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Lesson 4. Merry making

1a. Listen to one of the traditional rhymes which have accompanied the Bonfire Night, then read it. When do people celebrate Bonfire Night? Why?

Remember, remember the Fifth

1b.ВWhat sounds (звуки) are the letters in bold? Write the letters for the sounds [aU], [´U], [з:], [I] [i:].

1c. Have a phonetic competition. Read the poem.

2a. Read about the history and traditions of the Bonfire Night. What new information have you learnt as compared to the rhyme?

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days before Bonfire Night, children used to take their homemade guys out in the street and ask for “a penny for the Guy” for fireworks.

fair (справедливый) – unfair = not fair

Unlucky, unimportant, unhappy, unpopular, uninhabited, unable, untidy.

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1 guys=effigies [ efIdZ:iz]) – чучелa; 2 wrapped in foil – завернутую в фольгу; 3 oatmeal, ginger, treacle, syrup – овес, имбирь, патока, сироп

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3a. Write Who- questions about the Bonfire Night.

Model: When Queen Elizabeth I took the throne of England she made some laws against the Roman Catholics. – Who made some laws against the Roman Catholics?

3b. Ask each other in turns.

4a. Read the Firework Safety rules and say which of them are very important and less important. Which of the rules do you follow? Which of the rules do you never follow?

Fireworksыwillшfrighten your pets, so keep your pets safely indoors.

IfВyou are given a sparkler (бенгальский огонь), always wear gloves. Hold it at arm’s length. When your sparkler goes out, DON’T TOUCH IT. It could still burn you, so put it in water.

4b. On which holidays and festivities are there fireworks and bonfires?

4c. Write bonfire safety rules for the Belarusian holidays of Kupalle and Spring Calling.

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3b. Read these descriptions of sporting traditions in the UK. Some of the customs or rules may seem strange but they have been around for hundreds of years. Get into groups of three. Each of you reads one of the texts and gets ready to speak about the following:

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A. when the sport tradition began; B. where and when it is played; C. what the rules are.

Sporting traditions in the UK

1.Traditionally, forty-one days before Easter Sunday is a special day for Christians, called Pancake Day or Shrove Tues-

day. It is the day before Lent (Великий пост) starts. Lent is a Christian fast (пост) which lasts forty days beforeаEaster. On Pancake Day people used to celebrate the last dayлbefore Easter when they could eat what they wanted. Eggs and milk ought not to be eaten during Lent. That’s why the eggs,оmilk and butter left in the house were used for pancakes. Allкover England there were pancake races on or near Shrove Tuesday. The tradition is still around today. The rules of pancakeшraces are different in different places, but each participant, usually a woman, has to wear

an apron and a hat or scarf. They run with a pancake in a frying pan and throw the pancake in theяair. They have to catch it again in the pan (сковорода). The winner gets to the finishing line first having thrown the pancake aаpre-decided number of times.

The most famous pancake race takes place at Olney. The Olney pancake race is worldшfamous.

2.The HighlandйGames is a Championship which began in the middle of the 19th century in the Scottish Highlands. Games are traditionallyэheld in September. Today they include highland dancing, contests in playing the bagpipes and one of the most popularшsports – “tossing the caber”. Tossing means throwing. Players have to throw a long and extremely heavy pine trunk (стволысосны) as far as possible. The average caber weighs [weIz] 68 kilos and is usually about 6 metres long. The heaviest caberВin the history of caber tossing weighed 127 kilos. The player who throws his wooden caber the furthest is not necessarily the winner. The style of throwing is more important than the distance. Players are usually very big and strong!

3.The Ashbourne street football« game is a two day football match held in Ashbourne [ QSbç:n], in the Midlands every spring. It is one of many street football matches played all over the UK. The town is divided into two teams, depending on where the players live. There can be hundreds of players in each team

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and the two goal posts are nearly five kilometres apart. The ball is not kicked but “hugged” close to the chest (мяч «обнимают» = прижимают к груди). It is a bit difficult to get the ball from one end of town to the other and sometimes no goals are scored. The shopkeepers in the centre of town have to cover their windows with wooden boards1 to protect them from the crowds (толпы) of players. All locals, both the young and the old, enjoy this very lively and sometimes violent2 game. The match ends with a few broken arms but people think it is all so much fun. They have been playing this game every year for more than two

credible number of players? 4.Which sport is the most danger-

4a. Do you know of any sporting traditions in Belarus? Discuss with your class to collect ideas.

4b. Write aboutыa sporting tradition in Belarus (10 – 12 sentences).

LessonВ 6. Is it worth breaking traditions?

1. “BBC breaks 565-year pancake tradition” was the title in a local newspaper. Why? Read and answer.

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1 wooden boards [bç:dz] деревянные доски; 2 violent [ vaI´l´nt] жестокая, жёсткая

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