Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Shrovetide

about the holiday
and ask the questions.

“Shrovetide Party”. “Shrovetide Party” is a traditional holiday. You will learn about customs and traditional meals of this holiday.
How long does “Shrovetide” last?
So “Shrovetide” lasts 7 days. Every day has its own meaning and people have special events. Let’s get to know about it.
 

jolliest, most vivid and fun-filled holiday every year.
    The tradition of celebrating Shrovetide came to us from pre-Christian Russia. This is a holiday of farewell with winter, of spring’s arrival, Nature’s awakening and the life renewal. An invariable attribute of Shrovetide were pancakes symbolizing the sun.
 

week serves its purposes.
Monday means “Meeting day”. Thus, on Monday people dressed up the straw figure of Shrovetide, which they took out into the streets and strode around with. Children built snow hills and shouted: "Shrovetide is here!”
Let’s meet Shrovetide and decorate this word with right adjectives. Work in groups. Each group says words describing this fest and gets points.

the girls to go on downhill rides in sleighs and to eat pancakes. This was an opportunity to get a closer look at each other and find prospective brides and husbands.
       On Wednesday, dubbed "Sweet-tooth”, pancakes were served in all the houses, as well as all other sorts of dainties. Traveling shows appeared everywhere, selling pancakes, hot sbiten (mead), roasted nuts, honey cakes. On that day it was the tradition for the sons-in-law to visit their mothers-in-law, for whom they made pancakes.

Now, teams, write your own recipe. On the board you see the words use them to make a recipe.
Put some meat, take some flour, add some sugar and milk, Add 2-3 eggs mix everything. Oil the pan, fry pancakes. The pancakes are very tasty. Add some water. Don’t add sugar, wash fruit, cut onion, add some salt and pepper, boil, put them into the bowl.

The fun spills out into the streets of towns and villages. On this day one had to eat as many pancakes as was possible.
On Friday – sons-in-law was invited by their mothers-in-law and all their relatives to eat pancakes.  

dialogue and act it. Work in a group
S – Oh, mother. I haven’t seen you for ages. Hello.
M – Hi, my dear son! How are you?
S – I’m fine thank you. Mother, would
you like to have a snack?
I baked pancakes myself.
M – Really? Of course, I’d like to try them.
S- How do you like the pancakes?
M – m – m. Delicious! Thank you very much,
but I must go. Good- bye.
S – Bye.

and the guests were to appraise her culinary abilities.
        Sunday – the last day of Shrovetide – is dubbed "Forgiveness Sunday”. On that day the straw effigy of Shrovetide was cast into a bonfire, with the ashes scattered over the fields to ensure a good harvest.

answer:
In late February and early March, Russia celebrates Shrovetide, the most ancient festival. People believed that the change of seasons was the struggle between Yarilo, the god of sun, and the evil spirit. They believed that they had to help Yarilo. So, for the whole week, Russian villagers had fun and games. They built a straw puppet of the Shrovetide Maid and they burnt it on the last day of the festival.

symbolized Yarilo. People thought that by eating pancakes, they got the power, light and warmth of the sun.

and early March, Russia celebrates Shrovetide.
A) True               B) False
2. Yarilo is the god of water and the kind spirit.
A) True               B) False
3.  People built a wooden puppet of Shrovetide Maid
A) True               B) False
4. The most important part of Shrovetide week was eating pancakes
A) True               B) False