© Macmillan Polska www.macmillan.pl PHOTOCOPIABLE Type of activity: speaking, reading, vocabulary, grammar. Focus: speaking, Use of English – Easter. Level: intermediate Time: 45–90 minutes Preparation: one copy of Student’s Worksheet 1 and Student Worksheet 2 per student. Procedure: 1. Distribute the handout. Ask your students to read the beginnings of the sentences and finish them using their own ideas. Get them to read their sentences out to a partner or group. 2. Students have to fill in each gap in the text using an appropriate word from the box. Key: In countries with a large Christian population, Easter is often a public holiday. Many churches hold special services on Easter Sunday, which celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection after his crucifixion. Many people also dye eggs. These can be hard-boiled eggs that can be eaten later, but may also be model eggs made of plastic, chocolate, sweets or other materials. It is also common to organise Easter egg hunts. Eggs of some form are hidden, supposedly by a rabbit or hare. People, especially children, then search for them. 3. Ask your students to make the word combinations by writing Easter or Sunday in each gap. Key: Easter eggs, Sunday morning, Easter Bunny, Easter basket, Sunday Mass, Sunday roast 4. Get your students to fill in the gaps in the text using the word combinations from Task 3 to make the integral text. Ask them to read the text to check their understanding. Key: Throughout the English-speaking world, many Easter traditions are similar, with only minor differences. For example, Saturday is traditionally spent decorating Easter eggs and hunting for them with children on Sunday morning, by which time they have been mysteriously hidden all over the house and garden. Other traditions involve parents telling their children that eggs and other treats, such as chocolate eggs or rabbits, have been delivered by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket, which children find waiting for them when they wake up. Many families observe the religious aspects of Easter by attending Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participating in a feast or a party in the afternoon. Some families have a traditional Sunday roast, often of either lamb or ham. 5. Ask your students to read some geographical names. Make sure their pronunciation is correct. Students have to split the names of the countries in the box into three categories shown below and write them in the appropriate box. 6. Get your students to read the texts about Easter traditions in different countries around the world. They have to fill in the gaps in the texts with the names of the countries from Task 5. After they have finished, hold a brief discussion about Easter traditions with your class. Key: Europe: 1. Germany 2. Italy 3. The Czech Republic 4. Slovakia 5. the United Kingdom Scandinavia: 6. Norway 7. Sweden Islands: 8. Corfu 9. Cyprus 10. Bermuda 11. Haiti 12. Jamaica Teacher’s Notes Easter

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Page 1: Teacher’s Notes Easter - Macmillan Polska · Get your students to read the texts about Easter traditions in different countries around the world. They have to ﬁ ll in the gaps

Type of activity: speaking, reading, vocabulary, grammar.Focus: speaking, Use of English – Easter.Level: intermediateTime: 45–90 minutesPreparation: one copy of Student’s Worksheet 1 and Student Worksheet 2 per student.

Procedure:

1. Distribute the handout. Ask your students to readthe beginnings of the sentences and fi nish themusing their own ideas. Get them to read theirsentences out to a partner or group.

2. Students have to fi ll in each gap in the text usingan appropriate word from the box.

Key: In countries with a large Christian population, Easter is often a public holiday.

Many churches hold special services on EasterSunday, which celebrate Jesus Christ’sresurrection after his crucifi xion. Many peoplealso dye eggs. These can be hard-boiled eggsthat can be eaten later, but may also be modeleggs made of plastic, chocolate, sweets or othermaterials. It is also common to organise Easteregg hunts. Eggs of some form are hidden,supposedly by a rabbit or hare. People, especially children, then search for them.

3. Ask your students to make the word combinations by writing Easter or Sunday in each gap.

Key: Easter eggs, Sunday morning, EasterBunny, Easter basket, Sunday Mass, Sundayroast

4. Get your students to fi ll in the gaps in the textusing the word combinations from Task 3 to makethe integral text. Ask them to read the text tocheck their understanding.

Key: Throughout the English-speaking world, many Easter traditions are similar, with only minor differences. For example, Saturday is traditionally spent decorating Easter eggs and hunting for them with children on Sunday morning, by which time they have been mysteriously hidden all over the house and garden. Other traditions involve parents telling their children that eggs and other treats, such as chocolate eggs or rabbits, have been delivered by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket, which children fi nd waiting for them when they wake up. Many families observe the religious aspects of Easter by attending Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participating in a feast or a party in the afternoon. Some families have a traditional Sunday roast, often of either lamb or ham.

5. Ask your students to read some geographicalnames. Make sure their pronunciation is correct.Students have to split the names of the countriesin the box into three categories shown below andwrite them in the appropriate box.

6. Get your students to read the texts about Eastertraditions in different countries around the world.They have to fi ll in the gaps in the texts with thenames of the countries from Task 5. After theyhave fi nished, hold a brief discussion aboutEaster traditions with your class.

Key:

Europe: 1. Germany 2. Italy 3. The CzechRepublic 4. Slovakia 5. the United KingdomScandinavia: 6. Norway 7. Sweden Islands:8. Corfu 9. Cyprus 10. Bermuda 11. Haiti12. Jamaica

Teacher’s NotesEaster