Transcript Christmas in a Slovakia

Christmas in Slovakia
Frederika Horváthová
Sindy Horváthová
Christmas
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Christmas time starts from 24 to 26 December
Christmas time is the most beautiful time of year
Christmas time is a feast of love and peace
During the Christmas time people usually relax and watch
Christmas fairies or listen to Christmas carols
On Christmas I and my sister Sindy help our mum when
she prepares Christmas Eve dinner.
Christmas are not about gifts, but Christmas time is about
nice time spent with the whole family
Preparations befor Christmas
Before Christmas time we usually clean our flat.
All activities are divided fairly.
Mother washes windows and cleans the kitchen.
Dad cleans dust from our furniture.
Sindy and me hoovers our rooms and washes the floor.
When all these activities are done we begin to decorate our flat
Christmas decoration
At Christmas time we do decoration of our flat.
It are our favourite activities before Christmas.
We decorate our flat with various types of decorations.
Sindy cuts reideers and bethlehem and I stick these pictures on
the windows.
Our parents build the Christmas tree and we help too.
When the tree is ready, we put bethlehem under it.
We have a Christmas wreath on the door.
On the table we have a Christmas branches with decorations and
Christmas wreath with four candels too.
Christmas traditions in our family
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before the Christmas time we usually do these avtivities:
buy a carp
build and decorate Christmas tree
decoration of our flat
baking and decorating of gingerbreads
meeting with our family
sending Christmas cards to our relatives or friends
buying Christmas rose
buying a wreath with four candels, whitch we gradualy lighten
Christmas in our family from 24
to 26 December
On 24 December we prepare Christmas dinner the whole day.Our
mum prepares mayonnaise salad and other specialities. Our dad
cuts carp into pieces. Me and my sister Sindy help them or
watch Christmas fairy. When the Christmas Eve dinner is ready
we sit down at the table. This day the whole family sits together
around one table. It is the most beautiful day of the year. We
love this day. On 25 and 26 December we visit our relatives.
Christmas Eve Dinner
Our Christmas Eve Dinner starts at about 6 p.m.
In our family Christmas Eve Dinner starts with pray, then we eat
wafers with honey, nuts and garlick.
On Christmas Eve dinner we have traditional Christmas food and it is
cabbage soup, mayonniase salad with fried carp.
Later we eat Christmas cakes such as: gingerbreads, vanila rolls, bear
paws, chocolate cups and many others cakes.
Gingerbreads
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AND HOW TO PREPARE
GINGERBREADS?
You need:
500 g flour, 200g sugar, 50g of
almonds, a half of a packet of
baking powder, ground
cinnamon, shredded cloves,
lemon peel, anise, 40g butter, 3
eggs, 100g of honey,
1 egg
Bon appetit
Habits in our town
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Every year during Christmas time we have Christmas market in
our town.
On the town square very high Christmas tree is built.
Christmas market provides us with a lot of stalls with traditional
Christmas specialities, gingerbreads...
Our town is nicely decorated with various colourful decorations.
And what do we do after
Christmas?
After Christmas time we do these activities :
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relax at home.
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when it is snowy, we usually build a snowman or go
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sledging.
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We walking outside with our parents.
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And prepare for New Year
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This is all about our Christmas time
MERRY CHRISTMAS