8th grade. Unit 5. Final test 1

👉Communicative area: testing your reading, listening and speaking skills.

 Do your best on your test👍

8th grade. Unit 5. Lesson 11. Pub quiz

 👉Communicative area: revising the material of the unit

What do the following names have in common: The Red Lion, The Royal Oak, and the Crown?

What kind of quiz is a pub quiz?

Read the information about pub quizzes. 

How close were your guesses?

There are over 60,000 pubs in the UK and they are an important part of British life. A British pub is not only a place to drink and eat. It is the centre of community life in villages, a popular social meeting place. People talk, meet their friends, play games, and relax here. Most pub games date back many years and are rooted in village culture. Many pubs have a garden where people can sit in summer. Children can go to pub gardens with their parents. Pubs hold special events: tournaments of darts, table football and other games, karaoke nights, and pub quizzes. 

 The pub quiz was established in the UK in the 1970s by Burns and Porter. Their aim was to attract customers to pubs on slow evenings. Its popularity grew and grew and it became part of British culture. Nowadays the Great British Pub Quiz challenge is an annual event. In a pub quiz, two or more teams are asked some trivia questions. The teams choose a funny name for themselves. Each team works together to answer the questions and write them down in their booklets. At the end of each round the answers are collected, marked and points are counted. A good quiz is between four to eight rounds of 10 questions but of course, it depends on the time the players have.

You are going to have a pub quiz. Follow the steps:

1. Make up two teams

2. Think of the name for your team. It is usually funny. Get ready to introduce yourselves.

3. Listen to the quizmaster's questions. Discuss the answers in your teams and write them down in your answer sheet.

 

Round 1: Picture round

Look at the fragments of the pictures illustrating famous British customs and traditions. What are they? Say at least 5 sentences to describe them.

Round 2: Question round 

Listen to the quizmaster’s questions. You have 30 seconds to discuss and write down the answers in the answer sheet.

Round 3: True / False duel round 

Each member of the team has to think of a sentence, either true or false, about British superstitions. Take it in turns to exchange your sentences with a person in the other team who has to say if it is true or false.

Round 4: Pronunciation round 

Choose the best speaker to read out the proper names. To get an extra point explain what customs and traditions they are connected with.

Round 5: General knowledge round

Choose the correct variant to answer the quizmaster’s questions.

Round 6: Fake story round 

Write a fake story for April Fool’s Day.

8th grade. Unit 5. Lesson 10. Culture corner. Welcome to the garden!

 👉Communicative area: describing gardening in Britain

Discuss the questions. 

1. How many gardens are there in the place where you live? 

 2. Are you fond of gardening? Why? Why not? 

3. Who in your family has a passion for gardening? 

4. What are the benefits of gardening?

Read a post from a garden writer’s blog. Is the writer American or British? Why do you think so?

Answer the questions. 

1. What encourages interest in gardening in children according to the author? 

2. How does the writer explain the passion for gardening in grown-ups? 

3. What leisure activity connected with gardens is found almost nowhere else? 

4. Why are there exotic plants in the British gardens? 

5. What was established at Kew in the middle of the 18th century? 

6. How did British gardeners break with tradition in the 18th century? 

 7. What is characteristic of an ideal British garden? 

8th grade. Unit 5. Lesson 9. How not to be an alien

 👉Communicative area: describing British customs and  traditions

Are the following statements about British everyday customs true or false?

Prepare an ABC of British customs and traditions. Follow the steps:

👉 Work in 2–3 groups. 

👉 Brainstorm the ideas: a noun, an adjective, or a verb you associate with British customs and traditions. Choose one to represent each letter of the alphabet.  

👉 Prepare a short explanation (either humorous or serious) for each notion.

👉 Organise your material as a booklet, a poster, a leafl et, etc.

👉 Get ready to present it and prove its usefulness.

A-Z Guide of British Life and Culture

A

Advent Afternoon Tea Agriculture Air travel Arm Chair Travel (A virtual trip to London) American / British Anglo Saxons Animals Anthem Attractions Average Temperature

B

Bank Holidays BBC Beefeaters Behaviour Big Ben Birmingham Birth Rate Birthdays Bobbies - Policemen Bonfire Night Boxing day Buckingham Palace Breakfast Bridges in London Britain / England British English /American British Isles Buildings - houses Buildings - London

