HOLIDAYs AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS BRISTISH
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The document summarizes holidays and special occasions in Britain. It discusses traditional holidays like Christmas, New Year, and Easter. Christmas celebrations include decorating trees and homes, exchanging gifts, and having a traditional dinner of roast turkey with vegetables and pudding for dessert. New Year's Eve involves parties to celebrate the new year. Other annual events mentioned are Good Friday, Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day, St. Valentine's Day, and summer bank holidays in July and August when many British people take beach vacations.
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HOLIDAYs AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS BRISTISH
- 1. Nhóm 7: •Nguyễn Thị Thùy •Vũ Thị Hồng •Bùi Thúy Nga HOLIDAY s AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS
- 2. Overview Christmas and New Year Other notable annual occasions Outline
- 3. Overview Features of holidays in Britain • “holiday” = “holy day” known as “bank holidays” • Fewer public holidays than Europe and North America • No semi-official holidays either • In fact, about 40% of the population do not go away anywhere for their holidays.
- 4. Traditional holidays - A seaside holiday - In July and August
- 5. Activities Punch and Judy show Donkey rides along the beach
- 6. Food & drink: candy floss & a stick of rock sweet candy floss Rock sweet
- 7. Blackpool: is the biggest and most popular seaside resort in England.
- 8. Blackpool is also famous for its illuminations, which take place annually from September to November.
- 9. Modern holidays Most foreign holidays are package holiday Holidays in abroad such as: Europe: 80% of visits abroad
- 10. Spain: 13.8 million visits France: 11.1 million visits
- 11. Overview •Most holidays are taken in July and August •Package holidays are the most popular type of holiday. •Most working people have 4 weeks holiday per year and take 2 weeks off in the Summer.
- 12. Overview Christmas and New Year Other notable annual occasions Outline
- 13. Christmas
- 14. Christmas in Britain - December 25 - Jesus Christ's birth - Time for many people to give and receive gifts and prepare special festive meals.
- 15. Before Christmas Decorating homes and gardens with: Christmas trees
- 18. Prince Albert
- 20. Listing request to Santa Claus
- 21. Children believe that Santa will come and leave them something.
- 22. The only thing that people ate on the day before the feast was Frumenty
- 25. The traditional Christmas speech of the British Monarch. After the meal
- 26. In the afternoon People exchange visits with neighbors other family members
- 28. New Year
- 29. New Year’s Eve
- 30. Overview Christmas and New Year OTHER NOTABLE ANNUAL OCCASIONS Outline
- 31. Good Friday •The Friday before Easter
- 32. •Commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ •Eating hot cross buns
- 33. Easter - Jesus Christ’s resurrection from death - Giving each other chocolate eggs - At that time, many people go away on holiday.
- 34. Forty seven days before Easter Shrove Tuesday ( Pancake Tuesday) 2 activities Pancake tossing contest Pancake race
- 35. Halloween
- 36. •October 31 •Held parties where hosts and guests dress up as skeletons, ghosts.
- 37. •Common symbols include pumpkins, bats, spiders.
- 38. Guy Fawkes’ day ( Bonfire Night) - 5th November - Mark the failed attempt to blow up the House 4 of Parliament by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirator
- 39. •Use money to buy fireworks
- 40. •They eat traditionally Guy Fawkes Night Food: apple and potato
- 41. St Valentine’s Day and Gretna Green •14th February •People send cards, gifts, and text messages to somebody they love •Thousands of people travel to Gretna Green village
- 42. Gretna Green Village •Marriage and weding ceremony •Weding on St Valentine’s Day: book 3 months in advance
- 43. Summary Features of holidays in Britain Christmas in Britain Some other occasions
- 45. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!