Materials for the lesson

Different  groups  of  cards , that portray  traditional ceramics, fabrics, traditional tools and carpets, old clocks.

Lego  animals   that  student have bring in the class.

Cd  of  traditional Greek music

A  picture  that  depicts  an old time festival

Food,( toasts, fruits, cake, juices, etc )  that students  bring  to school  everyday for the breaks.

Teacher’s bell

Layout of the classroom

The classroom needs space for action. The desks have been placed  around  the class, as they will be the stalls, where students  will rest the products  they going to sale.

Space in the center of the class, for the traditional dance

Phase 1

The teacher starts the lesson by showing the picture to the students  and  giving some information about the Greek festivals that take place everywhere at Greek’s villages and cities. He /she tells  that  it’s  a traditional  custom and   it’s origin comes from the very distant  past,  thousands of years before. At first, it was a prayer meeting and it steel is, but it also had an a  mercantile purpose. It took  place on villages  and cities squares and people traded their products (ceramics, tools, fabrics, domestic animals, etc ) off other which were deprived of. At nights, on the duration of the festivals ,people were having fun by eating, drinking and dancing traditional dances, under the rhythm of traditional band, at nights until the dawn. Things have changing in our days ,but it is still a great celebration.

Phase 2                                     

In this phase,  under  the  teacher’s  instructions ,students take their places behind the stalls and starting to hype their products  and make dialog with people who are interested to exchange products,  as money for years ,  was not the mean of payment.

For example:

-I have the best tools in the world.  Come  here  my  friends, come and see.

-I   want  that  tool. It’s very useful for my job. I can give you a clock I have bring from Italy.

– let me see. It looks very old but I need one. Take the tool and   give me the clock.

Or

-I have bring wheat from my field. Here is the best wheat.

– I exchange 10  kilos of wheat ,for  one chicken.

– Are you trying to rip me off? Three  chicken  for 10 kilos. Nothing less.

-Take  two  chicken.  You can shell their eggs also. They spawn big eggs.

– Ok then. Take  the  wheat. Give me the two chickens.

Phase 3

In this phase, desks that were the stalls, are placed in the row to be one big table where people after that busy day, will celebrate this specific day by  eating,  drinking  and  dancing  a  lot,  under the sounds of the traditional music.

Students place their foods on the tables, they share the foods they have  brought,  they pretend to drink wine and suggest  toasts to each other.

Music starts and student have a lot of fun. At the end, they dance traditional dances under the sounds of    the  traditional  clarinet.

Phase 4

Students return to their desks and the teacher presents the course with the known traditional form. The goal of this chapter has been achieved as  they have learned a lot about Greek festivals and have acted  the traditional way of shindig.