Christmas in Great Britain.
People celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December in Great Britain
The symbols of Christmas.
Christmas Tree
All British family decorate the tree with toys, ball, sweets.
Decoration of the House
Many British families live in the houses, so when Christmas comes they beautifully decorate their houses and flats.
Stocking
In Great Britain children believe, that Santa Claus put presents in the stockings.
Candle
People light candles when all family get together for Christmas dinner.
Holly. Остролист
Holly is the flower of the Christmas season. People in Britain like to decorate their houses with this green plant.
Carols.
Carols are special Christmas songs. People sing them in churches and in the streets.
Candycane
Parents give children candy canes for Christmas. The candy is made as letter J, because name Jesus starts with this letter.
Ginger Cookies
Ginger cookies is traditional food for Christmas.
Santa Claus or Father Christmas, is the legendary figure who brings presents to good children on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus is white-bearded man wearing a red coat and a hat, red trousers, and black boots. He travels on the 8th flying reindeer. He has helpers - magical elves who make the toys. Santa Claus lives in Lapland with his wife Mrs. Santa.
Santa Claus
Boxing Day
It is usually celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas. In this day people open their Christmas presents and make visits to their relatives and friends.
Christmas Dinner.
For Christmas dinner people eat turkey, potatoes and green vegetables. Then they have the Christmas pudding. At five o"clock it"s time for tea and Christmas cake.
The most popular Christmas song. Jingle bells
Dashing through the snow,In a one-horse open sleigh,O"er the fields we go,Laughing all the way.Bells on bobtail ring,Making spirits bright.What fun it is to ride and sing,A sleighing song tonight. Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells,Jingle all the way,Oh, what fun it is to rideIn a one-horse open sleigh.Jingle bells, jingle bells,Jingle all the way,Oh, what fun it is to rideIn a one-horse open sleigh.
CHRISTMAS IN BRITAIN.
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It is the most favorite winter holiday in Britain. British people decorate houses and Christmas tree with colored balls. London streets have got beautiful decorations at this holiday.
Symbols of Christmas
Snow Elf
Winter Card Star Present
Christmas tree Christmas lights Santa Claus Fireplace
Turkey Pudding
Reindeer Sleigh
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The most popular holiday in Great Britain is Christmas. They celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December. There are a lot of traditions connected with Christmas. Every year the people of Norway give the city of London a present. It’s a big Christmas tree and it stands in Trafalgar Square. Most families decorate their houses with a Christmas tree; buy presents for the family and friends, write Christmas cards. In England almost every family receives more than 60 Christmas cards.
The traditional Christmas dinner is roast turkey with vegetables and Christmas pudding. In England people make Christmas pudding before Christmas. Everyone in family stirs the pudding and makes a wish. It’s a traditional meal, which people cook for Christmas party. When the pudding is hot they put 5-penny pieces in it, and sometimes a little silver horseshoe, a button and a ring. If you find a button in your piece of pudding you will be rich, a horseshoe means happiness and good luck, a ring - marriage.
The fun starts the night before, on the 24 th of December, Christmas Eve. Traditionally this is the day when people decorate their trees. Children hang stockings at the end of their beds hopping that Farther Christmas will fill them with toys and sweets. Christmas is family holiday. Relatives usually meet for the big Christmas dinner. The 26 th December – Boxing Day is an extra holiday after Christmas. This day people usually give and receive presents. This is time to visit friends and relatives or to sit at home and watch football.
- Turkey, pudding, pumpkin pie, vegetables.
2. Santa Clause, holiday, Christmas tree, birch tree.
3. Christmas pudding, Easter, ring, horseshoe.
4. Trousers, stockings, presents, socks.
6. Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas.
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People began to celebrate Christmas many, many years ago. The legend of the very first Christmas tells: « … The shepherds heard from the Angel that Christ the Lord was born to Mary in Bethlehem. They came there and found a little boy in a stable, lying in a manger. His name was Jesus. "Glory to God!" - they said. "Glory to God!" …» Christmas
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Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December. It is the greatest holiday in Great Britain. There are a lot of interesting traditions connected with Christmas in Great Britain. Some weeks before Christmas English people decorate their houses with holly and electric lights.
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Holly is an evergreen plant with sharp-pointed leaves and red berries. Many years ago people began to put holly in their homes during the dark cold winters. They liked to look at holly and think about spring and the sun.
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Advent Wreath Four weeks before Christmas people bring home a special wreath - Advent Wreath. They put it on the table and place four candles on it. Every Sunday they light only one candle. It is a old tradition. Advent Calendar Children like to make Advent Calendars.
