Урок на тему : "Family traditions"

FAMILY TRADITIONS.  WEDDING.

Suggested level – A2

Ludmila Onishchenko,

a teacher of English,

secondary school №3,

Stakhanov,

Lugansk region

Objectives:

-to revise vocabulary on the topic;

-to develop students’ listening and speaking skills

-to foster students’ respect to the family and family traditions.

PROCEDURE

1. INTRODUCTION

T: Good morning! I’m glad to see you!

     Now let’s make a start. Today we are going to talk about special days in person’s life. Be ready to talk on the subject.

2. WARM-UP

T: First let’s recall what special days a person can have in his life. “Mind Maps” on your desks will help you to do it. So, say what special days we have in our life, when we mark them and how.

MIND MAP

3. MAIN PART

      VOCABULARY REVISION.

       T: Right you are. We have a lot of happy days in life. But there is one more very special day

      in the life of every man and woman. It is a wedding day. And the main heroes of that day and

      the ceremony are two persons – a bride and a bridegroom.

           A bride is a girl or a woman in a beautiful white dress who is going to become a wife. A

      bridegroom is a man by the bride, he is her future husband. But we will talk about it a little                       

      later. Now let’s recall some words and do an exercise. Match the words in pairs. Do it in a

      written form.

EXERCISE

1.      a wedding  ceremony                                   a) поздравительная открытка

2.      to take pictures                                             b)особенный день

3.      sweethearts                                                    с)свадебный торт

4.      a special day                                                d)невеста

5.      a wedding cake                                            e)посчастливиться

6.      drinking champagne                                   f)фотографировать

7.      to be lucky                                                    g)пить шампанское

8.      a bride                                                          h)жених

9.      a special greeting card                                 i)свадебная церемония

10.  honeymoon                                                   j)медовый месяц

 11.bridegroom                                                   k)влюбленные

KEY: 1-i; 2-f; 3-k; 4-b; 5-c; 6-g; 7-e; 8-d; 9-a; 10-j; 11-h

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

T: Now let’s listen to the tape and do some tasks. First listen to the fragment of the text 

and say  what the title of the text is and what the text is about.

( Listening to the fragment of the text.)

          T: Listen  again! Be ready to answer some questions and to discuss the subject.

TAPESCRIPT

MARTHA  TAILOR’S  WEDDING  DAY

       Today is a very special day. It’s Martha Tailor’s wedding day, and all her family and friends are here. Everybody is having a wonderful time.

     Martha is standing in front of the fireplace. She’s wearing a beautiful white wedding dress. Uncle Chris is taking her picture, and Aunt Emma is crying. She is very sentiment-

al. Nick and Pete, Martha’s brothers, are in the yard. They are smoking.

     Martha’s mother is dancing with her husband’s father, and Martha’s father, Mr Tailor,

is dancing with her husband’s mother.

     Everybody is having a good time. People are singing, dancing, eating wedding cake, drinking champagne    and talking about  politics. Martha’s grandparents, her grandfa-

ther and grandmother, are talking about ‘the good old days”.

     It’s  a very special day.

T: So, answer the questions.

1. Is the action taking place before or after the ceremony in the church? Give your reasons.
2. Are there many guests at the wedding ?
3. What is the bridegroom’s name ?
4. What name would you give him ?
5. What is your opinion of the wedding? Is it merry ?
6. Martha’s grandparents are talking about “the good old days”. What does it mean for them ?

SPEAKING

T: Imagine that you are Martha’s grandfather and grandmother and you are talking about “the good old days”. Act out the dialogue. The rest of the pupils should listen and get out the information.

SUGGESTED DIALOGUE

Grandmother:    Oh, dear! Looking at Martha’s happy face I recollect our wedding day.

                             Do you remember my beautiful snow-white dress?

Grandfather:      Of course, I do! Though it was forty-five years ago. You were the most

                             beautiful bride!

Grandmother:     I remember that bright August day and our wedding ceremony in the

                              Church. So happy and young we were!

Grandfather:      But, honey, I’m still happy today with you! And I remember our honey-

                             moon when we had a delightful cruise around Europe.

Grandmother:     Oh, now I understand the real sense of your wedding present to Martha,

                              This three weeks cruise on board the ocean liner “Victoria” !

Grandfather:      Perfectly true! I hope our newly-weds will be happy during their honey-

                            moon as we were.

Grandmother:     Oh, darling, you are the best husband and the best grandpa in the world!

T:   Now, girls, the task for you. Let’s have a piece of gossip. One of you is Martha’s friend and were present at the wedding. The rest of your friends are interested in this event very much. They want you to tell them about your impressions of the wedding and to answer their questions for more information. As you visited the wedding some days ago, tell about it in the Past Tense.

( One of the girls tells about the wedding-day.)

SUGGESTED QUESTIONS FOR MORE INFORMATION

1. Were there many bridegroom’s guests at the wedding?
2. I think that the bride and the bridegroom got many presents. Which of the presents was the best?
3. Who presented them the cruise?
4. As far as I know, at the end of the wedding party the bride throws her wedding bouquet to the unmarried girls. Who cought Martha’s bouquet?
5. What was the wedding cake like?

4. SUMMING-UP.  HOME ASSIGNMENT

T:   We have discussed Martha’s wedding in details. You have received a lot of  information. So, at home you will have to write a notice about Martha Tailor’s wedding-day for the local newspa-

per as if you are a reporter of its department of “High Life News”.

        Today we have spoken about special days in our life. Each of us has his own special days and his own way of celebrating them. I am sure, your future wedding will be  a very special day in your life. Maybe you will get a cruise around Europe as a wedding present.

        Thank you for your work. See you!