- EASTER IN BRITAIN -

You are going to read short fragments about how people in Britain celebrate Easter. As you read try to find
similarities and differences in the way people celebrate Easter in Poland and Britain.

“…On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate Easter eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early nineteenth
century and came to Britain in the 1870s. Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small chocolates inside; some are
very small, some very big.

Some mothers and fathers tell their children that the Easter Rabbit brings the eggs and hides them in the garden. The children
must go outside and look for them.

Many people also eat hot cross buns at Easter. These are small loaves of bread, made with fruit and spices, and they have a
cross on top. They are best hot, and there is an old song about them: (...)

(...) Some women and girls decorate hats, called Easter bonnets. They put lots of spring flowers on them, and wear them in
Easter bonnet parades.

Many people go to church on Easter Day. There are lots of flowers in the churches and people sing special Easter songs. .

Easter Monday is a holiday for everyone, so a lot of people watch some sport, or go out for the day. Children usually have a
week or two holiday from school around Easter...’’

- EASTER IN BRITAIN -

You are going to read short fragments about how people in Britain celebrate Easter. As you read try to find
similarities and differences in the way people celebrate Easter in Poland and Britain.

“…On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate Easter eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early nineteenth
century and came to Britain in the 1870s. Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small chocolates inside; some are
very small, some very big.

Some mothers and fathers tell their children that the Easter Rabbit brings the eggs and hides them in the garden. The children
must go outside and look for them.

Many people also eat hot cross buns at Easter. These are small loaves of bread, made with fruit and spices, and they have a
cross on top. They are best hot, and there is an old song about them: (...)

(...) Some women and girls decorate hats, called Easter bonnets. They put lots of spring flowers on them, and wear them in
Easter bonnet parades.

Many people go to church on Easter Day. There are lots of flowers in the churches and people sing special Easter songs. .

Easter Monday is a holiday for everyone, so a lot of people watch some sport, or go out for the day. Children usually have a
week or two holiday from school around Easter...’’

- EASTER IN BRITAIN -

You are going to read short fragments about how people in Britain celebrate Easter. As you read try to find
similarities and differences in the way people celebrate Easter in Poland and Britain.

“…On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate Easter eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early nineteenth
century and came to Britain in the 1870s. Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small chocolates inside; some are
very small, some very big.

Some mothers and fathers tell their children that the Easter Rabbit brings the eggs and hides them in the garden. The children
must go outside and look for them.

Many people also eat hot cross buns at Easter. These are small loaves of bread, made with fruit and spices, and they have a
cross on top. They are best hot, and there is an old song about them: (...)

(...) Some women and girls decorate hats, called Easter bonnets. They put lots of spring flowers on them, and wear them in
Easter bonnet parades.

Many people go to church on Easter Day. There are lots of flowers in the churches and people sing special Easter songs. .

Easter Monday is a holiday for everyone, so a lot of people watch some sport, or go out for the day. Children usually have a
week or two holiday from school around Easter...’’
VOCABULARY GAME:

Prepare small pieces of papers with vocabulary connected with Easter time; (e.g. Lent, Ash Wednesday, to
sprinkle ash, Palm Sunday, Holy week, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, bank holiday, hot cross buns, tradition,
egg hunt, chocolate eggs, bunnies, etc.)

Ask one student in front of the class and give him/her one piece of paper. The chosen student has to illustrate the
phrase/word given on the paper so the other students can guess the meaning. Then another student takes the
floor.

Once all the vocabulary is successfully illustrated you may ask your students to write 5 sentences using the
words they have been guessing.

Lent Ash Wednesday sprinkle ash Palm Sunday

Holy week Maundy Thursday Good Friday bank holiday

cross buns egg-hunt bunny catkin

chick basket lamb the Resurrection

- EASTER IN BRITAIN -

You are going to read a short fragment about how people in Britain celebrate Easter. As you read try to
find similarities and differences in the way people celebrate Easter in Poland and Britain.
Look up in your dictionary the words in bold.

“…On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate Easter eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early
nineteenth century and came to Britain in the 1870s. Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small
chocolates inside; some are very small, some very big.

Some mothers and fathers tell their children that the Easter Rabbit brings the eggs and hides them in the garden.
The children must go outside and look for them.

Many people also eat hot cross buns at Easter. These are small loaves of bread, made with fruit and spices, and
they have a cross on top. They are best hot, and there is an old song about them: (...)

(...) Some women and girls decorate hats, called Easter bonnets. They put lots of spring flowers on them, and
wear them in Easter bonnet parades.

Many people go to church on Easter Day. There are lots of flowers in the churches and people sing special
Easter songs. .

Easter Monday is a holiday for everyone, so a lot of people watch some sport, or go out for the day. Children
usually have a week or two holiday from school around Easter...’’