Easter lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 1,2

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

Watch the (whole) video. Open the address in a new window. What does Michelle Obama tell children that they should eat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHzB4aA4d5Q

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

Puzzle

For this puzzle you need a piece of paper and a pen.

Use the clues on the next slide to complete the puzzle on your paper (but first copy the squares onto your paper!).

When you are done, you can answer the question on the next slide (what are the hidden words?)

1. A building that people, usually one family, live in.

2. A container usually made by weaving together long thin pieces of material.

3. Easter in Dutch

4. A round fruit with firm, white flesh and a green, red, or yellow skin.

5. A rabbit.

7. Feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation, etc.

8. When schools are closed

9. A food that is made from cacao beans and that is eaten as candy or used as a flavoring ingredient in

other sweet foods.

10. Extremely good.

11. A period of 24 hours, especially from twelve o'clock one night to twelve o'clock the next.

12. A relatively large body of salt water completely or partially enclosed by land.

13. Having the color of the sun or of ripe lemons.

14. Continent southeast of Asia.

What is my hidden message, from the top to the bottom?

Ps. If you need ideas to keep yourself busy during the weekend, here are a few silly ideas (next slides!):

The Easter Egg Roll

An older more traditional game is one in which real eggs are rolled against one another or down a hill. The owner of the egg that stayed uncracked the longest won. Even today in the north of England, for example as at Preston in Lancashire, they still carry out the custom of egg rolling. Hard boiled eggs are rolled down slopes to see whose egg goes furthest. In other places another game is played. You hold an egg in the palm of the hand and bang against your opponent's egg. The loser is the one whose egg breaks first.

Watch all the Harry Potter movies (again..)

The British Council website

And if you are incredibly bored this weekend.... check out the website on the next slide.

At the top of the homepage, choose 'skllls' and choose different videos, texts or other practice exercises. 

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