The document summarizes holidays and special occasions in Britain. It discusses traditional holidays like Christmas, New Year, and Easter. Christmas celebrations include decorating trees and homes, exchanging gifts, and having a traditional dinner of roast turkey with vegetables and pudding for dessert. New Year's Eve involves parties to celebrate the new year. Other annual events mentioned are Good Friday, Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day, St. Valentine's Day, and summer bank holidays in July and August when many British people take beach vacations.

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•Nguyễn Thị Thùy
•Vũ Thị Hồng
•Bùi Thúy Nga
HOLIDAY s
AND
SPECIAL OCCASIONS

2. Overview
Christmas and New Year
Other notable annual
occasions
Outline

3. Overview
Features of holidays in Britain
• “holiday” = “holy day” known as “bank holidays”
• Fewer public holidays than Europe and North America
• No semi-official holidays either
• In fact, about 40% of the population do not go away
anywhere for their holidays.

4. Traditional holidays
- A seaside holiday
- In July and August

5. Activities
Punch and Judy show Donkey rides along the beach

6. Food & drink: candy floss & a stick of rock sweet
candy floss
Rock sweet

7. Blackpool: is the biggest and most popular seaside resort in
England.

8. Blackpool is also famous for its illuminations,
which take place annually from September to
November.

9. Modern holidays
Most foreign holidays are package holiday
Holidays in abroad such as:
Europe: 80% of visits abroad

10. Spain: 13.8
million visits
France: 11.1
million visits

11. Overview
•Most holidays are taken in July and August
•Package holidays are the most popular type of holiday.
•Most working people have 4 weeks holiday per year
and take 2 weeks off in the Summer.

12. Overview
Christmas and New Year
Other notable annual
occasions
Outline

13. Christmas

14. Christmas in Britain
- December 25 - Jesus Christ's birth
- Time for many people to give and receive gifts
and prepare special festive meals.

15. Before Christmas
Decorating homes and gardens with:
Christmas trees

16. Small colored
fairy lights

17. Leaves and berries
Holly
Ivy
Laurel

18. Prince Albert

19. Carols by Candlelight

20. Listing request
to Santa Claus

21. Children believe
that Santa will come
and leave them
something.

22. The only thing that people ate on the day before
the feast was Frumenty

23. The traditional Christmas
dinner
-Roast
turkey
-Vegetables
- Sauces

24. Dessert with
pudding
cakes

25. The traditional
Christmas speech
of the British
Monarch.
After the meal

26. In the afternoon
People exchange visits with neighbors
other family members

28. New Year

29. New Year’s
Eve

30. Overview
Christmas and New Year
OTHER NOTABLE
ANNUAL OCCASIONS
Outline

31. Good Friday
•The Friday before Easter

32. •Commemorate the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ
•Eating hot cross buns

33. Easter
- Jesus Christ’s resurrection from death
- Giving each other chocolate eggs
- At that time, many people go away on
holiday.

34. Forty seven days before Easter
Shrove Tuesday ( Pancake Tuesday)
2 activities
Pancake tossing contest Pancake race

35. Halloween

36. •October 31
•Held parties where hosts and guests dress up as
skeletons, ghosts.

37. •Common symbols include pumpkins,
bats, spiders.

38. Guy Fawkes’ day ( Bonfire Night)
- 5th November
- Mark the failed attempt to blow up the House 4 of Parliament
by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirator

39. •Use money to buy fireworks

40. •They eat traditionally Guy Fawkes Night
Food: apple and potato

41. St Valentine’s Day and Gretna Green
•14th February
•People send cards, gifts, and text messages to somebody
they love
•Thousands of people travel to Gretna Green village

42. Gretna Green Village
•Marriage and weding ceremony
•Weding on St Valentine’s Day: book 3 months in
advance

43. Summary
Features of
holidays in
Britain
Christmas
in Britain
Some
other
occasions

44. Reference
http://www.monarch.co.uk/united-
kingdom/holidays.gclid=CLCcprKRq74CFZcjvQodLpkAW
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/summer-bank.holiday

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