Celebrating Easter

On March 30^th I celebrated Easter with my 2^nd ESO students. I organised an Easter competition which consisted of five tasks leading to a final one. They were all focused on vocabulary and culture, including a word search puzzle, an Easter scramble and even an egg hunt!

In a previous session we divided the group into six teams of four people each and I asked them to bring a computer and headphones for the competition. They also did a quiz online in order to discover their Easter IQ (http://holidays.quiz.kaboose.com/81-what-s-your-easter-iq).

These are some photos taken on the day of the competition. The winners got a basket full of Easter eggs and bunnies! And the rest of the class tried the typical Easter jelly beans and small chocolate eggs. It was great fun!

RECYCLED EASTER EGG

With this craft to celebrate Easter in class, we wanted to make the traditional Eggs but in a different way. English, Art, collaborative tasks, foreign Festivals, Environment, creativity... All these things were present here. The students had to use recycled materials to design their Easter eggs; we did an exhibition at school with all the works; we sent the eggs to different European Schools as presents for our Comenius partners.

EASTER IN BRITAIN

Following the programme of the course "Learning and Teaching English celebrations", last wednesday, Neda Milenova, teacher trainer and translator, told us about Easter in Britain.  

Neda presented its origin as well as unknown customs and traditions that take place in Britain during Easter.  

We did different and interesting activities, some of them in small groups and in an interactive way, discusing them and adding new ideas and ways to adapt the activities to the students´age. We even had a little contest with prizes: Chocolate eggs!!

At the end of the session three of the participants gave talks about the celebration we dealt with in the previous session and that they carried out with their students, about Saint Patrick's Day. 

Next 18th april we will talk about  the Olympic games and the Fifth of May. 
Don´t skip the class!!

This is the presentation on Easter by Neda :

USEFUL MATERIALS AND LINKS:

EASTER Handout (by Neda)
EASTER LINKS (by Neda)

British life and culture (Easter)