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Instructions:

The aim of the game is to decorate an Easter egg. You will need a dice for each group of students and a counter for each student
(a coin, paperclip, eraser or another small object). Students need some coloured pencils.

Pre-teach the following vocabulary:

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draw, bunny, lamb, flower, catkin, chick, circle, stripe.

Revise colours.

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Make sure students understand the instruction:

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Draw … on your egg. You can ask individual students to come

to the blackboard, give them instructions and ask them to draw some stripes, circles, chicks, etc.
Divide the class into groups of three or four students.

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Copy one Easter Drawing Game sheet per group and one Egg sheet per each student.

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Students throw the dice and decorate their eggs according to the instruction. They continue the game until

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everyone has finished.
Everyone who decorated their egg is the winner!

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After all the groups have finished the game, you can put up all the drawings on the wall and the students

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choose the most beautiful egg.

START

FINISH

Draw three
pink stripes
on your egg.

Draw two
blue stripes
on your egg.

Draw four
purple circles
on your egg.

Draw five
green circles
on your egg.

Draw
a brown bunny
on your egg.

Draw three
yellow flowers
on your egg.

Draw four
red flowers
on your egg.

Draw two
purple flowers
on your egg.

Draw five
pink flowers
on your egg.

Draw seven
yellow flowers
on your egg.

Draw six
red flowers
on your egg.

Draw
a white lamb
on your egg.

Draw
a yellow chick
on your egg.

Draw
two gray bunnies
on your egg.

Draw
a yellow chick
on your egg.

Draw
two yellow chicks
on your egg.

Draw
two pink bunnies
on your egg.

Draw
three yellow chicks
on your egg.

Draw
a pink lamb
on your egg.

Draw
some catkins
on your egg.

Draw
five green circles
on your egg

Draw
some catkins
on your egg

Draw
some catkins
on your egg

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Easter Egg Drawing Game

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NAME: __________________________

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Hidden words

H S A D S A W N E D Y E

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Y M U A N D S U T Y A R H D

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T E N L

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O C X I U F R I N C I

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T O H S O C S R S B U N

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crossword

Across 1. Easter rabbit 2. March 3. dyed egg 4. Holy Week 5. Easter Monday 6. Palm Sunday 7. spring

Down 8. April 9. resurrection 10. Happy Easter 11. pancakes 12. Good Friday 13. Tuesday 14. Egg hunt

1. Ash Wednesday 2. Maundy Thursday 3. Lent 4. Crucifixion 5. Hot cross buns

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Across

One of the symbols of Easter.

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The 3

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month of the year.

One of the symbols of Easter – the symbol of

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a new life.
The week before Easter Sunday.

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The day after Easter Sunday.

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The Sunday before Easter.

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One of the seasons of the year; between

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winter and summer.

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The 4

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month of the year.

The return to life of Jesus Christ.

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We wish you …… at this time of the year.

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A type of very thin, round cakes that is made

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by frying a mixture of flour, milk and eggs;

eaten on Shore Tuesday.
The Friday before Easter when Christians

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remember the death of Christ.
Shrove …

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The most popular Easter game; played in parks

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or gardens on Easter Sunday.

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Easter HANGMAN

Name the pictures. Write the marked letters below in the same order as the pictures to answer the question.

What do you eat on Shrove Tuesday in Britain and the USA?

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EASTER BINGO

EASTER

EGG

EASTER

BUNNY

FLOWERS

EASTER

CAKES

CATKIN

EASTER

BASKET

LAMB

HOT

CROSS

BUNS

EASTER

CHICK

PROCEDURE:

Version 1: Explain vocabulary doubts if necessary and play EASTER BINGO with your learners.
Use one or two parts of the handout at a time to make the game more difficult. Read the words
aloud in any order you wish. Learners have to mark the mentioned words. The first one to have
three words in vertical, horizontal lines or across has to shout BINGO! The winner can take over
your role and read the vocabulary on his/her own.

