Урок-праздник "Hallowe'en"

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Урок-праздник “Hallowe’en”.

Цель урока: Познакомить учащихся с историей возникновения и традициями празднования Hallowe’en в англоязычных странах.

Задачи урока:

  • Развитие языковых навыков, интеллектуальных и творческих способностей учащихся.
  • Расширение страноведческих знаний о странах изучаемого языка.
  • Развитие речевых навыков учащихся по теме.
  • Формирование положительной мотивации учения, готовности воспринимать культуру другого народа.

Оборудование урока:

  1. Символы праздника:
    • паук
    • летучая мышь
    • рисунки ведьмы, привидения, пиратов, вампиров
  2. “Комната восковых фигур”.
  3. “Головоломки с пропущенными гласными”.
  4. “Рецепты”.
  5. Тыквы со свечами.
  6. Тыквенный пирог.
  7. Магнитофонная запись песни “Looby-Loo”.
  8. Костюмы чертей и ведьмы.

План урока.

Beginning

Teacher (T): What’s the weather like today? What English holiday does the weather look like?

Class: It looks like Hallowe’en.

T: That’s right. It looks like Hallowe’en. And what Hellowe’en chants do you know?

Pupil1 (P1):

Hallowe’en, Hallowe’en, magic night
We are glad and very bright
We all dance and sing and recite
Welcome, welcome, Hallowe’en night!

P2: Hallowe’en is coming. What will you be?

P3: I might be a pirate on the deep blue sea.

T: Well, then let’s talk about Hallowe’en.

Follow-up:

I. T: Let’s listen to those boys’ dialogue. What are they talking about?

P1: Have you heard of Hallowe’en?

P2: No, I haven’t. What is it?

P1: It’s on 31st October. We usually make lanterns. We can make some for our party and put them in the garden.

P2: How do we make them?

P1: You take a large pumpkin and cut off a piece from the top. Then take out what is inside with a knife and a spoon. Then you cut out the eyes, nose and mouth and put the candle inside the lantern. Look, you can see the candlelight through the eyes, nose and mouth [1]

II. Let us tell you some interesting information about Hallowe’en.

P1: Hallowe’en was first celebrated many centuries ago in Ireland and Scotland by Celtic priests called Druids. They observed the end if autumn and the beginning of winter. The Druids thought that Hallowe’en was the night when the witches came out. As they were afraid of the witches they put on different clothes and painted their faces to deceive the evil spirits. They also placed food and small gifts near the doors of their houses for the witches. This was, as they say now, the beginning of the expression “trick or treat” (meaning “give me something or I will play a trick on you”).

P2: As time went by, grown-up people lost interest in Hallowe’en, and it was celebrated almost entirely by children. Dressed very strangely, children held festivals. During their carnival and after it; groups of children visited nearby houses and asked for candies. “Trick or treat! Trick or treat!” was heard everywhere.

P3: In recent years, grown-up people have begun taking part in Hallowe’en. In New York, for example, young and old take part in parades together. On the 31st of October, long before the time when the carnival procession begins to move, a great number of people get together in one of the streets. They are dressed as witches, demons, and other evil spirits. There are hundreds of large orange “pumpkins” in their hands. After the parade the festival lasts almost till early morning. [2]

P4: It’s interesting to know that Hallowe’en is an old word for “Hallows Evening, the night before “All Hallows” or “All Saints’ Day” – November 1st. The 31st of October was called “All Hallows Eve” and slowly the name changed to Hallowe’en.

III. T: Let’s watch the dramatization of the history of Hallowe’en. The main characters are: a girl, a witch and a narrator.

Role-play:

Girl: What a dark forest! I am scared of it. I can loose my way. Oh, what a pretty little cottage! I’ll stay here and have a rest. It’s getting dark. I’ll light the candle. (девочка зажигает свечу, а ведьма её гасит). But what’s the matter? What’s wrong with it? I’d better go and try to find my way out. I’ll sit under this nut-tree.

Narrator: But the witch turned the nut over the little girl’s head into a pumpkin.

Girl: Oh, what is it? Is it a pumpkin? I’ll hollow out the pumpkin, put the candle inside, light it and go to the witch’s cottage.

Witch: Oh, what is it. What a horrible two-headed monster. I’m scared of it. I can’t stand it any more.

Narrator: On seeing a horrible two-headed monster the witch fell down, knocked herself out on the hard cellar floor and soon died.

IV. T: Well, as you know, the main characters of this festival are: skeleton, devil, pirate, goblin, vampire, monster (the words are written on cards). Some of them are present at our lesson. Let’s listen to their conversation.

The first devil: Hallo!

The second devil: Hallo!

The first devil: What are you?

The second devil: I am the devil of bad behaviour.

The first devil: and what do you do, then?

The second devil: You see I don’t like quiet and polite children. I try to make them misbehave and they become naughty and rude.

The first devil: That’s great.

The second devil: And what about you? What are you responsible for?

The first devil: I am the devil of bad moods. I try to make people lonely and sad. [3]

P1: We won’t give in to your tricks and we’ll stay good, kind, in good mood pupils.

T: And now I invite you to the Hall of Hallowe’en Wax Figures.

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V. T: Children like to play special games on Hallowe’en. One of them is “Trick or Treat”. Let’s pretend you are at the door of your neighbours. What will you say?

P1:

Trick or treat, trick or treat,
Give us something good to eat.

Give us cookies, give us cake,
Give us something sweet to take.

