National Holidays in the USA

• Номер работы:
  210672
• Раздел:
  Все работы   →   Курсовые проекты - сложные   →   Английский язык
• Год добавления:
  24.02.2012 г.
• Объем работы:
  25 стр.
• Содержание:
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Оглавление
  INTRODUCTION 3
  1. NATIONAL HOLIDAYS OF THE UNITED STATES. 5
  1.1 Christmas in the USA. 5
  1.2 New Year’ Day 8
  1.3 St. Valentine’s Day 9
  1.4 Kwanzaa 10
  1.5 Presedent’s Day 12
  1.6 Martin Luther King’s Jr. Day 14
  2. METHODOLOGICAL WORKING-OUTS ON THE THEME “CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS IN UK” 16
  2.1 Types of tests 16
  2.2 Tasks on the Theme “Christmas and New Year” 18
  2.2 Tasks on the Themes “St. Valentine’s Day and “Kwanzaa” 20
  2.3 Tasks on the Themes “Presidents’ Day” and “Martin Luther King’s Day” 21
  CONCLUSION 23
  BIBLIOGRAPHY 25
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  The present term paper is dedicated to the problem of holidays in the United States of America.
  The subject of the research is holidays of the USA.
  The research’s topic is methodology of teaching the USA holidays in Russian schools.
  The limitation consists in considering only winter famous national holidays to make the deeper analysis of particular customs and traditions.
  The aims of the paper are studying main traditional and unusual holidays, and elaborating techniques for presenting the material in school, for developing and controlling peoples’ extra-lingual skills.
  The aim determines the paper’s tasks:
  1) to systemize information on the most important and interesting American holidays and celebrations in winter:
  a) to define exact dates of American holidays;
  b) to follow their origin;
  c) to consider ways of celebrating and preparing for the festivals;
  d) to study customs, traditions, suspicions and believes connected with the holidays;
  2. METHODOLOGICAL WORKING-OUTS ON THE THEME “CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS IN UK”
  2.1 Types of tests
  There are many elicitation techniques that can be used when writing a test. Below are some widely used types with some guidance on their strengths and weaknesses. Using the right kind of test at the right time can be enormously important in giving us a clear understanding of pupils' abilities, but a teacher must also be aware of the limitations of each of these task or question types so that he use each one appropriately.
  Multiple choice test is in choosing the correct item out of several options. For example:
  Cook is ________________today for being one of Britain's most famous explorers.
  a) recommended
  b) reminded
  c) recognized
  d) remembered
  In this test type there is a stem and various options to choose from. The advantages of this test type are that it is easy to mark and minimizes guess work by having multiple distracters. The disadvantage is that it can be very time-consuming to create, effective multiple choice items are surprisingly difficult to write. Also it takes time for the pupil to process the information which leads to problems with the validity of the exam. If a low level pupil has to read through lots of complicated information before s/he can answer the question, a teacher may find s/he is testing pupils’ reading skills more than their lexical knowledge.