Презентация по английскому языку "Праздники"

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  Holi
  days
  

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  Celebrations begin on the New Year Eve on December 31st. Hotels, restaurants, clubs and pubs organize New Year Eve balls and parties. People sing, dance and make merry. Fun events and contests are also organized to entertain the crowd. As New Year falls at the peak winter time in many countries bonfires are lit to keep the people warm. And just when the clock strikes for midnight firecrackers are burst to welcome the advent of New Year. People greet Happy New Year with a warm hug to every one around them. With loved ones and friends at a distance people exchange greetings through SMSs and phone calls. No wonder, phone network see maximum traffic at this time.
  New Year's Eve
  

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  New Year's Day Celebrations
  
  
  To mark the auspicious beginning of New Year, people wear fresh new clothes and clean up their house. Many prefer to spend this day in the company of their family members and dear ones. People also visit their friends and exchange New Year Gifts and greetings with them. Restaurants, multiplexes and malls experience a busy time on New Year's Day as many prefer to spend the day by watching movies and eating out with dear ones. There is also a trend of going out for picnics or to exotic tourist destinations to celebrate the day.
  

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  One of the most popular New Year custom is to make New Year Resolution. The tradition is said to have been started by early Babylonians who resolved to start the New Year with a clean state by returning borrowed farm equipment. Even in present times, people make New Year resolutions. Though it has been noticed that most people fail to carry them forward beyond the first week of New Year. Some of the most popular New Year resolutions including promises to quit smoking, losing weight, waking up early and being punctual.
  New Year's Day Resolutions
  

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  Hours of happy times with friends and family
  Abundant time for relaxation
  Prosperity
  Plenty of love when you need it the most
  Youthful excitement at lifes simple pleasures
  
  Nights of restful slumber (you know - dont' worry be happy)
  Everything you need
  Wishing you love and light
  
  Years and years of good health
  Enjoyment and mirth
  Angels to watch over you
  Rembrances of a happy years!
  
  
  Here are my wishes for you
  

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  Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.
  The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.
  The history of
  Saint Valentine's Day
  

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  Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
  
  
  The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feaSt. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.
  
  

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  A Red Red Rose - by Robert Burns
  
  O my Love's like a red, red rose
  That's newly sprung in June;
  O my Love's like the melody
  That's sweetly played in tune.
  As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
  So deep in luve am I;
  And I will luve thee still, my dear,
  Till a' the seas gang dry:
  
  Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
  And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
  I will luve thee still, my dear,
  While the sands o' life shall run.
  
  And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
  And fare thee weel awhile!
  And I will come again, my Luve,
  Tho' it ware ten thousand mile.
  

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  Here are some Valentine's Day quotes and I'm sure if you say one of these Valentine Day quotations to your sweetheart, it will have miraculous effects on your love life.
  Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. - John Donne
  He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin
  Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. - Thomas Moore
  Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare
  The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton
  If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin
  Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. - Alexander Pope
  Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. - William Shakespeare
  I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. - Lord Byron
  Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. - William Blake
  

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  Long ago, many people believed that on a certain
  autumn night dead spirits came back to earth.
  And they held a festival that was the start of Halloween.
  This festival was held on October 31.
  People built fires on hilltops to scare the ghosts.
  They wore costumes made of animal heads and skins.
  The Halloween colours are orange and black.
  It was time when orange flames
  lit up the black night.
  

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  Nowadays people wear costumes of ghosts, witches,
  black cats, skeletons and make scary masks.
  Children go from house to house asking for candies.
  " Trick or treat" is heard everywhere.
  

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  Families carve their pumpkins and
  make jack-o'lanterns.
  They place the pumpkins in windows
  or on doorsteps.
  Many people carve funny faces.
  

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  Halloween
  Halloween, Halloween,
  majic night!
  We are glad and very bright.
  We all dance and sing
  and recite,
  "Welcome! Welcome!
  Halloween night!"
  chant
  

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  Thanksgiving
  Day
  

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  Some interesting facts
  In the USA Thanksgiving Day started as a holiday
  in the early days
  of the American colonies about
  four hundred years ago.
  In 1620 a boat with more than 100 people
  sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the
  New World to what is now the state of
  Massachusetts.
  

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  Their 1st winter was very difficult and without fresh food.
  Half the colony died. The Native Americans showed them
  how to grow corn, to hunt and fish.
  In the autumn of 1621
  bountiful crops of corn,
  beans and pumpkins were picked up.
  The colonists had much to be thankful for.
  They invited the local Indians
  to a Thanksgiving dinner.
  After the USA became an independent country,
  Congress introduced one day of thanksgiving for
  the whole nation to celebrate.
  It's observed on the 4th Thursday of November.
  

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  Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. The date of the celebration is traditional, and is not considered to be his actual date of birth. Christmas festivities often combine the commemoration of Jesus' birth with various secular customs, many of which have been influenced by earlier winter festivals.
  In most places around the world, Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25. Christmas Eve is the preceding day, December 24. In the United Kingdom and many countries of the Commonwealth, Boxing Day is the following day, December 26. In Catholic countries, Saint Stephen's Day or the Feast of St. Stephen is December 26. The Armenian Apostolic Church observes Christmas on January 6. Eastern Orthodox Churches that still use the Julian Calendar celebrate Christmas on the Julian version of 25 December, which is January 7 on the more widely used Gregorian calendar, because the two calendars are now 13 days apart.
  Merry Christmas!
  

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  On Christmas people decorate Christmas tree
  with flashing lights and glass balls.
  They also wrap paper strings
  around the branches and
  put silver tinsel on the tree.
  They decorate
  the house
  with flashing
  lights.
  

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  Children and even grown-ups
  hang stockings on the fireplace.
  They believe that Santa Claus comes
  down the chimney
  and fills the stockings with
  presents if you're good
  and coal if you're
  bad.
  

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  They also leave him a glass of cherry
  and a carrot for his reindeer.
  It's just for fun and because
  it's exiting.
  

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  Merry Christmas!
  Happy
  New Year!
  Trick or Treat!
  Lots of Love !
  made by
  Barieva G.S.
  

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