THE MINISTRY OF WATER AND AGRICULTURE TASHKENT IRRIGATION AND MELLIORATION INSTITUTE OF BUKHARA BRANCH

DONE BY: SHIRINOVA NILUFAR AMERICAN HOLIDAYS

Christmas Christmas (December,25) It is a religious holiday. At Christmas people decorate their houses and put Christmas trees, have Christmas dinner and exchange presents

Christmas

Christmas   to decorate a Christmas tree   to decorate a house

Christmas  to hang stockings  to exchange presents  to send greetings card

New Year New Year (December,31) It is an official holiday in the USA. People have parties on this day, light fireworks.

New Year  to have a party  to light fireworks

Easter Easter (in spring) It is a religious holiday. On Easter people cook traditional food, colour eggs. Parents give their children chocolate bunnies.

Easter

Independence Day Independence Day (July,4) It is an American holiday. On the Fourth of July Americans have picnics, raise the flag, light fireworks in the evening. Different parades and concerts are hold on this day.

Independence Day  to watch parades  to have picnics  to raise a flag

Halloween (October,31) It is a popular holiday in the USA and Britain. Children always have fun at Halloween. They dress up as ghosts and witches. They go from house to house and say “Trick or Treat”, and grown ups dive them money or sweets.

Halloween

Halloween  to wear costumes  to go from house to house  to have fun

Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Day (the fourth Thursday of November) A national American holiday. A family gathers together to have a traditional dinner. Thanksgiving Day Parade is hold on this day.

Thanksgiving Day  to cook traditional food  to gather together

MEMORIAL DAY This holiday, on the fourth Monday of every May, is a day on which Americans honor the dead. Originally a day on which flags and flowers were placed on graves of soldiers who died in the American Civil War, it has become a day on which the dead of all wars and all other dead are remembered the same way.

Precursors to the American Mother's Day Precedents for the currently observed "Mother's Day" include:  "Mothering Sunday" in the UK and Ireland is on the fourth Sunday of Lent. It was originally a time when Catholics were supposed to travel to attend Mass in their "Mother Church" (the regional cathedral) rather than in their local parish. By the Reformation, it had changed into an occasion for children to visit parents. An 1854 source mentions a couplet: "On 'Mothering Sunday,' above all other/Every child should dine with its mother."