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    CHAPTER 9

    HOLIDAY &
    SPECIAL OCCASIONS
    QUESTIONS
    1/ How do British people celebrate the traditional seaside
    holidays?
    2/ What are package holidays?
    3/ What are the popular types of modern holidays?
    4/ What do people do to celebrate Christmas?
    5/ Twelfth Night: What should people do and believe about
    Twelfth Night? How is Twelfth Night celebrated?
    6/ Who was Guy Fawkes and why is Guy Fawkes Day an
    unforgettable event in British history? How do children
    celebrate this day?
    1. TRADITIONAL SEASIDE HOLIDAYS
     Families spend a week or two every year at one of the seaside
    resort towns.
     They may stay in hotels or at boarding houses.
     The food is cheap and conventional with an emphasis on fish and
    chips.
     For daytime entertainment in sunny weather, the children make
    sandcastles, buy ice- creams and sometimes go for donkey rides.
    Older adults often sit in their deck chairs and occasionally go for a
    paddle.
     For the evenings, and when it is raining, there are amusement
    arcades, bingo halls, dance halls, discos, theatres, bowling alleys,
    etc.
    2. MODERN HOLIDAYS

    Popular types of modern holidays


     Hiking in the country
     sleeping at youth hostels
     pot-holing: the exploration of underground caves
     “murder weekend”: living out the plot of detective story.
     'working' holidays: help to repair an ancient stone wall or
    take part in an archaeological dig.
     “fruit picking”: people from the east end of London go to
    Kent at the end of the summer to help with the hop harvest
    (hops are used for making beer)
    3. CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR AND TWELFTH NIGHT
     Christmas:
     Buy presents for members of families, for other relatives, especially
    children or for their close friends.
     Send Christmas cards to working associates and neighbours.
     Buy Christmas trees and decorate in a different way (in many cases,
    with coloured lights).
     Put up other decorations around the house with symbols of
    Christmas, such as bits of the holly and mistletoe plants, Christmas
    cards or a 'crib'(a model depicting the birth of Christ)
     In December, carols are sung in churches and schools, often at
    special concerts.
     On Christmas Day, they eat Christmas dinner and listen to the
    Queen's Christmas message.
    3. CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR AND TWELFTH NIGHT
     Twelfth Night:
     In Christianity, Twelfth Night is a holiday on January 5 that marks the 12th and
    final night of the Christmas season.
     Epiphany marks the end of the Christmas and New Year season for most
    people in the United Kingdom (UK).
     Some Christians attend special church services on January 6.
     People may hold Twelfth Night parties with a hot spicy punch called wassail or
    a Twelfth Night cake.
     People in the UK remove their Christmas decorations from their homes,
    schools and workplaces on or before Twelfth Night.
     Many people believe that it is bad luck to display Christmas decorations after
    January 6. Decorations in town centers and shopping malls may stay on
    display for longer. The lights in these decorations are not generally turned on
    after January 6.
    4. OTHER NOTABLE ANNUAL OCCASIONS
    Guy Fawkes Day
    Who was Guy Fawkes?
     At the beginning of the 17th century, a group of Catholics planned to

    blow up the Houses of Parliament while King James I was in there.


    Before they could achieve this, one of them, Guy Fawkes, was
    caught in the cellars under Parliament with the gunpowder. He and
    his fellow-conspirators were all killed.
    Why is Guy Fawkes Day an unforgettable event in British history?
     At the time, the failure of the gunpowder plot was celebrated as a

    victory for British Protestantism over rebel Catholicism. However, it


    has now lost its religious and patriotic connotations.
    4. OTHER NOTABLE ANNUAL OCCASIONS
    Guy Fawkes Day
    How do children celebrate this day?
     make a 'guy' out of old clothes stuffed with newspaper several

    weeks beforehand,
     place this somewhere on the street and ask passers-by for 'a penny

    for the guy‘.


     On Guy Fawkes' Night, there are 'bonfire parties' throughout the

    country, at which the “guy” is burnt.


     Some people cook food in the embers of the bonfire, especially

    with chestnuts or potatoes; and set off many fireworks.


    GUY FAWKES DAY

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