Give us candy, fruit and gum,
Hurry up and give us some.

You had better do it quick,
Or we’ll surely play a trick.

Trick or treat, trick or treat,
Give us something good to eat. [4]

T: Other popular games are:

  1. Whooooo am I?
  2. Bobbing for apples.
  3. The Ghost game.

(см. Приложение: <Рисунок 2>, <Рисунок 3>, <Рисунок 4>)

VI. T: One of the most interesting and exciting moments of Hallowe’en parties is telling ghost stories by candlelight or around the fire outside. Let’s listen to some of them.

P1: In a dark, dark, room

In a dark, dark wood, there is a dark, dark house
And in that dark, dark house, there is a dark, dark room
And in that dark, dark room, there is a dark, dark cupboard
And in that dark, dark cupboard, there is a dark, dark shelf
And in that dark, dark shelf, there is a dark, dark box
And in that dark, dark box, there is – A GHOST!

P2: The ghost story

A cold, cold night
A brown, brown owl
A grey, grey wolf
A red, red howl

A big, big house
In a black, black street
|An open door
Two white, white feet

Up, up, up
To a pink, pink door
Two white, white feet
On the orange floor

A green, green tree
A blue, blue sky
In the yellow moon
A purple cry

Down, down, down
Down the stirs and out
Stay in bed tonight
There is A GHOST about!

T: I think it’s time to sing and dance a traditional Hallowe’en song “Looby-Loo” [3]

(Учащиеся поют и танцуют под звукозапись).

Refrain:

Here we dance Looby-Loo
Here we dance Looby-Light,
Here we dance Looby-Loo
All on a Saturday night

1.

I put right hand in,
I put my right hand out,
I give my right hand a shake, shake, shake
And turn myself about.

Refrain.

2.

I put my left hand in,
I put my left hand out,
I give my left hand a shake, shake, shake
And turn myself about.

Refrain.

3.

I put my right foot in,
I put my right foot out,
I give my right foot a shake, shake, shake
And turn myself about.

Refrain.

4.

I put my left foot in,
I put my left foot out,
I give my left foot a shake, shake, shake
And turn myself about.

Refrain.

5.

I put my whole self in,
I put my whole self out,
I give my whole self a shake, shake, shake
And turn myself about.

VII. Missing vowel puzzle.

T: Children, the ghost scared some of the vowels away. Can you fill them in?

1. H_ll_w__n 2. _ct_b_r 3. cl_wn 4. w_tch 5. g_bl_n
6. sc_r_ 7. J_ck_’l_nt_rn 8. h__nt_d 9. c_st_m_ 10. br__mst_ck
11.d_rk 12. m_nst_r 13. gh_st

VIII. T: There is special food and drinks on Hallowe’en. Read these popular Hallowe’en recipes. Whould you like to try then?

Monster’s brew

6 cups of cat’s blood

10 spider webs

10 snake eyes

13 dirty long worms

8 frog legs

2 cups of oil

2 onions

Mix together with your feet in a large pan and boil for 18 minutes. Add salt and fresh skeleton bones before serving.

Taste and SCREAM!!!

Dracula cocktail

1 cup of blood

3 rat’s tails

2 spoons of bat hearts

Mix together in a bowl and drink for a Hallowe’en. Enjoy it!

Hallowe’en Dessert

1 rat

3 frogs

2 cups of sugar

All fresh. Wash the animals. Serve them with sugar alive on Hallowe’en night.

Yum! Yum!

T: Are you still alive? Then we’ll treat you with a tasty pumpkin pie.

(Один из учащихся угощает всех присутствующих тыквенным пирогом).

Rounding-off:

T: So my dear friends our lesson is up to the end.

Thank you for the lesson. You were very active, inventive, genius, industrious pupils. I enjoyed your work and you? Did you enjoy the lesson? What did you like most of all? Who do you think was the most industrious pupil?

Each of you has got a “5” for the lesson.

At home make up a recipe for one of these dishes: Witch’s Soup, Stuffed Pumpkin, Hallowe’en Pie, Ghost Biscuits, Skeleton Crunch Cake.

Список литературы:

  1. Т.Б. Клементьева, Б. Бонк, Счастливый английский, книга 1, Москва, Просвещение, 1996.
  2. Иностранные языки в школе, №4, 1990.
  3. Иностранные языки в школе, №5, 1991.
  4. Н.Д. Синицкая “English for fun and like fun”, Волгоград, 1998.

Приложение

Whoooo am I?

<Рисунок2>

  1. Make up 10-12 slips of paper and write Hallowe’en words on them, for example, black cat, ghost, witch…
  2. Sit in a circle. Choose a player to be “it”. “It” stands in the middle of the circle. Pin one of the words to her or his back.
  3. “It” wants to know “Whoooo am I?” and asks you: “Am I a skeleton? Am I a ghost?...”
  4. Cry out: No! No! or Yes! if “it” has a right guess.

Bobbing for apples:

<Рисунок3>

One of the most popular games at Hallowe’en parties is “bobbing for apples” or “ducking the apples”. When the player has a fork in his mouth it is called “forking for apples”.

The Ghost game :

<Рисунок4>

  1. Prepare an old white bed sheet.
  2. Divide your group into 2 teams.
  3. One team must leave the room. One of the players from this team comes back as a “ghost” in a sheet. The “ghost” should try to look smaller, taller or wider. (Don’t show our shoes or trousers!)
  4. Without touching a “ghost” the other team must guess who the “ghost” is.