Праздники в Британии

презентация по английскому языку о праздниках в Британии, можно использовать как на уроках так и при проведении внеклассных мероприятий

•Christmas is celebrated on the 25th December.

• It is the time when Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus.

•Most people are on holiday in the UK and stay at home with their family on Christmas day.

Christmas Day is the favourite day for children. They wake up very early in the morning to find their stockings have been filled by Father Christmas.

•Boxing Day is usually celebrated on the following day after Christmas Day.

•It is the day to open the Christmas Box, to share the contents with the poor.

•Boxing Day is the day when families get together.

•It is a day of watching sports and playing board games with the family.

•Many families go on walks in the countryside.

• New Year's Day is the first day of the year, in the Gregorian calendar.

• All over Britain there are parties, fireworks, singing and dancing, to ring out the old year and ring in the new.

•As the clock - Big Ben - strikes midnight, people link arms and sing a song.

1 April

•  A day of jokes and tricks.

• You have to play the joke before 12 o’clock     midday, otherwise the joke is on you.

•No one really knows when this custom began but it has been kept for hundreds of years.

The First of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools Day; But why the people call it so, Not I, nor they themselves do know.