Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Traditions of Scotland

the ancient and modern traditions. The traditional foods are still served, although prepared in a more modern way. The holidays are a blend of the ancient and modern. The men still wear kilts, although they too have undergone changes. The games they play are the forerunner of many of the modern track and field events.

the Scots. St. Andrew's Day on Nov. 30 honors St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. It is celebrated with ceilidhs--dances--and in the village of St. Andrew, there is a big festival. Christmas is celebrated much like in the rest of the world, but Dec. 26 is Boxing Day, a holiday in the United Kingdom. Hogmanay is New Year's Eve. Street parties are held at midnight with the ringing of bells and fireworks, and it is considered good luck to have the first person to enter the house after midnight to be a male with dark hair. Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 are part of New Year's celebrations. Jan. 25 is Robert Burns Night, which is celebrated with a special supper.

the patron saint of Scotland. It is a day for celebrating Scottish culture.

There are a variety of explanations as to how St. Andrew came to be associated with Scotland. According to the most traditional tale, when Constantine ordered Andrew's relics to be moved to Constantinople, an angel appeared to St. Rule (or Regulus) in a dream and told him to take some of the relics to the ends of the earth for safekeeping. He obediently took a tooth, an arm bone, a kneecap and some fingers from Andrew's tomb and sailed north with the remains until he was shipwrecked on the east coast of Scotland. There he established the city of St. Andrew's, and the relics were placed in a specially constructed chapel.

According to legend St. Andrew became the patron saint of Scotland in 832 AD. In a story that resembles the famous tale of Emperor Constantine and the Chi Rho, it is said that an army of Scots was facing an English army when the Scottish king prayed to St. Andrew for help. Seeing a cloud in the shape of the saltire (X-shaped) cross against a clear blue sky, the king vowed that if the Scots were victorious, St. Andrew would be made the patron saint of Scotland. The Scots won the battle, the king fulfilled his promise, and the intervention of St. Andrew has been represented on the Scottish flag ever since.

Scotland on St Andrew's Day. In the rest of the United Kingdom, the British Union Flag is flown. Some people have a day off work in Scotland. In Edinburgh, there is a week of celebrations, concentrating on musical entertainment and traditional ceilidh dancing. A ceilidh is a social event with couples dancing in circles or sets (groups of eight people). In Glasgow city center, a large shindig, or party, with traditional music and a ceilidh are held. In Dumfries, songs are performed in the Burn's night tradition.

There is a lot of folklore associated with St Andrew's Day, particularly around young women, who hope to marry. At midnight, as November 29 becomes November 30, young woman prayed to be shown signs about their future husbands. They peeled an apple in such a way that the peel remained in a single piece and threw this over their shoulders. The shape that the peel formed on the ground indicated the first letter of their future husbands' names. They also dropped molten lead or candle wax into a bucket of water. The shape that it formed indicated the profession of the men they would marry.

What do people do in St. Andrew's Day ?

25-th of January they celebrate his birthday. This day is concidered the national holiday. The lovers of his poetry hold parties on which they recite his verses and sing old Scottish folk-songs. This party is called Burns supper or Burns Night.

Robert Burns was born on January 25, 1759, in a small clay cottage at Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was a poor farmer. Burns started writing poems at the age of seventeen. Though Burns`s poems were popular, he always remained poor. His work at the farm, hard as it was, didn`t make him rich either.

Robert Burns loved Scotland. He composed verses to the melodies of old Scottish folk-song. He sang of the woods, fields and wonderful valleys of his native land. And now listen to his best known poem “My heart`s in the Highlands”.

men wear the kilt. Women wear a pleated skirt in the tartan colors. The kilt is shorter and has more pleats than the woman's skirt. Other parts of the Scottish men's dress include the jackets, sporran, kilt hose and garters. There more than 4,000 recognized Scottish tartan patterns.

Ghillies are traditional thick soled shoes with no tongues and long laces. The laces are wrapped around and tied above the wearer's ankles so that the shoes do not get pulled off in mud.

kilt

sporran

sgian dubh

ghillies

kilt hose

It is a pouch that performs the same function as pockets on the pocketless Scottish kilt.
Made of leather or fur, the ornamentation of the sporran is determined by the formality of dress worn with it. The sporran is worn on a leather strap or chain, conventionally positioned in front of the groin of the wearer.
Since the traditional kilt does not have pockets, the sporran serves as a wallet and container for any other necessary personal items.

part of traditional Scottish Highland dress along with the kilt. It is worn tucked into the top of the kilt hose with only the upper portion of the hilt visible. The sgian-dubh is normally worn on the right leg, but can also be worn on the left, depending on whether the wearer is right or left-handed.

as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Dating back to at least the 16th century, it takes the form of a knitted, soft wool cap with a flat crown. It is named after Balmoral Castle, a royal residence in Scotland.

tied in the same way but have thin soles for indoor wear and dancing.
Traditionally, women and girls do not wear kilts but may wear ankle-length tartan skirts. A tartan sash or shawl may also be worn. Women may also wear dress tartans which are modified versions which include white in place of a more prominent colour.

one of the most iconic symbols of Scottish culture.

or clarinet.
A modern set has a bag, a chanter, a blowpipe, two tenor drones, and one bass drone.

as early as the 9th century, or before.
The haggis is made from a sort of sausage-meat made from the offal (or innards - lungs, heart, liver etc.) of a sheep. These are boiled, then minced and mixed with onion, lightly toasted oatmeal, suet, stock and salt and pepper. It's all mixed together and put inside a sheeps stomach which is sewn closed and then the whole thing is boiled for several hours.

This may not sound all that appealing, but it's tasty and worth a try if you're ever in its' homeland.
Haggis is traditionally served at a Burns Supper or Burns Supper which celebrates the birthday (January 25) of Robert Burns, Scotlands' National Poet. Burns was so enamored of the haggis that he even wrote an entire poem devoted to it's splendors!

will conduct a `show of presents' for her daughter, similar to bridal shower in other cultures. Female guests will bring presents to help the new couple start their own new home. The presents are unwrapped before the guests. For the groom, there is a wild night party, where the groom and his male friends spend the whole night partying and drinking.

gown, while the groom dresses in traditional Highland kilt, kilt jacket and sporran. The couple is either bag piped down the aisle or traditional Gaelic hymns are played as they walk to the altar. After the vows, which is recited in ancient Gaelic or modern English, the groom often pins a strip of his clan's tartan colors to the bride's wedding dress to imply that she is now a member of his clan. Later on the wedding reception will be held.
One custom that has been followed for more than 700 years is the custom of the groom carrying his new bride over the doorstep of their new home together. This ritual is considered to keep evil spirits from entering his wife through her feet.

Super Bowl, Olympics and a dance party all in one. There are three competition categories: music, dance and games. In the music category, there is competition in piping, pipe band, massed band, drumming, drum major and Scottish fiddle. The dance competition includes the Highland fling, the sword dance, strathspey and Highland reel, strathspey and half tulloch, and the sailor's hornpipe. The sporting events include shot put, weight throw, weight toss, stone throw, Braemar stone, hammer throw, farmer's walk, tug-of-war, kilted mile, tossing the wellie, tossing the caber and the Bonnie knees contest.