Автор: Метлицкая Марина Александровна

Место работы: Келлеровская средняя школа имени Героя Советского Союза И.М. Бережного

Должность: Учитель английского языка

Happy New Year

Date:

Class name: 8

Equipment: hand outs , blackboard, computer.

Theme: Happy New Year

Educational aims:

• to encourage students to speak in English;

• to study new information about celebrating New Year in different countries ;

Objectives:

• to develop students’ skills of reading, speaking, listening;

Development

Organization moment.

Greeting:

• Good morning, boys and girls!

• How are you?

• …

• Which holiday we will celebrate soon?

• Yes, you are right, New Year.

• What do you know about tradition of this holiday in our country?

• …

Calling the register: Who is on duty today? Who is absent today?

Warming-up activity: Make up new words using the letters of the word “Congratulations”

Practice with new material: Today we will discuss our holidays: Christmas and New Year. I prepared for your new interesting information about these holidays. Let’s begin!

TASK 1: Read the texts and choose the correct version of country:

NEW YEAR AT DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

1. In this city a lot of people gather in Times Square and watch the “Big Apple” fall. The “Big Apple” isn’t a real apple. It’s a moving picture of an apple on a side of one of the big buildings in Times Square. Every New Year’s Eve during the last few seconds before midnight

it starts to “fall” down the building, and when it gets to the bottom it’s the start of the new year.

Madrid

New York

Moscow

2. In this country housewives start to cook special food for the New Year’s Day and the members of the families do a big cleaning up. The idea is to get rid of the past year dirt, and welcome the new. On the television or on the radio you can hear 108 bells. The 108th bell rings just a second before the midnight. The people say: “Happy New Year!” People eat the special

food and drink rice wine during the meal.

Japan

Italy

Canada

3. People call the New Year’s Eve “Hogmanay”. They visit their friends’ houses just after midnight on the New Year’s night. The first person who comes to your house brings you luck. At midnight when the clock begins to strike twelve, the head of the family goes to the entrance door, opens it wide and holds it until the last stroke. Then he shuts the door. He has let the old year out and let the New Year in.

The USA

Scotland

India

4. This country is sometimes called “the upside down world”. It lies in the Southern Hemisphere.

During the Christmas holidays people often sunbathe on the beach or swim and surf in the ocean. On the 31st of December many people go to the country for the picnic. In January the temperature ranges from 20 to 30 °Ñ above zero or higher.

Egypt

Ireland

Australia

5. In this country it can be dangerous to have a walk at night at the end of December. People usually throw the old things from the house through the window: broken cups and plates, old clothes and boots and sometimes different pieces of furniture. believe that on At the New Year’s Eve the magician Befaniya comes to the houses through the chimney and put the presents for

the children in their stockings or shoes.

France

Italy

Germany

Answers: 1 – New York; 2 – Japan; 3 – Scotland; 4 – Australia; 5 – Italy.

TASK 2: Read, translate the riddles and try to guess what is this?

It’s blue by night, 
By day it’s white. 
It is cold and not dry, 
It falls from the sky.

(Snow.)

 

***
Fat and gay, on a winter day, 
He came here with us to stay. 
But day by day he grew and thined, 
And so we brought his younger brother in.

(A calendar.)

***

As beautiful as the setting sun, 
As delicate as the morning dew; 
An angel’s dusting from the stars 
that can turn the Earth into 
A frosted moon. 
What am I?

(Snow)

***

A precious stone, as clear as diamond. 
Seek it out whilst the sun’s near the horizon. 
Though you can walk on water with its power, 
Try to keep it, and it’ll vanish ere an hour.

(Ice)

***

An arm points north, east, south, then west. 
Ever in circles, never pausing to rest. 
It passes its brother twenty three times, 
As the sun passes by and the moon starts to climb.

(Clock)

Thank you for your job, good of you!!! Next task…

TASK 3: Listen to song “Happy New Year”.

TASK 4: Listen to song once more and fill in the gaps.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, … and …
Feeling lost and feeling …
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so …
So unlike …
Now's the time for us to say...

Happy new year
… … …
May we all have a vision … and …
Of a world where every neighbour is a …
Happy new year
… … …
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
… and …

Sometimes I …
How the brave … … arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our …
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be …
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway...

Happy new year
… … …
May we all have a vision … and …
Of a world where every neighbour is a …
Happy new year
… … …
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
… and …

Seems to me now
That the … we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than … on the floor
It's the … of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine...

Happy new year
… … …
May we all have a vision … and …
Of a world where every neighbour is a …
Happy new year
… … …
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
… and …

Thank you, was it difficult for you? Do you know such song before?

Answers:

HAPPY NEW YEAR

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Hometask: Open your diary, write down your hometask: write a composition “Tradition of New Year in my family”.

Marks and comments.

Closure: Dear students thanks for your job! Let’s finish our lesson your expressions:

I think the lesson was useful for me because …

I think I succeeded in …

Don’t forget to prepare your home task. You may go. Good bye!