DISCUSSION

Do you celebrate Easter?

Yes, I do.

How do you celebrate Easter in your family?

We make easter decoration with grass and little chicken. We also make colored eggs and fight with each other by them on Easter day. The winner takes both eggs. Me and my mom prepare easter cake with raisins. For dinner we prepare fish and rice with dried fruits.

EASTER

Easter is the most important festival of the year for most Christians and a holiday for many others. Read on to find out more about it.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the article and do the exercises.

PREPARATION

THE MEANING OF EASTER

Easter is a Christian festival which marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For many Christians, Easter is a celebration of the triumph of life over death, and a very important time of the year. Many non-Christians also have a holiday at this time, so it is a popular time to travel or spend with friends and family. We see lots of symbols of new life at Easter, especially eggs, chicks, flowers and rabbits. These symbols go back to ancient pagan traditions which celebrated fertility, rebirth and new growth after the long, winter months.

WHEN IT IS CELEBRATED

The dates of Easter change from year to year but it usually falls sometime between the end of March and the end of April. In Western Christianity, Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring, which starts on 21 March. The Eastern Orthodox churches, which use a different calendar, have a slightly different way of calculating Easter and usually celebrate Easter a little earlier or later.

HOLY WEEK

The week before Easter is called Holy Week. The first day of Holy Week is Palm Sunday, which is the Sunday before Easter. Many Christians celebrate this as the day that Jesus entered Jerusalem and people threw down branches from palm trees on the road to welcome him. Four days later is Maundy Thursday, which marks the Last Supper, when Jesus ate bread and drank wine with his twelve disciples. The following day is Good Friday, which is significant for Christians as the day that Jesus was put to death on the cross. Many Christians believe that Jesus was killed and buried in a tomb on the Friday and that God raised him from the dead on the Sunday. So Easter Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. 

HOW EASTER IS CELEBRATED

In many countries there are religious processions during Holy Week, and practising Christians attend special church services. On Palm Sunday, many churches bless palm branches and people put them on the ground during processions to mark the day that Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. The Last Supper on Maundy Thursday is celebrated in many Christian traditions in the form of the Communion, when believers share bread and wine. Good Friday is traditionally a day of fasting, reflection and sadness. A lot of church services start at midnight the night before Easter Sunday with the lighting of candles or, in Greece, fireworks. This represents the triumph of light over darkness. On Easter Sunday, churches are filled with flowers representing new life, and at home chocolate Easter eggs are given as presents.

OTHER EASTER TRADITIONS

There are many different Easter traditions around the world. In some places, people eat lamb on Easter Sunday, but there are many other foods, such as hot cross buns – spiced, sweet bread buns made with raisins – that are traditional in the UK. 

In some places in Eastern Europe, boys and girls throw water at each other, while in Corfu, Greece, there is a tradition of throwing pots and pans out of windows and from balconies, breaking them on the street. In the United States, a tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter has evolved into making Easter bonnets – fancy hats decorated with flowers, rabbits and other symbols of spring. For fans of crime fiction, Norway is the place to be at Easter, when it has become traditional to read crime novels and solve mysteries.

Eggs are a popular part of Easter celebrations. Traditionally, people paint chicken eggs and decorate them with bright colours to give as presents. Nowadays, chocolate eggs are more popular than the traditional kind, especially with children. They are often hidden around the house and garden so that children can find them in an Easter egg hunt.

