Easter lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

TA2A Friyay March 31st, 2023

All you need is your laptop for today's lesson.

It's nearly Easter!

And to celebrate, here's an Easter lesson for you! With some reading, a puzzle, a quiz and an egg-hunt. Enjoy!

A 'pun' is a word joke. What pun is made in the first 5 seconds of the video? (listen a few times if necessary!)

Can you spot the hidden egg in this colourful Easter field full of flowers and bunnies?

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

Text 1

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?

1. Christmas
2. Valentine's Day
3. Father's Day
4. Halloween

Text 2

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?

1. Egypt
2. Britain
3. Germany
4. USA

Text 3

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 ____________ rabbits. Actually, rabbits are a pest.

1. too few
2. too many
3. no
4. no colored

What Easter event does the White House host each year?
(you may look this up on the internet!)

1. The Easter Egg Hunt
2. The Easter Egg Roll
3. Basket making
4. Easter Egg dyeing

What does Michelle Obama tell children that they should eat?

1. Easter eggs
2. chocolate
3. vegetables
4. pretzels

Text 4

The first chocolate Easter egg in England was made in Bristol back in 1873. America produces 91.4 billion chocolate Easter eggs each and every year, as well as 90 million chocolate bunnies. 

Even though Switzerland is famous for its chocolate, the tallest Easter egg was created in Italy in 2011. It was a mighty 10.39 metres high and weighed a heavy 7,200kg. That means it was taller than a giraffe and heavier than an elephant!

The largest chocolate Easter egg made was taller than a giraffe and weighed more than an elephant! Where was it made?

1. Italy
2. England
3. America
4. Switzerland

Text 5

These round breads embellished with crosses have been traced back to ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece, where such foods served as symbols of honor toward their goddesses, according to the Oxford Companion to Food. Later, these sweet breads filled with currants and spices became popular Easter traditions, especially in England where bakers were forbidden to sell spice breads except on special holidays, like the Friday before Easter.

Many English believed cross buns baked on Good Friday would never grow moldy; they were kept as good luck charms hanging in windows, accompanied sailors on a voyage, or buried in piles of grain to ward off rodents. Today, they're mostly representations of the Christian symbol of the cross, and a sweet, buttery addition to an elegant Easter meal.

Hot cross buns are sweet, round breads filled with currants and spices with crosses on the top.

1. True
2. False

English people believed buns baked on Easter Sunday were lucky.

1. True
2. False

Hot cross buns are still seen as lucky today.

1. True
2. False