christmas is in the air

Authors: Jane

Nickitina
John Pavlov

holidays in
Great Britain is Christmas. People
are very busy on

Christmas Eve.
They go shopping, buy tasty food,
make roast turkey, mince pies, a
pudding. Children make or buy
Christmas cards and send them
to the relatives, write letters to
Santa Claus asking him to be
polite,kind to everybody , help
old people and prepare sto-
ckings for Christmas presents.

English children
letters to Santa Claus. In the letters
they tell Santa

Claus what they want
for Christmas and promise to be
good in the coming year. For example,
Dear Santa!
My name is Linda. I am normally
nice to my parents. I really want a
new bicycle for Christmas. Will you
give me, Santa?
Linda Higgins.

surrounded by many
superstitutions. It is said
puddings should be pre-
paired with

13 ingredients
to represent Christ and
his Disciples.
Putting a silver coin in the
pudding is another age
old custom that is said
to bring wealth, health,
happiness to the lucky
person who finds it.

is an evergreen plant with
sharppointed leaves and red
berries . You

know already
that people put holly on Chist-
mas pudding.
They also use holly to decorate
their homes. It is a very old
tradition. Long ago people began
to put holly in their homes du-
ring the dark cold winters. They liked to look at holly and think
about the spring and the sun.

an evergre-
en plant with small le-
aves and small white
berries.

On Christmas
Eve there is a bunch
of mistletoe in every
house. Under this bunch boys kiss girls.

people like to
light candles . If there are children
in

the family, they often have Christ-
mas crackers. They pull a cracker, it
makes a bang.

explaining.
Mince pies today
are not made from meat as they once

were,
but contain raisins, currants.
Children like these sweet pies.

WAITS

Waits are a group of singers
who sing carols. They sing
carols,

for example, in front
of a Christmas tree. In small
towns and villages waits
often come and stand in front
of the house and sing ca-
rols. They receive money for
their singing.

in for a good year.
If you want to have good

health throughout the next
year, eat an apple on Chris
mas Eve.
If a baby is born on Christ-
mas Day, it will have a special
fortune .

Christmas bird,
nowdays usually a
turkey, is being pre-
pared and stuffed,
the pudding

is in-
spected and the cake
is got out of its tin
and iced.

Day
comes after
Christmas Day.
It is on the 26
th of

December.
People visit
friends or to
the theatre and
give presents.

fellow gets his
name from a man as known
as

St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas
lived In Western Asia and
was a Bishop and gave his
wealth to the poor children.
In England Father Christ –
mas was known as far back
as the 15 th century. Now
Father Christmas deposits
his gifts by night in the
houses, unseen and unbeard.

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
I heard the bells on Christmas DAY
Their

old familiar carols play
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace earth, good will to MEN.

Juletide begins in the middle
of December

and ends on the 6
th of January. All the children
like this wonderful time.

big holiday connected with
Christmas at our school. It is

celebrated on the 25 th of
December. Children wear masks, sing songs, dance,
recited poems about winter, Christmas. They eat
puddings, chocolates.

have touched the topic “Christmas In England”. Now we know

that Christmas is the biggest and the most favourite holiday for Englishmen. We have found out a lot of interesting things about traditions, customs of this holiday in the family, at school e.t.c. Finally we know that this holiday is similar to our chuvash holiday ”SURHURI” and at the same time they have some differences too.
This material deepens and enlarges our knowledge in Linquistics and the country.