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Christmas is a time for Families, Fun, and Festivities! A time for Santa, stars, and singing carolers, gifts. I want to tell about this celebrate.

CHRISTMAS IN BRITAN

Christmas Day , December 25,is the most popular holiday in Great Britan. It is a family holiday. Traditionally all relatives and friends give each other presents. People get prepared for this holiday very carefully. They decorate their houses in the traditional way, that is the Christmas trees are set up in houses, in the streets and churches. The Christmas trees are always decorated with fairy lights, angels, small toys, packets with nuts, candies and special biscuits. Presents are put around the tree.

Usually top Christmas tree decorate with star. This star represent the star that appeared over the stable in which Christ was born.

Besides the Christmas tree, holly and mistletoe are used to decorate the house.

Branches of holly are put up behind pictures and mistletoe is hung over doors. The young people have a chance to kiss the girls under it. It is said that the girl who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not get married that year.

On the eve of the Christmas children hang their stockings so that Santa Claus could put presents into them : oranges, sweets, nuts. If the child didn't behave properly Santa Clause can put there a piece of coal as punishment.

Santa Claus got his name from a man known as St.Nickolas who lived in Asia in the fourth century. He gave his wealth to the poor and to children.

Carol singing is an essential part of Christmas. Carols may be traditional or by known composers they can express different feelings. Usually children come around in the evening to the doors and start singing carols and the people living in these houses give children candies, nuts, pies and so on, to thank them for carol singing.

A typical Christmas lunch includes turkey with cranberry sauce and pudding. Usually a coin or two are hidden inside the pudding and part of the fun is to see who finds it.

After the lunch they go to listen to the Christmas speech of the Queen, shown on TV.

Christmas is a merry family holiday for all the people of Great Britain.

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Songs and Carols

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year!
We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year!

Good tidings to you, wherever you are;
Good tidings for Christmas, And a Happy New Year!

We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year!

(Old English Carol )