Teacher: Good day dear learners, our dear guests! I’m
glad to greet you at our lesson. Today you have got
an unusual lesson.
I want you to look
at the blackboard and guess what we are going to speak
about today at the
lesson.
Now enjoy a short clip about Nauryz celebrations
from Steppe Tales travel
documentary.
Teacher: Lets divide into two groups. Please
choose the wishing
postcards.
Writing wishes and congratulations on the
postcards.
Teacher: You’ve said that
on Nauryz people make wishes and give congratulations. What
do we wish on the holiday Nauryz? (Pupils name the
words and a teacher writes down them on the
board)
2). Making up wishes
on Nauryz.
Make up your own wishes
and say them to each
other.
For example: I wish you
success, happiness, prosperity and good health on Nauryz.
Let this holiday bring you a lot of pleasure and
happiness!
(A teacher explains
to pupils the rules of the usage of the verbs «wish»
and «let» in English. Pupils make up their own
congratulations, write down them on the piece of paper
and stick them on the board.
)
Congratulations on Nauryz
holiday!
Let this holiday bring you a lot of pleasure and
happiness!
Let the Nauryz bring to your life new and nice changes.
We wish you and your family well-being, happiness and joy!
I Wish you happiness, love, success and prosperity.
Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness.
With a holiday! Joy, happiness, health, love!
I wish you good spring mood and a lot of joy and
light
3). Writing down pupils’
wishes on the
postcards.
Write down you wishes
on the postcards which I have prepared for
you.
My dear, parents!
I congratulate you with Nauryz!
I wish you happiness, success, well-being and
health.
Your
son/daughter.
4). A tree
of wishes. (A teacher prepares
a branch of any tree, ribbons of different colours
and a card with written wishes on it. At first
teacher takes a ribbon, reads her/his wishes and ties
it on a branch, then one pupil takes a ribbon,
reads his/her wishes and ties it on a branch, then
the second pupil takes a ribbon, reads his/her wishes and ties
it on a branch too and
etc.)
Before speaking about Nauryz let’s revise the
words according to this
theme.
Our next task is WORDS WITH MISSING
LETTERS. The words you can see on the board have
missed letters. Fill in the right missing letters, read and
translate them
in Kazakh. (Print the card of the word with missed
letters on one side and key word on the other
one).
Teacher:
Do you want to learn
about celebration of Nauryz in our
country?
On each desk of the
classroom you can find an envelope. In each envelope
there’s a cut sentence about Nauryz. Your task
is to put the words in the correct order
to make the right sentences and then you’ll read them aloud.
What is equinox? Pay attention to the pronunciation
of this word /’i: kwinoks/. You can explain
it in kazakh. If you can’t explain it, read the
definition of it on the board — It’s time
of the year when the day and the night are of equal
length.
(Pupils work in pairs and
make up the sentences from the words; a teacher goes pass
the desks, checks the sentences of each pair and then the
pupils read them aloud)
-
Nauryz is a great
holiday for all people of Kazakhstan.
2. It’s the beginning of a new year.
3. People celebrate this holiday on the 21st of March,
the day of the spring equinox.
4. Nauryz symbolizes goodness and wealth, happiness and love and
a great friendship day.
5. On Nauryz people make wishes and give congratulations.
6. On the Nauryz holiday, people wear beautiful national
clothes, listen to and sing Kazakh songs, dance Kara Zhorga,
play musical instruments and traditional games.
7. Beshbarmak, kuyrdak, kozhe, baursak are traditional meals
on the holiday.
1) Now our learners have
prepared the national song and dance. Let’s listen and
watch.
2) Listening to the recipes of baursaks nauryz
kozhe.
Do you like baursaks? Can
you cook them? Pupil 1 shows you how to cook
them.
1). Before listening
to the recipe, pay attention to the following words,
their meanings and
pronunciation:
flour/’flaue/, yeast /’ji:
st/, pinch and dough /’dou/. Listen to the recipe
of baursaks. Now, Pupil1, it’s your
turn.
P 1: Take four glasses
of flour, one glass of thick sour milk, one table spoon
of yeast, one table spoon of sugar, a pinch
of salt and 400 grams of vegetable oil. Make dough,
divide it into small balls and fry them.
Taste yourselves!
P2: Shows you how to cook
kozhe.
Take a piece of dried horse
meat and kazy (traditional homemade sausage) boil it. Boil
separately corn, millet, lentils and add to the meat broth. Add
some noodles and pour some sour milk. Add a pinch of salt if it is
necessary. Taste
yourselves!
Teacher: Lets listen
about kazakh culture and national
traditions.
Nauryz – Kazakh new
year
P3: Nauryz is a very important
holiday for Kazakhs, which marks the beginning of a new year. It is
celebrated several days starting from 21st of March, the day of the
spring equinox.
Nauryz means ‘new day’, it is
celebrated in the Great Steppes from ancient
times.
P4: Nauryz symbolizes goodness and
wealth, happiness and love and a great friendship day, since this
holiday is common for many
nations.
During Nauryz celebrations,
past offences are forgiven and forgotten and everybody makes a wish
to leave all badness behind and bring renewal in the New
Year.
P5: Celebration of
Nauryz
During the Nauryz holiday, large and small cities, villages become
festival centres, felt yurts – traditional
nomad houses are erected in city centres and rich dastarkhan
(table) is laid down in each of
them.
P6: City squares get full of
yurts, and many performances take place there. Here one can learn
about the culture and lifestyle of nomads and find people
wearing beautiful national
clothes, listen to Kazakh songs and
play of musical instruments, etc. In holiday exhibitions and fairs
traditional gifts and souvenirs are
sold.
P7: Usually young people gather
around Altybakan, which is a large hanging swing, with colourful
decorations, where songs are sung, and traditional games are
played.
During Nauryz holiday, many
famous stars give concerts in cities and the holiday is completed
by fireworks.
P8: Dishes served during
Nauryz
Nauryz kozhe is the most important of all meals during these days
and a main symbol of Nauryz, since it is prepared specially for
this day. Nauryz kozhe is special for its unique recipe.
Traditionally, 7 different ingredients are added to Nauryz kozhe,
which may vary, but basically these ingredients include: water,
meat, salt, milk or yoghurt, one type of grains, chosen from rice,
corn or wheat, and
others.
P9: Seven ingredients symbolize
seven virtues or qualities, such as joy, success, intelligence,
health, wealth, agility and
security.
During the celebration of
Nauryz, the kozhe is offered to all guests in any city or village
of Kazakhstan. Besides, other
traditional Kazakh
meals, such as beshbarmak, kuyrdak,
baursak, and many types of meals made from milk (youghurt, kurt,
cream, butter, cheese, etc) are also
offered.
P10: Interesitng
facts:
-
Between 1926-1988, Nauryz
holiday was not officially celebrated in Kazakhstan (Kazakh Soviet
Socialistic Republic those
days)
-
In 2009 - 3 days of Nauryz
holiday, starting 21th of March, were officially announced bank
holidays in
Kazakhstan.
-
September 30, 2009 – Nauryz
was included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO; since then, 21 of March is
announced International Day of Nowruz
(Nauryz).
- Dear learners and guests I
am so thankful in advance for your participating in our lesson
today.
-Hope you have
enjoyed.
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