Thanksgiving Day

Цели:

1. Формирование и развитие коммуникативных умений и навыков учащихся по иностранному языку.
2. Повышение духовно-нравственной культуры учащихся.
3. Отвлечение учащихся от негативных явлений современной жизни.

Задачи:

1. Продолжить работу по ознакомлению учащихся с англоязычными странами, их традициями и культурой.
2. Показать значимость и важность изучения английского языка в современном мире, учить общаться по теме на английском языке.
3. Учить уважительному отношению к культуре и обычаям другой страны
4. Активизировать творческую деятельность учащихся посредством привлечения театрализованных форм обучения, информационных и игровых технологий.

Оборудование: рисунки, посвященные празднику Дня Благодарения в США, компьютер и мультимедийный проектор с экраном, мини-спектакли, тесты.

Ход урока

I. Орг.момент:

Hello children. How are you? Who is on duty today? Is anybody absent today? What date is it today?

Today Americans celebrate one of the famous holiday. Do you know what holiday it is?

Yes, it is Thanksgiving Day! Do you know what it is devoted to? Why do Americans celebrate it? When did they begin to celebrate it?

Today at our lesson we’ll know about the origin of it? The aim of our lesson is to learn more about this holiday. You should listen, take part in the discussion, recite the poems, play game and at the end of the lesson do the test.

Let’s begin our lesson with phonetic exercise – read this poem.

II. Фонетическая зарядка.

Учащиеся читают стихотворение несколько раз, а учитель каждый раз стирает отдельные слова.

III. Лексическая зарядка.

For better understanding the history of the holiday, you should learn some new words. Let’s read and translate some of them.

Faith [ ] вера
Feast [ ] пир, праздник
Stuffing [ ] начинка
Squash [ ] давить, мять
Cranberry sauce [ ] клюквенное пюре
Annual [ ] ежегодный
Sickness [ ] болезнь
Starvation [ ] голодание
Observance [ ] соблюдение
Wreath [ ] венок
Horn of plenty [ ] рог изобилия
Charitable [ ] благотворительный
Elderly [ ] пожилой
Survive [ ] выжить, уцелеть
Crop [ ] урожай
Bog [ ] болото

IV. Рассказы учащихся об истории праздника.

Now Let’s listen the story about Thanksgiving Day.

1st pupil –Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans celebrate a purely American holiday called Thanksgiving Day. This is a day for family reunions. American families meet for a special dinner, usually with turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin and pies. They give thanks to God for the past year, and remember the first harvest of the first English settlers of the Plymouth colony in 1621.

2nd pupil – This is a family holiday. Families come together for a special dinner. In some places special religious services are held in the morning. Then comes the traditional feast. Turkey with stuffing is the main dish. It is served with sweet potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Apple cider is the drink of the day. After dinner the family will relax and talk. Football is the most popular game on this day. For many schools the Thanksgiving Day game is the most important one of the year. Usually there are several football games to watch on TV.

3d pupil – The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated by Pilgrims 1621. In the fall of 1620, one hundred Pilgrims came to the United States from England. Half of the people came for religious freedom. All came for new lives. They sailed from Plymouth, England, on September, 16, 1620. Their ship was called the “Mayflower”. They Landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, on December, 26, 1620.

4th pupil – The first winter was a terrible time. The Pilgrims were hungry, sick and cold. Many people died. Then the native Americans, the Indians, helped the Pilgrims. They taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, to built houses, to fish, to hunt and how to survive in America. The crops did well, and in the fall of 1621 the Pilgrims had a great harvest. They were thankful and decided to celebrate with a feast. The Pilgrims invited their Indian friends to share this Thanksgiving feast.

5th pupil – Stores, classrooms and homes are decorated with turkeys, Pilgrims, Indians, wreaths of dried flowers and vegetables. Horns of plenty are also very popular. Charitable organizations serve dinners to needy people. They also send baskets of food to the elderly and sick. Macy’s department store holds its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Celebrities, floats, bands, and balloons shaped like famous story- book and cartoon characters appear in the parade. Santa Claus arrives at the end. His coming marks the beginning of the Christmas season.

V. Обсуждение прослушанного.

Is this story interesting for you? Let’s control how you understand it. Say me please what sentence is right or wrong/

1. Thanksgiving is a holiday of the family.
2. The Pilgrim Fathers coped with the first winter quite well.
3. The Indians didn’t help the Pilgrims.
4. The Pilgrims invited their Indians friends to celebrate this day.

