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Christmas
dishes
Christmas
decorations
Christmas
symbols
IV. Match the ideas to make collocations connected
with Christmas:
prepare Christmas Eve supper
give
wafer
sing
traditional Christmas dishes
clean up presents
share
the table
say
carols
celebrate the place
set
the prayer
V. Make your own recipe for a Polish ‘Merry Christmas’.
You may use the ideas from the exercises
above.
A recipe for a Polish ‘Merry Christmas’ from
the kitchen of …………………….. (your name)
Ingredients:
e.g. – one Christmas tree
– some Christmas decorations (……….)
– good mood
– traditions
– …………..
– …………..
– …………..
Method:
Use sequenceners: first, next, then, after that, in
the end, meanwhile/in the meantime
e.g. First, well before Christmas, .....................
......................................................................
VI. Write how you usually spend Christmas:
■■ Where you spend it and who you spend it
with.
■■ What you do before Christmas to get prepared
for it, what the other members of your family
do to prepare to celebrate Christmas.
■■ What traditional dishes you have for Christmas
Eve Supper; chose one or two and explain
what they are made of and how they are
prepared.
■■ What traditions connected with Christmas you
and your family follow at Christmas time –
explain them.
You may as well write how you spent Christmas last
year/you are going to spend Xmas this year).
VII. Read the text and put the sentences A–G into the
gaps 1–6. One sentence doesn’t match the text.
A. For a month, slaves became masters.
B. Some years later, by popular demand, Charles II
restored the popular holiday.
C. There were mid-winter festivals in ancient
Babylon and Egypt.
D. So at Christmas, believers attended church,
and then celebrated noisily in a drunken,
carnival-like atmosphere.
E. The people would feast until the log burned
out, which could take as many as 12 days.
F. The Twelfth Night is considered the end of
the Christmas season, before the Epiphany
the following day.
G. The church chose this date to adopt and absorb
the traditions of the pagan Saturnalia
festival.
How Christmas began:
The middle of winter has long been celebrated
around the world. 1.
. Centuries
before the birth of Jesus, early Europeans
celebrated light and birth in the darkest days
of winter.
In Scandinavia, the Norse celebrated Yule from
December 21, the winter solstice, through January.
In recognition of the return of the sun, fathers
and sons used to bring home large logs, which
they would set on fire. 2.
The
Norse believed that each spark from the fire represented
a new pig or calf that would be born
during the coming year.
In Germany, fertility festivals also took place
at this time. People honored the pagan god Oden
during the mid-winter holiday.
The Celtic culture of the British Isles revered
all green plants, but particularly mistletoe and
holly. These were important symbols of ferti-
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