Číslo projektu: Číslo šablony: Název materiálu: Ročník: Identifikace materiálu: Jméno autora: Předmět: Tematický celek: Anotace: Gymnázium a Střední odborná škola, Rokycany, Mládežníků 1115 CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0410 II/2 The Czech customs and traditions 3. a 4. ročník SIL_22_The Czech customs and traditions Mgr. Alena Silbernáglová Anglický jazyk Datum: 3. 1. 2013 Maturitní témata SOŠ Materiál obsahuje prezentaci pro 3. část maturitní zkoušky SOŠ. Prezentace se skládá z osnovy k danému tématu, výkladové části a konverzačních otázek.
THE CZECH CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS
The Czech customs and traditions T1: Czech Christmas When to celebrate? What to eat? What to buy? What else to prepare? How to celebrate? Other T2: Czech Easter traditions Date/season of the year Origin Symbols Traditions Other
T1 Czech Christmas When to celebrate? 24th December Christmas Eve the most important day of Czech Christmas 25th Dec. 1st Christmas holiday not so important day as in English speaking countries family visits and reunions 26th Dec. 2nd Christmas holiday (St.Stephen s Day) not celebrated in any special manner family visits continues
What to eat? on the table home-made sweets many kinds fruit (e.g. oranges, bananas, tangerines, apples ) nuts (e.g. walnuts, hazelnuts ), candy fruit Christmas lunch lentil with egg and pickles or vegetable soup usually no meat as you should fast until dinner (to see the golden pig) Christmas dinner fish soup carp fried in flour with egg and breadcrumb coating potato salad following day roast goose or duck with sauerkraut and dumplings
What to buy? gifts and presents for family and friends wrapping paper and ribbons Christmas tree carp and other Christmas food What else to prepare? Christmas decorations a wreath, candles, mistletoe, holly lights in the windows or outside the house Christmas tree a star, glass bobbles, chains, angels, chocolate figures
How to celebrate? before Christmas Eve writing a letter to baby Jesus -children lighting candles on the advent wreath beginning on the First Sunday of Advent sending Christmas cards to relatives and friends on Christmas Eve watching fairy tales singing carols ringing the bellwhen baby Jesus comes opening presents after dinner old Christmas traditions: tossing the shoe, cutting apples, making boats from walnut shells with candles, pouring lead... going to a midnight mass
T2 Czech Easter traditions Date of celebration between 22 March and 25 April (1 st full moon after the 1 st day of spring 21 March) Origin of the holiday Christian festival celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ Good Friday Jesus was crucified on the cross Easter Sunday Jesus came back to life
Symbols eggs symbol of spring and new life decorating eggs (hand-painting, ornaments, wax batik, scratching, wrapping, onion...) food Easter Lamb Cake a sweet sponge cake in the shape of lamb Easter Bread sweet yeasted bread with raisins and almonds at the top Easter Stuffing smoked meat, eggs, milk, nettle, breadcrumbs, herbs and spicy other willow trees, catkins chocolate bunny
Traditions Easter Monday boyssymbolically whip girlsand women with a willow stick (to stay healthy for the rest of the year) willow stick is decorated with colourful ribbons when whipping boys have to say a poem girls give them hand-painted eggsas a reward other treats drink, money, ribbons, little gifts when going from house to house boys use rattles as music
QUESTIONS 1. Do you prefer Christmas or Easter holiday? Why? 2. What was the most interesting present you have ever given? 3. Can you sing Christmas carols? 4. Are traditions still kept or are they disappearing in your country? 5. What Christmas customs do you keep? 6. What meaning does Christmas have for you? 7. Do you think people are nicer to each other at Christmas time? Why? 8. How does your family celebrate Easter? 9. When do you usually do Christmas shopping? 10. What Christmas/ Easter dish do you like most?
Obrazový materiál Zdroje Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 klipart Publikace EL-HMOUDOVÁ, Dagmar. Angličtina pro střední školy. 1. vyd. Třebíč: Petra Velanová, 2006, 223 s. Maturita (Petra Velanová). ISBN 80-868-7302-1. SMITH-DLUHÁ, Gabrielle. Angličtina: otázky a odpovědi nejen k maturitě. 1. vyd. Dubicko: INFOA, 2007, 231 s. Zrcadlový text. ISBN 978-80-7240-489-6. Vytvořený materiál pochází z vlastních zdrojů autora, není-li uvedeno jinak.