Listening: Holiday: Ramadan Reading: Special gifts and special days. Speaking

Lesson plan. Topic “ Special days”
Vocabulary: customs, present, card, tradition, sweet, exchange, psychological, happiness, equinox, to measure, orphan, human rights, healthcare , to adopt
Listening: Holiday: Ramadan
Reading: Special gifts and special days.
Speaking: Talk about personal calendar
Writing: Why the dates is important

Listening: Special occasions
Task 1. Dates and special occasions
1. Which are your favorite months of the year? Why?
2. Which of these days do people celebrate in your country? Which month are they in?
3. Listen Track 32 and make notes about when they happen in the UK/ USA.

Chinese New Year	Father’s Day
St Valentine’s Day	American Independence Day
Mother’s Day	Halloween
Easter	Christmas Day
May Day	New Year’s Eve

Task 2. Match the word(s) in A with the word(s) in И to make phrases connected with special occasions.

	A	B
1	Cook a	A cake
2	Dress	Cards to people
3	Eat	Flowers
4	Exchange	Late
5	Have a day	Out
6	Invite people	Presents
7	Make	Relatives
8	Send	Special meal
9	Stay up	To your home
10	Visit	Up
11	Buy	Off work

Task 3. Listen the track 33 “New Year in two different cultures” and complete the information in the table.

	Karen/ Scotland	Johnny/ Hong Kong
When it happens	December 31st
Special food/ drink
Things people give to each other
Other customs

Task 4. Complete the conversations with a word or phrase from the box to make a phrase with day. Then listen the Track 34 and check your answers.

The day before yesterday, Have a good day, Go out for the day. Six days a week

The day after tomorrow The other day A day off Every day

Bad day One day All day Twice a day

a. I saw Ahmed _____. He seemed to be very happy with his new job.
b. I’m so tired. What I need is ________ work.
c. I’m sure they’ll get married _________.
d. It’s so boring. We do the same things ______. I need a change.
e. It’s my uncle’s birthday ________. I must remember to send him a card.
f. ‘Right. I’m going. I’ll see you tonight.’ ‘All right then. ____! Don’t work too hard!’
g. It’s Thursday today, and we arrived here _____-on Tuesday.
h. All she wants to do on holiday is sit by the swimming pool _______ and relax.
I. You need to take this medicine _____ -first thing in the morning and before going to bed.
J. The information centre is open ______-it’s only closed on Sundays.
k. After so much time at home, we decided to ________, so we went to the beach.
l. It was a _______ today – I was late for work, had an argument with my best friend and lost my handbag.
Reading
Before reading Task 5. Match the definitions (a–f) with the vocabulary (1–6).

1. 
   To measure a. A person whose parents have died
   
2. 
   Psychological b. Medicine, hospitals and doctors
   
3. 
   An orphan c. To find out how match, how long, how tall etc.
   
4. 
   To adopt a child d. To become the legal parents of a child who is not yours
   
5. 
   Human rights e. About your minds and feelings
   
6. 
   Healthcare f. Things we all agree everyone should have
   

Reading Text “International Day of Happiness”
You might think the International Day of Happiness is a day to practise positive thinking or to give thanks for the things in your life that make you happy. But it’s actually a United Nations (UN) project which has a more serious purpose. The UN thinks happiness will only be for everyone when the people of the world are equal.
Why 20 March?
On this date (and also on 23 September), the centre of the sun is directly above the Earth’s equator, which is called an equinox. On the equinox, day and night last for almost equal time all over the Earth. The equinox is felt by everyone on the planet, which matches perfectly with the idea behind the Day of Happiness. Since 2013, the Day of Happiness has been celebrated in all 193 United Nations member states.
How did the idea start?
The idea goes back to 1972, when the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, said that we should measure a country’s progress by its happiness and not just how much it produces or how much money it makes. He called it Gross National Happiness (GNH). Again, it is more than just a nice idea. Bhutan developed a system to measure happiness based on things like people’s psychological health, their general health, how they spend their time, where they live, their education and their environment. People in Bhutan answer about 300 questions, and the results are compared every year to measure progress. The government uses the results and
the ideas behind GNH to make decisions for the country. Other places use shorter, similar versions of this kind of report, for example the cities of Victoria in Canada and Seattle in the USA, as well as the state of Vermont, USA.