And answer my questions:

1. What kind of holiday is Thanksgiving Day?
2. What is the main idea of this holiday?
3. Why did the Pilgrims invite the Indians to share the Thanksgiving feast.
4. What is served for Thanksgiving dinner?

VI. Работа с тестами. Индивидуальная самостоятельная работа учащихся по карточкам.

Let’s do some tests.

Карточка 1.

1. Match words or phrases of similar meanings:

Карточка 2

2. Circle the word that does not belong

1. Flowers, arrangement, wreath, food.
2. Hunger, starvation, need, abundance.
3. Annual, yearly, weekly, every 12 months.
4. Young, mature, old, elderly.
5. Harvest, collection, gathering, crops.
6. Celebration, observance, forgetting, ceremony.
7. Religions, games, faiths, beliefs.
8. Alive, survive, die, exist.
9. Banquet, feast, starvation, meal.
10. Stuffing, food, filling, reading.

VII. Инсценирование стихотворений, посвященных Дню Благодарения.

Every holiday has its own traditions, games, songs, poems. Let’s listen two poems. And Your schoolmates not only recite these poems, but also act out them.

6th pupil – Thanksgiving

Thank you
for all my hands can hold –
apples red
and melons gold,
yellow corn
both ripe and sweet,
peas and beans
so good to eat!

Thank you
for all my eyes can see –
lovely sunlight,
field and tree,
white cloud-boats
in sea-deep sky,
soaring bird
and butterfly.

Thank you
for all my ears can hear –
birds’ song echoing
far and near,
songs of little
stream, big sea,
cricket, bullfrog,
duck and bee!

7th pupil – Pilgrim Children Pilgrim Children worked hard all day Pilgrim Children had little time to play The first child chopped lots of wood The second child helped make the family’s food The third child helped keep the horses fed The fourth child made a mattress for his bed The fifth child made soap and a candle The sixth child turned the meat-roasting handle Pilgrim Children worked hard all day Pilgrim Children had little time to play.

8th pupil – Five Plump Turkeys. This plump turkey spread his tail like a fan This plump turkey away he run This plump turkey flew up in a tree This plump turkey gobbled at me This plump turkey said “I’ll leave right away, So the cook can’t find me on Thanksgiving Day”

Do you like it? Have you enjoyed this performance?

VIII. Игры с учащимися.

Let’s have fun. It will be the interesting game.

The first game is known for you.

You have to put one of the leaves to the turkey’s tail with blinded eyes.

The second game is new and interesting.

It’s name is “Mr.Turkey”. One pupil sit on the chair with his eyes closed. Another pupil then knocks. The pupil on the chair asks, ”Who’s there?” The pupil answers “Mr.Turkey”

Then the pupil on the chair have to guess who Mr.Turkey is.

IX. Дифференцированный контроль ЗУН учащихся по теме «День Благодарения в США»

At the end of the lesson I want you to do some tests yourselves. But they are different.

Some tests for those who wants to get 4 or 5. Another tests for those who wants to get 3.

You may choose.

Карточка 1 – на оценку 4 или 5.

1. Fill in the blanks:

1. They left their old … because they could not pray the way they wanted.
2. They slept on the hard, cold, … of the ship.
3. It was a good … to build their town.
4. The Pilgrims made a good … who helped them.
5. They gave thanks for the new … they had begun in Plymouth.

2. Ask questions:

Children had to help the grown-ups to cook meals, to make soap and candles.

Карточка 2 – на оценку 3

1. Choose the right word:

1. In (1492, 1620, 1812) some men and women, boys and girls sailed on a ship acrossthe ocean.
2. They had been on the ship for (one, two, three) months.
3. The (first, second, third) winter in Plymouth was terrible.
4. The Pilgrim children had to learn to (play, work, go to the forest) in Plymouth.
5. They gave (money, thanks, life) for the new life.

2. Translate:

Pilgrim, pray, settlement, wild country, hunt.

X. Подведение итогов урока и домашнее задание:

Our lesson is over and I hope you have enjoyed it because you have taken some knowledge about America, its people, its traditions. Your homework will be the next. You will try to interpret the word: (For example)

t – turkey
h – hunt
a – animals
n – new world
k – ...
s – ...
g – ...
i – ...
v – ...
i – ...
n – ...
g – ...

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