Урок английского языка «Необычные традиции и забавы британцев»
ФГБОУ ВПО « Кемеровский государственный университет»
Факультет романо-германской филологии
КОНКУРС СТРАНОВЕДЧЕСКИХ ПРОЕКТОВ
«UNKNOWN BRITAIN»
Необычные традиции и забавы британцев
Автор:
обучающаяся 11 «Г» класса
МБОУ СОШ № 19
пгт. Новый Городок
г. Белово
Кемеровской области
Лебедева Елизавета
Руководитель:
учитель английского языка
Арбекова Марина Юрьевна
Белово
2014
Kemerovo state University
The faculty of romance and Germanic Philology
THE COMPETITION CULTURE PROJECTS
«UNKNOWN BRITAIN»
Topic:
Unusual British Games and Traditions
Author:
Elizabeth Lebedeva
Form 11 «G»
School № 19
Advisor :
teacher of English
Arbekova Marina Yuryevna
Belovo
2014
CONTENTS (ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ)
Introduction. Введение. 4-5
Main Body. Unusual British games and traditions. 7-12
World Hen Racing Championship
Chelsea Flower Show
Stilton Cheese Rolling
Peel Bay Dip
Great Christmas Pudding Race
Spectacular Jousting
Haxey Hood
Maypole Dancing
Sweeps Festival
Up Helly Aa
Well Dressing
Straw Bear Festival
Swan Upping
World Snail Racing Championship
The World's Biggest Liar Contest
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival
Conclusion. Заключение. 13
Sources. Список литературы. 14.
Appendix. Приложение. Слайды презентации.
Introduction. Введение
Theme (тема): Unusual British games and traditions.
Type of project. Тип проекта: страноведческий
Problem (проблема): из богатого объёма информации выбрать и систематизировать самый интересный материал на двух языках (русском и английском), рассказать о необычных традициях и забавах британцев на английском языке.
Aim (цель). Цели проекта:
- повышение мотивации к изучению традиций англоязычных стран, формирование поисковых умений
- расширение словарного запаса и практика устной речи по данной теме в новых, интересных коммуникативных ситуациях
- изучить необычные традиции и забавы британцев, с целью применения приобретенных знаний в условиях попадания в языковую среду, а также в дальнейшем обучении.
- познакомиться с современными или неизвестными ранее традициями и забавами британцев, чтобы расширить взгляд на изученный материал
Tasks (задачи). Задачи проекта:
- собрать информацию найти необычные традиция и забавы ;
- развивать умения работать с текстом, выделять главное, находить нужную информацию;
- развивать умения составления небольшого монологического высказывания на английском языке с опорами;
- провести интернет-исследование, пользуясь поисковыми браузерами;
- научиться систематизировать полученную из разных источников информацию и преобразовывать её в монолог;
- расширять общий кругозор, научиться эстетически грамотно представлять материал;
- создать проектный продукт.
Актуальность: работа над данным проектом позволяет сформировать интерес к необычным традициям и забавам британцев
Object (объект исследования): необычные традиции и забавы британцев.
Subject matter (предмет исследования): история, обычаи и традиции праздников.
Methods (методы): поисковый – информация в сети Интернет, библиотечный фонд, дополнительная литература, аудио- и видеоматериалы.
Предполагаемые продукты проекта: презентация.
INTRODUCTION
Our interest in the English language has led us to studying the history of the British Isles and the culture of British people. The more facts we learn the more details we discover. The character of the British people is the subject of special interest. As well as Britain has a long history there are a lot of holidays, traditions and fun British people believe in.
The main aims of the work are:
to explore the world the Unusual traditions and fun of the British;
to learn about the origins of some Unusual traditions and fun of the British;
to analyze and compare the results of the research works.
UNUSUAL BRITISH GAMES AND TRADITIONS
World Hen Racing Championship
Who has the fastest hen? It is an important question that’s given rise to an annual event in Derbyshire. Head to the Barley Mow pub in Bonsall to discover the year’s speediest fowl as they are put through their paces over a 30 feet track. You can enjoy gorgeous views of the Peak District and some good local ale while you do.
