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                           British  and  American Holidays

     There are many holidays in English – speaking countries:  Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, St. Valentine Day, April Fool’s Day, Thanksgiving  Day, Halloween and many others.

     I want to tell you about Christmas. It is a happy holiday for many people in different countries.

     English people celebrate Christmas on the 25-th of December. They send greeting cards to their relatives and friends and decorate a Christmas tree. On Christmas Eve people put presents under the Christmas tree. Presents for children are in their stockings.

     People have the traditional English dinner – roast turkey and Christmas pudding. The Queens’s speech is on TV at 3 p.m. The streets in London are decorated and you can see a big Christmas – tree in Trafalgar Square.