Традиция Англии "День яблока"
методическая разработка по английскому языку на тему

Введение

1. Оформление кабинета, оборудование, реквизит.

а) плакаты (дерево - яблоня)

б) рисунки детей

в) музыкальное сопровождение:

video Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

video Apple Tree

video Celtic Music Dance with Trees

video Relaxing Gothic Music Night Mist

video Apple – Bobbing

   г) постеры: - яблоки в геральдике

                   - яблоки в фольклоре и литературе

                   - яблоки в науке

                  - загадки примеры

д) приглашения (в форме яблока)

е) стихи на листочках (в форме яблока)

ж) саженцы для посадки

з) призы

Сценарий к одной из новых традиций Англии «День яблока».

“Apple Day”

I. Introduction. The song: “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree”.

1. Today we are going to get acquainted with one of the new traditions of England. Apple Day, which is celebrated on the 21st of October or at the nearest weekend. Today we are going to find out why the English began to celebrate this day.

2. The Apple is a fleshy fruit from the apple tree. It is in the species Malus domesticus in the rose family. The apple is one of the most grown tree fruits. The apple-tree came from Central Asia. Its wild ancestor is still there today. There are more than 7500 kinds of different apple trees. The apple is a small leaf-shedding tree that grows up to 3 to 12 meters tall, has a broad crown with thick twigs. The leaves are alternately arranged as simple ovals. They are 5 to 12 centimeters long and 3-6 cm wide. It has a sharp top with a soft underside. Blossoms come out in spring and at the same time leaves begin to bud. The flowers are white and have a slightly pink colour. They are 5 petaled. The fruit matures in autumn. It is usually 5 to 9 centimeters in diameter. There are five carpels arranged in a star in the middle if the fruit. Every carpel has one to three seeds.

3. Apple Day is an annual activity which is dedicated to tasty fruit, orchards, and local sights. It has been celebrated since 1990. People consider that the holiday is demonstration of variety and riches of nature and more over it is another way of trying to make people remember that we ourselves are responsible for health of our planet, that we are capable to influence the events that are taking place around us.

The main idea of the day is that the apple is a symbol of physical, cultural and genetic diversity and we are to remember it.

If you happen to be in London on the Apple Day you will have a chance to see and taste a lot of different species of apples many of which are not sold in the shops. Farmers offer some rare sorts of apple trees and try to grow apple trees in their own gardens. There is an identification service which can define what sort of apples you have bought. And an apple doctor will help you with his advice in solving any problems of you garden.

The apple tree has the most ancient history. It was the apple that caused troubles of Adam and Eve. It was the apple which was the reason for the Trojan war to begin. And it was the apple which helped Newton to discover the law of gravity. The Newton tree under which this happened vanished in 1814. However, its branches were engrafted with the apple trees in the garden of Lord Brownlow in Belton. In 1940 some grafts of those apple trees were brought to New Zealand. One of the apple trees grown from these grafts is the old tree in the garden of the Geology-Atomic Research Institute in a New Zealand town Lower- Hutt. It is still growing and fruting there and its fruit are nice and juicy. The juiciest apples contain almost all the elements of Mendeleyev Table which are necessary for good work of the heart; there is a unique complex of sugar, organic acids, vitamins, pectins, catekhins, which are necessary for good work of different organs of the man.  

In ancient myths the apple is the symbol of knowledge, wisdom and warmth of the sun. The apple thee is considered to be a sacred tree of God of the Sun – Apollo, whose name has the same root with the word apple.

4. In persian countries there is a legend about 40 apples. They suppose, that if you think of a wish and then eat 40 apples one after another having blown on each of them before you make a bite, you wish will certainly come true. But if you stop eating even having eaten 39 apples, magic will disappear and your house and household will face misery.

Thanks to apples Archimedes discovered the law of hydrostatics According to the legend he got angry with his maid who had not brought the apples in time and, when she did, he began to drown the apples in water and during the procedure he made his most important discovery.

Ancient Irish and Scots had a custom of a defining future husband or a bride. A young man or a young girl threw apple peel over his/her shoulder to the ground, where it took some shape of a letter and this very letter was at the beginning of the name of a man/woman who would be his/her promised wife/husband

A lot of myths are connected with apples and apple-trees. According to European symbolics the apple is a symbol of life. In the folklore of many people’s there are legends connected with fruit of this tree. These are Greek golden apples, Celt Island of Apples and, of course, the Slav “molodilnye” apples (making look younger).

Many people know the ancient Greek legend about “the Apple of Discord”. Tsar Pelei and Nereida Phetida did not invite Erida, the goddess of quarrels and arguments, to their wedding. The goddess got furious and to take revenge, she put a golden apple to the  guests stealthily. The apple had an inscription: “To the most beautiful”. Aphrodite, Athena and Gera began to fight for the right to possess this magic fruit. Each wanted to be called the most beautiful. Aphrodite used cunning. She promised Paris, the Trojan Tsar and the judge in the three goddesses’ argument, to help him marry the girl he chose. Paris agreed and so Aphrodite won. Later she helped Paris to steal the Spartan Beauty Helen and take her to Troja  which led to the Trojan war. There are some other legends connected with apples and apple-trees.

 5. Poems and Songs

Apples fruit in autumn. So our poems will be connected with this season and the apple-tree.

Down, down

Yellow and brown

The leaves are falling

Over the town

September is a time

Of  beginning far all

Beginning of school

Beginning of fall.

