Christmas Day

Christmas Day is a public holiday. Families usually spend the day opening their presents which are often _______ ________ the Christmas tree decorated with ________, _________, ______ _______. They eat and drink together. The most important meal is Christmas Dinner. At the start of the meal, British people often pull a _________, which contains a small toy, a paper bat, and a joke.
piled around
tinsel
baubles
fairy lights
cracker
pile
tinsel
baubles
fairy lights
crackers

The typical meal consists of turkey with potatoes and other vegetables such as carrots and ___________. In Britain it is followed by Christmas _________ - a sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy. Other traditional foods in Britain include Christmas cake – a cake containing a lot of dried fruit and usually having a ____________ ___ ______ (hard sugar) made to be eaten at Christmas, and _______ ____.
sprouts
pudding
covering
of icing
mince pies
sprouts
pudding
covering
of icing
Mince pies – pies with
raisins, almonds,
cinnamon and sugar

Americans ___________ special biscuits called Christmas _________ which they eat over the Christmas season (the time when people prepare for and celebrate Christmas, from mid-December to the end of the year).
bake
cookies