Занятие "Рождество" для старших классов
план-конспект занятия по английскому языку (10 класс)

Раздел 3 (задания по грамматике и лексике)

There’s some mystery surrounding the 20) ___ (ORIGIN) of candy canes because there are no exact records of their invention. One well-regarded story 21) ___ (SUGGEST) that in 1670, a choirmaster in Cologne, Germany, gave out sugar sticks to the 22) ___ (CHILD) as a way to soothe them during the long nativity ceremony.

The choirmaster asked a local candy maker for the sugar sticks to 23) ___ (TURN) into a hook so they resemble the shape of a shepherd’s staff. Shepherds are common symbols in the Christian faith and can 24) ___ (SEE) in the Christian story of the birth of Christ.

The first documented case of candy canes 25) ___ (OCCUR) in 1847 when a German-Swedish immigrant named August Imgard of Wooster, Ohio, decorated a small blue spruce tree with the candy. One thing that 26) ___ (BE) certain is that the red and white stripes on a candy cane are a modern invention. Candy canes 27) ___ (BE) originally solid white, but during the turn of the 20th century stripes started 28) ___ (APPEAR). Prior to the late 19th century, Christmas cards of that period show nothing but plain white candy.

20 – ORIGINS, 21 - SUGGESTS, 22 – CHILDREN, 23 – BE TURNED, 24 – BE SEEN, 25 – OCCURRED, 26 – IS, 27 – WERE, 28 – TO APPEAR