FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL DAYS 1

A good start to gaining some understanding of the lives of people living in a country is to look at their cherished customs and traditions. These illustrate not only what is important to the people living there, but also how they relax and have fun.

FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL

DAYS IN BRITISH

CULTURE

NEW YEAR’S DAY (JAN 1)

The beginning

of the new year

APRIL FOOL’S DAY (APRIL 1)

Thanking God for the harvest

Activities of harvest festival

Halloween is a annual celebration

on 31 October

Jack-o’-lanterns are traditionally

carried by guisers on All Hallows' Eve

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration

for children on

Halloween

Bonfire Night

 Guy Fawke’s Night (5 November)

People make models of Guy Fawke and

burn them

The following day after Christmas Day

Boxing day has nothing

to do with the

sport of

boxing

Alms boxes to collect money for the poor and opened the next day - Boxing

Day

The tradition of giving money still continues today

ChocolatesFlowers

-The end to the fighting of the First World War was signed

on Nov 11th 1918

- Remembrance Day is commemorated

annually in Britain on the Sunday nearest to Nov 11.

Remembrance Day

The red poppies represent the

poppies that grew

in the cornfields

of Flanders where many thousands

of soldiers lost their lives in the First World War

Crosses of wood with poppy flowers in London

* National Flowers

•The national flower of England is the rose

* The rose has been adopted as England’s

emblem since the time of the rose war between 2 houses of Lancaster and York

• The National Flower of Northem Ireland is the shamrock

• The National Flower of Scotland is the thistle

* - The national flower of Wales is usually considered to be the daffodil.

- The leek is also considered to be a traditional emblem of Wales, possibly because its colours, white over green

Easter is a festival celebrating the resurrection

of Jesus from the dead

Easter is a festival celebrating the resurrection

of Jesus from the dead

Easter Celebration

Easter Celebration

Stockings

in the fireplace on Christmas Eve

Christmas

dinner

At midnight everybody joins hands

and sings Auld Lang Syne

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