UNIT 6 HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS

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• Nguyen Thi Quyet

• Tra My

• To Thi Thu Thuy

• Nguyen Thi My Tien

UNIT 6: HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS

UNIT 6 HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL

OCCASIONS

1/ Traditional seaside holidays

Similarities:

• Organized in the larger towns and cities

• Most of seaside holidays are organized in the

summer

• The traditional seaside holidays soon became normal for families to spend a week or two every year at one

of the seaside resort towns

• They have some hotels where richer people stay, but most families stay at boarding houses.(nhà trọ)

• On the beach, the children make sandcastles and buy ice-creams, so on

- The British upper class (các tầng

lớp thượng lưu) started the fashion

for seaside holidays in the late

18th

- The food in local restaurants is

cheap and conventional (thông

thường) with emphasis ( chú trọng )

on fish and chips (khoai tay chien )

- Older adults often do not bother

to go swimming.

- The Vietnamese upper class started the fashion for seaside holidays in the late 19th

-The food in local restaurants

is cheap and conventional with emphasis on seafood

- Older adults like swimming

Adults swim in the wooden huts ( túp lều

bằng gỗ) on or near the beach, known as

“beach cabins”, “beach huts” or “bathing

huts”.

- Adults swim on the beach

- For the evening, when it is raining, there

are amusement arcades (vườn giải trí),

bingo halls (hội trường bingo ), dance halls

(vũ trường), discos (sàn nhảy ), theatres;

bowling alleys (hẻm bowling)

- For the evening, when it is raining, people go to dance halls, theatres; walking around the street, go to the club.…

- The unique British architectural structure

is a platform extending out into the sea

(Cấu trúc độc đáo kiến trúc Anh là một nền tảng

mở rộng ra biển) The large resorts have

decorations, which light up at night The

“Blackpoll illuminations" for example, are

famous

- Today, VN attract most of people to travel in some places such as: Ha Long Bay, Do Son beach, Hoi An beach, Nha Trang beach, Phu Quoc island,

Britain Vietnam Blackpoll illuminations Ha Long Bay

Nha Trang beach

2 Modern holidays:

* Similarities:

Now, countries have a developing tourism (ngành du lịch) with a lot of attractive destinations (điểm hấp dẫn) for tourist.

- Most foreign holidays are packages(gói) holidays, in which transport and accommodation(chỗ ở) are booked(đặt) and paid for through a

travel agent(đại lý du lịch)

- The number of tourists takes holidays abroad more and more increasing.

- Modern holidays are often booked for a long time in advance

- The traditional types of holiday have become less popular.

* Differences:

- An increasing number of

people now go on working

holidays

- People like to take part in

an archaeological dig (đào

khảo cổ học) their holidays

- The greatest cause of the

decline(sự suy giảm ) of the

traditional holiday is foreign

tourism

- People spend their holidays for relax for a long time

- On holiday weekend, they come from famous places such as Sa Pa, Ha Long Bay…

-The greatest cause of the decline of the traditional holiday is environment pollution

Britain Vietnam

- The essential types of

modern holiday take features

about adventure and

discovery(cuộc phiêu lưu và

khám phá)

- Kind of traditional holiday are

relaxing holiday and foreign

holiday.

- Many types of holidays such

as “ hiking (đi bộ đường dài) in

the country and sleeping at

youth hostels(kí túc sv)”, “

murder(sát nhân) weekend”,…

- British travels for adventure

or discovery.

- There are features about relaxation, finding culture, history, eco-tourism

(du lịch sinh thái) in modern holiday

- Kind of traditional holiday are relaxing holiday

- Many types of holidays such as “ Vietnam culture and beach holiday”, “

diving(lặn) and mountain biking in Vietnam”, “ family holiday”,…

- Vietnamese travel for relaxation

3 Christmas and New Year

Similarities:

* Christmas:

- Christmas is placed in the church on 25/12

- Most people usually prepare beforehand several weeks They have a lot

of things to do, for example: they will buy food, drinks and

decorations(the Christmas tree with lights, various colored decorations) They prepare presents and put under the Christmas tree

- People organize a lot of activities: sending the gifts, cards, greetings, going to the church to pray, listening to the songs about Christmas

- Other activities on Christmas Day may include the eating of Christmas dinner

- Most households with children tell them that Father Christmas (Santa Claus) comes down the chimney (ống khói) on the night of Chirstmas Eve and Father Christmas gives children the gifts in the socks đôi tất

> New year:

- This is a traditional festival to welcome to New Year on 1/1 This is

popular festival on over the world On this occasion, people have days off (ngày nghỉ) depend on every country

Christmas

- The Christmas starts on 25th

December

-This is traditional and important

festival in Britain, all the people

welcome to Christmas, they clean

and decorate the house to

welcome to Christmas

- Many people go to the

traditional celebration in

Trafalgar Square ( where there is

an enormous Christmas tree

which is annual gift from the

people of Norway)

Christmas

-The Christmas is held in the evening on 24th December and it last to 25th December

- Christmas is popular festival in Vietnam, especially Catholics

People who is Catholics organize festival.

