WINTER HOLIDAYS

Objectives:
- to tell about some holidays
- to practice using vocabulary for telling about holidays
- to encourage learning foreign languages

Procedure:
I. Introduction.

Teacher: Good morning, dear friends. I’m pleased to see you at our lesson. I
hope you are fine and we’ll have wonderful minutes of
communication. The topic of our today’s lesson is “Winter holidays”.

(Slide 1)
Teacher:Please, look at the screen and name the most popular holidays of the
year. You may add more. (Slide 2)
Pupils: -Christmas
- New Year’s Day
 - St. Valentine’s Day

Christmas and New Year Traditions

Teacher:Christmas is Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.

(Slide 3)

No one knows the exact date of Christ’s birth but most Christie celebrate
Christmas on December 25. People in the United States decorate their homes with
Christmas trees. City streets are filled with colored lights; the sound of bells and
Christmas carols can be heard everywhere.
A Christmas tree is one of the main symbols of Christmas in most homes.
Presents are placed under the tree. On Christmas Eve or Christmas morning,
families open their presents. Some children hang up stockings so Santa Claus can
fill them with candy, fruit and other small gift.

People send greeting cards to all their relatives and friends. Children write
letters to Santa Claus and tell him what presents they would like to get.

On Christmas Eve when children go to bed they put their Xmas stockingsover
the fire-place.
At night Father Christmas comes. He has got a big bag of presents for children.
He puts the presents into the children’s stockings.

For Christmas people eat traditional food: turkey, potatoes and green vegetables.
Then they have the Christmas pudding. At 5 o’clock it’s time for tea and for
Christmas cake. (Slide 4)

New Year’s Eve is widely celebrated in America. Whether they spend the night
at a party, a bar or quietly at home, many Americans turn on the TV shortly before
midnight Eastern Standard Time to watch a giant ball drop in Times Square in
New York City.
Teacher: And now let's listen some rhymes about Christmas and New Year.
List 1 (Christmas and New Year)
1. 2.
New Year’s Day, New Year’s Day, A happy New Year! The day is so
Let us sing, and let us play! clear,
New Year, New Year, The snow is so white, the sky is so
Father Frost, Come here! bright.
Father Frost, Bring many toys We shout with all might: “A happy
For little girls, and little boys. New Year!”
3.
 New things to learn, new friends to 4.
meet, New Year Day, happy day!
New songs to sing, new books to read, We are all glad and very gay.
New things to see, new things to hear, We all dance and sing and say:
New things to do in this New Year! “Welcome! Welcome! New Year
Day!”

Quiz (Slide 5)
- The 25th of December is…
- On Christmas Eve people put their presents under the …
- Father Christmas puts his presents …
- For Christmas dinner the English eat …

Game 1
Are three zeros enough to write 1000?
1. Some parts of the face are the eye eyebrow nose.
2. Elsa and Otto ran gently down the street.
3. I’m not dumb, lack of sleep made me forget it.
4. If I tell you that, will you agree never to tell him?
5. In the box there was a pencil, a pin, keys and a coin.
6. The wheelbarrow hit eleven rocks as it rolled down the hill.
7. When the doctor gives you the injection, just yell “Ow” if it hurts.

St. Valentine's Day

Teacher: Love! Friendship! Happiness! Affection! Romance! Today we
can say these words because it is an unusual and special day – Saint
Valentine’s Day.
It is a good time to think who are important to us – Mums and Dads,
grandparents, sisters and brothers, friends and classmates, teachers. It’s a
nice time to tell them how much you like them and how you feel.

St. Valentine’s Day is a holiday which is celebrated in Great Britain, the

USA, and in many European countries. Saint Valentine's Day is observed on
February 14 each year.(Slide 6)

A red rose is the most romantic symbol of love. (Slide 7)

 On Valentine’s Day people usually say I love you. It’s a romantic
holiday.

Nowadays people usually send greeting cards with words of love and
affection to their sweethearts and members of their family. They give roses,
chocolates and other presents to them.
Teacher: And now let's listen some rhymes about Valentine's Day.

I choose you from among the

1. rest
The rose is red, The reason is I love you
The violet is blue, best!!!
The honey is sweet
And so are you!!! 3.
My love is like the cabbage
2. Divided into two,
February the 14th day The leaves I give to others
It’s Valentine they say. But love I give to you!!!
 4. Put them together
Just a little note to say, Remember ME!
have a happy,
happy Valentine's Day! 6.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
5. I have a friend
Remember M And that Friend are you!!!
Remember E

Teacher: Well done, and now let’s find some words.

Game 2
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