christmas is in the air

CRISTMAS STOCKING
One of the favourite holidays in
Great Britain is Christmas. People
are very busy on Christmas Eve.
They go shopping, buy tasty food,
make roast turkey, mince pies, a
pudding. Children make or buy
Christmas cards and send them
to the relatives, write letters to
Santa Claus asking him to be
polite,kind to everybody , help
old people and prepare sto-
ckings for Christmas presents.

CHRISTMAS LETTER
On Christmas Eve English children
letters to Santa Claus. In the letters
they tell Santa Claus what they want
for Christmas and promise to be
good in the coming year. For example,
Dear Santa!
My name is Linda. I am normally
nice to my parents. I really want a
new bicycle for Christmas. Will you
give me, Santa?
Linda Higgins.

CHRISTMAS PUDDING
In Britain, this popular des-
sert is surrounded by many
superstitutions. It is said
puddings should be pre-
paired with 13 ingredients
to represent Christ and
his Disciples.
Putting a silver coin in the
pudding is another age
old custom that is said
to bring wealth, health,
happiness to the lucky
person who finds it.

HOLLY
Holly is an evergreen plant with
sharppointed leaves and red
berries . You know already
that people put holly on Chist-
mas pudding.
They also use holly to decorate
their homes. It is a very old
tradition. Long ago people began
to put holly in their homes du-
ring the dark cold winters. They liked to look at holly and think
about the spring and the sun.

MISTLETOE
Mistletoe is an evergre-
en plant with small le-
aves and small white
berries. On Christmas
Eve there is a bunch
of mistletoe in every
house. Under this bunch boys kiss girls.

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CANDLES
On Christmas Eve people like to
light candles . If there are children
in the family, they often have Christ-
mas crackers. They pull a cracker, it
makes a bang.

MINCE PIES
Сhristmas food
needs explaining.
Mince pies today
are not made from meat as they once were,
but contain raisins, currants.
Children like these sweet pies.

WAITS
Waits are a group of singers
who sing carols. They sing
carols, for example, in front
of a Christmas tree. In small
towns and villages waits
often come and stand in front
of the house and sing ca-
rols. They receive money for
their singing.

CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITUTIONS
If the wind is blowing on
Christmas Day, you are in for a good year.
If you want to have good
health throughout the next
year, eat an apple on Chris
mas Eve.
If a baby is born on Christ-
mas Day, it will have a special
fortune .

TURKEY
The Christmas bird,
nowdays usually a
turkey, is being pre-
pared and stuffed,
the pudding is in-
spected and the cake
is got out of its tin
and iced.

BOXING DAY
Boxing Day
comes after
Christmas Day.
It is on the 26
th of December.
People visit
friends or to
the theatre and
give presents.

SANTA CLAUS
This jolly fellow gets his
name from a man as known
as St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas
lived In Western Asia and
was a Bishop and gave his
wealth to the poor children.
In England Father Christ –
mas was known as far back
as the 15 th century. Now
Father Christmas deposits
his gifts by night in the
houses, unseen and unbeard.

POEMS TO ENJOY
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
I heard the bells on Christmas DAY
Their old familiar carols play
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace earth, good will to MEN.

YULETIDE
Juletide begins in the middle
of December and ends on the 6
th of January. All the children
like this wonderful time.

CHRISTMAS AT OUR SCHOOL
There is a tradition to have a big holiday connected with
Christmas at our school. It is celebrated on the 25 th of
December. Children wear masks, sing songs, dance,
recited poems about winter, Christmas. They eat
puddings, chocolates.

OUR CONCLUSIONS
So we have touched the topic “Christmas In England”. Now we know that Christmas is the biggest and the most favourite holiday for Englishmen. We have found out a lot of interesting things about traditions, customs of this holiday in the family, at school e.t.c. Finally we know that this holiday is similar to our chuvash holiday ”SURHURI” and at the same time they have some differences too.
This material deepens and enlarges our knowledge in Linquistics and the country.