A Calendar of British Holidays

1. A Calendar of British Holidays

Gatayllina Maria
Godovikova Yulia
Syasegova Ksenia
5C

2. The purpose and objectives of the project

is to create a
calendar of British
holidays.
1 to find information about
British holidays in different
sources;
2.to select the most
meaningful holidays;
3.to decide how the
calendar will look like;
4.to make the parts of the
calendar: the canvas,
cards with numbers,
months, days of the week,
holidays;
5.to compose the
calendar.

3. Stages of the project:

1. The preparatory stage:
to learn about holidays in The UK;
to choose the most interesting holidays;
to decide which tools and materials to use.
2. The main stage:
to design the scheme of the calendar;
to make the canvas, cards with numbers, months, days of week,
holidays;
to compose the calendar.
3. The final stage:
to make an opinion poll among the students and teachers of our
school to find out if this calendar is useful;
to present the calendar to our classmates.

4. The preparatory stage

We learned about the
holidays of the UK and made
a list of them according to
the season.(34 holidays)

5. The main stage

1.
The
development of
the idea
We drew a
sketch of the
future
calendar.
A1 format .

6. The main stage

The removable parts:
1. Double-sided tape.
2. Pins.
3. Velcro fasteners

7. The process of creating the calendar

• Whatman paper
• The chart for one month
• The British flag(the upper-left corner)
• the removable cards
• Velcro fasteners
• Some interested pictures on the UK
• Two boxes to keep the removable cards

8. That’s what we got as a result

9. The final stage and the assessment of the product

Teachers (10 people):
1. 100% think it is important for
students of a linguistic school to
know the holidays of the UK;
2. 100% regularly talk about the
holidays in the UK or the USA with
your students during or between
lessons;
3. 100% usually use videos or
songs to teach holidays;
4. 100% think a calendar of British
holidays will be useful;
5. 100% would like to have such
a calendar in their classroom
Students (40 people):
1. 80% know nothing about the UK, 20% listed
some facts;
2. 90% wrote Christmas, Halloween and St.
Valentine’s Day;
3.
4.
80% wrote the right dates for these holidays;
0% have heard about these holidays;
90% would like to learn about these and
5.
other holidays of the UK;
6.
45% would like to have such a calendar;
85% think this calendar can be useful at
7.
English lessons.

10. Conclusions

Our project is successful
1. Positive responses
2. Some people asked us to make
such a calendar for them
3. Some gave new ideas to us

11. Thank you for attention!