1-й ведущий: Dear boys
and girls! Dear guests! We are here to celebrate a wonderful spring holiday -
easter. Happy Easter to you! But at first we are going to tell you about the
origin of this holiday, its traditions and symbols.
2-й ведущий: Easter is a
movable feast; that is, it is not always held on the same date. Easter is the
first Sunday after the full moon after the moon's Spring Equinox.
The English name "Easter" is rather new. When the early English
Christians wanted others to accept Christianity, they decided to use the name
Easter for this holiday so that it would match the name of the old spring
celebration.
1-й ведущий: Shrove
Tuesday, the day before Lent begins, is celebrated in many countries with
carnivals. Lent lasts for 40 days and 40 nights as a reminder of Christ’s
fasting in the wilderness. During Lent Christians give up something they like
to remind them not to be selfish, and perhaps to give the money which has been
saved to give others.
2-й ведущий: Palm Sunday
is so-called because Jesus is said to have ridden into Jerusalem on a donkey
just before His death, welcomed by the people waving palm branches. Churches
are decorated with palm branches on this day; in Britain people used to go (a)
palming two or three days before Palm Sunday, to collect yew, hazel or willow
branches, since palm trees do not grow in northern countries.
1-й ведущий: And now we
are going to tell you about Easter traditions and symbols. Easter symbols
Eggs symbolize new life. Eggs are usually brightly painted to reflect the
sunlight in spring.
The chick, hatching out of the egg, symbolizes new life and rebirth.
The rabbit or Easter Bunny as it is known in America was a
symbol of abundant life in ancient times, and reminds us of spring and
new life.
The white lilies symbolize the purity of Jesus.
The cross symbolizes Jesus’ victory over death.
Easter candles symbolize Jesus, "the light of the world”.
Palm branches represent when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on the
first Palm Sunday and people waved palm branches, welcoming him.
Easter customs
Easter Sunrise is celebrated because Mary Magdalene entered the
garden and met Christ "at the rising of the sun”. People gather to pray when
the sun appears and then in procession go to the church.
One of the Easter traditions is eating Hot Cross Buns. These buns
have a cross of icing on the top to remind people of Christ.
2 – й ведущий: Children!
Are you ready to play Easter games and take part in Easter competitions? OK!
Teacher: We’ll have a contest today and I’ll have to divide
you into three teams. (The children take "eggs” of the mitten. In this way the
pupils are split into groups ). Teams are receive labels
for tasks.
Games:
1. «HATCH MATCH» .Teams receive parts of the two eggs. They need to make a puzzle.To play,
scramble the pieces and match the halves (побеждают те учащиеся (команда),
которые быстрее всех нашли свои половинки яиц). 2. «HATCH AN EGG». Sentences are written on the eggs. They are colored according to the
team’s color. The first player «hatches» an egg, reads the word and writes it on the
blackboard. The next
player chooses an egg and writes the word in somewhere before or after the word
already on the blackboard. When all the eggs have been hatched, the that has
arranged the words in a logical sentence scores a point.
1.
We like Easter buns and biscuits.
2.
The Easter bunny brings the Easter eggs.
3.
The rabbit is a symbol of the Easter moon. 3. "Unscramble words”. On the screen you can see words with missed
letters. Your task is to make correct words.
gegs, ares,
arbibt, ohcclotae, enichck, ksbaet, sscro, dlecan, malp. 4. "Sport competition”.
Your task is
to put an egg in a spoon, run over the chair, come back and give a spoon to
other pupils from your team. 5. "Untwisting of the eggs”
Leader spins the egg,
when the egg will stop pupils from the teams spins
another egg. The team whose egg will be
closer to the leader’s egg -
winning. 7. «Hunting for Easter eggs».
Use the code to learn the secret. Write the letters on
the correct lines.
THE EASTER EGG IS UNDER THE EASTER
TREE.
Teacher:
Children let’s count labels of the team. The score of our contest is…
Happy Easter
to you!!!
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