny

Hot cross buns.

If you have no daughters,

Give them to your sons.

One a penny, two a penny,

Hot cross buns.

19. Now the lesson comes to the end. Good bye.