Celebrating Festivals
Lesson on Celebrating Festivals for the new AQA GCSE RE Spec A.<br />
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GCSE Festivals and Celebrations Sentence Builders
<p>2 sentence builders to support the topic of Festivals and Celebrations (AQA GCSE).<br />
The first one covers:<br />
how people celebrate festivals (present tense with ‘on’)<br />
my favourite festival is … because …<br />
last year for … I/we … (perfect tense)</p>
<p>The second one covers:<br />
what I did last year for my birthday<br />
what I am going to do/ will do this year/ next year (both future tenses included)</p>
Quick ViewGCSE French Festivals and Celebrations Unit of Work
<p>This is a full unit of work based on the GCSE topic of Festivals and Celebrations (AQA spec). It is based on Conti’s EPI approach and includes 2 sentence builders with Powerpoints containing follow up activities. This unit is designed for 9 x 60 minute lessons. The resources are as follows:<br />
Sentence Builder on Festivals<br />
Two lessons with follow-up activities on Festivals<br />
Sentence Builder on Birthdays<br />
Two lessons with follow-up activities on Birthdays<br />
A consolidation lesson including a 90 word writing task<br />
Two lessons on Francophone festivals<br />
Please note that the listening activities are transcript-only. I have not recorded them as I am not a native speaker, but you could easily record them and embed them in the Powerpoints or simply read them aloud as the class teacher.</p>
Quick ViewAQA GCSE Spanish | Vocabulary, writing & translation revision | Customs, festivals and celebrations
<p>This resource is based on the new GCSE curriculum but can also be used within the current GCSE topic of Customs and festivals. It corresponds to the new AQA Theme 2: Popular culture (Topic 2: Customs, festivals and celebrations and the new Edexcel Theme Travel and tourism.</p>
<p>It is designed as a revision sheet (and assumes prior knowledge and coverage of the theme/topic), but could easily be used as extension work, cover work, homework or independent study, or even an end-of-unit assessment. Answers are provided for self-marking if required and the formatting is printer and photocopier friendly, with two pages of activities per tier to ensure the work will last a full lesson.</p>
<p>There are two sections of this sheet – foundation and higher – so teachers and/or students can choose to do one or both. Students work through progressively harder tasks, eventually creating their own sentences based on the theme.</p>
<p>This resource is also available in German and French.</p>
Religious festivals and celebrations
<p>Worksheets based on Wayland’s Popcorn series A Year of Festivals - 4 books that introduce children to the main religious celebrations in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism. Each worksheet looks at a different religion: Find out when Christian festivals take place during the year. Complete a chart about Hindu gods, and goddesses. Describe the different Jewish festivals. Learn the meanings of specific religious words in Islam.</p>
Quick ViewFestivals and Celebration EYFS Topic
<p>UK based festivals and celebrations in the Autumn Term. Included is a festival and celebrations word mat used to assist independent writing.</p>
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Quick ViewA Year of Celebrations - Cards
<p>Celebration and Festival flashcards for around the year including Easter, Christmas, Bonfire Night, Diwali, Summer Solstice, St Patrick’s Day etc. 19 in total.</p>
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Quick ViewFestivals, traditions & celebrations
<p>Four powerpoint lessons which can be used at KS3 & 4 to teach the vocabulary of the major French festivals with exercises, some basic facts about the 14th July with activities and the Simple Future Tense on the way to a rock concert!</p>
Félicitations- customs, festivals and celebrations
<p>Using different tenses to describe celebrations and festivals. Suitable for GCSE Level. Comes with a tense table for students to complete and relay translations to finish.</p>
Quick ViewFestivals and Celebrations display
<p>These are to accompany a ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ display in which you plot the significant events of the year (including religious events and special days) and you can add children’s work and photos of events around these titles. Each one has an image and a brief description of the event.</p>
Quick ViewFestivals and celebrations maths challenges
<p>Our <em>Festivals and celebrations maths challenges</em> year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate problem solving skills in preparation for KS2 SATs.</p>
<p>The pack is divided into nine lessons. Each lesson targets a specific strand of the Y6 maths Programme of Study and relates to a particular festival or celebration to give maths a real-life context.</p>
<p>Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, a worksheet for independent work and a plenary.</p>
<p>Questions are KS2 maths SATs-style. Answers are included.</p>
<p><strong>Lessons included in the pack:</strong></p>
<p>Lesson 1: Halloween – add, subtract, multiply, divide</p>
<p>Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – fractions</p>
<p>Lesson 3: Diwali – shape</p>
<p>Lesson 4: Hanukkah – statistics</p>
<p>Lesson 5: Christmas – position and direction</p>
<p>Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – percentages</p>
<p>Lesson 7: Easter – ratio</p>
<p>Lesson 8: Earth Day – area, perimeter and volume</p>
<p>Lesson 9: Eid al-Fitr – algebra</p>
<p>You may also like our <em>Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice</em> teaching pack.</p>
<p><strong>A sample word problem:</strong></p>
<p>Auntie Zainab sells silver bracelets as Eid gifts in her shop. She uses a formula to work out how much each customer pays according to the number of links of silver in the bracelet (which she calls <em>s</em>). She charges 50p for each silver link and then £1.50 for the presentation box. What is the formula she uses to work out the cost for a customer?</p>
