Lesson 2:
British customs
- Habits can be 'personal' or 'national'. 'National' habits are called customs. Do you know any holiday customs that we have? (e.g. at Christmas, at Easter, on National Holidays)? Tell the class.
Here is some information about customs on two holidays in the UK. Listen, read and find out: "When do children open their Christmas presents in Great Britain?"
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Christmas is Britain's most popular holiday.
At Christmas, people decorate the Christmas tree 
and their houses, they often send cards 
to each other and children sing carols in the street 
. At home, children have got a stocking 
and Father Christmas (Santa Claus) 
puts presents in it. They always open their presents
on Christmas Day. In the evening the family has
Christmas dinner. They eat roast turkey 
or
beef with fried potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
For dessert, they often have sweet mince pies
or Christmas pudding 
.
At Christmas dinner, they put Christmas crackers 
on each plate. In the crackers, there is
usually a party hat, a riddle and a toy.
Halloween is on 31 October and
is a time of pumpkins, candies,
ghosts 
and witches
and people decorate their houses
with 'Jack-o-Lanterns' 
. On
Halloween, children dress up in
fancy costumes and they go 'Trick
or Treat' from door to door. People
give them goodies like candies,
caramel apples or popcorn balls.
Sometimes there are spooky parties and children often play 'ducking for apples' and 'pin-the-tail- on-the-donkey'.
You've got 1 minute to find the secret words (two words). It's an important
English Holiday on November 5th. Write
the words..................................................Then, count the letters and write
down your score: ...................
