Сценарий праздника Thanksgiving Day

Сценарий вечера на английском языке

«Thanksgiving day»

( для 6-9 классов)

Оформление: рисунки, плакаты, кроссворды, музыка.

За две недели до праздника вводится лексика по теме «Thanksgiving Day» на уроках, что позволяет лучше подготовиться и с интересом участвовать во всех конкурсах и в самом празднике.

Накануне праздника организуется выставка рисунков и мини - сочинений под заголовком «We are Thankful for Many Things».

Рисунки и сочинения войдут в так называемую «A Thank-you Book» («Благодарственная книга»), которая может пополняться материалами каждый год.

Ход вечера

Вечер можно вести на английском и русском языках: это зависит от уровня подготовленности учащихся.

Ведущий:

Dear boys and girls! Dear guests! We are here to celebrate a wonderful holiday - Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving Day to you!

Thanksgiving Day comes on the 4th Thursday in November. It is a legal holiday celebrated throughout the United States. People of all faiths celebrate this holiday. They give thanks for the many good things in their lives. On Thanksgiving Day, families come together for a special dinner (feast). Turkey with stuffing is the main dish. It is served with mashed potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Apple cider is the drink of the day. Football is the most popular game on this day. For many schools, the Thanksgiving Day game is the most important one of the year. Stores, classrooms, and homes are decorated with turkeys, pilgrims, Indians, wreaths of dried flowers and vegetables. Horns of plenty are also very popular. Charitable organizations serve dinner to needy people. They also send baskets of food to elderly and sick. And now we are going to show you a performance about the history of Thanksgiving Day. Your task is to be very careful. After the performance there will be a quiz.

(Начинается спектакль. Действующие лица - учащиеся).

«The Origin of thanksgivinG»

Characters: Story-teller, the Pilgrims, Indians.

Story-teller: On September 16, 1620 the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England. The ship was called the Mayflower, they landed at Plymouth Rock, in Massachusetts, on December 26, 1620.

The 1st Pilgrim: Oh, I see a land! Look!

All Pilgrims: Land! Hurrah! Land!

The 2nd Pilgrim: Look! There are people there. They welcome us.

The Indian Leader: Welcome to our land! Who are you? Where are you from?

The 1st Pilgrim: We are Pilgrims. We are from England. We have come for new lives. And who are you?

The Indian Leader: We are Indians. We have been living here for a long time. You may stay here and live on our land.

Pilgrims: Thank you very much!

Story-teller: The first winter was a terrible time. The Pilgrims were hungry, sick and cold. Many people died. Then the Native Americans, the Indians, helped the Pilgrims.

The 3rd Pilgrims: We have nothing to eat. Many people have died and many are sick. What shall we do?

(Появляются индейцы с корзинками еды).

The 1st Indian: Hello! We have brought food to you: bread, vegetables, fruit, corn, and other things.

The 3rd Pilgrim: Oh! Thank you very much! You have saved our lives! We'll never forget you!

Story-teller: Spring came. Indians taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, to build houses, to hunt, to fish. In other words - how to survive in America.

(Индейцы показывают пилигримам, как выращивать кукурузу, строить дома, ловить рыбу, охотиться).

The 2nd Indian: We'll teach you how to plant corn, build houses, hunt and fish. Our land is very rich.

The 4th Pilgrim: Thanks! We'll pray for you! We'll be good pupils.

Story-teller: The crops did well, and in the fall (autumn) of 1621 the Pilgrims had a great harvest. They were very thankful and decided to celebrate with a feast. The Pilgrims invited the Indian friends to share this Thanksgiving feast.

The 2nd Pilgrim: Welcome to our Thanksgiving feast! We are grateful to you for many things. But the main is: you helped us when we suffered greatly. And we'll never forget those days!

(Индейцы и пилигримы садятся за праздничный стол. На столе: индейка (муляж), клюква, фрукты, кукуруза, пирог и др. Вождь индейцев произносит здравицу в честь пилигримов).

The Indian Leader:

Heap high the board with plenteous cheer,

And gather to the feast,

And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band

Whose courage never ceased.

(Ставьте на столы обильное угощение

и собирайтесь на праздник,

Поднимем тост за стойких пилигримов,

чьё мужество никогда не иссякнет).

The 1st Pilgrim: Thanks a lot! Now let's have a fun! Let's recite poems and sing songs.

The 4th Pilgrim:

(Это стихотворение могут рассказывать несколько пилигримов)

Pilgrim Children

Pilgrim children worked hard all day.

