Pancake Day and Carnival

Hi everybody.

Here you have a short explanation about how I worked Pancake Day, and carnival with my Primary students.

• 3^rd cycle (2 sessions)
• 1^st session
  Brainstorming about words related to carnival (costumes, mask, parade, party, fun, clown...)
  Explain them a little bit about carnival in different places and divide the class in two groups.
  Show them both presentations and one group works about Mardi Gras and the other about Shrove Tuesday-Pancake Day.
  
  
  
  
  
  Presentation on Shrove Tuesday
  
  
  They prepare an Open Office Presentation.
  Ask them to bring yellow plasticine, a plastic pan and a mask for next day.
• 2^nd session
  They work in pairs sharing what they have found about carnival for about ten minutes,.
  Show them some presentations.
  Now that all of them know what Pancake Day is, we are going to celebrate a Pancake race.
  They prepare their plasticine pancakes. 

  They wear their mask and HAVE FUN!

  Isabel
  
  
  

Pancake Day

Hello everyone! Have a look at my 3º ESO students making and eating American pancakes in class. We had a great time.

But first they learnt about Shrove Tuesday and some tradtions, for example, Pancake Races in Olney.



They also learnt how to make American pancakes easily.



Next Wednesday I'll show you some of the activities I prepared to do in class before actually making pancakes.

Pancake Day traditions
Pancake Races
American Pancake recipe

See you then.

Elena Sánchez from IES Averroes.

Pancake Day

Today, 21st february, it is celebrated Pancake Day.
Here you are some webs with information and resources for your students:

- Pancake Day activities for kids
- Pancake Day: Recipe Ideas
- Teaching ideas for Pancake Day
- Pancake Day: Quiz, games, etc...


Pancake Day Race 2012

PANCAKE DAY AND THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES DICKENS´BIRTH

Following the programme of the course "Learning and Teaching English celebrations", yesterday Neda Milenova, teacher trainer and translator, talked about Pancake Day (that is celebrated on 21st february this year) and also about the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens.

Neda presented different and interesting activities as well as useful resources to teach students the origin and customs in the UK related to these festivities. Most of them were done in small groups in an interactive way, discusing them and adding new ideas and ways to adapt the activities to the students´age.


At the end of the session two of the participants gave talks about the celebration we dealt with in the previous session and that they have already carried on with their students, about Saint Valentine´s Day. Their presentations/materials are uploaded to the blog for this course that will be made public at the end of this activity.

Next 7th march we will talk about Saint Patrick Day and April fools´ Day. Don´t skip the class!!

This is the presentation by Neda on Charles Dickens and Pancake Day:

 LINKS:
- Dickens handout
- Dickens links

-  Pancake Day Quiz
- Pancake Day lyrics (gaps) 
- Shrove Tuesday Links