Quick ViewFestivals and celebrations comprehension practice
<p>Our <em>Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice</em> year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate comprehension and writing skills in preparation for KS2 SATs.</p>
<p>The pack is divided into nine lessons aligned with the Y5/6 English Programme of Study. Each lesson is based on a text extract or poem relating to a particular festival or celebration.</p>
<p>Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, paired/group or independent tasks, assessment opportunities and a plenary, with accompanying resources.</p>
<p>Comprehension questions are KS2 SATs-style. Answers are included.</p>
<p><strong>Festivals and texts included in the pack:</strong></p>
<p>Lesson 1: Halloween – <em>Macbeth</em> by William Shakespeare</p>
<p>Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – ‘The Fifth of November’ (English Folk verse)</p>
<p>Lesson 3: Diwali – <em>Prince of Fire</em> by Jatinder Verma</p>
<p>Lesson 4: Hanukkah – ‘Season of Skinny Candles’ by Marge Piercy</p>
<p>Lesson 5: Christmas – ‘A Visit from St Nicholas’ by Clement C. Moore</p>
<p>Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – <em>The Firework-Maker’s Daughter</em> by Phillip Pullman</p>
<p>Lesson 7: Easter – <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</em> by Roald Dahl</p>
<p>Lesson 8: Earth Day – <em>My Family and Other Animals</em> by Gerald Durrell</p>
<p>Lesson 9: Eid al-fitr –’Yusuf and the Great Big Brownie Mistake’ by Aisha Saeed</p>
<p>You may also like our <em>Festivals and celebrations maths challenges</em> teaching pack.</p>
<p><strong>An extract from the resource:</strong></p>
<p>Read the extract from <em>The Firework-Maker’s Daughter</em> by Philip Pullman on PPT slides 32-34). Then provide each child with a copy of the extract (Chinese New Year resource 1) and ask them to reread it, underlining all the different ingredients for fireworks. Take feedback and compile a list on the board.</p>
<p>Ask: <em>What makes these ingredients sound exciting?</em> Draw out that the author has paired ordinary words such as <em>powder</em> and <em>grains</em> with attention-grabbing words such as <em>thunder, fly-away</em> and <em>scorpion</em>.</p>
<p>In groups, ask children to plan their firework recipe poem using the scaffold in Chinese New Year resource 2: Firework recipe. First, they must create a list of exciting ingredients, then some powerful imperative verbs. Then children use these as an idea bank to write a recipe poem for an explosive new firework! What will be the name of their firework?</p>
Feste / Festivals and celebrations
<p>This resource practices understanding vocabulary in German to describe celebrations and festivals.</p>
Feste / Festivals and celebrations
<p>This resource practices using and understanding vocabulary in German to describe celebrations and festivals.</p>
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Quick ViewFestivals and Celebrations Bundle
<p>This bundle contains resources that introduce: Chinese New Year, Martisor, Holi, Diwali, Ramadan, Easter, New Year’s Eve, International Women’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day, Shrove Tuesday, Lent and Mardi Gras.<br />
These resources are useful in classroom and whole-school assembly settings, for students of any age.<br />
Simply show the presentations on your computer or smartboard and discuss!</p>
Quick ViewLet's Talk Festivals and Celebrations
<p>A resource to encourage children to think about festivals and celebrations and talk about them. The cards could be cut out and added to a child’s communication board.<br />
Sheet 1 shows 16 festivals and celebrations with words along the side and added above the pictures. Children could colour in the pictures.<br />
Sheet 2 shows the same resource but without pictures. Children can draw in their own pictures or write the words.<br />
Sheet 3 has no words or pictures and is a useful template. This could be used for anything from animals they know to people that help us.</p>
<p>Laminate to make a useful writing mat with key words.</p>
Quick ViewFestival and Celebration Display Cards
<p>4 cards to each A4 sheet showing a range of celebrations and festivals.<br />
Use for display or great sequencing activity where children order them and match them to the months of the year.</p>
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Quick ViewSpanish Festivals Celebrations
<p><strong>Spanish Festivals Celebrations</strong> Spanish bundle of resources great for teaching students engaging <strong>MFL</strong> lessons. Could even be used for revision purposes or a treat. Answers included with every resource and activity. The resources come in editable format so you can amend and make changes if you wish.</p>
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Quick ViewWhy Is The Diwali Festival Celebrated
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Diwali Festival. The main part of the lesson consists of describing the story of Rama and Sita in their own words, writing a paragraph explaining the purpose of the festival, then linking the meaning of the festival to examples of other famous people who have overcome darkness in their lives (e.g. Brian Keenan, Malala).<br />
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To describe the story of Rama and Sita. <br />
To explain the deeper meaning behind the story and festival.<br />
To examine the similarities between the story of Rama and Sita and prior examples.
9. Festivals and celebrations
This lesson is part of a set of interactive activities detailing the work of a charity organisation in the Tsunami affected areas of Sri Lanka. The resource contains images, problem solving tasks and cross-curricular tasks and all files can be edited to suit the needs and ability of your children. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
French Festivals/Celebrations
<p>French celebrations - cultural lesson.<br />
Cultural knowledge in English.<br />
Then parallel translation in French/English.</p>