THE PARADE OF SPRING FLOWERS

	
THE PARADE OF SPRING FLOWERS
OBJECTIVES:
-to improve speaking and listening skills;
-to enrich vocabulary related to the topic;
-to encourage students to love our nature and take care of its beauty.
EQUIPMENT: costumes, pictures, a CD player.

S1 and S2: Dear friends! Welcome to our bright, merry, spring show with a lot of fun for everyone!
S1: Look around us! It’s spring outside! Nature awakens from its long winter sleep and that’s why people call spring the “morning of the year”. Bright sun-rays begin to melt snow and ice on the rivers, lakes and ponds.
S2: Oh, yes! It’s getting warmer and warmer. You can’t stay in the room anymore. You go outside without a coat on. Don’t you feel like “dancing in the street”? Listen to the song “Dancing in the Street” performed by the students of 9-C and you we’ll hear…   
Dancing in the street
Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer’s here and the time is right
For dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleand
In New York City
All we need is music
Sweet, sweet music
There’ll be music everywhere.

There’ll be swimming, swaying
And records playing
We’re dancing in the street.

S1: Thank you very much! It was really a great pleasure. And now it’s time to invite Your Majesty Spring on the stage!
 
Your Majesty Spring:
Out of cave! Out of hole!
Bear, rabbit, little mole,
Hatch from egg in nest in trees!
The birds are back and so are bees.
The flowers are in bloom, the leavers are green,
How do they know when it is spring?
Build your web. The bugs are back!
Little spider dressed in black,
Bears, rabbits, birds and bees,
Flowers, grass and trees,
Just like me their face is warm,
That’s how they know spring has come!
    I am spring! People call me the season of hope and happiness. When I come, flowers begin to grow and bloom everywhere, green leaves appear in the trees. Birds come from the warm south. Children and grown-ups plant trees, bushes, flowers vegetables in their gardens. My first rains wash the Earth and everything looks so lovely and bright.

S2: Your Majesty Spring, are your ready to sing the song together with our junior students? Enjoy it!
It’s spring time, it’s spring time,
Cold winter is in the past. 
Warm breezes are blowing
And spring is here at last.
The birds are returning,
Their songs you can hear,
And meadows are smiling
With spring flowers here
S1: Great! Thank you so much! Oleh! Honesty, truth, trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy… What do I mean?
S2: Friendship. How to live without friends? Your Majesty Spring, have you got any friends?
Your Majesty Spring: Here they are.  MY FRIENDS: THE SUN, THE MOON, THE RAIN, THE WIND AND MY BROTHERS: MARCH, APRIL, MAY.
THE SUN:
I am the closest star to Earth and I’m the centre of our solar system. I’m a giant, spinning ball of very hot gas. My light heats our planet and makes life possible.
S3:
Summer Sun
by Robert Louis Stevenson 
Great is the sun, and wide he goes 
Through empty heaven with repose; 
And in the blue and glowing days 
More thick than rain he showers his rays. 
THE WIND:
I am simply an air in motion, which is caused by the uneven heating of the Earth’s surface by the sun.
S4:
The Wind 
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass
Oh wind, a blowing all day long,
Oh wind, that sings so loud a song!
I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all.
THE RAIN:
I’m liquid precipitation. I fall from deep, dark clouds and water everything on the Earth.  
S5: 
The Rain
by William Henry Davies
I hear leaves drinking rain; 
I hear rich leaves on top 
Giving the poor beneath 
Drop after drop; 
This a sweet noise to hear 
These green leaves drinking near.
And when the Sun comes out, 
After this Rain shall stop, 
A wondrous Light will fill 
Each dark, round drop; 
I hope the Sun shines bright; 
It will be a lovely sight.
THE MOON:
I’m the second brightest object in the sky after the sun. I’m cold and dry. I’m rocky and airless world that orbits Earth.
S6:
The Moon
by William Henry Davies
Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul, 
Oh, thou fair Moon, so close and bright; 
Thy beauty makes me like the child 
That cries aloud to own thy light: 
The little child that lifts each arm 
To press thee to her bosom warm. 
Your Majesty Spring: 
Dear friends! Are you having a good time today? I know for sure you are.
March brings breezes sharp and shrill,
Shakes the dancing daffodil.
April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daisies at our feet.
May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their fleecy dams.
S1: Parade is not just something to watch, it’s something to be part of.
S2: Look! How wonderful they are! How sweetly they smell!

S1: Daffodils symbolize regard, respect and unrequited love.

S2: Forget-me-nots have their name for a reason. Along true love, they’re also used to symbolize memories.

S1:  Violets symbolize modesty, hence the term “shrinking violet”. However, the meaning is based on a colour: blue- “I’ll always be true”, white- “Let’s take a chance”.

S2: Bluebells -- humility, constancy.

S1: Tulips in general signify fame, charity and a perfect lover. If you want to be more specific, choose a colour: red- declaration of love, “Believe me”, yellow- hopeless love, variegated- “You have beautiful eyes”.

S2: Crocuses symbolize cheerfulness, abuse not.

S1: Dandelions—wishes come true.

S2: Snowdrops symbolizes hope.

S1: Buttercups –cheerfulness.
S2: It was spectacular! Let’s applaud to our beautiful and lovely flowers!
S1: Spring marks the beginning of camping. Here is a typical “camping song” “This Land is Your Land”. It’ll be performed by students of 8-C. Meet them!
 Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
S2: I’m sure you have heard this song before, the song of scouts. We all must take care of our nature to preserve its beauty for next generation.
S1: We should live in harmony with nature. Let’s smile to each other and to the world around, singing the song “Smile”.

With a smile a gloomy day is bright
And a rainbow in the sky at once appear
Share your smile and everything’s all right
And it will return to you
And will be near.
Then for sure clouds in the sky
Will be merry dancing high,
A grasshopper’ll take at once a tiny fiddle
From blue streams all rivers start,
Give a smile from all your heart,
Give a smile from all your heart
Just from the middle.