Easter in Ukraine

From: Olenka

To: Jane

Subject: Easter in Ukraine

Hi, Jane!

Thank you very much for your letter. It was very interesting for me to read about Easter traditions in your country.

In Ukraine Easter is one of the most important holidays for many people. Traditional Easter egg is called pysanka - it’s a symbol of this holiday. Palm Sunday, the week before Easter, is known in my country as Willow Sunday. People bring home willow branches. They bless them in the church. This week all the people prepare for Easter. The Thursday before Easter is called Clean Thursday. The house must be clean on this day. Good Friday is the day when the women of the family bake “paska”, Ukrainian Easter bread. On Saturday children paint Easter eggs to add to the Easter basket. It also includes pysanka, salt, sausage, cheese, butter and ham.

In the evening people go to church for the Easter mass, which lasts all night. Easter Sunday is a day of singing songs and eating. Young girls dance and sing about nature and spring. People exchange pysanky.

All in all, Easter is a merry holiday in Ukraine. I’ll send you some pictures next time!

Best wishes

Olenka

Willow - |’wɪləʊ|  верба

branch - |brɑ:n(t)ʃ| гілочки

bless - |blɛs| святити

bake -  |beɪk| випікати

last - |lɑ:st| тривати

exchange - |ɪks’tʃeɪndʒ|   обмінюватися

 

Oxford

Oxford from evchenko

The presentation is prepared by Dasha Navertyuk, 10-A

Here you can find the pictures for you to describe.

Before writing:

• choose the steps for the story development
• name the heroes
• decide on the outcome ( the unexpected one is welcome)
• look up the necessary vocabulary, don't forget about the transcriptions)
• check the grammar and the spelling
• make sure you've sprinkled your story with 
• repotred speech
• ing-froms
• linking words
• background description

Good luck to you!

Cambridge

The presentation is prepared by Sasha Kravets, 10-A

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San Diego

The presentation is prepared by Verinika Yevgrashina, 9-A

San diego 1 from evchenko

The test , April, the 21st

Here is the set of activities which you can use to prepare for the test. Good luck to you all!

St. Patrick's Day

1. Today it is March, the 17th.
2. We celebrate St.Patrick's Day.
3. Leprechaun is a symbol of this holiday.
4. Leprechauns are short and fat.
5. They live in the forests.
6. They have got pots of gold.
7. They keep them at the rainbow.
8. People try to catch them.
9. The Irish say the leprechauns bring good luck.

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Hawaii

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The presentation was prepared by Nastya Yakovenko, 9-A

San Francisco

Presentation was prepared by Katya Danulyuk, 9-A

сф from evchenko

Traditions of St.Patrick's Day:Green in 30 seconds:

          Amazing timelapse of how Chicago River is turned emerald for St Patrick's Day

The Chicago River has been turned green in honour of St Patrick's Day for more than 50 years. Tradition started from the city's efforts to detect illegal sewage dumping. Plumbers put fluorescein dye in the river which turned bright green if toxic sludge was detected

Now a harmless orange vegetable dye is used to get the desired green hue

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

St.Patrick's Day for children 2

Symbols of St. Patrick's Day from fengchuishaster

Source:http://www.slideshare.net/

St.Patrick's Day for children

St. patrick's day powerpoint from mariaabilleira

Source:http://www.slideshare.net/

Present and Past

There is a test on Monday. Let's practise!

St.Patrick's Day in Ireland and The USA

Source: http://www.history.com/

Some more about March, 17th

Source: http://www.history.com/

Why green?

Source: http://www.history.com/

1. What colour is associated with St.Patrick?
2. What are the reasons for the green colour to be associated with this holiday?
3. What plant is connected with this tradition?
4. What do the people in the USA use the green colour for?
5. What is the traditional colour of St.Patrick?
6. Where can we see it?
7. How did green come to represent this holiday?

Plural of the nouns

More articles

Plural of the nouns

The definite article "The"

The Irregular verbs

Spring, spring, spring

Happy Women's Day, ladies!

Past Simple or Present Simple?

Flowers

Here is a picture puzzle with nice spring flowers for you just to create the festive mood!

March 8th is coming!

A woman's work is never done 

Housework and raising children are jobs 

that have no end

Source http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/

Traditional Irish food

Source: http://www.history.com/

Watch this video and answer the following questions:

1. Why is Famous Fat Dave wearing his lucky green T-shirt?
2. How many Irish descendants are there in The USA?
3. How does it correspond to the number of the people in Ireland nowadays?
4. Why is St.Patrick's Day a big day for the restaurant?
5. What dishes do the people usually order on this day?
6. How did corned beef get its name?
7. How many ingridients were asdded into the pot? What are they?
8. How much time did it boil?
9. What was the liquid from the boiled meet used for?
10. Who brought cabbage to Europe?
11. When did it happen?
12. What ingridient did the Irish lack for baking bread?
13. What adjectives were used to describe the taste of the food?
14. What colour was the beer?  

Description

Here is a set of pictures for you to describe. They are all named after you. Copy your picture, look through Ex.12 p.20 of our coursebook. Make sure you mention in your description:

• what you( or the people in the picture if there are any) see
• what you hear
• what you smell

This assessment is to be completed till the 11th of March( that is next Friday)

Don't be late as procrastination is not an option. 

Goog luck to you all, guys!

Ladies

It is not in English, but still rather interesting.

Origin of the holiday

While not the first to bring christianity to Ireland, it is Patrick who is said to have encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the “Holy Wells” that still bear this name.

There are several accounts of Saint Patrick’s death. One says that Patrick died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, on March 17, 460 A.D. His jawbone was preserved in a silver shrine and was often requested in times of childbirth, epileptic fits, and as a preservative against the “evil eye.” Another account says that St. Patrick ended his days at Glastonbury, England and was buried there. The Chapel of St. Patrick still exists as part of Glastonbury Abbey. Today, many Catholic places of worship all around the world are named after St. Patrick, including cathedrals in New York and Dublin city

A toast for St Patrick’s Day, “May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends beneath it never fall out.”

 http://www.st-patricks-day.com/

Important facts about St. Patrick

http://www.st-patricks-day.com/

Show your true colours

                       

Source: http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/

The best news for today is ......

...that  spring has come!

Plural of the nouns

The next grammar topic for us is Plural of Nouns

So, let's practise it together!

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