Version 2: Cut two handouts into squares, mix them together and play a memory game. Solve
vocabulary doubts and tell your learners they are going to work in pairs. They put all the cards face
down. Learners pick up two cards from the table at a time. If the picture matches the name, the
person takes his/her cards and has another go. If two vocabulary items do not match, he/she puts
them back and the other person from a pair continues playing. The person with more pairs wins.

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PROCEDURE:

Learners can work in pairs or on their own. Distribute the handouts. Learners have to fill in the
missing parts of words on the basis of their knowledge, as well as the ingredients given above.

KEY:

Heat milk to very warm, but not hot in a small saucepan. Pour warm milk in the bowl of a mixer and
sprinkle yeast over. Mix and leave to grow for five minutes . With mixer running at low speed add
salt, butter, sugar, eggs and cinnamon. Slowly add flour and continue mixing. Let the dough rest for
thirty - forty five minutes . Mix for about three minutes. Shape dough in a ball, cover with plastic wrap
and put in the fridge for a night. Let dough stand in room temperature for half an hour . Divide dough
into twenty four pieces, shape each into a ball and place on baking sheet. Leave for about one and a half
hours. Take a sharp knife and carefully slash buns with a cross. Cover with eggs white and put in oven.
Bake for ten minutes, reduce the heat and bake until they are golden brown, about fifteen minutes
more. Mix together glaze ingredients and put on buns in a cross pattern. Serve warm if it is possible.

HOT CROSS BUNS RECIPE
(C-test)

1 Cup of milk

2 Tablespoons of yeast
1/2 Cup of sugar

2 Teaspoons of salt
1/3 Cup of butter, melted and cooled
1 Teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon of nutmeg
4 eggs
5 Cups of flour
1 1/3 Cup of currants or raisins
1 egg white

Glaze:
1 1/3 Cup confectioner’s sugar
1 1/2 Teaspoon of finely chopped lemon
zest
1/2 Teaspoon of lemon extract
1- 2 Teaspoons of milk

Heat milk to very warm, but not hot in a small saucepan. Po_ _ warm mi_ _ in the bo_ _ of a mix_ _
and spri_ _ _ _ yeast over. Mix and le_ _ _ to gr_ _ for five minu _ _ _ . With mix _ _ run_ _ _ _ at low
spe_ _ add salt, but_ _ _, sug _ _ , eg_ _ and cinn_ _ _ . Slo _ _ _ add flo_ _ and cont_ _ _ _ mixing.
Let the dough rest fo_ thi_ _ _ - forty fi_ _ minu_ _ _. Mix for abo _ _ thr_ _ minutes. Shape dou_ _ in
a bal_ , cover wi_ _ plastic wrap and put in the fri_ _ _ for a nig_ _. Let dough sta_ _ in room temper_
_ _ _ _ for ha_ _ an ho_ _ . Div_ _ _ dough into twe_ _ _ four pie_ _ _ , sha_ _ each in_ _ a ba_ _ and
place on bak_ _ _ sheet. Leave for abo_ _ one and a ha_ _ hours. Take a sharp kni_ _ and caref_ _ _
_ slash buns with a cro_ _. Cover with eg_ _ white and put in ov_ _. Ba_ _ for ten minutes, reduce the
heat an_ bake unt_ _ they are gol_ _ _ brown, about fift_ _ _ minutes mo_ _. Mix toge_ _ _ _ glaze
ingred_ _ _ _ _ and put on bu_ _ in a cro_ _ pattern. Serve warm if it is possible.

