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Outline
1.Introduction. 2.Christmas. 3.New Year. 4.Easter.
Pancake Day or Maslenitsa
May
Day or May 1
Mother’s Day or March 8
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Traditions
Every country has it’s own holidays and traditions.
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To know customs and traditions means to understand
the people, their art and culture better.
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Christmas
Christmas is celebrated in Great Britain on December,
25
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Christmas
There are a lot of traditions connected with
Christmas, but perhaps the most important one is giving
presents.
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Santa Claus
The origin of Santa Claus is in
Saint Nicholas.
He was born in Asia Minor in the
Greco-Roman city of Myra.
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Christmas tree and food.
The Christmas tree (Yolka) is
another tradition.
Nearly all Christmas food is traditional
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New Year!
Russian tradition of celebrating New Year more
enthusiastically than Christmas, can also be easily explained taking
into consideration the country’s history. Russian people were not allowed to celebrate religious holidays during the communist times, so they put all their enthusiasm into celebrating the public ones. That is why many Christmas traditions were transformed into New Year’s traditions in Russia.
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Easter
The world “Easter” owes its name and many
of its customs and symbols to a pagan festival
called Eostre.
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Easter.
Christians fast during forty days before Easter.
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Pancake Day
British people eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday
in February or March. In some parts of Britain
there are pancake races on Shrove Tuesday.
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Maslenitsa.
Maslenitsa is a much brighter, more interesting and
poplular holiday in Russia than Shrove Tuesday in the
UK.
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Mother’s Day or March 8
The way Mothering Sunday is
celebrated has much in common with the International Women's
Day celebration in Russia.
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St. Valentine’s Day
February 14 became the date for
exchanging love messages. “Be my Valentine” is the most
common message.
St. Valentine is the patron of lovers.
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LOVE.
On St. Valentine’s Day people give candies and
bright-colour cards for lovers
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Halloween
Halloween is an old word for "Hallows Evening",
the night before "All Hallows" or "All Saints' Day".
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Guy Fawkes’ Night
Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated on
November, 5 in Britain.
All over the country people build
wood
fires or “bonfires”, in their gardens.
On the top of each bonfire is a guy. That's a figure of Guy Fawkes.
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Ivan Kupalo or St. John the Baptist’s Day
In
the Orthodox countries, as well as all over Europe,
people celebrate the Holiday of St. John the Baptist. In Russia this holiday is called Ivan Kupalo. Everything in the holiday relates to water. In the past boys and girls used to swim in rivers till late at night, they burned fires and, taking each-others hands, jumped over the fires. If after the jump they still held their hands together, it considered to be a good sign saying that the wedding is close.
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What are the most important Russian
holidays celebrated in
your family?
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Christmas and Easter
New Year, May 9, March 8
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What traditions do you follow while celebrating these
holidays?
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Put up a Christmas tree
Dye eggs
Go to church
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Do you celebrate any British holidays at
home?
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Yes
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What traditional Russian holidays do you
know or celebrate?
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None
Maslenitsa Spas, Krasnaya
Gorka, Troitsa
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Do you think it is good to celebrate
holidays
of other nations?
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Yes No
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Why do you think many old Russian holidays
were forgotten?
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I do not know
Communist ideology banned many
religious and traditional pagan holidays
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Do you celebrate both official and religious
holidays?
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Yes
No,
only official