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    This document discusses various Christmas traditions and customs in the UK. It mentions decorating houses with trees, holly, and mistletoe. Special winter foods eaten include turkey, mince pies, and mulled wine. An important custom is giving presents, with children excitedly finding gifts in their stockings on Christmas Eve. The Christmas holiday period lasts around a week, with Boxing Day following Christmas Day and New Year's Day marking the end of the holidays.

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    This document discusses various Christmas traditions and customs in the UK. It mentions decorating houses with trees, holly, and mistletoe. Special winter foods eaten include turkey, mince pies, and mulled wine. An important custom is giving presents, with children excitedly finding gifts in their stockings on Christmas Eve. The Christmas holiday period lasts around a week, with Boxing Day following Christmas Day and New Year's Day marking the end of the holidays.

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    This document discusses various Christmas traditions and customs in the UK. It mentions decorating houses with trees, holly, and mistletoe. Special winter foods eaten include turkey, mince pies, and mulled wine. An important custom is giving presents, with children excitedly finding gifts in their stockings on Christmas Eve. The Christmas holiday period lasts around a week, with Boxing Day following Christmas Day and New Year's Day marking the end of the holidays.

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    Christmas Activities

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    ANA BELEN TRONCHO GUIA
    This document discusses various Christmas traditions and customs in the UK. It mentions decorating houses with trees, holly, and mistletoe. Special winter foods eaten include turkey, mince pies, and mulled wine. An important custom is giving presents, with children excitedly finding gifts in their stockings on Christmas Eve. The Christmas holiday period lasts around a week, with Boxing Day following Christmas Day and New Year's Day marking the end of the holidays.

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    CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES

    turkey snow
    present mistletoe
    carols holly
    tree card
    party New Year
    stocking Boxing Day
    mince pie holiday
    reindeer Christmas Eve
    mulled wine winter

    Christmas crossword: Learner A


    CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES

    Christmas crossword: Learner B


    CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES

    Christmas vocabulary definitions


    CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES

    Boxing Day The day after Christmas Day


    Card This has a message written in it and is given from one person to
    another at Christmas
    Carols Traditional songs sung at Christmas
    Christmas The day before Christmas
    Eve
    Holiday A special time of the year when you do not have to go to work
    Holly A green, thorny plant with red berries used to decorate people’s homes

    Mince pie A traditional sweet pastry filled with fruit


    Mistletoe Couples traditionally kiss underneath this plant at Christmas
    Mulled wine Hot, spiced wine which is drunk at Christmas
    New Year The celebration between December and January when January 1st begins

    Party A meeting of people for a celebration, usually with music, food and
    dancing
    Present A gift given from one person to another
    Reindeer The animals that pull Santa’s sleigh
    Snow Soft pieces of frozen water that fall from the sky when the weather is cold

    Stocking A large sock into which gifts are placed on Christmas Day
    Tree A tall, green thing which is decorated and placed in the house over the
    Christmas period
    Turkey Large bird traditionally eaten at Christmas

    Reading text about Christmas customs in the UK

    Many of the Christmas customs in the UK are connected to the winter.


    People put a Christmas tree, holly and mistletoe in their houses to bring
    colour and life inside. They also like to put up coloured lights and
    CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES

    decorations. This helps to make the house brighter and more cheerful in
    winter.

    There are also many special winter foods which people in the UK eat and drink
    at Christmas. On Christmas Day they eat turkey at lunchtime, and they eat
    mince pies, which are small pies full of very sweet fruit. Also they drink hot
    mulled wine. Sometimes people eat too much at Christmas!

    Giving presents is an important custom at Christmas. Families and friends


    give each other presents in the week before Christmas, or on Christmas Day.
    Children get very excited about their presents. They have a stocking which
    they leave by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, December 24th. In the morning
    they find the stocking is full of presents. Some children believe that Santa
    Claus fills their stockings with the presents.

    The Christmas holiday lasts about a week. Christmas Day, December 25th, is
    the most important day of the holiday. The next day is called Boxing Day and
    people often visit friends or other family members. Many people have a whole
    week’s holiday, and the last day of the holiday is usually January 1st, New
    Year’s Day, when people celebrate the beginning of a new year.

    Questions
    a) Why do people put coloured lights and decorations in their houses at
    Christmas?

    b) When do people eat turkey?

    c) What do children find in stockings?

    d) Put these days in the correct order: Boxing Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas
    Day, New Year’s Day.

    Paragraph headings
    Match the four paragraph headings to the paragraphs in the text:
    a) Do people give each other presents?

    b) How do people decorate their houses?

    c) What do people eat and drink during this festival?

    d) When is this festival?

    Write about the customs in one festival in your country. You can write
    about Christmas or any other festival.

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