The sunflower children

Nod to the sun

Summer is over

Fall has begun.

“Come out, little leaves”

Said the wind one day

Come over the meadows with me and play

Put on your dressed of red and gold

For summer is gone and the days grow cold

A little Elf

Sat on a tree

Painting leaves

To throw at me

Leaves of  yellow

And leaves of red

Come tumbling down

About my head.

I love Fall

I love Fall! Fall is exciting

It’s apples and cider

It’s an airborne spider

It’s pumpkin in bins

It’s burrs on dog’s chins

It’s wind blowing leaves

It’s chilly red knees.

It’s nuts on the ground

It’s a crisp dry sound

It’s green leaves turning

And the smell of them burning

It’s cloudsin the sky

It’s fall. That’s why…

I love fall.

Red leaves and yellow leaves

Orange leaves and brown

Leaves are dancing everywhere

Happily dancing down.

The breezes taste

Of apple peel

The air is full

Of  smells to feel

Ripe fruit, old footballs

Burning brush

New books, erasers

Chalk and such

The bee, his hive

Well-honey hum

And Mother cuts

Chrysanthemums

Like plates washed clean

With suds the days

Are polished with

A morning haze

October leaves are lovely

They rustle when I run

Sometimes I wake a heap

And jump in them for fun

October is the month

When the smallest breeze

Gives us a shower

Of autumn leaves

Bonfires and pumpkins

Leaves sailing down

October is red

And golden and brown.

Autumn leaves float quietly down

And form a carpet on the ground

But when those leaves are stepped upon

You hear a crackling sound

In  November Dark comes soon

We turn on the lights

In the afternoon

No sunshine, lots of rain

No warm days, snow again!

No bugs or bees

No leaves on trees

You must remember

This is November!

Song

The leaves are falling down

The leaves are falling down

School is here and fall is near

The leaves are falling down.

The leaves are falling down

The leaves are falling down

Some are red and some are brown

The leaves are falling down

The leaves are falling down

The leaves are falling down

They tickle your nose and touch your toes

The leaves are falling down

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

A little red apple

Hung high in a tree

I looked up at it

And it looks down at me

“Come down, please”. I called

And what do you suppose?

That little red apple

Dropped right on my nose

Song

Six little apples are on the tree

Andy goes up the tree

Down come three

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Apples, apples, one, two, three

Apples for you, apples for me

Apples for big, apples for small

Apple trees tiny, apple trees tall

Apples sour, apples sweet

Apples, apples are nice to eat.

Poem with actions

This is the tree

With leaves so green (fingers stretched)

Here are the apples

That hang in between (fists)

When the wind blows (blow)

The apples will fall (falling motion with hands)

Here is the basket to gather them all

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Song

Picking apples

Picking apples

One by one

One by one

Put them in the basket

Put them in the basket

Oh! What fun!

Oh! What fun!

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Apples in the attic

Apples in the hall

Apples in the summer

Apples in the fall

Apples make you healthy

Apples make you tall

I will eat some apples

I will eat them all.

Take an apple round and red

Don’t slice down

Slice through instead

Right inside it you will see

A star as pretty as can be

Take an apple round and red

Don’t slice down

Slice through instead

Look inside and you will see

A special star for you and me.

Song

Here we go round

The apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree

Here we go round the apple tree

So early in the morning.

This is the way,

We plant our seeds, plant our seeds, plant our seeds

This is the way, we plant our seeds

So early in the morning.

This is the way

The little seed sprouts, the little seed sprouts, the little seed sprouts

This is the way the little seed sprouts

So early in the morning.

This is the way

It grows to a tree, it grows to a tree, it grows to a tree

This is the way it grows to a tree

So early in the morning.

This is the way

The flowers blossom, the flowers blossom, the flowers blossom

This is the way the flowers blossom

So early in the morning.

This is the way

The apples grow, the apples grow, the apples grow

This is the way the apples grow

So early in the morning.

This is the way

The apples are picked, the apples are picked, the apples are picked,

This is the way the apples are picked,

So early in the morning.

6. Activities

There are a lot of activities which are held on the Apple Day in England. Now we shall try to take part in some of them.

1. Task I. Contest (III groups).

Make a toy out of an apple. Materials:  buttons, pins, boxes, apples, a doll.

2. Task II.

Carving a picture on an apple (a flower, a butterfly, a face)

3. Task III.

Eating an apple (two students of each team try to eat a hung apple without touching it with their hands)

4. Task IV.  

Peeling an apple (a grown-up for each team peels an apple the longer the peel, the more scores the team gets)

5. Task V.

Making a hedgehog.

Materials: apples, toothpicks

6. Task VI.

Finish the Russian proverbs

Яблоко от яблони (недалеко падает)

Яблоню за яблочки любят (а пчелку – за мед)

Только глупец рубит яблоню (чтобы достать яблоко)

В незрелом яблоке (вкуса нет)

Не срывай яблоко пока зелено (созреет – само упадет)

Кто яблоко в день съедает (про того доктор забывает)

7. Apples are very tasty and there are a lot of recipes and while our jury are counting the scores you can read the recipes: there are hot dishes, salads, desserts, drinks like sider. Some of the dishes can be tasted at the celebrations but the main thing is learning about nature, trying to help it and getting a lot of good spirit we hope you got the same good spirit from our party too.

Now after the jury announces the results of the contest, we will plant some apple trees in our school garden.

Thanks to everyone!