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Celebrate the Holidays in a Different Language! : It’s Christmas Time!

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Montag Dienstag Mittwoch Donnerstag Freitag Samstag Sonntag Lundi Mardi Mercredi Jeudi Vendredi Samedi Dimanche 2 3 4 5 6 7 Santa’s List Day Trafalgar Square Nikolaustag 2. lighting Day Festa di ceremony San’ Nicolo Sant’Ambrogio First Day of Fête des La Saint-Nicolas St.Ambrose Day Lumières 8 9 10-- 11 12 13 14 L’Immacolata Santa Lucia 3. Advent Concezione Feast of Feast of the Immaculate Conception Fête de l’Immaculée Conception Last Day of Fête des Lumières 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 First day of Go Carolling Day 4. Advent Winter Solstice

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Christmas Day Día de los Santos Last Day of Hannukkah 2. Weihnachtstag Inocentes Divino Nino 1. Weihnachtstag Stefanstag Réveillon Natale First day of Vigilia di Natale Noël Heiligabend Navidad 29 30 31 New Year’s Eve Hogmanay Capodanno Saint Sylvestre Nochevieja

www.rosettastone.co.uk/schools How Countries Celebrate Christmas

Did you know in the UK, people eat mince pies during the season? Mince pies are a small fruit-based sweet pie traditionally served during the Christmas season.

A traditional Christmas item in the UK is called the . It consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. It is pulled by two people, often with arms crossed. It usually contains a trinket.

French children put their shoes in front of the fireplace, hoping that Père Noël will fill them with gifts.

In the Provence region of France, people eat thirteen desserts for Christmas, representing Christ and his 12 apostles.

In some parts of , children write to the /Christkindl (The Christ Child) asking for presents.

Germans exchange presents with their families on Christmas Eve.

www.rosettastone.co.uk/schools Christmas: Topics to Raise in Class

Primary school

What is your favourite Christmas What is your favourite What is your favourite What do you want for present and why? Christmas tradition? Christmas food? Christmas this year?

What do you like What do you do on about Winter? Christmas day? What colour does When do you decorate Santa wear? the Christmas tree?

Secondary school

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