Pilgrim children had little time to play.

The first child chopped lots of wood.

The second child helped make the family's food.

The third helped keep the horses fed.

The fourth child made a mattress for his bed.

The fifth child made soap and candle.

The sixth child turned a meat-roasting handle.

Pilgrim children worked hard all day.

Pilgrim children hat little time to play.

The 3rd Pilgrim:

Five Plump Turkeys

This plump turkey spread his tail like a fan.

This plump turkey, away he ran.

This plump turkey flew up in a tree.

This plump turkey gobbled at me.

This plump turkey said, «I'll leave right away.

So the cook can't find me on Thanksgiving Day».

Indians: And now let's sing an Indian song. While singing use pantomime to show the actions in this active song

.

This is the way we beat our drum,

Beat our drum, beat our drum,

This is the way we beat our drum,

We are the Wampanoag.

(Continue with these verses: plant our corn, grind our corn, hunt for food, wash our clothes).

Story-teller: Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national day of observance by Congress of the United States in 1941. Today, Thanksgiving is the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season and in many cities Thanksgiving marks the arrival of Santa Claus.

The end

Ведущий:

And now we'll have a quiz.

1. When do we celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

2. What does this holiday mean?

3. What was the name of Pilgrims' ship?

4. When did the Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock?

5. When was the first Thanksgiving?

6. What is the traditional food on Thanksgiving Day?

(Учащиеся, которые правильно отвечают на вопросы, могут награждаться призами).

Ведущий: And now it is time to look into our Thank-you book.

(Ведущий зачитывает мини-сочинения на тему «We are Thankful for Many Things». Из этой же книги демонстрируются рисунки ребят на ту же тему. Лучшие сочинения и рисунки награждаются призами).

Ведущий: Now let's have fun. Let's play and guess puzzles and crosswords!

(Ниже предложены конкурсы, ребусы, игры, которые могут быть использованы для вечера).

1. Use the code to learn the secret letter.

(Код с алфавитом и цифрами, а также само зашифрованное письмо - на плакате).

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

2. How many words belonging to this holiday do you know?

(Кто называет больше слов - получает приз).

2. Unscramble words.

1. ukryet (turkey);

2. recaryrbn (cranberry);

3. seft (feast);

4. ahvrtes (harvest);

5. sureviv (survive);

6. ipglimr (pilgrim);

7. nikesdns (kindness);

4. Translate an acrostic poem.

T - urkey

H - arbor

A - ppreciation

N - ew World

K - indness

S - ettlement

G - overnor

I - ndians

V - ension

I - nvitation

N - uts

G - obble-gobble

games

Mr. Turkey.

One child sits on a chair in the middle of a circle with his eyes closed. Another child then knocks on the back of the chair. The child in the chair asks, «Who's there?» The child then answers, «Mr. Turkey». The child must then guess who Mr. Turkey is.

Hide the Turkey.

Choose a small group of children to leave the room. While they are gone, hide a turkey. Have the small group find the turkey by listening to the other children clap. They clap loudly when the children are near the hidden object and softly when they are far away.

Pin the Feather on the Turkey.

Make a large turkey of construction paper or cardboard. Blindfold the children one at a time and let them try to pin the feather on the tail of the turkey.

Hiding Turkeys.

Hide paper turkeys around the room. Have the children tell who found the most or fewest, show how many they found, show turkeys that are alike or different, show turkeys of different sizes.

В конце праздника можно всем исполнить песню «America, the Beautiful». Гостям праздника можно подарить открытки с поздравлениями, сделанными учащимися (на открытках - символика праздника).

Праздник можно завершить и праздничными угощениями, которые приготовили сами учащиеся.

words list

(Слова, которые нужно дать учащимся накануне праздника)

to be thankful

- быть благодарным

to be grateful

- быть благодарным

thankfulness

- благодарность

gratitude

- благодарность

compassion

- сострадание

sharing

- участие

kindness

- доброта

appreciation

- признательность

blessing

- благословение

grace

- милосердие

prayer

- молитва

survive

- выживать

suffer

- страдать

settlement

- поселение

governor

- губернатор, правитель

harbor

- бухта

invitation

- приглашение

feast

- пир, праздник

horn of plenty

- рог изобилия

cranberry

- клюква

gobble

- кулдыкать (об индюке)

stuffing

- начинка

wreath

- венок

fowl

- птица

venison

- оленина

pie

- пирог

world

- мир

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