Transcript Our Favorite Holidays Prepared by Students of the 7th form Gymnasia #1 Starye Dorogi Belarus Teacher Natasha Belozorovich.

Our Favorite Holidays
Prepared by
Students of the 7th form
Gymnasia #1
Starye Dorogi
Belarus
Teacher Natasha Belozorovich
The USA
India
Russia
Romania
Calendar of holidays
New Year
Yulia Moroz, Belarus,
Lilia Zdor, Belarus
The best holiday is New Year!
We celebrate it on the 31 of December.
It is a very interesting holiday.
We are making preparations and whole
December .
We go shopping buy presents !!! It is
very interesting!!!
We also decorate the Christmas tree.
There is a star at the top of a tree.
We decorate the Christmas tree with
colorful balls, lights and sweets.
From year to year the most
traditional dish put on a New
Year's table, "Olivier's" salad is.
Everyone knows how to prepare
it, and it is always associated with
the holiday. Salad or some salads
are usually served with hot dishes
from poultry, meat or fish.
The most popular New Year's
fruit are the tangerines. The smell
of tangerines traditionally
associates happy New Year. Usually
tangerines are spread on a separate
dish and put under a fur-tree or
on a table as a desert.
The holiday is celebrated together with the
family, because how you’ll celebrate New Year,
so you’ll spend all the year . At 12 o'clock,
when clocks strike 12, all the menders of the
family fill their glasses, and wish Happy New
Year. In the morning you can find the great
gifts under the Christmas tree!!!
In Belarus Ded Moroz (Father
Frost) lives in his residence in
Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Children
come to see him from different
places and write letters about
their dream presents.
Baptizing
Russia
January abounds in holidays.
We have New Year’s Day,
Christmas , Old New Year’s
Day and Baptizing.
The main attraction on
Baptizing day is when we
plunge into ice hole in the Ob
river . Last year the
temperature was -35 degrees
Centigrate.
A lot of families come to the
river with their children to
enjoy (!) this old tradition.
And what about you?
We celebrate Easter
every spring, usually in
April . Easter is very
important for the people
because it means Christ’s
Rebirth. People prepare
food and eggs for
Easter. They paint eggs
in many colours. Red
eggs signify Christ’s
blood. Women cook
special traditional food,
that is lamb and cakes.
Om Easter Eve people go
to church to take ’’light’’.
On Easter Day, people
visit each other and say
’’Happy Easter!’’ and ’’Christ
is reborn!’’ .
The symbol of Easter is
the rabbit, who brings
presents to good children. In
some parts of the country
boys use to go to the girls’
houses with a bottle of
parfume to ’’water’’ the
flowers who are in fact the
girls in the house. The
hostess of the house gives
them drinks, cakes and eggs.
They wish each other ’’Happy
Easter!’’
Easter Time is a holiday
of joy and happiness!
DIWALI
Prateek Bajaj, India
My favorite holiday is Diwali.
It is the festival of lights and is
celebrated for the return of Lord
Rama after his 14 years exile in
the forests of India.
After his return, lights were
lighted and crackers were burst
There was happiness everywhere.
This is celebrated in the
monthsof October or November
(depending upon the Indian
Calendar).
We wear our Indian Traditional
clothes on this occasion. People
go to their relatives’ houses and
exchange gifts.
Merry Christmas
Rus Luci, Romania
.
In Romania, holidays, especially
Christmas and Easter, are periods of
joy and happiness for the people,
who try to be better Christians by
giving presents to one another.
My favorite holiday is Christmas
because Santa Claus comes and
goes wandering.
On the 24th of December we
celebrate
Christmas Eve. Then
children get together and go singing
carols . People give them money,
sweets apples and nuts.
Usually, every family invites quests to have
lunch together and sing carols.
For this holiday Romainian people use to eat
traditional dishes. Special clothes for this
holiday:Santa Claus and people trying to
imitate animals.
Happy Birthday
Liza Mataeva, Belarus
.
The most important gift
from mother-nature is life
. We like celebrating of the
.
birthday because it is the
beginning of the life. We
celebrate it at the day
when we were born
People invite many
guests. Some people have
parties with many
friends, others like to
celebrate with relatives
and parents.
People dress beautiful
color clothes, some people
dress hoods. Birthday
celebration is very
interesting and noisy.
We wish “happy
birthday”, give presents
and pull the ears of the
mane character of the
birthday party.
Good bye!