Transcript Slajd 1

Authors:
Kamila Marcinowska
and
Marta Konik
Class 3D
England is a country
situated in the United
Kingdom. The capital
city is London.
The main denomination
is Anglican, but
people have Xmas
like us.
Christmas in
England is
celebrated on
25 and 26
December
every year.
24 December is called
Christmas Eve. This
is the day when
children from the
whole country
prepare cookies, milk
and hay for Santa
Claus with his
reindeers, who arrives
at night to leave the
gifts.
For English people (except
Catholics) Christmas
begins on 25 December
and is called Christmas
Day.
In the morning children find
presents from Santa in
the stockings hanging at
the fireplace. All
members of the family
have the Christmas
dinner together.
For Christmas dinner
people prepare
mainly roast turkey,
potatoes, Brussels
sprouts and
Christmas pudding.
26 December is called
Boxing Day. In the
past people used to
give presents to their
servants, but now
they spend it visiting
friends.
The houses are decorated
with holly, ivy and
mistletoe.
There is an old custom
saying that you must kiss
the person standing
under the mistletoe. The
most characteristic is an
evergreen Christmas
tree with candles, balls,
paper chains and a star
or an angel on the top of
it.
Christmas tree is an old custom, started probably by
Martin Luter, that`s why English people can`t
imagine X-mas without this one on the Trafalgar
Square (/\).
Like in many countries, in
England Santa Claus is
dressed in a red and white
suit. He is old and plump, he
has got long, white beard.
He travels by a flying sleigh. He
climbs down the chimney, eats
the cookies, drinks milk
prepared for him by children
and fills stockings with gifts.
The sleigh is pulled by nine
reindeer: Dasher, Dancer,
Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid,
Donder and Blitzen. The most
famous, however, is Rudolf.