Easter lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 2

Easter lesson

Program

Listen and draw ( 1 winner)

Hangman

Egg hunt

Texts ( 3 winners )

Speaking

Tong Twisters ( 3 winners )

Easter egg hunt

Listen and draw

- Open your notebook and get a pen

- Listen to the instructions (sounds or talking = disqualified)

- The best painting wins

Hangman 

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SUNGLASSES

Spot the easter egg. If you found it, raise your hand. The first student wins

Easter quiz

Read the text and then answer the question on the next slide.

Good luck!

Break a leg!

May the force be with you

Go forth and conquer

May the odds be ever in your favor

1 winner per text, who answers the quickest and correct.

Text 1 (read together)

The first known Easter candy, chocolate eggs, appeared in the 19th century, followed by jelly beans in the 1930s and Peeps in the 1950s. Other varieties have been added, but these candies still rank highly in sales.

Americans spend an average of $2 billion on Halloween candy, $1.9 billion on Easter candy, $1.4 billion on Christmas candy and $1 billion on Valentine’s Day candy. Trumped by Halloween, Easter is known as the second best-selling candy holiday in the nation.

Easter is the second biggest candy consuming holiday. Which holiday is the first?

Text 2 (read alone, in silence)

Nowadays people give each other Easter eggs made of chocolate, usually hollow and filled with sweets. Children in Britain hunt for (chocolate) Easter eggs hidden about the home or garden by the Easter bunny.  In the USA, the bunny has also been popular for centuries already.

Strangely the bunny as an Easter symbol seems to have it's origins in Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 16th Century. The first edible Easter bunnies appeared in Germany during the early 1800s, they were made of pastry and sugar.

In what country did the Easter Bunny originate?

Text 3 (read alone)

Easter in Australia does not differentiate much from Easter elsewhere in the world, except for one thing: the Easter bunny. Although bunnies are loved animals everywhere on the planet, that is not the case in Australia.

Rabbits have become a problem ever since their arrival. They first stepped on the new continent with the historic first fleet of ships which made the first European settlements around Sydney, and within decades became infamous invasive pests. Rapidly growing in numbers, the rabbits have devastated lands and were the reason for numerous extinct native Australian species.

In Australia there are no Easter bunnies because there are ____________.

Time for some speaking!

Discuss the following Tuesday dilemmas in pairs, in English, for 1 minute. 

Would you rather have....

Flowers for hair

Flowers for hands

Would you rather...

Be followed wherever you go by 8 ducklings who think you are their mother

Have butterflies constantly flying in a circle around your head

Tong Twister

Divide the group in 3

1 person per group may try to say the sentence 3 times in a row

Does he/she do this correctly? Chocolate egg!

Guess the number below 10

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Paasei traktatie

Easter egg hunt in the classroom!

3 students... via the randomizer.