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A Yule log is a piece of wood which people burn in the fireplace on Christmas Eve.
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Many years ago postmen had bright red coats. They looked like robins. At Christmas they brought many Christmas cards. And people began to think about a robin as a Christmas bird. You can see it on almost every Christmas card. People also buy and send Christmas cards to their friends usually containing the message “Merry Christmas”. The cards often show pictures of “Nativity ”, Santa Claus, Christmas tree, “ Robins” or scenes of old-fashioned Christmases.
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"Holy night" Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round your Virgin Mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. Carol-singers can be heard on the streets as they collect money. Then they give the money to poor and old people. Some carols, for example, "O, Come All Ye Faithful" and "Holy night" are well-known.
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A pantomime is a traditional performance for children at Christmas. All the children have much fun when they watch fairy tales with princes, beautiful princesses and fairies "Cinderella", "Pussy in Boots", "Dick Whittington" and many others.
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The shops are very busy on Christmas. People buy a lot of food and drink for Christmas parties.
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Children write letters to Father Christmas. Father Christmas has a white beard and long green or red clothes. Children believe Father Christmas lives at the North Pole where he spends most of the year in his workshop making toys with the help of elves. People think of him as a happy man who says: "Ho, ho, ho".
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On Christmas Eve children leave long socks called Christmas stockings at the end of their beds or by the chimney or hang them by the fireplace so that Father Christmas will fill them with presents. Children hope that Father Christmas will come down the chimney during the night and bring presents. A Christmas stocking is big and beautifully decorated.
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On Christmas Day at 3 o"clock p.m. English people watch the Queen on television as she delivers her traditional Christmas massage to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
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Crackers are a usual tradition at Christmas dinner. Two people pull a cracker, it makes a bang and a Christmas hat, a small toy and a piece of paper with a joke on it fall out of it!
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Christmas turkey English people celebrate Christmas Day with a big holiday dinner. Families sit down to a big turkey dinner followed by Christmas pudding. They like to eat roast turkey, potatoes and green vegetables. A turkey is a traditional Christmas bird.
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Christmas Day , December 25,is probably the most popular holiday in Great Britain. It is a family holiday. Traditionally all relatives and friends give each other presents. So before Christmas all the department stores and shops are crowded, everybody is choosing a present. In general, people get prepared for this holiday very carefully. They decorate their houses in the traditional way, that is the Christmas trees are set up in houses, in the streets and churches. The Christmas trees are always decorated with fairy lights, angels and small toys. In addition litlle packets with nuts, candies and special biscuits are hung on the tree. Presents are put around the tree and artificial ""frost"" is scattered over the branches. Christmas Day , December 25,is probably the most popular holiday in Great Britain. It is a family holiday. Traditionally all relatives and friends give each other presents. So before Christmas all the department stores and shops are crowded, everybody is choosing a present. In general, people get prepared for this holiday very carefully. They decorate their houses in the traditional way, that is the Christmas trees are set up in houses, in the streets and churches. The Christmas trees are always decorated with fairy lights, angels and small toys. In addition litlle packets with nuts, candies and special biscuits are hung on the tree. Presents are put around the tree and artificial ""frost"" is scattered over the branches.
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On the eve of the Christmas children hang their stockings so that Santa Claus could put presents into them: oranges, sweets, nuts and if the child didn"t behave properly Santa Clause can put there a piece of coal as punishment. On the eve of the Christmas children hang their stockings so that Santa Claus could put presents into them: oranges, sweets, nuts and if the child didn"t behave properly Santa Clause can put there a piece of coal as punishment.
