THE ENGLISH POETRY PERFORMANCE AMONG THE 6th-FORMERS

On 27 February 2017 Burns Night event was held in our Gymnasia by the 6th-formers upon the initiative of a teacher of English Y.K.Rabenko. Burns Night is an annual celebration which takes place in Scotland, as well as all over Great Britain, and it marks the birthday of the famous poet and bard Robert Burns. On this day men usually wear traditional kilts and women and children wear tartans – a symbol of Scotland. Burn’s poetry is heard everywhere: New Year’s song “Auld Lang Syne”, unofficial anthem of Scotland “Scots Wha Hae”, etc.
Thus, the pupils of the Gymnasia put on checked clothes and recited poems by Robert Burns in the original and in Ukrainian translation by S.Marshak, M.Lukash and M.Novikova, and sang “Auld Lang Syne”. They have also decided to prepare greeting cards with Burn’s poems in two languages and send them to their pen-pals in Great Britain.