Christmas in your country?
Does your family have any traditions?
What days
are celebrated the most in your country?Who brings the presents in your country?
Christmas lights are hung around houses. Some people spend hundreds of Euros decorating the outside of their houses and in some places they hold an annual competition.
Food
Vegetables such as carrots, turnips, broccoli and Brussels sprouts.
Cranberry Sauce is traditionally served with turkey and ham.
There are many different types of dessert but possibly the most famous is Christmas pudding. It can be made 4 months before Christmas. Normally served with custard or whipped cream.
Christmas Lunch
Britain is home to some of the longest running soap operas in the world and at Christmas they usually contain major plotlines to keep people watching. Normally they last an hour and the shows are aired in two parts. Up to 16m can watch them on Christmas Day.
Do you have anything similar in your country?
An alternative to the Queen’s speech is
broadcast on Channel 4 at the same time.
This has been happening since 1993. It
normally is a message with humour but
sometimes it can have a serious tone. People who have made
the speech include Marge & Lisa Simpson and Edward Snowdon.
Television
It is a story about a miserly old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve and his life is changed forever. There are countless films with the same title. If some wants to say their boss is tight, they call him ‘A Scrooge’.
Secret Santa originally started in offices but with the recession more and more families have decided to do it to help keep costs down.
And what about you? What traditions to you have?
The weekend before Christmas is always the busiest for shops.
Christmas Eve is the time for last minute shopping and midnight mass is traditional.
Christmas Day is a day for family. In Ireland, bars and restaurants are closed.
While the rest of the days are not public holidays, many people take annual leave so they can spend time with loved ones and visit friends.
New Year’s Eve is a night normally spent with friends. Before, most people went out but since the millennium more and more people are having house parties.
New Year’s Day normally sees people meeting with family for lunch to welcome in the New Year.
After Christmas Day
The city of Edinburgh have concerts and fireworks to say goodbye to the old year and hello to the new one. It has become tradition to sing the poem, Auld Lang Syne, by Robert Burns. The poem was originally in Scots but has been translated into many languages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId95N2teUc
Do you have New Year’s resolutions?
If you were to make one, what would it be?
Resolutions
In saying that, Coca-Cola did help in changing the appearance of Santa into a much more appealing character. Santa had been depicted as an elf, an old man with a hunch and a priest. In 1931 Coca-Cola launched their famous campaign and since then, the jolly, plump St Nick that we have all come to know and love has been used on everything. So in a way they did change Santa Claus.
Father Christmas
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