Easter lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo, vwo
• 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!

What holidays do you celebrate?😊

Do you celebrate Easter?

1. YES
2. NO

What are some Easter traditions on your country?

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

Instructions

• You are going to work in pairs. 
  
• Each pair must nominate an ‘egg hunter’ and a ‘writer’ (you can swap roles half way through). 
  
• The writer must stay seated as the egg hunter goes around the room looking for the eggs. When they find an egg they must not remove it. They must remember the colour and then go back to their partner and quietly tell their partner where it is. “The purple egg with the golden stripe is under the table next to the window” 
  

The first pair to hunt down the twelve eggs and write their position in English wins.

• Write a story about one of the hidden eggs. Why did this egg hid itself at this particular place?
  

Write a poem about Easter

Use the letters in the word EASTER to write a short poem: 

E

A

S

T

E

R

My example, I'm sure you can do a lot better!

Easter day

       April Showers

         Spring Flowers

                   Together with family

                                  Eating too much chocolate

                Rabbits all around