 You can also make the hot cross buns recipe (see appendix at the end).

1) Creative and cooking activities for all students:

 Try out this great and simple scones recipe as a breakfast or afternoon surprise for your family:

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/traditional-scones/

 You can also make the hot cross buns recipe (see appendix at the end).

Hot cross buns are typically eaten on Good Friday (Karfreitag) and during Lent (Fastenzeit).

 Make Easter cards with an English text and send them to your friends and family you can’t see at the moment.

 Host and film a cooking show: pick out a recipe you would like to try.

Pretend you are hosting your own cooking show and video it. Make sure the whole family participates, in one way or another. Speak English!

Watch the video together afterwards.

 Film a newscast: Set up and make a newscast of events that are going on locally or events that are taking place in your family circle. Every family member has to do a part in English. Younger family members could maybe sing a song. Watch it together afterwards.

 Do the civics practice test of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser- vices. Can you answer all the question?

https://my.uscis.gov/en/prep/test/civics/view

Especially for younger students:

 Read the story “The Clumsy Easter Bunny” (see appendix at the end) and do the questions.

 Make your own memory game with English words from a topic of your choice. You can also illustrate the memory cards with pictures you draw.

If you do not want to draw the same picture twice, you can also draw re- lated things that go together (e.g. tennis ball + tennis racket, football + goal. That may be a little harder to play but certainly great fun!

 Play Bingo at home to practice English numbers.

 Do the sheets All about Easter (in the appendix at the end).

 Writing poems – general information:

Poems are texts with a special form. They can have rhymes, a special rhythm (stressed and unstressed syllables in a special order), and some- times words or letters are repeated.

Here are some examples:

Roses are red Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

Sugar is sweet.

And so are you.

Man is a fool

As a rule, man is a fool.

When it’s hot, he wants it cool;

When it’s cool, he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not.

Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone.

But the dog couldn’t wait, so when dinner was late, he ordered a pizza by phone.

Bruce Lansky

Write an eleven word poem Write a poem like this:

Line 1: one word Line 2: two words Line 3: three words Line 4: four words Line 5: one word Write your own haiku

A haiku is a Japanese poem which always has 17 syllables and three lines: 5 – 7 – 5. It doesn’t need to rhyme or have a special rhythm. It is often about some- thing in nature, like a season, or something small that you can see.

Here are some examples:

Autumn

Early September

Red fruit on the golden trees Apples taste so good.

Rebecca Keller

The frog

An old silent pond …

A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.

Matsuo Basho

Blue The sea It carries me

Away from this place

Bye

Concrete poetry

Concrete poetry is when the shape of the poem shows what it is about.

More ideas how to write a poem:

 Write a poem with words that start with the same letter.

 Write a text with words that have the same sound.

source: Green Line New 1, Extra line (pp. 116-117); Green Line 2, Extra line (pp. 148-149)

Appendix

Hot Cross Buns (makes 24) Ingredients:

1 cup milk

2 Tbsp (Esslöffel) yeast (Hefe) 1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp.(Teelöffel) salt

1/3 cup butter, melted and cooled 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon (Zimt) 1/2 tsp. nutmeg (Muskatnuss) 4 eggs

5 cup flour (Mehl)

1 1/3 cup currants (Korinthe) or raisins 1 egg white

Glaze (you can use this one or your favorite) 1 1/3 cup confectioner's sugar

1 1/2 tsp. finely chopped lemon zest 1/2 tsp. lemon extract

1-2 Tbsp milk Instructions:

In a small saucepan, heat milk to very warm, but not hot (110'F if using a candy thermome- ter). Pour warm milk in a bowl and sprinkle yeast over. Mix to dissolve and let sit for 5 minutes.

Stirring (rühren) constantly, add sugar, salt, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg and eggs. Gradually (nach und nach) mix in flour, dough will be wet and sticky. Continue kneading (kneten) until smooth (glatt), about 5 minutes. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough (Teig) "rest"

for 30-45 minutes.

Knead again until smooth and elastic, for about 3 more minutes. Add currants or raisins and knead until well mixed. At this point, dough will still be fairly wet and sticky. Shape (formen) dough in a ball, place in a buttered dish (Schüssel/Teller), cover with plastic wrap and let rise overnight in the refrigerator. Excess moisture will be absorbed by the morning.

Let dough sit at room temperature for about a half-hour. Line a large baking pan (or pans) with parchment paper (Backpapier/Pergamentpapier) (you could also lightly grease a baking pan, but parchment works better). Divide dough into 24 equal pieces (in half, half again, etc., etc.). Shape each portion into a ball and place on baking sheet, about 1/2 inch apart. Cover with a clean kitchen towel(Geschirrtuch) and let rise in a warm, draft-free place (ohne

Zugluft) until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.

In the meantime, pre-heat oven to 400' F.

When buns have risen, take a sharp or serrated knife (Sägemesser) and care- fully slash buns with a cross (Kreuz). Brush (bestreichen) them with egg white and place in oven. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350' F (about 180 degres Celcius), then bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes

more. Transfer to a wire rack. Whisk together glaze ingredients, and spoon over buns in a cross pattern. Serve warm, if possible.

History of the Hot Cross Bun

Hot cross buns are typically eaten on Good Friday and during Lent.

Stories abound about the origins of the Hot Cross Bun. Yet, the common thread throughout is the symbolism of the "cross" of icing

which adorns

the bun itself.

Some say that the origin of Hot Cross Buns dates back to the 12th century, when an Angelican monk was said to have placed the sign of the cross on the buns, to honor Good Friday, a Christian holiday also known as the Day of the Cross. Supposedly, this pastry

was the only thing permitted

to enter the mouths of the faithful

on this

holy day.

Other accounts talk of an English widow

, who's son went off to sea. She vowed

to bake him a bun every Good Friday. When he didn't return

she continued

to bake a hot cross bun for him each year and hung it in the bakery window in good faith that he would some day return to her. The English people kept the tradition for her even after she passed away

.

Others say that Hot Cross Buns have pagan

roots

as part of spring festivals and that the monks simply added the cross to convert people to Christians. Even if this is the case, I think it was rather bright of the monks to be able to so readily tie existing traditions to Christianity!

1 Lent = Fastenzeit

2 icing = Zuckerguss => Kreuz aus Zuckerguss

3 to adorn = to make pretty

4 pastry = Gebäck

5 to permit = to allow

6 faithful = Gläubiger

7 widow = a woman whose husband is dead

8 to vow = to promise

9 to return = to come back

10 to continue = to go on

11 to pass away = to die

12 pagan = heidnisch

13 root = origin

Reading comprehension: The Clumsy Easter Bunny

Source: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/present-simple-tense/clumsy-easter-bunny-key-included/20756 Tick true or false!

Tick true or false!

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