👉Communicative area: speaking and writing about holidays
👉Active vocabulary: Catholic, to dedicate, harvest, moreover, to observe, on the one hand, on the other hand, Orthodox, public holiday, saint, Thanksgiving, veterans
What date is it today?
Look at the date below. Which way to read it do you prefer?
25 December 2023
A. It is the twenty-fifth of December twenty twenty-three.
B. It is December the twenty-fifth, two thousand and twenty-three.
What holiday is on 25 December?
Is it a Catholic or Orthodox holiday?
Is this day a public holiday in Belarus?
Match the pictures to the holidays and celebrations.
When are these holidays and celebrations observed?
Read the glossary and make sentences about the holidays.
observe (v.) – 1. to notice, to see; 2. to watch carefully; 3. to celebrate a holiday or a festival in a traditional way
dedicate (v.) – 1. to give completely your energy, time to something; 2. to do something in honour of a person or event
in many countries.
Labour Day annually.
Thanksgiving Day is dedicated to a saint.
St Patrick’s Day is observed in autumn.
Victory Day Irish culture.
the veterans of WWII.
Answer the questions.
1. What tense are the sentences in exercise above?
2. Why is the Passive voice used?
2. What holiday has its origin in the USA?
3. What holiday is
marked with the parade of war veterans?
4. What day is the largest summer festival in Belarus?
5. What day is the global
celebration of Irish culture?
6. What holiday is dedicated to love?
7. What holidays have different dates for Orthodox and Catholic
celebrations?
8. What religious holiday has a tradition of Egg
Hunt?
9. What holidays are usually celebrated with fireworks?
10. What holidays are celebrated in summer / autumn / winter /
spring?
11. Which of the holidays above are observed in Belarus?
Are they public holidays?
Read the article about Labour Day. Do you agree with the
author? How do you celebrate 1 May?
Labour Day isn’t the most popular
holiday, but maybe it should be!
On the one hand, it doesn’t have
the excitement of Christmas, the
great fun of Halloween, or the
honour of Victory Day. Most people
do not really count down the days.
On the other hand, there are a lot
of things to celebrate about Labour
Day! First of all, it’s the People’s Holiday. It’s the holiday
dedicated to a regular, go-to-work kind of person. Then, it’s a
day off! Moreover it’s a springtime. Labour Day signals the end
of cold and the coming of warmer weather. So it may be a great
day indeed.
And, of course, the best thing about Labour Day is to hang
out with friends or family or to have a picnic.
What function do the phrases serve in the text?
What are the two
phrases that introduce two opposite ways of thinking about one
situation?
What are their equivalents in your language?
Write a paragraph about one of the holidays in the lesson. Use the
phrases from exercise above to plan your paragraph.
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