Chelsea Flower Show
The Chelsea Flower Show is the ultimate event in the gardening year. It sets the latest gardening trends, features the newest and most desirable gardening products and creates an explosion of colors and scents. There are around 600 exhibitors at the show. This includes: 22 show gardens; 22 small gardens, including courtyard gardens and urban gardens; 100 floral exhibitors in the Great Pavilion; approximately 300 garden product exhibitors. International exhibitors come from countries as far away as the Sweden, Barbados, Sri Lanka, France, Holland, Germany, Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe.
Stilton Cheese Rolling
Stilton celebrates its most famous export in an unforgettable annual Cheese Rolling Event. Ironically, the world famous Stilton Cheese has never been made in Stilton. Thankfully, this does not prevent the village from organizing one of the funniest competitions of its kind. Participants are divided into teams of four and must roll large rounded blocks of wood resembling cheese blocks from the Bell Inn down the street to the finish line at Fen and Church streets. The competition has multiple knockout rounds ensuring the finals will be a hotly contested race. Fancy dress adds to the hilarity. The winning team receives an enormous block of Stilton cheese and a round of beers, the same prize that has been offered for decades.
Peel Bay Dip
Hundreds take the plunge into the frigid waters of Peel Bay to get a "fresh" start on the New Year and benefit local charities. The event dates back to the 1st of January 1983 when for dippers raised £50 for Multiple Sclerosis. Today more than 200 people sign up for the dip and they can boast over £100,000 raised for charity. Each dippers are sponsored as compensation for their craziness and the inevitable runny nose that follows the dip. Sponsorship is on an informal basis so what are you waiting for. Find someone willing to give to a good cause and get ready to go dipping.
Great Christmas Pudding Race
Christmas Pudding has been an English tradition for centuries. It comes in all shapes and sizes with each family having their own secret recipe, but you have never seen Christmas pudding quite like this. The Great Christmas Pudding Race is a quirky event in central London that raises money for Cancer Research. Teams wearing fancy dress have to run around Covent Garden while trying to balance their Christmas pudding on a plate. Obstacles such as balloons full of flour, are put in their way to make it even more fun to watch. Grandma's Christmas pudding earning money for charity...it is something you have to see to believe.
Spectacular Jousting
Sensational knights compete in displays of skill and daring as this exciting major show returns for two successive weekends. To the sound of fanfares, the knights enter the arena before staging a fiercely fought tournament to determine the winner - see how a Scottish knight fearlessly faces his opponent! A supporting program will be staged throughout the afternoon, making this a great value day out.
Haxey Hood
This is a bizarre ritual carried out each Twelfth Night (Old Style Christmas Day) in the village of Haxey in Lincolnshire, near the Nottinghamshire border. According to legend, it was on Twelfth Night that the wife of Sir John de Mowbray was riding on horseback across the fields near Haxey on the Isle of Axholme, when a sudden gust of wind blew her large black silk hood. Thirteen Labourers in a nearby field gave a chase to rescue it, vying with one another to return its graceful owner. She was so grateful that she donated a piece of land on Westwood hill, just outside the village, for an annual enactment of the gallant recovery of her hood.
At 2 p.m. the church bell are rung and down the street in procession comes the "Lord" and his eleven "Boggins" together with the "Fool". The "Lord" wears a red coat and top hat covered with flowers and he carries a stick made from thirteen willow wands and bound thirteen times. At the church gate the "Fool", standing on an old mounting block, makes his traditional speech of welcome to the waiting crowd.
The "Lord" then leads his officials and the people to the highest ground in the parish where the "Boggins" form a large circle. He then calls on a distinguished visitor to throw the first "hood" in the air.
Maypole Dancing
Maypole Dancing is the great tradition of May 1st.
On May Day, teams of dancers perform intricate patterns whilst circling the pole. The ribbons interweave as they make their way down the pole with a very decorative result.
