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Macmillan Polska 2011

PHOTOCOPIABLE

Teacher’s Notes

EASTER FUN FACTS

by Magdalena Kondro

Type of activity: individual and pair work
Focus: vocabulary connected with Easter; reading

skills
Level: pre-intermediate – intermediate
Time: 30 minutes
Preparation: Make one copy of Student’s Worksheets

A and B per each student. You can photocopy them

onto the different sides of one sheet of A4 size

paper.

Procedure:
1. On the board write Easter. Elicit all the symbols

students associate with the holiday. If students

name the symbols in Polish, teach them the

English equivalents.

2. Distribute Student’s Worksheets A. Explain that

Easter has different names in different countries.

Students read the names and match them with

the countries. Check the answers with the whole

class. Find out if students know the names for

Easter used in other countries or languages not

mentioned in Activity 1.

Answers: 1c, 2b, 3d, 4e, 5a
3. Students then test their knowledge of Easter by

completing the quiz in Activity 2.

Pre-teach: fasting, Easter egg hunt, bonfi res and

dish.

4. Give students Worksheets B or ask them to turn

over Worksheets A if the former are photocopied

on the reverse side. Pre-teach: full moon, give

up, according to, weigh, roll, statues and native.

Students read the paragraphs in Activity 3 to

check their answers in Activity 2. Each paragraph

contains the answer to the question with the

corresponding number.

5. In pairs, students compare their answers. Check

the answers with the whole class.

Answers: 1b, 2b, 3a, 4a, 5c, 6c, 7a, 8c, 9c, 10a

Extension:
Students google the following words and expressions:

Easter trivia, Easter traditions, Easter symbols.
Based on what they fi nd out, they write another

question with 2-3 different answers and a paragraph

explaining the correct answer, modelled on Activities

2 and 3.

In pairs, students exchange their questions, choose

the answer and then check if it is correct by reading

the corresponding paragraph. Elicit what different

facts students have learnt from their partners’

questions and paragraphs.