Презентация к уроку "British Holidays and Traditions"

British Holidays And Traditions

Сватиньш Ольга Имантовна, МБОУ г.Шахты «Лицей №3»

You already know some British holidays. They are:

• The New Year’s Day
• Christmas Day
• St Valentine’s Day

One more British holiday is St David’s Day. Welsh people celebrate it on the 1 st of March.

On this day you can see pictures of St David with a dove on his shoulder.

The flag with the Red Dragon plays a central role in the celebrations. n

On this day, people wear either a daffodil or leek, two national emblems of Wales.

Younger girls sometimes wear traditional Welsh costumes.

May Day

• May Day is celebrated on the 1 st of May.
• For this day people decorate houses and streets with branches of trees and flowers.
• Traditional English May Day celebra-tions include    dancing around a Maypole , crowning a  May Queen   and Morris dancing .

A Maypole A May Queen

The May Queen is the symbol of May Day.

Morris Dancing is a dance in Robin Hood costumes.

Children take part in this merry holiday.

The Parade of young May Queens.

The Trooping of the Colour

The Queen is the only person in Britain who has two birthdays. Her real birthday is on April 21 st , but she has an official birthday, too. That’s on the second Saturday in June.

On the Queen’s official birthday, there is a traditional ceremony called The Trooping of the Colour.

The Trooping of the Colour is a big parade in London.

The Queen’s soldiers, the Guards, march in front of her.

Swan Upping is the Royal tradition which takes place in the third week of July each year.

On the River Thames there are hundreds of Swans.

A lot of these beautiful birds belong, traditionally, to the King or Queen.

The Queen’s swan keeper goes in a boat up the River Thames.

He looks at all the young swans and marks the royal ones.

The swans are rounded up, caught, marked, and then released.

Highland Games are held in Scotland every summer.

Thousands of visitiors come to see competitions in caber tossing.

Throwing the hammer is one more national sport.

The games always include Scottish dancing and bagpipe music.

The State Opening of Parliament The Queen opens the Parliament every autumn.

She travels from Buckingham Palace to the House of Parliament in a gold carriage – the Irish State Coach.

At the House of Parliament the Queen reads the Queen speech.

Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated on November 5 th .

All over the country people build bonfires and burn a figure of Guy Fawkes on them.

Guy Fawks was in a band which wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. He was caught on the 5 th of November 1605.

The conspirators were executed and Britain has celebrated Guy Fawkes night since then.

Let’s remember these holidays and traditions:

• St David’s Day
• May Day
• The Trooping of the Colour
• Swan Upping
• Highland Games
• The State Opening of Parliament
• Guy Fawkes Day

Let’s play a memory game.

Look at the words and tell what holiday they are connected with.

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caber

hammer

bagpipe music

Highland Games

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birthday

soldiers

parade

The Trooping of the Colour

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daffodil

leek

Red Dragon

St David’s Day

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night

bonfire

figure of Guy

Guy Fawkes Day

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golden carriage

Queen

speech

The State Opening of Parliament

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May Pole

May Queen

Morris Dancing

May Day

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the River Thames

boat

swans

Swan Upping