1. New Year Christmas

2. Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is ride

3. Christmas Eve ing 24th of December On this day everybody is busy
and in a hurry.
Offices close
at 1 o’clock but
the shops stay
open late.
On Christmas Eve
children hang their
Christmas stockings
on their beds.
They wait for Santa
Claus and other
miracles

4. Christmas
History

5. The holiday is connected
with a wonderful birth of
Jesus Christ as it is described
in the Holy Bible.
On that day, about 2000
years ago, Jesus Christ
was born in Bethlehem.

6. When Jesus was born
wise men from the East
came to worship him.
They gave the child
presents: gold,
frankincense ( ладан)
and myrrh(мирра).
That’s why people
nowadays try to please
their friends and relatives
giving them Christmas
presents
When Jesus was born
wise men from the East
came to worship him.
They gave the child
presents: gold,
frankincense ( ладан)
and myrrh(мирра).
That’s why people
nowadays try to please
their friends and relatives
giving them Christmas
presents

7. X- mas Christmas gets its name from “Christ” meaning “Messiah”
(спаситель, избавитель)
and “Mass”, meaning
“religious festival”

8. Christmas
traditions

9. Christmas Tree
Christmas tree

10. Christmas tree The tradition of Christmas Tree started in 16th century
in Germany.
On a brisk, clear Christmas
Eve, Martin Luther, a German
theologian, was walking home
under a bright, starry sky,
which was so beautiful that
he wanted to recreate its
beauty for his children.
His idea was to decorate a large
evergreen tree with glowing
candles.

11. Every year the people
of Norway give the city of
London a present.
It is a big Christmas tree
and it stands in Trafalgar
Square.
It was Peter the Great
who introduced that
tradition in Russia.

12. Many families decorate
their houses
with a Christmas tree.

13. Evergreen plants

14. Mistletoe (омела) is an evergreen
plant with small leaves
and small white berries.
on Christmas Eve is a bunch
of mistletoe in every house.
Under this bunch boys
kiss girls
Holly (остролист) is an evergreen plant
with sharp-pointed leaves and red berries.
People put holly on Christmas pudding
Poinsettia (пуансетия) this plant
Begins to blossom before Christmas.
It is usually called a “Christmas star”

15. Christmas cards

16. Before Christmas
people write and send cards
to their friends and relatives.
In England almost every
family receives more
than 60 Christmas cards.

17. Santa Claus

18. Santa Claus gets his
origin from St. Nicholas,
a generous man from
4th century A.D. who
helped the children and
the poor, often throwing
gifts through children’s
windows to make
them happy.

19. Brought to America by Dutch
Immigrants in 1600s
as “sinter Klaas” Americans
Soon began calling him
“Santa Claus”.
He is described as fat,
jolly, red-suited and
white-beard man
from the North Pole

20. Christmas stocking

21. In the evening of the 24th
of December children hang
their Christmas stockings
on their beds or put them
under the Christmas tree.
Father Christmas (Santa Claus)
puts presents into them.
A Christmas stocking is not
a real stocking.
It is big and beautifully
decorated.

23. Christmas meals

24. Traditional Christmas meals are roast turkey and Christmas pudding.
Christmas pudding was first made many, many years ago. Now it is the highlight of Christmas dinner.
Children often put holly on the pudding. Traditionally a coin is placed into the pudding. It brings a good luck to a person who
finds it.

25. Christmas
decorations

26. Cracker-(хлопушка) If there are children in the family, they have often Christmas
crackers. When you pull a cracker it makes a bang and inside there is usually a Christmas hat, a small toy
and a piece of paper with a joke on it

27. Wreath

28. Christmas hats- are made of
coloured paper. Children and
grown-ups like to wear them on Christmas

29. Shining balls

30. Candles

31. Christmas bells

32. Christmas symbols
Test

33. Decorate the Tree

34. Many legends tell of his ________________
Saint Nickolas was a____________ who lived in Asia Minor in the 4th century. He was the patron ____________ of children.
Many legends tell of his ________________
One story tells how he gave a bag of gold
as a __________ to each of three poor
sisters so they could be married.
The _________ in Saint Nickolas as a giver
of gifts was developed from such legends.
Many countries in ______________ observe December,6, the date of his death, as a special holiday. On December,5,Saint Nickolas Eve many
European children fill their __________
with straw for Saint Nickolas’s __________
and leave the shoes by the _____________
They believe that after the horse eats the _________ Saint Nickolas will fill their shoes with ___________ and goodies.
The name Santa Claus comes from the
___________ Sinterklaas, which is Dutch for Saint Nickolas shoes generosity Europe fireplace belief
dowry straw saint bishop horse toys word

35. Tinsel on the Christmas ____________ is attributed to a ______________ whose husband died. She was left to bring up a large family of __________
herself. She was left to do everything working so hard and she was determined to make a happy _______
for them at Christmas. She prepared a Christmas Tree ______________ them on Christmas ____________
Unfortunately, _____________ visited the tree, and crawled from _________
to branch, making _________ all over it.
The Christ __________ saw the tree and knew she would be very upset to find this on Christmas ____________
He changed the spider’s ___________
to shining _____________
Tree silver children woman morning Day
time to surprise spiders branch webs Child

36. Old Russian cards

37. Make the puzzled picture

38. Congratulations!

39.
A – C – E – H – 73
I – L – M – 7 O – 66
R – S – T – Y - 10

40. M E R R Y
C H R I S T M A S
T O A L L

41. Boxing Day

42. Higher than a house,
Higher than the tree,
Oh, whatever can it be?

43. What kind of apple
isn’t an apple?

44. What man can’t live
inside the house?