Christmas is celebrated on December 25th to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Traditions include decorating homes with trees, lights and nativity scenes; having family dinners featuring foods like soup, seafood and roast meat followed by desserts like turrón and polvorones; singing Christmas carols accompanied by instruments; and exchanging presents left under the tree by Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men. The author enjoys decorating with their family as well as singing carols and receiving presents during Christmas celebrations with extended family in Salamanca.

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2. What Christmas is?What Christmas is?
At Christmas we celebrate the Cristo’s birth, December 25th.

3. TraditionsTraditions

4. Decorate
• We decorate our houses and the streets. The streets are decorated
with lights, bells and trees. The houses are decorated with a big tree,
lights, nativity scene… Usually on top of the tree there is a star.

5. Dinners with the family
• All years people celebrate Christmas with their family and
dinner with them. In my family, we usually eat canapes, clear soup,
seafood and roast meat. And for dessert, turrón and polvorones.

6. Christmas carol
• Families sing the Christmas carol and they play tambourines and
zambombas.

7. Presents
• People get given presents the part of Santa Claus and the Three Wise
Men. They put the presents under the tree.

8. My opinion
I love decorate my house with my parents and sister.
My uncles and my cousins come to Salamanca to
celebrate Christmas with us.
I like sing Christmas carol with all my family.
I love presents, of course!