Презентация на тему к уроку по теме Рождество

and the US. This Christian holy day is held

on December 25th (in Russia on January 7th) in honour of the birth of Christ.
On Christmas Eve some people go to a special church service called Midnight Mass or Christmas Eve. Service at 12 o'clock at night. Others may, have a drink with their friends.

At the start of the meal, British people often

pull a cracker, which contains a small toy, a paper bat, and a joke.
The typical meal nowadays consists of turkey with potatoes and other vegetables such as carrots and sprouts.

pudding — a sweet pudding containing a lot of

dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy.
Other traditional foods in Britain include Christmas cake — a cake containing a lot of dried fruit and usu­ally having a covering of icing (hard sugar) made to be eaten at Christmas, and mince pies.
Americans bake special biscuits called Christmas cookies which they eat over the Christmas season (the time when people prepare for and celebrate Christmas, from mid-December to the end of the year).

the North Pole where he spends most of the

year in his workshop making toys for children with the help of elves often called "brownies" in America.
People think of him as a happy man, who says, "Ho, ho, ho."

Britain), or Kriss Kringle (in America) is an imaginary

old man in red clothes and with a long white beard.
He is supposed to fly about the sky in a sleigh, pulled by reindeer.

bring them presents if they are good.
Children sometimes

write a letter to Santa Claus telling him what presents they would like for Christmas.

a long sock called a Christmas stocking at the

end of their bed or by the chimney or hang it by the fireplace so that Santa Claus will fill it with presents.
A tangerine or a nut are often put into the stockings.
Santa Claus is supposed to visit each house on Christmas Eve by climbing down the chimney.

in the days and weeks before Christmas the shops

become very busy.
Newspapers and television, etc. say how many shopping days there are left and people often spend a lot of money. But many people feel that Christmas has become too much of business and so has lost its meaning.

usually spend the day opening their presents which are

often piled around the Christmas tree decorated with tinsel, baubles, fairy lights, etc.

to their friends usually containing the message "Merry Christmas".

The cards often show pictures of "the nativity (the birth of Christ), Santa Claus, a Christmas tree, robins" or scenes of old-fashioned Christmases.