This document discusses various Christmas traditions in Catalonia, Spain. It describes polvorons and torró, two traditional sweets eaten during Christmas celebrations. It also mentions a typical Christmas menu including galets soup and shellfish and reciting a Christmas poem to receive a prize from family. Additional traditions covered are singing carols in Spanish and Catalan, making nativity scenes out of materials like plasticine and cork, performing pastorets plays, and decorating the Christmas tree with balls, lights and other ornaments.

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POLVORONS:
“Polvorons” are typical from Spain, one of the
most appreciated comes from Seville.
They’re rounded and can contain hazelnut or
other things; we usually eat them during
Christmas celebrations.

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TORRÓ:
The “torró” is a
sweet food that we
usually eat during
Christmas
celebrations, like:
Christmas Eve, St
Esteve (Boxing day),
New year, etc. It’s a
strong tradition in
Catalonia.

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CHRISTMAS MENU:
My Christmas menu is composed by a first course
with a “galets” soup (it’s pasta filled with meat
balls) and a second course of shellfish. As a
dessert: pineapple or lemon sorbet.

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POEM:
I stand up on a chair
to recite the
Christmas poem.
Then my parents,
uncles , grandparents,
the whole family
gives me a prize.

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CAROLS
In Spain is a tradition to sing
carols. A carol is a musical and
poetic form that can be sung in
Spanish, Catalan…
Carol is simply a genre of song
whose lyrics refer to Christmas
and that is traditionally sung at
that time.
Here in our school every year we
make a different carol in each
class. We had fun singing carols!
For example this year we sang
"The Snowman" and also sang
the carol "is a desire"

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Nativity:
The nativity is a representation of
the birth of Jesus.
This 6th year we have made a
nativity with plasticine, cork,
chopsticks…
The exhibition of this nativity was
on 12 December 2014.
This year we have also made a
nativity scene, which was on
14th December 2014.
This nativity scene was the
representation of Jesus, the
shepherds, the merchants, the
angels…
Every year we put the crib at
home, put the manger is a
tradition with your family and
friends.
It is fun to make nativities of
Jesus!

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PASTORETS
Pastorets is a typical
play performed during
Christmas time in many
parts of Catalonia.
Here at our school we
also do this. It is
performed by 4th ESO.
They are very good!

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Christmas tree:
The Christmas tree is a fir in
which we put decorations,
Christmas balls, a star tip fir,
angels, ribbons, lights…
It is a tradition to put the
Christmas tree at Christmas in
every house. As every year, I
put the Christmas tree with
my parents.
This year children made these
"Christmas trees" so original
at English class!

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