Презентация по английскому языку на тему "Новый год в Уэльсе"

Christmas and New Year in Wales

Christmas in Wales

Christmas in the country of the ancient Celts is celebrated in accordance with British traditions. As in Scotland and England, most Welsh people attach special importance to the long Christmas, not New Year holidays, rich in all kinds of festive events, fairs, concerts. Christmas is accompanied by the performance of rituals known since time immemorial.

Christmas houses in Wales

• A Welsh house must be elegantly decorated with holly twigs and candles

Choral singing

• Choral singing is considered a favorite type of folk art in Wales, the Welsh skillfully perform songs in various styles. You can demonstrate your skills at special festivals - eisteddfods , where after listening to groups from all over the country, the best are chosen.

New Year in Wales

• Everyone who has seen Wales and how the New Year is celebrated there will forever love this amazing land.

The ritual of "letting in" the new year into your home

• On the night of December 31 to January 1, the owner opens the back door of the house so that all the bad things that have been in the family for the last 365 days go out of it. After that, love, health, luck and well-being are launched through the open front entrance to the house. The tradition came to these lands many centuries ago from England and has successfully taken root.

Traditional Welsh dishes

• Welsh people believe that the richness and variety of dishes on the table determines how rich and wealthy the next year will be, so women are sophisticated in culinary skills, preparing traditional Welsh delicacies: tortillas, apples baked in dough and pudding.

• It is customary to celebrate the New Year in the family circle, after which people crowd out into the street and congratulate each other. On this night, everyone goes to visit acquaintances, friends, neighbors and relatives, give and accept souvenirs, goodies.

Tradition with a coal

• According to tradition, when a person enters the house, he must silently bring coal with him and throw it into the melted fireplace. After that, the guest is invited to the table and treated

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