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Christmas - fairy tale for the adult and children History of Christmas Preparation for Christmas Christmas table Christmas tree Santa Claus
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Christmas - most joyful holiday in Great Britain, which is marked on the 25 of December, and to prepare for it begin long before its approach. It is necessary to decorate the house, to send congratulations to the relatives and friends, and, main to buy gifts. It is a family holiday, when the close people are going to behind a Christmas table, exchange gifts, wish to each other happiness, sing Christmas songs. The Christmas transforms everything around into a fairy tale. Christmas - fairy tale for the adult and children
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The Christmas is a Christian holiday devoted to Birth of the Christ - Myth, sent by the God for rescue of the world. His celebrating is based on bible events described in a New Precept. The apostle of an Onion tells that after birth Christ the Angels were to the shepherds and have informed them this joyful message. The shepherds at once have set off to city Vyphleem and have found in a shed St. Maria, of the husband of the carpenter Иосифа, and Baby laying in a day nursery. From Gospel from Matfey we learn about three волхвах, which have followed the wonderful star which has appeared in the sky per Day of Christmas Мессии, and have brought to the Baby gift - gold, incence and смирну. History of Christmas
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The large role British allocate to gifts. One holiday manages them. British very much liking to give gifts to all native and close. In eve of Christmas in spacious and empty per usual days shops - ажиотаж: first, it is necessary to have time to buy a heap of gifts and to be reserved by meal - 24, 25, and sometimes and December 26 the majority of shops is closed. Secondly, it is impossible to miss a case to buy something for a long time desired with the discount. The red labels "Sale" occur right at the beginning of December, and to middle of month they paste over all doors and show-windows of shops. Preparation for Christmas
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In all shops, including grocery, huge quantity of different Christmas toys: small Santa Claus, bells, silver half moons, spheres with wishes. The best New Year"s gift in England is a visit to the house first minutes of New year blackhair the man with a slice coal for traditional English fireplace and mistletoe , symbolizing longevity. In midnight the men are sent to the neighbours, that by first to cross their threshold. Why only man? Alas, it is considered, that if same the woman will make, it foretells failure to all family.
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The morning of December 25 noisy begins with opening of gifts. Then there comes time of traditional celebratory dinner. In England there is a cheerful custom: before that how to sit down a table the people clap an original cracker “ Christmas Cracker ”. She contains a small souvenir and comic message. For a table usually prepare the turkey or goose, there are every possible vegetables. At the end of dinner submit a Christmas cake or Christmas pudding. This day everyone owner tries as it is possible better to show the culinary abilities, that is why, according to the poet Jeck Drelutsky, “ the Christmas is a time for good eating ”. The most desired visitor the one who comes in the visitors and brings ancient Celt an entertainment - thin and round porridge лепешки. Their form is connected with language by a cult of the sun. Same лепешки the Scots in Christmas bake and give out to each member of family early in morning, with dawn. However is it is possible only at supper, and within day it is necessary to carry with itself. The heavy test, is especial for children. Has broken or eaten slice - not to avoid punishment, but if the good boy has saved лепешку untouched -, next year he or she will wait good. Celebratory table
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It is necessary to admire, with what imagination the offices, shops and streets are decorated to Christmas of a house. In festival of paints two traditional colours - red and green dominate. Green trees are decorated by red ribbons, lanterns and bells, are constant attributes of Christmas. On tops of the trees it is possible to see the Christmas Angel or star. Very much often houses are decorated by Boughs of Holly. The glossy bright red berries and dark green acute carved leaves of this plant are well entered in a general christmas palette. In door apertures hang up Mistletoe, tied up ribbons. It especially is pleasant in love, as on custom the people of the opposite floor which has casually appeared under Mistletoe , are obliged to kiss each other! Christmas tree
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According to an ancient a traveling holy man called St. Boniface was passing through a forest one December, when he came across a group of people who were having some kind of pagan religious ceremony. St. Boniface was horrified that a small boy was going to be offered up as a human sacrifice to one of their pagan gods. He was just about to be put on a roaring fire when St. Boniface rushed in and snatched the little boy away. Then, picking up an axe, he chopped down a huge oak tree which stood nearby. As it fell to the ground, a tiny young fir appeared out of the ground in the space where the mighty oak had stood. “From now on”, said St. Boniface, “this little tree will be a holy symbol. It’s the sign of everlasting life because its leaves are still green when everything else seemed dead around it. Moreover, it will always point upwards to heaven. From this day, this little tree shall be called the Christmas tree”. Christmas tree legends
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Santa Claus, which prototype is sacred Nickolai, bishop of city the Worlds in IV century, in east church the patron travelling, first of all of seamen, almost has not changed after several centuries - everything as is always ready to deliver pleasure to the kids! The young Englishmen and Americans consider, that Santa so they come in a sledge on a deer only to obedient kids and, having lowered through a pipe above a fireplace, leaves by gifts under tree and in sock. Therefore on roofs of some houses in USA it is possible to see figure of Santa Claus in a sledge and famous baby dear Rudolph. Sometimes Santa beforehand invite in the visitors " to December 25. Santa Claus
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Santa Claus is known in the different countries under different names: San Nicholas, Nicolas, or Claus. The legend was saved, that at one time bishop on a name Nicholas has helped three poor sisters, which could not leave in marriage, as they did not have money for придано-го. He through a window has thrown to the girl on a purse with money, which have pleased directly in their stockings dried in a fireplace. And now children, To lie down to sleep in Christmas night, necessarily suspend at a fireplace the stockings, and morning find in them of sweetness and small gifts. December 31 everyone see off old year and meet New year. Legend about Santa Claus
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