Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Winter holidays

Ksenia
Vorobyev Paul
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most often celebrate Christmas together. Most families have a Christmas Tree (or maybe even two) in their house for Christmas. The decorating of the tree is usually a family occasion, with everyone helping.

husband of Queen Victoria. Prince Albert was German, and thought that it would be good to use one of his ways of celebrating Christmas in to England.

Christmas. The most famous Christmas lights in the UK are in Oxford Street in London. Every year they get bigger and better and thousands of people go to watch the big 'switch on' around the beginning of November.

stockings or pillow-cases. These are normally hung up by the fire or by the children's beds on Christmas Eve. Children sometimes leave out mince pies and brandy for Father Christmas to eat and drink when he visits them.

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lunchtime or early afternoon. It's normally roast turkey and vegetables like carrots, peas, Brussel sprouts, and bacon and sausages (called “pigs in blankets”). It's often served with cranberry sauce and bread sauce. Dessert is often Christmas Pudding.

from the time of the Vikings - burning Christmas logs. At Christmas, it was necessary to cut down a huge tree, “sustain” it for a whole year, and next Christmas bring it into the house and throw it into the hearth. If it burns to the ground, then the year will be successful, and if it goes out - expect trouble. Now in England, a log is replaced with one thick and large candle - a symbol of the victory of light over darkness.

UK. Translated means "Light of Christ." The festive attribute is an orange (round world) with a cleaned center and a candle inside (illuminating the way, like the love of the Lord). The orange is decorated with a red ribbon (blood symbol) and 4 chopsticks pointing all over the world.

cutest custom. According to tradition, any girl lingering under a branch or mistletoe ornament could be kissed.

has many different traditions and ways that people in celebrate Christmas, because of its multi-cultural nature. Many customs are similar to ones in the UK, France, Italy, Holland, Poland and Mexico.

with lights and sometimes even statues of Santa Claus, Snowmen and Reindeers.

a very active character. He appears on the streets of American cities in early December, most often near shops where he congratulates passers-by on the upcoming Christmas and reminds of the gift tradition of this holiday. Each major shopping center has its own Santa Claus residence. At the tree, on a high throne, sits a wizard. He sits on his knees everyone who wants to talk with him and listens carefully to his cherished wishes. Similar scenes are also filled with Christmas American films.

Christmas night. He is going to fly around all the children on reindeer harnesses across the sky and deliver gifts to them. To do this, the wizard has to climb into the chimney.

sweets to children on a horse, is dated 1809. After 20 years, Santa moved to deer with the help of the writer Clement Moore. Santa Claus’s black jacket and black boots were worn by the cartoonist of the American magazine Thomas Nast during the civil war. The details of the costume were modified later, in 1931, by the artist Haddon Hubbard Sandble, who carried out the order for Coca-Cola.