Презентация "Праздники Великобритании"

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British celebrations : Christmas New Year St Valentine’s Day Day of Saint David St. Patrick’s Day Easter Walpurgis night Day of spring Halloween Guy Fawkes Night

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Christmas Day , December 25,is probably the most popular holiday in Great Britain. It is a family holiday. Traditionally all relatives and friends give each other presents. So before Christmas all the department stores and shops are crowded, everybody is choosing a present. In general, people get prepared for this holiday very carefully. They decorate their houses in the traditional way, that is the Christmas trees are set up in houses, in the streets and churches. The Christmas trees are always decorated with fairy lights, angels and small toys. In addition little packets with nuts, candies and special biscuits are hung on the tree. Presents are put around the tree and artificial ''frost'' is scattered over the branches. Christmas

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A ll British celebrate New Year`s Eve on the 31st of December. Most people see with friends and relatives. At midnight they sing New Year songs and wish a happy New Year. New Year

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St Valentine’s Day On the 14th of February there is St. Valentine’s Day. People send Valentine’s cards to someone they love. Usually they don’t sign them – you must guess who sent cards to you.

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Day of Saint David. March 1 Saint David - the patron of Wales. This holiday is very important for inhabitants of Wales and is celebrated as a patriotic and cultural festival of Wales. As the legend says, 30 years before David's birth the angel condescended and told Saint Patrick that the great sacred would be born in Wales Day of Saint David

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Brothers got up at a dawn and worked on fields to the decline. David forbade to use animals: brothers monks dragged a plow. Brothers ate vegetables and bread and drank milk or water. David drank only water, his nickname Aquaticus from here went. This day St. David's images with golubky on a shoulder - a symbol of the Holy Spirit everywhere are visible. Many Welshmen attach national symbols to their clothes- a narcissus or leek. In Cardiff, the capital of Wales festive actions take place, and on tables in each Welsh family there is a traditional leek soup – Cawl Cennin. Children come to school dressed in national suits this day. And teenagers usually arrange competitions of choral singing.

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St. Patrick's Day ( March 17 ) — the historical Irish holiday having the British roots. He is marked out in honor of the patron of Ireland — Saint Patrick. According to the legend, Saint Patrick expelled all snakes from the island and brought Christianity to Ireland. St. Patrick's Day

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By tradition on the St. Patrick's Day fancy-dress parades with wind bands are arranged. Many people consider that this tradition was introduced by Americans. This day everything around turns green — green beer, souvenirs, clothes. Today the St. Patrick's Day is a holiday of spring and pleasure which is celebrated not only in Ireland and Great Britain .

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In April or at the end of March English people celebrate Easter Day. On Easter Sunday children get chocolate eggs and rabbits. Easter

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Walpurgis night Walpurgis night (on April 30) is the main sabbath of witches, and also one of the major pagan holidays devoted to fertility. Symbol of this holiday is fire. Ancient Celts let out cattle on pastures after wintering in sheds this day. Obligatory was considered to banish animals between two rows of fires – on a belief that it relieved them from winter the hvory.

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Day of spring Day of spring (on May 25) I t is possible to call this day a festival of flowers . T he houses and the streets of England are decorated with garlands from spring flowers. In the morning fancy-dress processions with flowers and branches of blossoming trees are carried out. I n the afternoon and in the evening the holiday proceeds in the form of festivities.

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On the 31st of October it is Halowe’en. The symbol of this holiday is Jack- o`-lantern. People make it from a pumpkin. Children like Haloween parties, they put on witch’s and ghost’s dresses. They go “trick or treat”. Halloween

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Night of Guy Fox also known as Night of fires and Night of fireworks — annual celebration traditional for Great Britain (but not the state holiday) on the night of November 5. In Great Britain at night Guy Fox is lit by fireworks and fires on which Guy Fox's effigy is burned. Guy Fawkes Night

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This night, the fifth after the Halloween, the failure of Powder plot when the group of Catholic conspirators tried to blow up Parliament of Great Britain in London on the night of November 5, 1605 . Guy Fox tried to hide in a cellar of the Westminster palace a barrel with gunpowder. One of accomplices warned royal lord William Parker, the 4th baron Montigl, about being outlined explosion and told that he wouldn`t come to the palace building next day. The baron decided to save not only his life, but also royal lives. He warned the king, and Guy was arrested and brought to the Tower next day.

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Day of gifts Day of gifts (on December 26) The second day of Christmas in a church calendar is devoted to Saint Stephane. By tradition this day in churches boxes with donations were o pened and their contents were given to the poor. Earlier this day servants released home for festive dinner with a family. Inherently, the holiday is additional day off after Christmas.

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Thanks for attention