the pupils' Xmas slideshow

1. XMAS IN FRANCE

2. ON Christmas Eve, we usually eat a festive meal : foie gras,smoked
salmon, stuffed turkey with vegetables and potatoes and a delicious
Yule log.
We invite our family to celebrate Christmas.
At the beginnig of December, we decorate the house:
garlands,baubles, stars and a Christmas tree.
In some families, they are very impatient and open the presents in the
evening.
ANGLADE Thomas
TALAMANDIER louis

3. Xmas day December 25 th
* In the morning, the children
usually open the presents
that Santa Claus brought them
under the Christmas tree.
* In Juliette's family, it's in the
evening but in Sarah's family,
they always open them in the
morning.
* The traditional meal is often
composed of seafood, stuffed
turkey with vegetables ,
potatoes and chestnuts and
the traditional Yule log …
*At Christmas, you can go to
church to listen to religious
songs too .
Sarah F. Juliette F.

4. Brioude in December
ForChristmas, Brioude organises a Christmas « corrida
»(a dress up race),
a Christmas market, the arrival
of FatherChristmas and a fireworks display.
They installed an ice rink and a lot of decorations.
The shops make nice shop fronts with
Christmas decorations.In Brioude ,there is a big Christmas tree and
there are a lot of tinsel orgarlands in all the streets.
FatherChristmas will come with his sledge and his reindeer
to meet the children.
Forthe Christmas corrida (a dress up race), at first there
is the children ‘s race and then the adults' race.
At the Christmas market we can buy specialties : food,
decorations, presents …The ice rink is open forall people :there we can
skate and laugh. Finally we will be able to see a very nice fireworks
display at the end of December.
It's really magical. Laura and Emeline

5. Christmas in Portugal
In Portugal, they don't eat very much
during the meal but they eat a lot of
desserts. Their speciality of desserts are
dried fruit cake, it is Bolo Rei and rice
pudding,it is arroz doce …On Christmas
day,the musicians usually knock at
people's doors to sing Christmas
carols.They are very religious because at
midnight people always go to church.
People celebrate Christmas as in France.
They decorate the Christmas tree and
their house too.There is always a
Christmas crib under the Christmas tree.
Ethan and Clément

6. New Year's Eve● New Year's Eve is on the 31st of December.
● We spend the evening with our friends or our
family.
● For that evening, we eat oysters, dauphine
potatoes, foie gras and the yule log or the
Twelfth Night Cake. We drink champagne too to
celebrate the New Year.
● At midnight, it is the New Year, everybody wish a
Happy New Year and kiss !
● The evening continues until the end of the night.
● Last year, we came back home in the morning.
We had a lot of fun with our friends and family,
Darne Mathilde, Bastide Emma

7. EPIPHANY
Epiphany is twelve days after Christmas : it is a
religious and Christian celebration .
To celebrate it, we usually eat the Twelfth Night Cake
in France.
In the cake, there is a charm. The person who gets
the charm in his piece of cake becomes the king or
the queen, and must wear the paper crown.
Lucas Valente et Romain Darne

8. MERRY XMAS TO YOOOOOU !
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