English Holidays

1.

Учитель английского языка,
Удинцева Светлана Анатольевна.

2.

New Year in the UK
People all around the UK, as well
as the citizens in all the world
and all the rest Englishspeaking countries celebrate
New Year. In Scotland it’s called
Hogmanay.

3.

Easter.
On Easter people visit church service, give each
other beautifully painted Easter eggs and tasty
cakes. Easter marches take place on this holiday.

4.

May Day.
May day in Great Britain is
on the 1st of May. It’s a
pagan spring festival.

5.

Spring and Late Summer
Bank festival.
On these two
holidays people
have celebrations
in the open air –
visiting seaside
towns, water
shooting , riding
on carousels,
wearing comic
hats , eating seafood, drinking
beer or tea.

6.

Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night)

7.

Thanksgiving Day
People go to church in the morning and have
big dinner with turkey at home. They give the
God thanks for all good things in their lives.

8.

Christmas
On the 25th of December people have holiday dinner of
roast turkey and Christmas pudding, decorate Christmas
tree, have fun, have toast for Christmas. They wish each
other Merry Christmas , buy presents and send greeting
cards. Children find their presents in the stockings on the
fire place or under the Christmas tree.

9.

Halloween
Halloween means "holy evening" and takes place
on October 31st. Children dress up in fancy
dresses, knock on doors and ask for a “trick” or a
“treat”.

10.

St Valentine's Day

11.

Holidays celebrated in the USA
Memorial Day
Independence
Day
Veteran's Day
• .

12.

• Easter Parade
• Christmas
• Trooping the Colour
• St Valentine’s Day
• Celebrating Queen’s birthday.