Sweeps Festival
This occurs in the first weekend in May. A May Day Celebration.
The festival owes its roots to age old traditions. Sweeping chimneys was a dirty but necessary trade nearly 300 years ago.
Sweeps Festival is said to be the largest gathering of Morris Dancers in the world. Notably, the only true English day where you can join in and listen to the music.
Up Helly Aa
Thought to be Britain's biggest fire festival and torchlight procession. A thousand years after the Vikings invaded Scotland, the people of Shetlands remember the Vikings with a festival.
Every winter they make a model Viking Longship. On Up-Helly-Aa night, at the end of January, the Shetlanders dress up in Viking clothes and drag the ship through the town to the sea. They sing Up-Helly-Aa songs before tossing their burning torches onto the ship and creating a massive bonfire. They do this because the Vikings put their dead men in ships and burned them.
Well Dressing
The custom of well dressing is popular all over Derbyshire. The wells are dressed with large framed panels decorated with elaborate mosaic-like pictures made of flower petals, seeds, grasses, leaves, tree bark, berries and moss. Well-dressings are beautiful and delicate and take a lot of work to make, and yet they only last for a few days.
Straw Bear Festival
At Whittlesey, on the weekend following Plough Monday (the first Monday after Twelfth Night) a straw bear is paraded around the town attended by a host of dancers and musician from all over the country. The bear is a man covered from head to foot in a straw costume.
During the 19th century, Straw Bears - men or boys clothed in a layer of straw - were a familiar Plough Monday.
Swan Upping
Every year a group of herdsmen, including The Queen’s Swan Marker dressed in a red costume, and Swan Wardens of the Worshipful Company’s of Dyers and Vintners head up the River Thames in six rowing boats from Sunbury to Abingdon marking swans along the way according to their ownership. In a tradition dating back to Edward IV’s reign, when he sold the swans for money, they are captured to determine their ownership by the marks on their beaks and then their offspring are marked accordingly. Swans belonging to Dyer’s get one nick in their beaks, the Vintners two notches and the Queen’s remain unmarked. You can watch the action from the towpaths along the river course.
World Snail Racing Championship
Instead of betting on a horse, why don't you bet on a snail this time? All you need to do is find a snail, train it and enter the competition. Participants (snails, not their owners) start in the middle of a circular track with a radius of 13 or 14 inches. The first snail to reach the finish line is declared ‘The Fastest Snail in the World.’ Among previous winners were Sydney from Litcham (3 minutes 41 seconds) and Archie (2 minutes, also the World Record holder).
Ready, Steady, Slow!
The World's Biggest Liar Contest
Competitors from all over the world gather at this event to share their tall tales, which can be based on a real event or ridiculous lies. The goal is to be as convincing as possible. The competition is the brainchild of Will Ritson, a popular publican from the Lake District. He would always tell his customers the most unbelievable stories about history of the region. He was so sincere and genuine that it was almost impossible to tell whether his stories were true or simply products of his imagination. You should join the competition this year, unless you are a lawyer or a politician, who are not allowed to participate as “they are judged to be too skilled at telling porkies.”
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival
Did you know that garlic is also used to prevent certain types of cancer and heart diseases? And who doesn’t love garlic bread? However, you have probably never tried garlic ice cream, beer or fudge. You can sample these and many other unusual dishes at the Isle of Wight Garlic Festival. There will be over 300 stalls offering you unique culinary experiences. The festival will also have a funfair, a weensy railway and a water-ball pond-climbing wall. Some of the best British performers will entertain you. The Times and Telegraph consistently describe this event as “one of Britain’s best food festivals.” Take your family and friends and journey to the Isle of Wight, where people of all ages are guaranteed to have an amazing time.
CONCLUSION
Использованные источники информации:
http://www.projectbritain.com/curious/calendar.htm
http://www.thetop10guide.net/unusual-british-traditions.html
http://www.learnenglish.de/culture/unusualsports.htm
http://www.choosebritish.co.uk/unusual-british-traditions-tourist-attractions.html
