Ход занятия.

1. Оргмомент. Приветствие ведущего.

Quiz-master: Good afternoon, children and our guests! I’m very glad to see you here. Now we will organize a competition called “Intellectual Café”. Two teams will take part in a game of the most quick-witted and the cleverest.

Now we have cards for you, choose one card. Let’s divide into teams. Children who have coffee cups will be one team, and those who have cakes will be another team.

 Now choose the captain of your team.  Give your team a name and find a motto.  It’s time to introduce yourselves.

Who is the captain of the 1st team? The name of your team? Your motto?

What about the second team?

Quiz-master: Today all of you have a good chance to improve your English during the game. We have invited guests today. Our guests are…Let’s applaud them.

Now I’m going to teach you how to play this game. The game has  7 contests, they are:

1. A magic 5.
2. Proverbs and sayings.
3. Captain contest “Hidden sentences”
4. Blits
5. Tongue-twister 
6. Question-salad. 
7. Dessert
8. Tea time

Well, I wish you success. Be active, honest and helpful! Let the cleverest win today.

1. Основной этап.

I. Quiz-master: And now we come to the 1st  contest which is called “A magic 5”. Members of a team go and pick a piece of paper and there is a task for you. You should name 5 words on a topic.  Also there are two lucky cards that will just give you points without any task.  Team can help a participant.

1. Name 5 hobbies.
2. Name 5 items of furniture.
3. Name 5 kinds of shops.
4. Name 5 school subjects.
5. You’re lucky! You won a prize!
6. Name 5 means of transport.
7. Name 5 sports.
8. Name 5 TV programmes.
9. Name 5 board games
10. Name 5 celebrations.
11. Name 5 English-speaking countries.
12. You’re lucky! You won a prize!

II. Proverbs and Sayings. Your task is to match an English proverb and its translation, but moreover think of a Russian equivalent.

1.  An apple a day keeps the doctor away

2.  A friend in need is a friend indeed              

3. Live and learn
4. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
5. A man is known by the company he keeps

1. Живи и учись
2. Друг в нужде – настоящий друг
3. Птица в руках стоит двух птиц в кустах
4. Человека можно узнать по его компании.
5. Яблоко в день и доктор не нужен.

1. Like father, like son
2. Better a small fish than an empty dish
3. Business before pleasure
4. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
5. East or West, home is best

1. Каков отец, таков и сын
2. Лучше маленькая рыбка, чем пустая тарелка
3. Сначала бизнес, потом    отдых                             
4. Кто рано встает и рано ложится, будет здоров, богат и мудр.
5. Запад или Восток, а дом лучше

III. The 3rd contest is called “Hidden sentences”. This round is for the captains. Find, please, sentences hiding in the following chain!

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. 

IV. Tongue-twister. The following task is for the rest of you. I need 1 pupil from each team. You should read the tongue-twister as quickly as you can 3 times. And as we have an intellectual café, tongue-twisters will be about coffee.

For one team: A cup of nice coffee is in nice coffee-cup.

For the second team: Give me a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup

And now it’s time to check your captains’ answers.

V. Quiz-master: The next contest is called “Blitz”. Here we have some riddles for you.  It’s very important to answer fast and correct. Our topic will be food, that’s what is served in a café. (live button)

Clean, but not water, White, but not snow, Sweet, but not ice – cream (sugar)

It is round, with sausage, tomato and cheese on top. (pizza)

Green and round, rabbits like it. (cabbage)

It’s white outside, and yellow inside. (egg)

You smile when you name it.

The mouse likes it very much (cheese)

It is a red vegetable with long tail. (carrot)

What table can we eat?(Vegetable)

Which fast do you do every day?(Breakfast)

What room is never entered? (A Mushroom)

VI. Question-salad. The next contest is called “Question-salad”. Here we have some questions for you.  You will have 30 sec to discuss the answers.

 1. What is the name of the present British Queen?

        a)   Elizabeth I.  b)   Mary.  c)  Elizabeth II.

2.  What is the “Union Jack”?

        a)  The national flag of the UK)  celebration  c)  Monument.

3. What is Humpty Dumpty?

a) an egg b) an animal c) a bird

4. What holiday can you wear strange costumes at?

a) Guy Fawkes Day   b) Halloween   c) St Valentine’s Day

5. What can you buy in the dairy?

           a) bread    b) tomato    c) milk    d) sugar

6. What celebration is famous for its fireworks in the UK?

a) Guy Fawkes Day   b) Thanksgiving Day   c) St Valentine’s Day

7. What games take place all over Scotland?

a) forest  b) highland  c) mountain

8. What are Cluedo, Scrabble and Backgammon? (boardgames)

VII. And for dessert we have word-mixture. Make the words from this letters. They are about different kinds of shops.  

            a) ntwneages’-newsagent’s

            b) wlerjeles’- jeweller’s

                 c) gecrnerorge - greengrocer

                 d) dcerro psho – record shop

                 e) tucrhbe - butcher

                 f) kerab - baker

Заключительный этап. Подведение итогов игры.

I’d like to say that all of you have done great job today! Well done, dear students. But now it’s time to count your points. And the winner is team…congratulations! We have a sweet prize for you, as we are in a café today, we’ll have some juice with sweets.

(Победителям игры ставятся в журнал отличные оценки).