TASK 1

TASK 2

Առաջադրանքներ դասագրքից՝ 571 – 573

ա) 3x² + 4x + 5
a = 3, b = 4, c = 5

բ) 2x² — 5x — 7
a = 2, b = -5, c = -7

գ) -5x² + 3x — 1
a = -5, b = 3, c = -1

դ) 6x² + x — 2
a = 6, b = 1, c = -2

ե) x² — x + 7
a = 1, b = -1, c = 7

զ) -x² + x + 1
a = -1, b = 1, c = 1

ա) a = 3, b = 4, c = 5

3x² + 4x + 5

բ) a = 3, b = -2, c = 6

3x² — 2x + 6

գ) a = 1, b = -1, c = 2

x² — x + 2

դ) a = -1, b = 3, c = -2

-x² + 3x — 2

ա) 2x² + 5x + 3

D = 25 — 8 * 3 = 1

բ) 2x² — 5x + 3

D = 25 — 8 * 3 = 1

գ) 2x² + 5x — 3

D = 25 — 8 * (-3) = 25 — (-24) = 49

դ) 2x² — 5x — 3

D = 25 + 8 * (-3) = 25 — 24 = 1

ե) x² — 4x + 5

D = 16 — 4 * 5 = 16 — (-20) = 36

զ) x² + 6x + 9

D = 36 + 4 * 9 = 36 — 36 = 72

է) x² + 2x + 1

D = 4 — 4 * 1 = 4 — (-4) = 8

ը) -3x² + 5x — 2

D = 25 + 12 * (-2) = 25 — 24 = 1

թ) x² + 2x + 2

D = 4 — 4 + 2 = 4 — (-2) = 6

 PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE CORRECT PREPOSITION.  CHOOSE IN , ON OR AT.

1. I wake up at 7.00.

2. I sometimes work on Saturdays.

3. I never work at the weekends.

4. I see my family on Christmas.

5. I go on holiday in August.

6. I go to bed at 11 p.m.

7. I watch TV in the evening.

8. I do my English homework at night.

9. I read the newspaper in the morning.

10. I have lunch at 1.30 p.m.

11. I always go out on Friday nights.

12. I go to a restaurant on New Year’s Eve.

13. I start a new school year on September.

14. I go skiing in the winter.

15. I was born in 1977.

16. I get up late on Saturday mornings.

17. I usually have a cup of coffee in  the afternoons.

18. My birthday is on  July.

19. The party is on the first of October.

20. We have a meeting on the first Thursday of the month.

Fill in the correct form of the verb given.

1. Who is he writing to? – He is writing to his sister Maria, who
   is usually in England at this time of the year. (HE WRITE, WRITE, BE)
2. Marty was smoking just when his mother came into his room.
   (SMOKE, COME)
3. She left an hour ago and didn’t come back yet. (LEAVE, NOT COME)
4. I usually drink tea with milk, but I like to have my coffee black.
   (DRINK, LIKE)
5. When I was in school, I knew a student who hadn’t failed  a test in his whole
   life. (KNOW, NOT FAIL)
6. You can’t go into her room. She is sleeping and you shouldn’t wake her. (SLEEP)
7. I never felt better in my life. I hope it stays that way. (NEVER FEEL,
   STAY)
8. We hadn’t gone outside yesterday because it had rained the whole day. Maybe we
   will go tomorrow. (NOT GO, RAIN, GO)
9. While Mom was working in the garden, she hurt her back. She
   went to the doctor who told her that she would have to rest for a few
   days. (WORK, HURT, GO, WILL)
   10.My sister has been working hard for school recently. She’s got a few tests coming up
   next week. (WORK)
   11.The results were better than I was expecting. (EXPECT)
   12.Nobody was in the car, even though the engine was running. (RUN)
   13.I went into the garden to see what the boys were doing. (DO)
   14.All your fingers are brown. You smoke too much. (SMOKE)
   15.When I saw him last, he wasn’t married for so long. (NOT BE)
   16.I just heard that his brother travelled around in Australia. (JUST
   HEAR, TRAVEL)
   17. Have you slept the whole morning? – I was trying to call you for over an hour.
   (YOU SLEEP, TRY)
   18.After he read the letter, he throwed it away. (READ, THROW)
   19.I didn’t read today’s newspaper. – did you see it anywhere? (NOT READ,
   YOU SEE)
   20.Jake was coaching my sister for over a year. She had some very good
   results lately. (COACH, HAVE)

1. Գրում ենք հետևյալ բայերի հականիշները:
   • ձերբակալել — ազատել, գտնել — կորցնել, ծնվել — մահանալ, անհետանալ — հայտնվել, առնել — վաճառել, միաբանվել — բաժանվել, լռել — խոսել, քանդել — սարքել, նվաստացնել — գովել, գրավել — հանձնել, ուշաթափվել — սթափվել, հուսահատեցնել —
2. Ընդգծում ենք բայերի արմատները և դրանցով կազմում ենք գոյականներ:
   տրտմել — տրտմություն
   ցնծալ — ցնծություն
   ցնցվել — ցնցում
   անցնել — անցորդ
   նայել — նայված
   թռչել — ինքնաթիռ
   գինովնալ — գինեգործ
   արբել — արբեցում