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    The document discusses several holidays and special occasions celebrated in Britain, including Christmas, Pancake Day, St. Valentine's Day, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter, Halloween, April Fool's Day, May Day, Guy Fawkes Night, weddings, and birthdays. It provides details on the traditions, symbols and religious significance for many of these holidays.

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    The document discusses several holidays and special occasions celebrated in Britain, including Christmas, Pancake Day, St. Valentine's Day, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter, Halloween, April Fool's Day, May Day, Guy Fawkes Night, weddings, and birthdays. It provides details on the traditions, symbols and religious significance for many of these holidays.

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    Trương Minh Bản

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    CHAPTER 5:
    HOLIDAYS AND
    SPECIAL OCCASIONS
    1. HOLLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
    - Britian has fewer pulic holidays than any other countries in Europe and fewer than North
    america.
    - Usually knows as ‘bank holidays’
    CHRISTMAS DAY
    - Celebrated 25th, December .
    - It is the most important festival for families.
    - It combines the Chiristant celebration of the birth of
    Christ with the traditional festivities of winter.
    - Activities during the holiday:
     Everyone put up a Christmas tree, a fir tree
    decorated with coloured lights, baubles, tinsel and
    bows, and put strings of lights across the streets
    and their home.
     The most important one is the giving of presents
    PANCAKE DAY

    - Also called Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent


    starts (Lent is a time of Christian fast which lasts for
    40 days before Easter).
    - Pancake Day is traditionally a day of celebration -
    the last day you can eat what you want until Easter.
    - People hold pancake races on that day.
    ST. VALENTINE’S DAY

    - Celebrated 14th February.


    - A day for sweathearts .
    - People can send candy, red roses or a ‘valentine’-greeting card, the
    symbols of love, on it.
    ASH WEDNESDAY

    - Ash Wednesday- the first day of Lent- is a Christian


    holy day of penitence to cleanse the soul.
    - Some christians may attend special church services
    to recieve the ash in the sign of cross on their
    foreheads.
    - The ashes symboylize both death and repetance.
    GOOD FRIDAY
    - It is the Friday before Easter when Christians commemorate the
    crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
    - On Good Friday bakers sell hot cross buns, which are toasted and
    eaten with butter.
    EASTER
    - It is celebrated in Christian countries to celebrate the resurrecyion of
    Jesus Christ.
    - British giving each other Easter eggs - are usually hollow and cotain
    sweets, and usually wrapped in silver papper and bows- symbolize new
    life which is related to Jesus coming back from the dead.
    - Easter is a “movable feast”; however, it is always held on a Sunday
    between March 22 and April 25.
    HALLOWEEN

    Thuyết trình ở đây


    APRIL FOOL’S DAY
    -
    MAY DAY

    Thuyết trình ở đây


    GUY FAWKES NIGHT
    ( Bonfire night)
    -
    2. FAMILIES SEPICAL OCCASION
    WEDDINGS
    -
    BIRTHDAY

    - Ash Wednesday- the first day of Lent- is a Christian


    holy day of penitence to cleanse the soul.
    - Some christians may attend special church services
    to recieve the ash in the sign of cross on their
    foreheads.
    - The ashes symboylize both death and repetance.
    THANKS FOR
    WATCHING

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