"Різдво у Великобританії та Україні"
Тема: Різдво у Великобританії та Україні.
Objectives:
• to develop
communicative skills using the active vocabulary;
• improve students’
skills for reading, listening and comprehension;
• to foster students’
spoken skills.
Warm up
Oh Christmas Tree !
Oh Christmas Tree! Oh
Christmas Tree!
How lovely are your
branches.
Oh Christmas Tree! Oh
Christmas Tree!
How lovely are your
branches.
Lovely and green they
always grow,
Through summer sun and
winter snow.
Oh Christmas Tree! Oh
Christmas Tree!
How lovely are your
branches.
Game “Christmas Tree”.
Students write as many
words (connected with Christmas and New Y ear) as
they can to decorate a
Christmas Tree.
Introducing the topic
I. Vocabulary
1. Translate the following words:
Різдво, Різдвяні канікули, Merry Christmas, зимня панчоха, вітати, to
celebrate, веселий, бажати, Christmas carol, New Y ear cards, carol singers.
A student makes a step and pronounces a word
connected with Christmas and
New Year. The more the words - the better for
the student.
1) __ (They) are set up in houses, in the
streets and churches and decorated with
fairy lights, angels and small toys. In addition
little packets of nuts, candies
and special biscuits are hung there. (Christmas Tree)
2) __ (It) is hung over doors, so the young
people have a chance to kiss the girls
under it, plucking each time a red berry from __
(it). It is said that the girl who
was not kissed under __ (it) at Christmas would
not get married that year.
(Mistletoe - an evergreen plant
with white berries)
presents into them: oranges, sweets, nuts, and
if the child didn’t behave properly
Santa Claus put there a piece of coal as
punishment. (Stockings)
4) __ (He) got his name from a man known as St.
Nicholas who lived in Asia in
the fourth century. He gave his wealth to the
poor and often to children. (Santa
Claus)
service. __ may be traditional or by known
composers, they can express different
feelings. __ appeared in Christmas history about
the fifteenth century.
(Carol singing)
6) A typical Christmas lunch includes turkey with
cranberry sauce and __ . Every
young woman in each household to stir the
Christmas __ if she wishes to be
married that year. (Pudding)
II. Reading
Christmas
Christmas is the main
public holiday in Great Britain, a Christian festival to
remember the birth of
Jesus Christ.
In churches people
sing Christmas songs, Christmas carols. Sometimes groups
of people walk about
the streets and sing carols at the doors of the houses. One of
the well-known carols
is “Silent Night”.
Young children are
told that Santa Claus will bring them presents if they are
good. Before going to
bed on Christmas Eve the children hang stockings at the
back of their beds,
for Santa Claus to put presents in when he comes in the middle
of the night through
the chimney.
On Christmas Eve (the
24th of December) some people go to a special church
service called
Midnight Mass which starts at 12 o’clock at night.
Christmas is the day
when people stay at home, open their presents and eat
together. The most
important meal is Christmas dinner: turkey with potatoes and
other vegetables,
followed by a Christmas pudding. Other traditional foods include
a special Christmas
cake and mince pies - small round cakes filled with
a mixture of apples,
raisins and spices.
The day after
Christmas, the 26th of December, is also a public holiday. It’s
called Boxing Day. The
name goes back to the old tradition: some time before
Christmas, boxes were
placed in churches for the people to put some money or
presents for the poor.
On the day after Christmas, the 26th of December, the priest
opened the box and
gave the contents away to poor people.
1) Christmas is the
main holiday of the year, isn’t it?
2) What are Christmas carols? Where do people
sing them?
3) Why do children hang their stockings on the
back of their beds on the night
before Christmas?
4) What does a typical Christmas dinner consist
of?
III. Work in pairs
1. Fill in the last words of the lines.
Door, bed, cheer, more, here, red.
Let’s sing of Christmas tide, time of good
(cheer).
Soon Father Christmas’s sleigh will be (here).
Listen! Old Santa is opening the (door).
Bringing rare gifts for the children once
(more).
Gingerbread, oranges, apples so (red).
Fill children’s stockings that hang by the
(bed).
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Christmas in Ukraine
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1) Christmas in
Great Britain is celebrated
on…
2) The English
gift-giver is called Father
Christmas.
3) He wears….
4) Father Christmas
delivers presents during
the night before
Christmas.
5) In England
traditional Christmas dinner
is…
6) Children in
England sing Christmas…
7) On Christmas Eve
some people go to
a special church
service called…
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1) Christmas in
Ukraine is celebrated
on…
2) The Ukrainian
gift-giver is called…
3) He wears a long
red robe.
4) Father Frost…
5) In Ukraine
traditional Christmas dinner
is…
6) Children in
Ukraine sing Kolyadky
and…
7) On Christmas Eve
some people…
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Jingle Bells
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Dashing thro’ the snow,
In a one-horse open sleigh,
O’er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring,
Making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight. Oh!
(Repeat the first verse)
VI. Listening
1. Listen to the text, then read the text, find 6 mistakes in it and
correct them.
Not all English people celebrate the New Year. Those who do, celebrate it
on
the 31st of December in one way or another.
Some have a New Y ear
party. A lot of people go to Trafalgar Square to see the
Christmas tree.
Another way of celebrating the New Y ear is to go to a New Y ear’s
dance. Some people
stay at home and watch the celebration of the New Y ear on
television.
There is another
interesting New Y ear tradition in the North of England and
Scotland (America) It
is an old custom of First-Footing. In Great Britain the first
visitor who comes into
a house on New Y ear’s morning (evening) is called the First
Foot. This visitor is
very, very important. The English people believe that the First
Foot brings luck to
the family for the following twelve months.
The First Foot comes
very early (late) and the sooner he comes, the better. He
brings some symbolic
presents of good - usually a piece of bread (2 pieces of
bread), a piece of
coal, a coin. That means that the family will have good luck, will
be happy and rich in
the coming year.
The First Foot also
brings an evergreen branch as a promise of continuing life.
To be a true
luck-bringer, the First Foot, must be healthy, young and good-looking.
He must have black
hair or fair hair, but not red hair (he must have red hair).
In England the First
Foot must be a man or a boy, not a woman (woman).
1) Do all English people celebrate the New Y
ear?
2) When do they celebrate the New Y ear?
3) How do they celebrate it?
4) What interesting New Y ear tradition is there
in the North of England and
Scotland?
5) Do you know any other traditions and customs
of other countries and people?
What are they?
VII. Speaking
The students are divided into two groups and they compare celebration of
Christmas and New Y ear in GB (I gr.) and in Ukraine (II gr.)
VIII. Homework
Make up a Christmas crossword.
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