HOLIDAYS

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Divide the

words into 3 categories:
Thanksgiving Day, roast turkey,trick, pumpkin pie, knock, New Year,
dress up, celebrate, decorate, St. Patrick’s Day, sweet potatoes,
Christmas, give, St. Valentine’s Day, pudding, sign, Hallowe’en,
sweets, chocolate.

holiday –Thanksgiving Day.
Families come together for the day.They decorate the

houses with autumn fruits and flowers and eat traditional American food:roast turkey, pumpkin pie and sweet potatoes.
2.On the 25-th of December there is the greatest holiday in England- Christmas. People give each other presents and send Christmas cards. Presents for children are there in the stockings.
The traditional English dinner on Christmas Day is roast turkey and Christmas pudding.
TRUE OR FALSE
1. Thanksgiving Day is in December.
2. They usually eat meat and porridge on
Thanksgiving Day.
3. They decorate the houses with a New Year Tree on this day.
4. Christmas is on the 23-rd of December.
5.The traditional English dinner on Christmas is roast turkey and pudding.

the New year in.
People celebrate this holiday on December,31.

People decorate the New Year Tree. There is a lot of dancing
and eating.

The 14-th of February is St.Valentine’s Day.
People buy or make Valentine cards and send them to people they love. They don’t sign their cards- you must guess who sent the cards to you.

New Year?
2. What do they decorate?
3. What do people do

on St.Valentine’s Day?
4. Why don’t they sign the cards on St. Valentine’s Day?

Ireland-St.Patrick’s Day.People send greeting cards.
On that day people wear green

because it is one of the national colours of Ireland and the sign of spring.

On the 31-st of October in Great Britain there is a nice holiday for children – Halloween.
People put pumpkins on the window-sills. They draw eyes,noses and mouths on the pumpkins and put candles into them.
Children dress up in funny clothes. They go from house to house and say”Trick or treat”.
People give then sweets, fruit, cakes, cookies or money.

on this holiday because…
3.A nice holiday for children Halloween is

on…
4. They go from house to house and say…

on..

August, 30

October, 25

December, 16

March, 22

January, 7

December, 31

What holidays do English
people celebrate on…
January, 1
February, 14
March, 17
October, 31
November
December, 25

friends. There is a lot of dancing and eating.
On this

day people send cards
to their friends, parents and relatives.
People put trees in their rooms and
decorate them with toys.
People send cards to people they love. They shouldn’t write their names on the cards.
Those who get them must guess who sent them.
4. On this day children put pumpkins
on the window-sills and dress as ghosts on this day.
5. It’ a national holiday in Ireland.
People wear green because it’s the national colour of this country.
6. This is a great holiday in America.
People decorate the houses with
autumn fruits and flowers and eat traditional American food: roast turkey and pumpkin pie.

a) St. Patrick’s Day

b) Halloween

c) New Year’s Day

d) St.Valentine’s Day

e) Christmas

f) Thanksgiving Day