26.05.2020.

                                                 Flag 

Тема: Флаг.

In this lesson we will learn about the flag.

 Let’s review the sound [əu]

    Repeat 

            1.go, note, rese, so, no, smoke, tone;

            2.Home is home. Be it ever so homely.

Make up the sentences with these words.

Pre-reading activities:

repeat the words after me:

Flag

To decide

Red

Star

High

Around

Courage

T: Now write down these words in your vocabularies.

Make up the sentences with these words.

  Now let’s read and translate the text. While reading underline the new words.

    

                                        Text

   The "Stars and Stripes" is a popular name for the red, white and blue flag of the United States. Another popular name is the "Star Spangled Banner". This is also the name of the National Anthem of the United States.

Every country has its own flag. In 1776 the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. So the United States were born.

   George Washington was a general of the American Army. He decided that the United States also needed a flag. There is a story that General George Washington asked Betsy Ross to make the flag. She used three colours: red, white, and blue.    

    The red colour was for courage, white was for liberty, and blue was for justice.

She sewed thirteen red and white stripes and thirteen white stars in a circle on a blue square. The thirteen stars and stripes stood for the number of states at the beginning of the United States. On June 14, 1777, the Congress confirmed this flag as the National Flag.

   Later new states joined the United States. And in 1818 the Congress made another law about the flag. The thirteen stripes stayed the same, but for each new state there was a new star. Today there are fifty stars on the flag. Hawaii Island was the last star in 1959. 

  Post-reading.

T: fill in the blanks.

Every country has its own…

   George Washington was a general of the American…

She used three colours:…

     The red colour was for…

White was for…

Blue was for….

T: answer the questions

What is flag?

What is your national flag?

What is the USA flag?