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 CHAPTER 5:
HOLIDAYS AND
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
1. HOLLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
- Britian has fewer pulic holidays than any other countries in Europe and fewer than North
america.
- Usually knows as ‘bank holidays’
 CHRISTMAS DAY
- Celebrated 25th, December .
- It is the most important festival for families.
- It combines the Chiristant celebration of the birth of
Christ with the traditional festivities of winter.
- Activities during the holiday:
 Everyone put up a Christmas tree, a fir tree
decorated with coloured lights, baubles, tinsel and
bows, and put strings of lights across the streets
and their home.
 The most important one is the giving of presents
 PANCAKE DAY

- Also called Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent

starts (Lent is a time of Christian fast which lasts for
40 days before Easter).
- Pancake Day is traditionally a day of celebration -
the last day you can eat what you want until Easter.
- People hold pancake races on that day.
 ST. VALENTINE’S DAY

- Celebrated 14th February.

- A day for sweathearts .
- People can send candy, red roses or a ‘valentine’-greeting card, the
symbols of love, on it.
 ASH WEDNESDAY

- Ash Wednesday- the first day of Lent- is a Christian

holy day of penitence to cleanse the soul.
- Some christians may attend special church services
to recieve the ash in the sign of cross on their
foreheads.
- The ashes symboylize both death and repetance.
 GOOD FRIDAY
- It is the Friday before Easter when Christians commemorate the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
- On Good Friday bakers sell hot cross buns, which are toasted and
eaten with butter.
 EASTER
- It is celebrated in Christian countries to celebrate the resurrecyion of
Jesus Christ.
- British giving each other Easter eggs - are usually hollow and cotain
sweets, and usually wrapped in silver papper and bows- symbolize new
life which is related to Jesus coming back from the dead.
- Easter is a “movable feast”; however, it is always held on a Sunday
between March 22 and April 25.
 HALLOWEEN

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 APRIL FOOL’S DAY
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 MAY DAY

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 GUY FAWKES NIGHT
( Bonfire night)
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2. FAMILIES SEPICAL OCCASION
 WEDDINGS
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 BIRTHDAY

- Ash Wednesday- the first day of Lent- is a Christian

holy day of penitence to cleanse the soul.
- Some christians may attend special church services
to recieve the ash in the sign of cross on their
foreheads.
- The ashes symboylize both death and repetance.
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