Презентация по английскому языку на тему: " Рождество в Великобритании.Традиции и обычаи"

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  Christmas Traditions in Great Britain
  

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  Christmas
  Christmas Day , December 25, is probably the most popular holiday in Great Britain. It is a family holiday. Traditionally all relatives and friends get together and give each other presents.
  

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  Boxing Day
  Boxing Day takes place on December 26th
  and is only celebrated in a few countries.
  It was started in the UK about 800 years
  ago in the Middle Ages. It was the day
  when the alms box, collection boxes for
  the poor often kept in churches, were
  opened so that the contents could be
  distributed to poor people. Some churches
  still open these boxes on Boxing Day.
  
  Boxing Day has now become another
  public holiday in countries such as
  the U.K. , Canada, Australia
  and New Zealand.
  

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  Stockings
  Christmas - is a holiday for the whole family, but most of all children love it and wait for Christmas.They hang out near the fireplace stockings for gifts.
  

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  Christmas Tree
  The first Christmas Trees came to Britain
  in the 1830s. They became very popular
  in 1841, when Prince Albert (Queen 
  Victoria's German husband) had
  a Christmas Tree set up in Windsor
  Castle. Ever since then, Christmas Trees
  have been a part of a British Christmas.
  Because of the danger of fire, in 1895 Ralph Morris,
  an American telephonist, invented the first
  electric Christmas lights, similar to the ones we use today.
  

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  Holly, Ivy and other greenery such as Mistletoe
  were originally used in pre-Christian times to
  help celebrate the Winter Solstice Festival and
  ward off evil spirits and celebrate new growth.
  Greenery
  The U.K. and Germany were the main countries
  to keep the use of the greenery and here
  the Christian meanings are :
  

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  Holly became the recognized symbol of Christmas.
  According to some versions, from it the wreath of
  the Christ was done, and a berry holly have reddened
  from blood of the Savior. The prickly leaves represent
  the crown of thorns that Jesus wore when he was
  crucified. The berries are the drops of blood that
  were shed by Jesus because of the thorns.
  Holly
  

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  Mistletoe
  The practice of hanging it in the house
  goes back to the times of the ancient
  Druids.
  

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  Carols
  Christmas carols are special songs which are sung during а Christmas season.
  The songs are about Jesus and
  the time when he was born.
  

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  Dashing through the snow,
  In a one-horse open sleigh,
  O'er the fields we go,
  Laughing all the way.
  Bells on bobtail ring,
  Making spirits bright.
  What fun it is to ride and sing,
  A sleighing song tonight.
  
  Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells,
  Jingle all the way,
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one-horse open sleigh.
  Jingle bells, jingle bells,
  Jingle all the way,
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one-horse open sleigh.
  Jingle bells
  

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  Christmas is Coming
  
  Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
  Please put a penny in the old man's hat
  If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do,
  If you haven't got a ha' penny, then God bless you
  

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  Candles
  One of the main traditions of these weeks are wreaths with candles which have special meaning. Such wreaths are done on the first Sunday of this period, and usually they consist of 5 candles: four red and one white.
  

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  Santa Claus
  Santa Claus, also called Santa, Father Christmas (in Britain), or Kriss Kringle (in America) is an imaginary old man in red clothes and with a long white beard.
  

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  presents for the children in socks,
  in front of the family Christmas tree,
  or near the fire place.
  Some people say that Santa
  lives in the North Pole.
  In Finland, they say that he lives in the north part of
  their country called Lapland.
  But everyone agrees that he travels through
  the sky on a sledge that is pulled by reindeer,
  that he comes into houses down the
  chimney at night and puts
  

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  Christmas Cards
  People around the world send Christmas Cards to their friends and family.
  The first Christmas card was created and sent in 1843. A man named John Calcott Horsley printed the first Christmas card for Sir Henry Cole, the friend who had given him this idea.
  

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  Christmas Dinner
  The typical dinner consists of turkey
  with potatoes and other vegetables
  such as carrots and sprouts.
  In Britain this is followed by Christmas
  pudding - a sweet pudding containing
  a lot of dried fruit and often covered
  with burning brandy. Other traditional
  dish in Britain is a Christmas cake –
  a cake containing a lot of dried fruit
  and usually having a covering of icing
  (hard sugar) made to be eaten
  at Christmas.
  

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  Candycane
  Parents treat children for Christmas candycane with sticks in the shape of a cane (or the shepherd's staff).
  The sugar candy reminds letter J with which name Jesus begins.
  
  

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  Cookies for Santa
  Children leave on a fireplace cookies for Santa as a token of gratitude for work which he does each Christmas.
  

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  Christmas Quiz
  1) When is Christmas celebrated in Europe?
  a) on the 7th of January b) on the 25th of December c) on the 31st of December
  2 Whose birthday is celebrated on Christmas?
  a) Jesus Christ b) Santa Claus c) Queen Victoria
  3 What country gave us the tradition to decorate the Christmas tree?
  a) Norway b) Italy c) Germany
  4 Where does the most famous Christmas tree stand in London?
  a) in front of Buckingham Palace b) in Trafalgar Square c) in Parliament Square
  5 What do people call Father Frost in the west?
  a) Santa Claus b) Frost- Red Nose c) Grandfather Frost
  6 What does Santa Claus look like?
  a) is dressed in white b) fat and merry c) thin and unhappy
  
  

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  7) How does Santa Claus enter the houses to give children Christmas presents?
  a) knock at the door b) through the window c) climb down the chimney
  8 Where does Santa Claus put Christmas presents?
  a) under the Christmas tree b) in long socks called “Christmas stockings” c) in
  colourful boxes
  9 What is the traditional Christmas food?
  a) roast chicken b) vegetables c) roast turkey and Christmas pudding
  10 How do British people decorate their houses at Christmas?
  a) with tinsel and candles b) with angels c) with such plants as holly, mistletoe
  and ivy
  11 How does Santa Claus travel?
  a) by horses b) on a sleigh pulled by reindeer c) on foot
  12 What do British people put on the top of the fur tree?
  a) an angel b) a star c) a figure of Santa Claus
  13 What do British people traditionally do at the start of Christmas meal?
  a) sing carols b) pull a cracker c) give presents to each other
  14 How does Santa Claus spend most of the year?
  a) in his workshop making toys b) in his ice palace reading children’s letters c) in
  his sleigh visiting a lot of shops
  
  

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