План урока.

1. Сообщение темы и целей урока студентам.
2. Разминка: работа с афоризмами и цитатами известных людей о любви, ассоциации.
3. Знакомство с историей возникновения Дня Святого Валентина (чтение и работа с легендами).
4. Работа со схемой (заполнение пропусков в бланках на основе схемы).

1. Межкультурное сравнение празднования Дня Святого Валентина в разных странах (работа с таблицами)
2. Символы праздника (работа со слайдами и карточками (matching)
3. Соблюдение традиций: церемония дарения подарков и валентинок, игры, исполнение песни, гадание.
4. Подведение итогов урока.

                                                   Ход урока.

I.  Teacher: Good morning, dear boys, girls and teachers. I am very glad to see you at our lesson today, which is devoted to St. Valentine’s Day and it’s celebration.

As you know, St.V.Day is celebrated in different countries. Do you know in what countries it is celebrated?

  Students: It is celebrated in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia and many others.

Teacher: Right. That is to say, almost all over the world, it’s very popular.

II.So, today at the lesson we are going to speak about the origin of this holiday and 3 legends about its origin. Also we’ll get some information about St. Valentine himself, we will speak about its symbols and the reasons why they became symbols, touch upon  customs and traditions of the holiday, deal with ways of celebrating this holiday not only in G.B. but in different countries and in Russia as well.

The main idea of the holiday may be expressed in the following words: ”The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”.

So, what words would you like to take to express the main idea of the holiday?

(учитель раздает карточки с цитатами и афоризмами известных людей о любви, студенты выбирают и читают наиболее понравившийся вариант)

All these words are suitable, because all of them are about love.

As for me when I hear the words “ St.V.Day” I think about A big red heart…So, it is interesting to know what are your associations when you hear these words?

Students: Spring, valentines, balloons, roses…

III.Teacher: Ok. Thank you. I think now it’s high time to speak about the history of our holiday. Speaking about any holiday it is always interesting to know when it appeared and what the reason was. Let’s try to know it!

But firstly using the cards which you can see on the black board give me some information about St.Valentine and the time when he lived.

(учитель показывает на карточки на доске, студенты составляют предложения)

Now, legends will give us more information. Your task is to read them and then I’ll ask you some questions.

( учитель раздает распечатки с легендами, студенты читают)

Questions: 1) What legend did you hear before?

                  2) What legend is the most true-to-life?

                  3) What legend is the most popular nowadays?

May be there are some more legends also, but historicans don’t know the origin of the holiday for sure.

IV.I suppose, you know a lot about this holiday and now you’ll demonstrate your knowledge. I’ll give you sheets of paper, your task is to fill in the gaps in this reference using a scheme on the black board.

(учитель раздает карточки, студенты заполняют пропуски, используя схему из рисунков на доске, затем все проверяют и добавляют недостающую информацию)

Teacher: I see you know much.Very good.

V.As we have already said, St.V.Day is celebrated all over the world and in each country its celebration has its own peculiarities, typical only for this country. Now we’ll see how people in different countries celebrate this holiday.

(учительраздаеттаблицы«Valentine’s Day Around the World»)

Look through the tables and answer my questions:

1. What countries are mentioned in the table?
2. What are the dates of celebrating the holiday?

Look very carefully and complete the sentences given below.

(студенты устно заполняют пропуски)

You see that the columns about Russia are empty, so fill in the gaps right know.

( студенты заполняют пропуски про Россию и устно комментируют свои ответы).

VI.Now, we will speak about the symbols of our holiday. Look here and comment upon what you see. (учитель демонстрирует слайды на компьютере, студенты называют символы).

 I have one more task for you connected with symbols (учительраздаеткарточки), your task is to match the words from three columns. (студенты сопоставляют слова из трёх колонок: символы, что обозначают символы, как они стали символами праздника, затем проверяют устно).

VII.And to finish our lesson today we should observe some of the St. Valentine’s traditions.

  (1)  The first is the most pleasant – gifting each other small presents and valentine cards( студентыобмениваютсяподаркамиизачитываютпоздравленияввалентинках).

  (2) Now I have a game for you, let’s play it?!

I’ll read you some phrases, you should complete the famous couple:

1. Romeo and…(Juliet)
2. Bread and …( butter)
3. Bacon and … (eggs)
4. Master and …(Margaret)
5. Dolphin and…(mermaid)
6. Cinderella and… (Prince)
7. Wife and… (husband)
8. Cookies and… (milk)

(студенты называют недостающее слово)

(3) And now we may sing a song about love.

(учитель включает запись, студенты исполняют песню).

(4) Today I have a surprise for you. ( учительраздаетшоколадныеконфеты)

On each wrapping you can see a small piece of paper, unfold it and read your fortune for this year.

(студенты разворачивают записки и предсказывают судьбу).

VIII.So our lesson is over. Thank you for your attention. It was very pleasant to work with you. I enjoyed it a lot. Good-bye.