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II. Read the text and fill the gaps in the sentences below

Easter is a holiday in late March or early April. Many people spend it with their family or have a short
holiday/vacation. It is also an important Christian festival. Easter Sunday, the day of the Resurrection, is
the end of Lent and the most important date in the Christian year. Many people who do not go to church
at other times go on Easter Sunday. It was once common for people to wear new clothes to church on this
day. Women wore new hats, called Easter bonnets. Today, people sometimes make elaborately decorated
Easter bonnets for fun. A few people send Easter cards with religious symbols on them or pictures of small
chickens, lambs and spring flowers, all traditionally associated with Easter.
The Friday before Easter Sunday is called Good Friday and is remembered as the day Christ was crucified
(= hanged on a cross to die). On Good Friday many people eat hot cross buns (= fruit buns decorated
with a simple cross). The Monday after Easter is called Easter Monday. In Britain, Good Friday and Easter
Monday are both bank holidays. In the US, each company decides for itself whether to close or remain
open on those days.
Children look forward to Easter Sunday because they are given chocolate Easter eggs. These are also
popular with adults and millions are sold in the weeks before Easter. Many are packed in coloured foil in
brightly-coloured boxes decorated with pictures of cartoon characters. Others are decorated with sugar
flowers and wrapped in clear paper tied with a ribbon. Some shops write the person’s name on the egg
with icing (AmE frosting). Inside each egg are sweets or chocolates. Smaller eggs with a sweet cream inside
are also popular. Eggs represent new life and the start of spring, and children sometimes paint the shells
of real eggs at home. In some parts of Britain Easter is a time for traditional events such as egg-rolling.
When American children wake up on Easter morning, they hope that the Easter Bunny has been. The

EASTER FACTS

(definitions taken from Oxford Wordpower Dictionary)

Aims: To practice reading and vocabulary
Age: 15 and above
Level: Intermediate

I. Warm-up

Do the crosswords puzzle.

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EASTER FACTS

Easter Bunny is an imaginary rabbit, and parents tell their children that it goes from house to house while
they are sleeping. The Easter Bunny hides Easter eggs in each house, small plastic eggs filled with sweets
or little presents. When they wake up all the children run about trying to find the eggs. The Easter Bunny
also often brings chocolate in the shape of a rabbit. In Britain some families now organize an Easter egg
hunt, and people buy chocolate rabbits as well as eggs.
Easter also has historical connotations. Easter rising was the rebellion against British rule in Dublin,
which took place at Easter in 1916. A hundred British soldiers and 450 of the Irish were killed in the four
days of fighting. Several leaders of the rebellion were later executed.

(taken from Oxford Guide to British and American Culture)

The Irish fought bravely during the _________ ____________.

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Local bakery prepared a big number of ___________ __________ to celebrate Easter.

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Each year the Royal Mail earns a lot of money because people send a big number of _________

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_________ .

_________ _________ are a very important part of women’s Easter outfits.

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If your egg doesn’t get broken during a/an_________-________, you will have a lot of luck in

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your life.

For children, the point of a/an _________ - _________ is to find as many sweets as possible.

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Millions of British people travel long distances to rest during their __________ ___________.

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Easter is the most important festival in the __________ __________.

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In England children’s most favourite symbol of Easter is __________ __________.

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Christians tend not to eat meat and avoid drinking alcoholic drinks during __________.

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I. Down: 1. basket 2. holiday 4. cross 5. egg 6. spring 8. lamb Across: 3. festival 5. Easter 7. April 9. mass 10. bunny
II. 1.Easter rising 2.cross buns 3. Easter cards 4. Easter bonnet 5. egg-rolling 6. egg-hunt 7. bank holidays 8. Christian year 9. Easter bunny 10. Lent

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2. Read the original sentences. Match the idioms with their meanings A-H.

1. This guy is a rotten egg! You shouldn’t trust him!

2. He egged me on to invest all my money in a garden gnome factory.

3. At first I told him: “Go fry an egg!”.
4. He didn’t stop bothering me saying that I shouldn’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
5. He said that it was sure as eggs is eggs that garden gnomes would be a great success.

6. My friends warned me saying: “You can’t put all your eggs in one basket”.
7. I knew that I was walking on eggs but the possibility of earning millions blinded me

completely.

