Презентация по английскому языку для учащихся 10 класса на тему "American holidays"

American Holidays

The New Year is a time of friends and family, and parties and fun. A time of fireworks, a time for resolutions, realizations, and a brand new year.

Each year huge crowds of people celebrate
New Year’s Eve in New York City’s Times Square.

February 14th is Valentine’s Day
a worldwide celebration of love and romance, marked by giving red roses and chocolate hearts or by sending valentines.

It is a traditional feast holiday of praise and thanksgiving for missionaries in Ireland.
Saint Patrick was born to Scottish parents in Roman Britain in approximately 385 CE. As a teenager, he was captured by Druid raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland - then a pagan land ruled by the Druids.
In 433, Patrick is said to have returned to Ireland, this time sent by Pope Celestine, to teach gospel to the Irish people.

Saint Patrick's Day

Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in coloured Easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.

Easter is the time of springtime festivals, a time of new suits, new dresses and patent leather shoes. A time for Christians to celebrate the life, death and resurrection of Christ. And a time of chocolate bunnies and coloured eggs!

Mother's Day is a time of commemoration and celebration for Mom. It is a time of breakfast in bed, family gatherings, and crayon scribbled "I Love You's.« During the 17th century, those living on the British isles initiated a religious celebration of motherhood, called Mothering Sunday, which was held on the forth Sunday during the Lenten season.

When is Mother's Day?
Mother’s Day is celebrated by Americans on the second Sunday in May. Mothering Sunday in the UK is celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent.

Independence Day
is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776,
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years.

Halloween is celebrated annually on October 31

Trick or treat, Smell my feet Give me something good to eat !!!

Thanksgiving Day

Of all the Thanksgiving symbols the Turkey has become the most well known.

The first Thanksgiving took place in December 1621, when the Pilgrims held a three-day feast in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts to celebrate their bountiful harvest.

Since then it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.

Christmas is celebrated annually on December 25.Christmas Eve on the 24th

Christmas Traditions:
The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Stockings
The Christmas Cards

There are as many Christmas traditions as there are families that celebrate this festive Christian winter holiday.

Christmas

Match the holidays with their symbols

Answer the questions:

When do Americans celebrate Christmas?
What holiday do people celebrate on the 14th of February?
What holiday is Irish in America?
What holiday is celebrated on the second Sunday in May?
When do people paint eggs?
Why is Independence Day celebrated
on July 4?
7) What holiday is one of the best holidays for children? Why?

Thank you!