Holidays in England. 5th form. Open lesson
Date: 18.04.2016
Grade: the 5th
Teacher: Zhiyengaliyeva G.A.
Theme: Holidays in England
Aims of the lesson: a) to give more information about celebrations and holidays in the United Kingdom
b) to do some tasks: read and translate, work with vocabulary, solve the crossword, do grammar exercises, work with pictures c) try to teach children how to work in groups.
Language material: New words, revision and consolidation of the words.
Teaching Aids: Texts and exercises from the text-book, worksheets.
Visual aids: an interactive board, traffic lights, emoticons, cards, pictures.
Plan of the lesson:
Organization moment
Checking up the hometask
Presentation of the new material
Warm-up
Working with exercises
Revision of the materials covered
Marking.
Explanation of the hometask
The end of the lesson
Time Stages Teacher’s words
2 min 1.Organization moment Good afternoon, children! Nice to meet you today! Who is on duty today? Who is absent today? Tell me, please, what date is it today? What can you say about the weather? Is it cold or warm today? Ok. I am glad to see you, let’s begin today’s our open lesson.
3 min II. Checking up the hometask
What was your hometask. Let`s check it together. Open your copybooks. I want to look at your copybooks to be sure that you are ready to begin our lesson.
5 min III. Presentation of the new material Dear teachers and guests welcome our open lesson. First I want to divide you into two groups. Come here and choose one these cards, which are in the box. Today we will learn public celebrations and holidays in the United Kingdom and do some interesting tasks.
Also you have got traffic lights. If you understood what I said you can raise green colour, if you cannot understand me, you will raise yellow colour and if you don`t understand you are able to raise red colour.
Ok, pupils let’s take our new words. Look at the interactive whiteboard. At first I read then you repeat after to me
Decorate [ ˈdekəreɪt ] сәндеу, безендіру
Chimney [ ˈtʃɪm.ni ] мұржа
Celebrate [ ˈselɪbreɪt ] тойлау
Neighbour [ ˈneɪbə ] көрші
Costume [ ˈkәs.tjuːm ] костюм, киім
Guest [ ɡest ] қонақ
Knock [nɔk] қағу, тарсылдату
Trick [trik] айла, тәсіл
Threat [ θret ] қауіп
Roast [ rəʊst ] қуырылған
Turkey [ ˈtəː.ki ] күркетауық
Pie [pai] бәліш
Sock [sɔk] шұлық
Stocking [ ˈstɔk.ɪŋ ] шұлық
National [ ˈnæʃnəl ] ұлттық, халықтық
Traditional [ trəˈdɪʃnәl ] дәстүрлі
Before getting new theme you have to do one task. Take the papers with text, which are in front of you. There you can see 4-5 texts without topics. So, look at the blackboard now and try to give the right topic to each text.
6 min
5 min
3 min
3 min
4 min IV. Working with exercises.
Read the text of the celebrations.
Let`s do some tasks concerning with the holidays. Look at the blackboard and pay attention to each task.
Warm-up
Work with new words.
Work with post – cards.
Look at the presentation. Give the answer to the question: What holidays in Great Britain do you know?
Many festivals and holidays in Britain are very old. Every town, village in Britain has its own traditions, some of them are carefully planned.
Christmas Day. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th December. Christmas Day is the favourite day for children. They wake up very early in the morning to find their stockings have been filled by Father Christmas.
New Year's Day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year, in the Gregorian calendar. All over Britain there are parties, fireworks, singing and dancing, to ring out the old year and ring in the new.
Valentine's Day. People with romantic feelings for a particular person may send that person cards, gifts and text messages on Valentine's Day. Popular gifts include chocolates and flowers.
April Fools Day. 1April A day of jokes and tricks. You have to play the joke before 12 o’clock midday, otherwise the joke is on you.
Easter Sunday (Easter Day). Easter usually comes in the month of April. Many people use the day to decorate Easter eggs, share chocolate eggs and participate in Easter egg competitions. Easter is the time for holidays, festivals.
Halloween. From the 19th Century to the present day, 31st October has increasingly acquired a reputation as a night on which ghost, witches, and fairies, are especially active. Halloween celebrations include costume parties where people dress as witches, ghosts, and animal figures associated with Halloween.
Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day is on 11 November. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts.
Children wake up very early in the morning to find their_________have been filled by Father Christmas.
At what time of the year is Halloween celebrated?
It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the Wars.
Let`s have a rest. Everybody, please, stand up. Do the same things, which pupils do in this video.
The task is for two groups. The 1st group pupils will write the words of the special food and the 2nd group will write special activities. 1 Special food, 2 Special activitiesRoast turkey, guess, pumpkin pie, see in, wear, dance, pudding, sing, celebrate, cake, buy.
The task for satisfied pupil:
Work with post – cards. Make sentences putting the words in right order.
Christmas tree, day, is, the, there, in, Christmas.
Many, are, flowers, cards, there, St. Valentine`s day, gifts, in.
Day, there, a lot of, Easter, eggs, in, are.
Ghosts, in, and, witches, there, Halloween, are.
There is the Christmas tree in Christmas day.
There are many gifts, cards, flowers in St.Valentine`s day.
There are a lot of eggs in Easter day.
There are witches and ghosts in Halloween.
6 min
3 min
Solve the crossword:
To do the test
- You must find celebration’s name.
a) People in many countries decorate Christmas trees and give each other presents. Children leave a long sock or stocking at the end of the bed on December 24. They hope that Santa Claus will come down the chimney during the night and bring them presents. The special food is a big turkey and Christmas pudding (Christmas)b) It’s a holiday for children in Britain. Children dressed in costumes knock on their neighbors doors and ask if he/she would like “trick” or “threat” and you must give them money or sweets then they go away. If you don’t give they will play a trick on you. (Halloween)
c) People in Britain begin celebrating this holiday on December 31. Sometimes they have parties where guests dress up in costumers and cover their faces with masks. Next day people visit friends, relatives, neighbors. There is a lot to eat and drink. Many families watch television. (New Year)
d) In the English speaking countries on this day many people send cards to people they love. They usually do not sign these cards. They also send gifts, sweets, flowers. (St. Valentine’s Day)
e) A day of jokes and tricks.(April Fools day)
f) It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. (Remembrance day)
A B C
D E F Conclusion. (Test)
1 )We celebrate Christmas
a) 25 December
b) 31 December
c) 9 may
2) In new year children wait ….
a) Santa Clause
b) Kidir ata
c) Relatives
3) How do you decorate Christmas tree?a)a toyb)bookc)presents4) How do you translate “turkey”a)күркетауық-индюкb)бәліш-пирогc)шұлық-носки5) It is a holiday for children in Britain. They dressed in costumes and knock the doors.
a) St. Valentine’s day
b) Halloween
c) Christmas
6) On this day many people send cards to people they love.
a) Christmas
b) St. valentine’s day
c) Halloween
7) People in Britain celebrating this holiday on December 31
a) Christmas
b) Halloween
c) New Year
Keys: 1.A. 2.C 3.C 4. A 5.B 6.B 7. C
2 min VI. Marking. Dear children! I’m very satisfied with your answer and your taking part to the lesson and all of you worked very well. Your marks will be excellent and good marks. Thank you for your attention.
2 min VII. Explanation of the hometask. For home I will give the task: to write an essay.
1 min VIII. The end of the lesson
The lesson is over.
Good bye, children! See you!