8. I studied economics so I thought I knew all the answers, so I told my friends: “Don’t teach

your grandmother to suck eggs!”

9. Unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy our garden gnomes and now I have egg on my face.
10. Please, be a good egg and help me!

A. to proceed very cautiously; to be very careful.

B. to try to tell or show someone more knowledgeable or experienced than oneself how to do

something.

C. a bad or despised person; an evil influence.

D. to make everything dependent on only one thing; to place all one's resources in one place,

account, etc.

E. to destroy something that is profitable to you.

F. to be embarrassed by something one has done. (As if one went out in public with a dirty face.)

G. go away and stop bothering me!

H. to encourage, urge, or dare someone to continue doing something, usually something unwise.

I. a good and dependable person.

J. absolutely certain.

3. Can you make the necessary changes in the sentences in exercise 1 so that they sound good in

Polish?

1. Read the sentences that have been translated by a very bad translator. Underline the expressions which

you think are idiomatic in English.

1. Ten facet to śmierdzące jajo. Nie powinieneś mu ufać!

2. Podjajczył mnie, żebym zainwestował wszystkie pieniądze w fabrykę krasnali ogrodowych.

3. Na początku powiedziałem: „Idź smażyć jajka!”.

4. Nie dawał mi spokoju, mówiąc, że nie powinienem zabijać gęsi, która znosi złote jaja.

5. Powtarzał ciągle: „Jak jajka jajkami krasnale ogrodowe będą wielkim hitem”.

6 .Moi przyjaciele ostrzegali mnie, mówiąc: „Nie możesz wkładać wszystkich swoich jajek do jednego

koszyka”

7. Wiedziałem, że chodzę po jajkach, ale możliwość zarobienia milionów zupełnie mnie zaślepiła.

8. Studiowałem ekonomię i myślałem, że znam wszystkie odpowiedzi, więc mówiłem do swoich kumpli:

„Nie uczcie babci wysysać jajek!”.

9. Niestety nikt nie chciał kupić naszych krasnali i teraz mam jajko na twarzy.

10. Proszę, bądź dobrym jajkiem i pomóż mi.

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Ex. 1

1. Ten facet to śmierdzące jajo. Nie powinieneś mu ufać!
2. Podjajczył mnie, żebym zainwestował wszystkie moje pieniądze w fabrykę krasnali ogrodowych.
3. Na początku powiedziałem: „Idź smażyć jajka!”.
4. Nie dawał mi spokoju mówiąc, że nie powinienem zabijać gęsi, która znosi złote jaja.
5. Powtarzał ciągle: „Jak jajka jajkami krasnale ogrodowe będą wielkim hitem”.
6 .Moi przyjaciele ostrzegali mnie, mówiąc: „Nie możesz wkładać wszystkich swoich jajek do jednego koszyka”
7. Wiedziałem, że chodzę po jajkach, ale możliwość zarobienia milionów zupełnie mnie zaślepiła.
8. Studiowałem ekonomię i myślałem, że znam wszystkie odpowiedzi, więc mówiłem do swoich kumpli: „Nie uczcie babci
wysysać jajek!”.
9. Niestety nikt nie chciał kupić naszych krasnali i teraz mam jajko na twarzy.
10. Proszę, bądź dobrym jajkiem i pomóż mi.

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Ex. 3 (propozycje tłumaczeń)

śmierdziel

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namówił mnie

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spadaj!; zjeżdżaj!; zrywaj się!

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zbijać kurę która znosi złote jajka

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jasne jak Słońce; pewne jak dwa razy dwa to cztery.

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nie możesz stawiać wszystkiego na jedną kartę

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postępować ostrożnie

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uczyć księdza pacierza; uczyć ojca dzieci robić.

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kompromitować się; wyjść na idiotę

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miej dobre serce, bądź dobrym człowiekiem

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Małgorzata Warmińska