C

Calendar of Festivals Calendar of Facts for Each Day Calendar of Unusual Customs Castles and Palaces Celebrations Cenotaph Chelsea Pensioners Children (leisure) Christian Church Year Christmas Church of England Churchill, Winston Cities - populations Class System Climate Clothes Clothes - sizes Coal Mining Coat of arms Commonwealth Games Composers (music) Conkers - Game Corgi dogs - The Queen's Dogs Cost of living Costume Counties (States) Countryside Crops - farming Crumpets Currency Customs and Culture Customs - Daily Life Customs - Greetings Customs - Social Customs - Unusual

D

Daily Life Dances Daylight - amount of Desserts Dinner Dishes Dos and Don'ts Double Decker Buses Driving

E

Easter Economy Education Electricity Elizabeth ll, Queen Emblems (Flowers) Emblems (Flags) England Facts English Language Ethnic diversity Etiquette Euro Exports

F

Facts - England, Scotland, Wales Facts - Great Britain Facts - UK Family - A child's Diary Family life Famous people Farming - general Farming - regional Fashion Festivals - Christian Festivals of Britain Festivals - Main World Religions Festival Foods Fish and Chips Flag Flowers Food and Drink Food history Food - special Festival Foods Football

G

Geographic coordinates and facts Geographical features Geography Glossary of Words Goods manufactured and imported Golden Jubilee Government Great Britain / England Green Man Guards (Royal) Guy fawkes

H

Hotels Halloween Harvest Festival Health Care Heraldry High Tea Historical events History History of London Hobbies - Children Holidays (What do the British do?) Holidays and Special Days Holidays (Bank Holidays) Homes Hot cross buns House - inside Houses - Photographs Houses - Different types House Names Houses of Parliament

I

Immigration Industry Industry - Regional Imports Inventors

J
Jobs a teenager can do

K

Kings and Queens of England

L

Lake District Landforms Landscape Landmarks Language Language differences Legends Leisure time Lent Life of a child Lions emblem London - Main index London Bridges London Buildings London Buses London Parks London Shopping London Taxis

M

Manners Map - counties Map - regions Maps Marriage May Day Maypole Dancing Meals Media MidSummers Day Minimum Wage Monarch Money today Money old Morris Dancing Mothering Sunday (Mother's Day) Motto Mountains of England Multiculture Multicultural London Music

N

Names - Girl's and Boy's names National anthem National Costume National Curriculum National Day National Health Service National Holidays (Bank Holidays) National Identities National symbols Nationality Natural resources Newspapers Normans

O

P

Pancake Day Parliament Patron Saints Peak District Pearly Kings and Queens Pence Pets People (Famous) People - Londoners Physical Features Places to Visit Plough Monday Ploughman's Lunch Policemen Population Population of major cities Population of London Post Office Puddings Prime Minister Prince William Proverbs Pubs (Public Houses)

Q

Queen Elizabeth Queen's duties Queen's Guards Queen's Role Quick Facts on England, Scotland and Wales

R

Radio Rain Rare or unusual customs Recreation Regions of England Religion and Beliefs Remembrance Day River Thames Roads Romans Royal Ceremonies Royal Coat of Arms Royal Family Royal Family Tree Royal Guards Royal Homes Royalty S St Andrew St George St Piran's Day Saxons Sayings Schools Scotland Sea level Seasons Shilling - old money Shopping in London Shops Shops - Photographs Sightseeing Social Class System Social customs Shrove Tuesday Sightseeing Songs Souvenirs Spare time Special Days Sports Spring holidays St Andrew's Day St David's Day St George's Day St Patricks Day St Piran's Day Stamps States (see counties) Staple foods Stereotypes Stonehenge Stores (see shops) Succession to the Throne Summer holidays Sunrise and Sunset Times Superstitions Swan Upping Symbols of England T Taboos Tea - drink Tea time Teenager's Diary Teenagers Jobs Television Temperature Terrain (land) Thames Three Lions Through the Year Time in England now Time Line Tipping Tower of London Tourist Attractions Trade and Industry Tourism Tourist Attractions Tower of London Traditional costumes Traditional Dances Traditional food Transport Trendy clothes Trooping the Colours  Tudor King and Queens Typical English       U Unusual Customs  Union Flag (UK Flag) Union Jack (UK Flag) United Kingdom - definition United Kingdom - Facts United Kingdom - When formed   V Vacation - holiday Valentines Day Vegetation Victorians Vikings Vocabulary of British Words     W Wages - minimum Wales Weather Weekends Well Dressing Whit Monday Whitsun Wildlife Work  Worksheets World War Two

Present your ABC. 

Explain in what way it can help first-time visitors to the UK to feel more at home there. 

Listen to the other presentations. Which of them is the most informative / the most creative / the most amusing?