Игра "Great Britain" 9-11 класс

Игра «Great Britain»
(составлена для обучающихся 9-11классов учителем английского языка филиала МОУ Новолядинской сош в с. Столовое)
-Geographical position
-National emblems
-The history of Great Britain
-London
-Traditions and customs
-Answers to the questions

Цель и задачи игры
Цель:
- формирование страноведческой компетенции;
- расширение кругозора.
Задачи:
- организовать игру в форме викторины;
- расширять знания по географии и истории Великобритании;
- развивать память, внимание;
- практиковать в устной речи.

Оборудование и
оформление
Оборудование:
жетоны для выбора очередности хода,
жетоны в форме флага Великобритании за правильные ответы.
Оформление:
красочное название игры,
на доске рубрики викторины и номерами вопросов.

Правила игры
Правила игры:
участники игры выбирают жетоны с номером хода. Участник (или команда) с номером один начинает игру, выбирая рубрику и номер вопроса. Если он(а) не отвечает ход переходит к участнику (команде) с номером два и так далее. Выигрывает участник(команда), который (ая) набирает большее количество жетонов.

Geographical position
1. What main regions is the island of Great Britain subdivided into?
2. What is the longest river of Great Britain?
3. What ocean is the western coast of Great Britain washed by?
4. What is the smallest part of the UK?
5. What is its total area?
6. What separates Great Britain from continent of Europe?
7. Where are the Grampians situated?
8. What river flows between Scotland and England?
9. What is the highest peak of Cumbrian mountains?
10. What is the climate influenced by?

National emblems
1. What is the national symbol of England?
2. How is England often called?
3. How is the national flag called?
4. What does the word Jack in the name of the flag mean?
5. What is the national symbol of Northern Ireland?
6. Why did the thistle become the national symbol?
7. What two national symbols has Wales?
8. What is the first line of national anthem of Great Britain?
9. What does Albion mean?
10. What is Scotland famous for?

The history of Great Britain
1. Who lived on the territory of Great Britain about 3000 years B.C.?
2. What tribes came after Iberian?
3. Who conquered Britain in the 1st century A.D.?
4. Why couldn’t Celts keep their land free after Romans?
5. When did the Danes begin to attack Britain?
6. Who was England invaded by in the 11th century?
7. What tragedy happened in 1665?
8. What war is known as the hundred years war?
9. When was the great fire of London?
10. What was Chartism?

London
1. What parts is London divided into?
2. Where is the remarkable Whispering Gallery situated?
3. What can we see in the centre of Trafalgar square?
4. What is Westminster Abbey famous for?
5. Why is the clock called Big Ben?
6. Where is the residence of Prime Minister?
7. What is the heart of the West End?
8. What is Regent’s Part famous for?
9. What street is associated with Britain newspapers?
10. What the poorest district of London?

Traditions and customs
1. What song do people sing to join their arms at the midnight in New Year?
2. What is the festival of Welsh culture?
3. Where does the Lord Chancellor sit?
4. What ceremony takes places in front of Buckingham Palace every day?
5. What ceremony takes places on the birthday of the Queen?
6. Who is the Tower of London quarded by?
7. What is a typical Englishman associated with?
8. When do people eat special buns marked with a cross on top?
9. What does the Boxing Day mean?
10. When do children go from house to house, knock at the doors and say "Trick or Treat”

Answers to the questions
Geographical position
1. Lowland and Highland Britain
2. The Severn
3. The Atlantic ocean
4. Northern Ireland
5. More than 244000 square kilometres
6. English Channel and the Strait of Dover
7. In Scotland
8. The Tweed
9. Snowdon
10. The nearness of the sea, the Gulf Stream
National emblems
1. The red rose
2. Albion
3. The Union Jack
4. Sailor
5. The shamrock
6. Saved Scots from Norsemen’s invade
7. The leek and daffodils
8. God save our gracious Queen
9. White Land
10. The kelt, bagpipes
The history of Great Britain
1. People who came from Spain (Iberians-иберийцы).
2. Celtic tribes – the Picts, the Scots, the Britons.
3. The Romans with the leader Julius Caesan
4. Because the Germanic tribes Angles, Saxons, Jutes conquested Celtic tribes
5. At the end of the 8th century
6. Normans
7. The greatest epidemic of the plague
8. War with France
9. In 1666
10. Chartism was the first national political movementof working class.
London
1. Westminster, the West End, the East End, the City.
2. In St. Paul’s Cathedral
3. Nelson’s Column
4. It’s famous for the Poet’s Corner (graves of kings)
5. In honour of the chief Commissioner of works
6. Downing Street (house 10)
7. Piccadilly Circus
8. London Zoo
9. Fleet Street
10. The East End
Traditions and customs
1. ‘Auld Lang Syne” Burns
2. Eisteddfod
3. He sits upon Woolsack. It’s a reminder when England’s commercial prosperity was founded on its wool exports
4. Changing of the Guard
5. Trooping the colour. It performed by troops of the house hold brigade wearing their unifom
6. Yeomen – Warders who are often called Beefeaters are dressed in medieval clothes of Tudor times
7. A bowler hat, tea and talking about the weather
8. On Good Friday – Friday before Easter
9. People usually gave "chrismas boxes” or money to servants
10. Hallween.
-использованная литература и интернет ресурсы при составлении вопросов:
1. С.И. Тобольская «Страноведческий справочник» Саратов 2005
2. Л.Колодяжная «Познакомьтесь: Великобритания» Москва 2000
3.http://www.native-english.ru
4. http://www.study.ru
5. http://www.en.wikipedia.org.

Автор: Пудовкина Инна Николаевна