The United Kingdom celebrates Christmas with several traditions:
- Sending Christmas cards and watching nativity plays on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Families come together and sing carols.
- Children write letters to Santa and make snowmen. Advent calendars contain chocolates in the days leading up to Christmas.
- On Christmas Eve, children hang stockings by the fireplace for Father Christmas to fill with gifts. They wake early on Christmas Day to open presents under the decorated tree.
2. CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
Every year on 25th December, we celebrate
the birthday of Jesus Christ.
How do people in the United Kingdom
celebrate Christmas?
They send Christmas cards.
They watch nativity plays.
The Family comes together.
3. CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
People sing special songs called Christmas
carols:
Silent Night
Jingle Bells
White Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Children write their Santa List and they create
snowmen in their gardens.
5. CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
What do people say when it’s Christmas
time?
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY
NEW YEAR!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
SEASON’S GREETINGS!
6. ADVENT
Advent is the 25 days before Christmas
People decorate their homes with
ornaments and mistletoe!
Kissing under the mistletoe is a tradition!!
7. ADVENT
Some people
buy or make Advent
Calendars
These calendars have
chocolates for the
children hidden
behind each door!!!
8. CHRISTMAS EVE
It is the day before Christmas
Day.
It is the night when Father
Christmas comes! Children
hang up stockings above the
fireplace.
Father Christmas and his elves
make all the toys in his
workshop in the North Pole.
Then he flies around the world
in a sleigh pulled by eight
reindeer.
10. CHRISTMAS DAY
This is the favourite day for
children.
They wake up very early in the
morning to open the presents!
Children find their presents
under the Christmas tree.
How do the British decorate
their Christmas trees?
11. CHRISTMAS DAY
People decorate their
Christmas Trees with:
Bells
Candles
Lights
Tinsels
Baubles
Ornaments
Candy canes
A star or an angel at the
very top of the tree
18. CHRISTMAS EVE
Rudolph is the red-nosed
reindeer!
Children leave cookies, hot
chocolate or milk for Santa
and carrots for the reindeer!
Santa goes down the chimney
to leave the presents or the
coal!
19. CHRISTMAS DAY
Both parents and children unwrap the
presents.
Later the whole family has a Christmas
dinner.
What is a traditional Christmas dinner?
Roast
turkey
Roast potatoes
Brussels Sprouts
20. The Three Kings
British people don’t
celebrate the Reyes
Magos the way we do, but
they are considered part of
the whole Christian
tradition.
In Cataluña do you
celebrate the three kings?