1. Lesson for 8-11 forms pupils English teacher G. N. Gavrilevich British and American holidays

2. Choose a holiday to the picture

3. Guess the holidays Easter New Year St. Valentine’ s Day Halloween Easter New Year Christmas go to church to give roses dress up as the witches chocolate eggs hang stockings near the fireplace hug and kiss each other

4. Find the mistakes New Year’s Day 25 December St. Valentine’s Day 31October Easter 1 January Halloween March or April Christmas 14 February

5. Name the Holiday The Day of Dark Spirits The Day of fun The Day of Love and Friendship The Day of Wonderful Presents The Day for Making a New Start The Day of Honouring the Birth of Jesus Christ

6. What holidays are the sentences about? 1.In London people gather to celebrate this holiday in Trafalgar Square. 2.People make up lamps of pumpkins. 3.This holiday means spring, new life after winter, flowers, green trees. 4.On this day everyone opens presents and sits down to the table to have a big dinner. 5.On this day people send a special greeting card to those who they love.

7. Look through some dates that people in Britain celebrate. Guess which days British people associate with the objects in the pictures below.

9. New Year All Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve on the 31st of December. British people don’t like this holiday and go to sleep before midnight. Young people in London go to Trafalgar square to see the New Year’s Day in there. At midnight they sing New Year songs and wish a happy New Year to each other.

10. It is also a memorable occasion to make New Year's resolutions.

12. Christmas People send X-mas cards to their friends and relatives. People buy Christmas trees and decorate them with toys, tinsels, coloured balls and lights. Children wake up early to find stockings full of small presents on their bed.

13. Christmas Dinner The typical dinner consists of turkey with potatoes and other vegetables such as carrots and sprouts. In Britain this is followed by Christmas pudding - a sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy. Other traditional dish in Britain is a Christmas cake – a cake containing a lot of dried fruit and usually having a covering of icing .

16. The 14th of February is called Valentine’s Day . It is a day of lovers. That is when every man and every woman thinks about his or her sweetheart. On this day you can buy cards in shops or you can make cards yourselves. Violets are blue Roses are red, Sugar is sweet And so are you!

18. Famous couples Romeo Captain Grey Lady Hamilton Juliet Prince Othello Margaret Master Admiral Nelson Cinderella Ophelia Hamlet Assol Eve Adam Desdemona

19. April Fool’s Day April Fool’s Day is on the 1st of April. English children like this day very much. They play jokes and tricks on other people, even on teachers.

20. April Fools’ Day is a fun day that’s celebrated on April 1st every year. Why does an ostrich have such a long neck? Because its head is so far from its body. What is a rabbit's favourite music? Hip-hop! JOKES

21. April Fools’ Day is a fun day that’s celebrated on April 1st every year. April Fools' Day, also known as All Fools' Day is certainly not a holiday, but everybody likes it so much!

22. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four. Mark Twain

24. Easter In April or at the end of March English people celebrate Easter Day. On Easter Sunday children get chocolate eggs and rabbits.

26. Today on Easter Sunday, children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier tat week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house.

32. Father’s day In June English people celebrate Father’s Day. On that day children send cards and give presents to their father’s.

33. On Father's Day children usually give ties to their fathers and grandfathers .

36. On the 31st of October there is Halowe’en. The symbol of this holiday is “ Jack o’lantern”. People make it from a pumpkin.

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