- Many people go to the churches

to pray and look at Zeshu was born

- On Christmas Eve, carols (bài

hát GS) are often sung by

groups of singers walking from

house to house, and children

hang(treo) a stocking at the foot

of their bed for Father

Christmas (Santa Claus) to fill

- Christmas is the time for

families

New Year

- New Year is called

“Hogmanay” It occurs in the

days in the early January

- Carols are sung in the church Hanging a stocking just exists

in a minor part of family

- Christmas is the time for friends

New Year

- TET or Lunar New Year is other name of New Year

- Tet holiday is celebrated on the first day of the lunar

January In fact celebration starts properly on 30th of lunar December which is New Year’s Eve.

-New Year is the time for

friends

-The song in New Year is

Happy New Year

-Everyone eagerly welcome the

New Year with prays

happiness, fun and good luck

Eve is the happiest night,

people play in public for the

moment waiting for the

countdown(đếm ngược) The

balloon was dropping(thả) in

the first minute started the New

Year, fireworks are shot up

(bắn) bright, all people toast

(nâng cốc chúc) each other in

fun

- New Year is the time for families, relatives and friends -The song in New Year is Auld Lang Syne

- It is a time for families to clean and decorate their home and make special food, buy new clothes, flowers…

- Family members who live far try to be together at Tet They have a reunion meal.(một bữa

ăn sum họp)

- People often drinking a large

amount of alcohol as they do so -In New Year people eat traditional Chưng cakes

-People often giving red envelopes to wish each other good luck

- There are a lot of folk (dân gian) games and traditional festivals

- They visit the graves of their ancestors.(ngôi mộ của tổ tiên)

4 OTHER NOTABLE ANNUAL OCCASIONS:

Similarities:

 Holidays and Occasions are the important parts of

cultural life of people both Britain and Vietnam This is really a meaningful time for people to relax after a hard- working time and enjoy their country’s culture and

customs

 Besides traditional and modern holidays, it has lots of other notable annual occasions

 There are similar occasions such as: Mother’s Day, April Fools’ Day, Halloween.

 The Valentine’s Day is an occasion for the lovers

 The birthday party is most important for children and adults.

Halloween is a holiday annually

celebrated on October 31 Some people

hold Halloween parties on or around

this date, where the hosts and guests

often dress up as skeletons (xương),

ghosts or other scary figures Common

symbols of Halloween include:

Pumpkins, bats and spiders.

Halloween is a holiday annually

celebrated on October 31 People organize activities play in the makeup However it is not as common as in England which is mainly concentrated

in the city.

Shrove Tuesday: Both meat and eggs

was forbidden throughout the six week

Traditionally viewed as a day of

repentance sự ăn năn.

• March 10th lunar month is the

anniversary of HungVuong.

• April 30 is the southern liberation and

unification.

• July 27th is the day to commemorate

martyrs, war invalids, people usually go

to the cemetery to offer incense.

Britain Vietnam

• Remembrance Sunday: This is a

famous occasion that is very difficult to

ignore.

Celebrates as a famous event in British

history – the gunpowder plot âm mưu

thuốc súng

This day commemorated the dead of

both World Wars and more recent

conflicts ( xung đột ) On and before this

day, money is collected in the street on

behalf of charities(thay mặt các tổ chức

từ thiện) for ex-service-men and woman

• September 2 National Day of Vietnam

is on the birth-day the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

• Birthday: This is a different day for

everybody It most important for

children They will be received presents

from parents, relatives, friends They

often have a party with Birthday cake

and candles on their birthdays.

Birthday: In the past, Vietnam’s people

do not care too much about their birthday, however, this day now is gradually become an important day for each people They also have a party with Birthday cake and candles on their

birthdays.

Britain Vietnam

Easter Monday

In some areas "egg rolling" is still

popular today People take the eggs

to the top of a hill and roll (đỉnh

của một ngọn đồi và cuộn) them

down The first egg to get to the foot

of that hill is the winner.