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Macmillan Polska 2010

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Teacher’s Notes

Happy Easter!

by Agnieszka Szeżyńska

Type of activity: individual, pairwork
Focus: ‘Happy Easter!’ in ten different

languages, spelling practice
Level/age group: primary, grades 4–6
Time: 10-15 min
Preparation:

Copy one Student’s Worksheet per pair of

students and cut up as indicated.

Procedure:

1. Ask students if they know how to say ‘Happy

Easter’ in languages other than Polish and

English. Gather ideas and tell them they are

going to get to know how to say the phrase in

ten different languages.

2. Put students into two groups and distribute

the Student A worksheet to one group and the

Student B worksheet to the other. Ask students

to keep their worksheets secret from students

in the other group. Ask them to look at the

first task and together try to match the

languages to the phrases. Monitor and help if

necessary. Make sure students matched the

phrases correctly before they go on to the

next activity (answers cannot be checked

frontally as they need to be kept secret from

the other group for now).

Key:

Student A
French - Joyeuses Pâques
Spanish - ¡Felices Pascuas!
Danish - Glædelig Påske
Chinese - Fu huo jie kuai le
Czech - Veselé Velikonoce

Student B
German - Frohe Ostern
Italian - Buona Pasqua
Afrikaans - Geseënde Paasfees
Hawaiian - Hau‘oli Pakoa
Romanian - Paste Fericit

3. Ask students to work in pairs with someone

from the other group. They now have to ask

and answer questions to get to know how to

say ‘Happy Easter’ in the languages listed in

their handout. Focus their attention on the

intruction to part two and establish the

question they need to ask – ‘How do you say

‘Happy Easter’ in (German)?’. Make it clear

that correct pronunciation of the phrases

should not be a priority, but they can have

fun trying to imitate different accents. Stress

students are not allowed to show their

worksheets to each other – if they want to be

sure they are writing the phrases down

correctly, they should ask their partner to

spell them. Monitor and help if necessary.

4. Finally, let students look at their partner’s

worksheet and check if they have noted

everything down correctly. Get feedback on

all the phrases from the entire class and ask

students which phrases sound most and least

‘Eastery’ to them.