Презентация к уроку английского языка для 6 класса "Традиции и обычаи английского Рождества"

The colours most closely

associated with the
Christmas season are:
red, white and green.

Colours of Christmas  

Some say that this is because of
the red and green plants of
wintertime contrasting with the
white snow.

for each other.
It is also the colour

that is considered the
greatest excitement.
As a religious symbol it stands for fire,
blood, and charity.




The holly berries and poinsettias
are two winter plants traditionally
used as Christmas decorations.

all the
promises of the future.
Green is

the symbol for nature,
youth, and the hope of eternal
life.
Christmas is a feast of hope,
with a newborn child as its central
symbol.

crystalline form of water and the snowflake.


White is

the religious symbol which stands
for light, purity, joy and glory.

White is seen in the robes of Christmas
angels, and in Santa’s beard, as well as in
Christmas snow and snow flakes.

(or 'Santa Claus') has become the human face of Christmas.

Pictures will be seen
everywhere of the old man
with long white beard, red
coat, and bag of toys.
Children are taught that he brings them presents the night before Christmas and many children up to the age of 7 or 8 really believe this is true.

countries, it is said that he lives near the North

Pole, and arrives through the sky on a sledge pulled by reindeer.


He comes into houses down
the chimney at midnight and
places presents for the children
in socks or bags by their beds or
in front of the family Christmas
tree.

or at children's parties, someone will dress up as Father

Christmas and give small presents to children, or ask them what gifts they want for Christmas.

Christmas can be a time of
magic and excitement for children.

real person.
St. Nicholas, which explains his other

name 'Santa Claus’.

It is said that one day, he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse of money down the chimney. It landed in the stocking which a girl had put to dry by the fire!

Nicholas was a Christian leader from Myra (in modern-day Turkey) in the 4th century AD. He was very shy, and wanted to give money to poor people without them knowing about it.

in the 16th century. It was common for the Germanic

people to decorate fir trees, both inside and out, with roses, apples, and colored paper.

It is believed that Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer, was the first to light a Christmas tree with candles.

was struck with the beauty of the starlight shining through

the branches of a small fir tree outside his home.

He attached candles to the branches of his indoor Christmas tree.

The Christmas tree was not widely used in Britain until the 19th century.
It was brought to America by the Pennsylvania Germans in the 1820's.

years ago, Saint Nicholas heard of a poor, widowed man

who had three unmarried daughters. This man had hardly enough money for food and clothing for his daughters. In those days if a woman did not have a dowry her chances of marriage were not good.
Saint Nicholas was traveling through their village and overheard some of the villagers talking about this man's troubles. The oldest daughter had hung her stockings to dry by the fireplace one evening and the next morning she found a lump of gold in one. No one knew where this money came from, but she now had a dowry and could marry.
Shortly after, gold was found in each of the other sister's stockings.

day following Christmas Day is called 'Boxing Day'.

This word comes from the custom which started in the Middle Ages around 800 years ago: churches would open their 'alms boxe' (boxes in which people had placed gifts of money) and distribute the contents to poor people in the neighbourhood on the day after Christmas.

and in America the holiday dinner
usually enters around a

turkey.

When people gather to celebrate this holiday, there is a wide assortment of food.

have long been a traditional Christmas food.

Many years

ago they were made with a mixture of beef, chicken and spices that was meant to symbolize the gifts the Wise Men brought to the manger.

The pies were shaped like a manger with an image of the baby Jesus on top. Today mincemeat is made of raisins and other dried fruit in the traditional pie shape.

At Christmas time gingerbread makes its most impressive

appearance. The baking of lebkuchen (a gingerbread cookie) and elaborate gingerbread houses is a custom that originated in Germany and quickly caught on in North America.

Christmas breads and cakes can be found in most countries that celebrate the holiday

Baking sugar cookies shaped like holiday symbols and decorated by

the family with frosting, sprinkles or candy pieces is a popular tradition in the United States.

holiday season since bakers began experimenting with sugar and chocolate

centuries ago.

There is more than one legend telling the beginning of the candy cane. Some say they first appeared in the 17th century as white sugar sticks and another credits a candymaker from Indiana at the turn of the 20th century. No one knows for sure when candy canes became red and white striped, or when they were first shaped to resemble a cane, but they are now a part of our Christmas history.

4th Century

1935

Christmas tree with candles?

Pope John I
Martin Luther
St.Nicolas

candy maker from where?

Indiana

Turkey

Germany