Сценарий внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку
для 10-11 класса «Американские песни в истории страны»
Цель: расширение кругозора
школьников через знакомство с историей и культурой США; повышение интереса к
предмету;
Задачи: развитие навыков
устной речи по английскому языку; формирование положительной мотивации
учащихся; воспитание толерантности у уважения к культуре разных народов.
Оборудование: АРМ учителя –
предметника, флаг США, карта США.
Участники: ведущие – не менее 12 человек, исполнители песен.
Ход мероприятия
Americans as any other nation are fond of music, of folk songs. And
these songs are often connected with the history of their country. Today we
shall speak about such songs and sing some of them.
O beautiful for
spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
For purple
mountain majesties above the fruited plain,
America, America! God shed his grace on
thee,
And crown thy
good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
Прекрасна ты, Америка!
Полей янтарных край,
Небес простор, багрянец
гор,
Долин фруктовый рай.
Америка, Америка,
Господь благослови
От берега до берега
Жизнь в братстве и любви.
We have begun our party with the song "America, the beautiful” because
this song is very important for the people of this country. They want to make "America, the beautiful” the national
anthem instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner” because it was not written as a
result of a war. The tune is easier to sing and the whole country is praised,
not only the flag.
Katherine Lee Bates, an
English professor at Wellesley
College, rode in a horse-drawn
wagon up Pike’s Peak, a mountaintop in Colorado in 1893. She
saw a view of the mountains that few people saw in those days and was inspired
by her glimpse of the "spacious skies” and "purple mountains” to write a poem
which became the first verse of the song. The public loved the poem, and Miss
Bates was encouraged to set it to music. She chose the music of a hymn by
Samuel Ward. The music and words travelled around the world and today not only America but Mexico, Canada and Australia sing
it with their own countries’ names instead of «America». America, the Beautiful 
Many American songs are closely
connected with the history of the country, its life in different periods of
time.
The First European settlers
in America
arrived in the early 1600s. Most of them were English speaking. They brought
their language, their customs and their skills. They also brought their songs, Billy Boy is one of these songs.
In the New
World as in the Old World, a
woman’s work was essential for her family survival. For the first two hundred
years of American life, almost everything that the family ate or wore was
produced at home. Women helped to plow the fields, plant seeds and pick crops.
They made wheat or corn into flour and made the flour into bread. Women made
their own cloth and made the cloth into shirts and trousers and dresses. A girl
who learned to cook and sew well became a valuable wife.
In this song Billy’s mother
questions him about the girl he plans to marry. Like a mother in any country,
she wants her son to find a wife who is polite ("Did she ask you to come in?”),
attractive ("How tall is she?”), skillful at house-keeping ("Can she bake a
cherry pie?”, "Can she make a feather bed?”) and young ("How old is she?”). In
answering his mother Billy exaggerates all the qualities of the girl he wants
to merry. He is joking in a good-natured way.
Billy
Boy
Mother: Oh, where have you
been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
Oh, where have you
been, charming Billy?
Billy: I have been to seek a wife, she’s the joy
of my life.
She’s a young thing
and cannot leave her mother.
- Can she bake a
cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
Can she bake a
cherry pie, charming Billy?
- She can bake a cherry pie,
quick as you can wink an eye.
She’s a young thing
and cannot leave her mother.
- Can she make a feather bed,
Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Can she make a feather bed, charming Billy?
- She can make a feather bed, while
a-standing on her head,
She’s young thing
and cannot leave her mother.
- How tall is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
How tall is she, charming Billy?
- She is tall as any pine, and as straight as
a pumpkin vine,
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her
mother.
- How old is she, Billy Boy,
Billy Boy,
How old is she, charming Billy?
- She is sixty times eleven,
twenty-eight and forty-seven,
She’s a young thing
and cannot leave her mother! 
In the mid-nineteen century it
was fashionable for white minstrel groups to sing black dialect songs. These
groups often used burnt cork to blacken their faces. These black dialect songs
were the inspiration for Oh! Susanna
which Stephen Foster (1826 – 1864) wrote for the amusement of his family and
friends in Pittsburgh.
The song was published and was
a national success. During the Gold Rush of 1849 it became the miners’
unofficial theme song. Soon after, the tune was used to encourage slaves to
seek freedom north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Today the song is usually sung
in standard English, rather than as a dialect song. People still enjoy the
nonsense of the second verse ("It rained all night the day I left, the weather
was so dry.”) and the incongruous picture of the fourth verse of a pretty woman
crying for her
lover while eating a pancake.
Oh,
Susanna
Oh, I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my
knee.
I’m going to Louisiana
Susanna for to see.
Chorus: Oh! Susanna,
Oh, don’t you cry for me.
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee.
It rained all night the day I
left,
The weather was so dry.
The sun so hot I froze to
death.
Susanna don’t you cry.
Chorus
I had a dream the other night
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Susanna
A-comin’ down the hill.
Chorus 
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