Презентация по английскому языку на тему: "May day"

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  May Spring Festival
  in Britain
  Turova Polina
  Student 3EE group
  2011
  

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  References
  Голицынский Ю.Б. Great Britain: Пособие по страноведению – СПб.: КАРО, 2010. – 480с.
  
  

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  About what we will speak:
  May day
  Traditional English May day include:
  Morris dancing,
  Dancing around a Maypole
  crowning a May queen .
  Music
  Costumes
  Dancer
  
  
  

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  New words
  Traditional – традиции
  Costumer – костюм
  Tricks – уловки
  Garlands – гирлянды
  Trays – подносы
  Maypole – майское дерево
  Ribbons – ленты
  Drum – барабан
  Fiddle - скрипка
  
  

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  Morris dancing
  

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  The Origins of Morris Dancing.
  

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  Dancing around a Maypole
  Dancing around a Maypole
  

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  On May Day, people used to cut down young trees and stick them in the ground in the village to mark the arrival of summer. People danced around the tree poles in celebration of the end of winter and the start of the fine weather that would allow planting to begin.
  Maypoles were once common all over England and were kept from one year to the next.
  
  
  
  

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  May Queen
  By tradition she took no part in the games or dancing, but sat like a queen in a flower-decked chair to watch her 'subjects'.
  

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  The Music
  
  Accordians and a fiddle
  Two accordians and on the right a concertina
  Drum
  

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  Costumes
  
  

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  'BAKANALIA' are a Border Morris Dancing group from Leicester.
  Bethane Border Morris Dancers
  

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  The dancer
  Cotswold Morris
  

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  Translate the words
  Tricks
  Trays
  Ribbons
  Drum
  Fiddle
  Costumer
  

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  True or False
  Traditional English May Day celebrations include Morris dancing, dancing around a Maypole and May Queen.
  Morris Dancing it is a traditional English form of folk dancing, performed by groups of men or women.
  Maypole – On May Day, people used to cut down young trees and stick them in the ground in the village to mark the arrival of autumn.
  May Queen took part in the games or dancing.
  The dancers may carry white handkerchiefs that they shake, or short sticks that they bang against each other as they dance.