внеклассное мероприятие Hallowe’en customs and traditions
учебно-методический материал по английскому языку на тему

 Звучит тихая музыка-фон Halloween ”Tales from the crypt”

Teacher:  Hello everybody! We’ve gathered together to our Halloween party. We  want all of you to enjoy it  and to be merry and jolly. We will not only talk about Hallowe’en customs and traditions but take part in them.

1st pupil: On the 31 st of October we are going to celebrate the most mysterious holiday not only in Britain but in the world- Halloween. Ghosts, witches and evil spirits are especially active at this night. Main colours of the festival are black and orange. Orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

2 nd pupil: Now we know and can tell you that Halloween was first celebrated many centuries ago by Celtic priests called Druids. They believed that Halloween was the night when witches came out. As they were afraid of them they put on different clothes and painted their faces to deceive evil spirits. And now our dress-up parade!

Под музыку Майкла Джексона “ Thriller” выходят  дети, одетые в костюмы и  демонстрируют их.

 And what about our pets’ costumes? They are very popular now.Let’s watch some of them.( демонстрация видеоролика)

3d pupil: Halloween is also known by several names: ALL HALLOWS EVE –in Ireland. In old English the word “Hallow” meant “sanctify”;SAMHAIN- by the name of druidic fire festival celebrated by the Celts in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. And also  ALL HALLOWTIDE, THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, THE DAY OF THE DEAD. Hallowe’en was even sometimes called Nut crack Night or Snap Apple Night in England. Families liked to sit by their fireplaces telling stories and eating apples and nuts.

4th  pupil: The main Halloween activity for children is trick –or-treating. Children dressed in costumes and mascs go from door to door saying “trick or treat”. Their neighbours give children such treats as candy, fruit and pennies so that children do not play tricks on them. By the way, do you know that 93 % of children go trick-or-treating each year?

Звучит песня в записи “Give me something good to eat”, дети движутся по комнате, подходят к гостям, получают угощение и садятся на места :

Trick or treat, trick or treat,

Give us something good to eat

Give us candy, give us cake,

Give us something sweet to take.

Give us cookies, fruit and gum,

Hurry up and give us some.

You had better do it quick

Or we’ll surely play a trick

Trick or treat, trick or treat,

Give us something good to eat.

5th pupil: But what is the most known symbol of Halloween? Of course it’s a pumpking! It is called Jack-o-lantern after the man called Jack. He could not enter heaven because he was a  miser and he could not enter hell because he had played jokes on devil. As a result, Jack has to walk on the Earth with his lantern until Judgment Day.

Свет выключают, в темноте горят свечи, фонари, по залу плывёт фигура в белом с большим фонарём-тыквой. Звучит музыка Panic at the Disco “ This is Halloween”. Дети поют и танцуют вокруг Джека:

Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town, everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under yours stairs

Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

6th pupil: Another  Halloween  tradition  is playing games. The most popular game is Apple Bobbing.This game is called “Ducking for apples” in Scotland  and  “ Snap apple” in Ireland. The game is played by filling a tub with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players try to catch one with their teeth. Players are not allowed to use their hands.

But the variation of the game is the game  with apples hung on string on a line. And now let’s play Apple  Bobbing.

Натягивается верёвка с закреплёнными на ней яблоками. Тот, кто первым сможет захватить яблоко зубами, становится победителем и получает приз. ( Звучит весёлая ритмичная музыка)

7th pupil:  Another game is Passing the apples. It can also be played with oranges. The children are lined up in two rows, the same number of children in each line. They have to pass the apple to the person behind them only using their chin, without hands or dropping the apple. If the apple drops a team must start from the beginning again.

Дети быстро выстраиваются в два ряда с равным количеством участников и под весёлую музыку передают друг другу яблоки.

8th pupil: And the last Halloween  tradition we want to tell you today is cooking special food. There are several kinds  of traditional Halloween food:

• Barmbrack- is the center of an Irish Halloween custom. It traditionally contained various objects baked into the bread and was used  as a sort of fortune telling game. In the barmbrack were: a pea-meant the person wouldn’t merry that year, a stick- meant the person  would have an unhappy marriage, apiece of cloth-meant the person would be poor or had bad luck, a small coin- meant the person would be rich and a ring meant the  person  would be wed within the year.

9 th pupil: Caramel apples- in recent years, they became increasingly popular. Sometimes apples are also decorated with nuts.

• Candy apples- the alternative name is Toffee apples-were invented by William W. Kolb, a candy-maker in 1908.
• Caramel corn- the combination of caramel and corn dates back at least as far as the 1980s.
• Among the Halloween traditional food we can name candy pumpkin and candy corn, bonfire  toffee and colcannon ( the mixture of mashed potatoes with cabbage).

10 th pupil: And now let’s talk about superstitions. People have always believed in goo luck and in bed luck. Most people in the world have some superstitions. Now look at the blackboard. You can see several pictures describing whether good or bad luck. Please sort them out and tell me what is good luck and what is bad luck.

На доске картинки: чёрный кот, осенние падающие листья, две сороки, зонт в помещении, разбитое зеркало, человек на лестнице, календарный лист-пятница 13-го, лестница.

( Good  luck:                                        Bad luck:

1. Black cats are lucky                                1. Never open umbrella in the house
2. Catch falling leaves in autumn                 2. Never break a mirror- that means 7 years of bad luck.

and you will have good luck.                        3. Don’t go past somebody on the stairs.

3. If you see two magpies, you’ll                 4. The number 13 is very unlucky and Friday, the 13th is

be happy.                                                very unlucky date.

5. Don’t walk under ladder

Teacher: Today  we  told you about  Halloween traditions and showed some of them. We hope you enjoyed our party. Thank you for participating.