Презентация. Викторина "Holidays in Great Britain"

Quiz «Holidays in Great Britain»

Choose the correct answer

1. People dress up as witches,

ghosts and skeletons

a) Christmas b) Halloween c) New Year

2. People send cards to someone they love

• Valentine’s Day
• St Patrick’s Day
• Christmas

3. British usually eat hot-cross buns, which are marked on top with cross

• Christmas
• New Year
• Easter

4. Houses is decorated with pumpkin

• May Day
• St Patrick’s Day
• Halloween

5. Children wake up early to find presents in the stockings

• New Year
• Christmas
• Valentine’s Day

6. People give each other chocolate eggs wrapped in silver paper

• Easter
• Christmas
• Thanksgiving Day

7. At midnight everybody joins hands and sing «Auld Lane Syne»

• Guy Fawkes Day
• Easter
• New Year

8. This holiday was started in the time of Roman Empire

• Valentine’s Day
• St Patrick Day
• Christmas

9. The symbol of this holiday is «Jack o’lantern»

• Guy Fawkes Day
• May Day
• Halloween

10. People have family dinner with roast turkey and pudding

• Easter
• Christmas
• Halloween

11. Girls bake the cookies and put the papers with the wishes for the boys into the cookies

• Halloween
• New Year
• Valentine’s Day

12. Children go from house to house and say «trick or treat»

• Christmas
• New Year
• Halloween

13. There is a lot of eating, dancing, fun and fireworks

• New Year
• Halloween
• Easter

14. This holiday means «holy evening»

• Guy Fawkes Day
• Christmas
• Halloween

15. On this day people collect flowers and make wreaths

• Valentine’s Day
• May Day
• Mother’s Day

16. This day people burn a dummy made of straw and old clothes on a bonfire

• New Year
• Guy Fawkes Day
• Halloween

17. Religious ceremony, commemorating the birth of Christ takes place on

• Christmas
• Easter
• Thanksgiving Day

18. Symbols of this holiday are green colour and the shamrock

• St Patrick’s Day
• May Day
• New Year

19. Boxing Day is celebrated on the

• 24 th December
• 25 th December
• 26 th December

20. Good Friday is Friday before

• Christmas
• New Year
• Easter

21. St. Patrick Day is celebrated

• Only in Ireland
• in Great Britain
• all over the world

22. Every year the city of London get a big Christmas tree as a present from people of

• France
• Sweden
• Norway

23. People can hear the words: «Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you» on

• other’s day
• St. Patrick’s Day
• Valentine’s Day

24. In London on New Year’s Eve people go to

• The Houses of Parliament
• the Buckingham Palace
• Trafalgar Square

25. People make resolution

• Christmas
• New Year
• Thanksgiving Day

26. Hogmanay is the name of New Year in

• Scotland
• Ireland
• Wales

27. New Year is more popular holiday in

• Wales
• Scotland
• England

28. This holiday originates from 1605

• St. Patrick’s Day
• Guy Fawkes Day
• Easter