Talking about Christmas

Christmas Vocabulary:

Christmas Tree	Bulbs	Ornaments
Presents	Christmas Wreath	Chimney
Fireplace	Christmas Stockings	Eggnog
Ginger Bread Man	Ginger Bread House	Christmas Lights
Christmas Cookies	Candy Cane	Sitting on Santa’s Lap
Writing a Letter to Santa	Coal	Reindeer
Sleigh	Mistletoe	Carolers
Christmas Eve	Christmas Day

1. On _________________________ we will celebrate Christmas Eve.
2. Many people hang Christmas Wreath on their front doors.
3. Santa comes down the sleigh and leaves coal for the kids that have been naughty.
4. We decorate the Christmas tree with ornaments, bulbs and lights.
5. Candy cane is a red and white, mint flavored candy.
6. If you are under mistletoe you have to kiss the person you are with.
7. Carolers are people that come to the door and sing Christmas songs.
8. Santa flies in the sky in his ________________ that is pulled by _____________________.

We give presents for family and friends.

Christmas Eve is celebrated  on December 24th.

Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25th.

Questions you can ask others about their Christmas:

• What's your favourite day?
• What happens on the day?
• Where do you go? What do you do?
• Do you eat special food?
• Do you wear special clothes?
• Do you give presents?
• Do you decorate your house?
• What did you do on Christmas Day?
• What did you do on Christmas Eve?
• What did you get for Christmas?
• Did Santa come to your house?

These are some sentence starters to help you talk about holidays.


On Christmas Eve, I ______________________.
On Christmas Day, I ______________________.
I went to ___________________ on Christmas Eve.
I went to ___________________ on Christmas Day.
My _________ cooked ________ on Christmas.
In my country, we _________________________ on Christmas.
I got _____________ for Christmas.
I gave my mother  ______________________ for Christmas.
Every Christmas, we ________________________.
Every year at Christmas time, I __________________________________.
We open gifts on __________________________.

 
Example Sentences:
I went to my uncle’s house on Christmas Eve.
My friends came to my house on Christmas Day.
Every year, we decorate a Christmas tree.
We always go to a movie on Christmas Day.
My family cooked beef for Christmas.
I baked cookies for my Grandmother on Christmas.
I got a puppy from my boyfriend for Christmas.
I gave my father a book for Christmas.
We go to Church every Christmas at 10pm.
In my country, we have fireworks on Christmas Eve.
In my country, we do not exchange gifts on Christmas.
In my county, we party until 5am on Christmas and New Years.
Children write a letter to Santa telling himm what presents they want and if they have been good boys/girls the past year because if they have been naughty Santa gives them coal.

 My favourite holiday is New Year. On this day Santa Clause comes in and gives me some presents. I go to the town's biggest square where we have our New Year Tree, and have some fun with my parents. I never go carol singing. I don't send any cards.
I usually eat some cake. On this day I wear a beautiful dress. I sometimes give presents to my parents. I decorate my New Year tree with baubles, tinsel and lights.

My favorite day is the three Kings day (6th January). Children get presents at this day. It is very funny!!!!!

December 25th is Christmas Day. It's a holiday for most people, and there are lots of customs and traditions, and children get lots of presents!

 

Christmas Eve refers to the night before Christmas. Eve refers to evening, and Christmas Eve is usually a time you get together with your family. Sometimes families have a big dinner. Sometimes you get together with friends, but for children Christmas Eve is when Santa comes, so it is very important for children to put cookies and milk out for Santa so when he comes and delivers presents, he has something to eat. 

One of the more popular cookies of Christmas is the gingerbread cookie with a shape of a person decorated with frosting and candy. They have a very unique taste and we usually only eat gingerbread cookies at Christmas. 

Having Christmas lights is really popular. The tradition is to decorate the house with lights. We often put lots of colorful Christmas lights on the outside of our house, and some people do different colors. Some people just do white lights, but it's really popular in America. Some people actually leave the lights on until February. We also decorate our house with a Christmas tree with christmas tree balls on.

On Christmas morning some people go to church. They go to Christmas Service. For Catholics it's called Christmas Mass and they go and they celebrate the birth of Jesus, which is the reason why we have Christmas, basically, the reason for the holiday.

Another morning tradition usually is to open gifts. Usually, the children run down and they check the gifts under the tree, but to see what they have for Christmas they have to wait for their parents. 

Another tradition for Christmas is the nativity scene that people have in their house to celebtrate Christmas. The nativity scene is the scene that has the story of Christmas so it would be basically a 'Joseph' and a 'Mary' and then 'The Baby Jesus' and then sometimes 'The Three Wise Men'.