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Christmas

Christmas. Important Days. In the United Kingdom the most important days for the Christmas period are: 24 th December – Christmas Eve 25 th December – Christmas Day 26 th December – Boxing Day 31 st December – New Year’s Eve 1 st January – New Year’s Day.

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Christmas

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  1. Christmas

  2. Important Days • In the United Kingdom the most important days for the Christmas period are: • 24th December – Christmas Eve • 25th December – Christmas Day • 26th December – Boxing Day • 31st December – New Year’s Eve • 1st January – New Year’s Day

  3. 24th December – Christmas Eve • All year Father Christmas’ elves work hard to make toys in the North Pole. • In December children write letters to Father Christmas to ask for something they want for Christmas. • On Christmas Eve children hang up Christmas stockings because this is the night that Father Christmas comes. • He gives toys to good children and coal to bad children. • Before the children go to bed they leave out some food and drink for Father Christmas and the reindeer. • There is also a famous rhyming story called ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ which is often read.

  4. 25th December – Christmas Day • On this day the children get up and open their Christmas presents from Father Christmas. • Later in the day families get together and have Christmas dinner and give presents. • Christmas dinner is usually turkey with roasted potatoes, carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, parsnips, yorkshire puddings, stuffing and gravy. • Desert is Christmas Pudding or Mince Pies.

  5. 26th December – Boxing Day • In the UK, it was a custom for tradesmen to collect "Christmas boxes" of money or presents on day after Christmas as thanks for good service throughout the year. • This custom is linked to an older English tradition: in exchange for ensuring that wealthy landowners' Christmases ran smoothly, their servants were allowed to take the 26th off to visit their families. • The employers gave each servant a box containing gifts and sometimes leftover food.

  6. Now Boxing Day is associated with shopping as most shops have huge Boxing Day sales and discount all the goods they sell.

  7. Christmas Songs and Carols • Throughout December you will hear Christmas carols and songs. • Carols are songs that are only sung at Christmas. • Some are religious and others are for fun. • Usually Christmas carols have been around for hundreds of years and are either folkloric or religious whilst Christmas songs have been sung by popstars more recently.

  8. Popular Christmas Carols • Most of these Christmas Carols were written between 1700-1850: • Hark the Herald Angels Sing • O Little Town of Bethlehem • Once in Royal David’s City • O Come All Ye Faithful • Away in a Manger • Little Donkey

  9. Little Donkey • This carol is sung every year at school nativity plays about the donkey that carried Mary, who was pregnant with the baby Jesus safely to Bethlehem.

  10. The 12 Days of Christmas This is a very popular Christmas carol in the United Kingdom. The first verse starts with “On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.” The verses build up into a list of all the items over the 12 days. For example the second verse is “On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.”

  11. Popular Christmas Songs • Some of the most popular recent Christmas songs are the following: • Last Christmas by Wham • Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea • Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! By Dean Martin • I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard • Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade • All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey

  12. Fun Christmas Songs • There are also some fun Christmas songs that are not carols and were not sung by popstars such as: • All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth • Frosty The Snowman • Jingle Bells • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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