Презентация по английскому языку по теме "Мой любимый праздник"

The project "My favorite holiday" The project was executed: the schoolgirl 8 “V" class :Morshinina

My favorite holiday is New Year The new year always gives us hope for the best, gives a lot of gifts and pleasant emotions. In this period we can easily be heroes of a fairy tale. We all remember childhood, perceiving what is happening around the eyes of a child. Everyone wants to believe in Santa Claus and the snow maiden, who will come to visit us and that somewhere far away, in cold area's a beautiful snow Queen. Some will disagree with me, but in my heart it is. And the blame for everything the New year is a time of fulfillment of the most cherished desires. The main

The history of the New Year The New year carries the most vivid feelings and is associated with hope, love and support. This holiday, like most others, is rooted in antiquity. On this day, all are fun to be with and welcome the year so that the charm of new year's eve was memorable for a very long time. Only since 1700 Russian Tsar Peter I issued a decree to celebrate the New year according to the European tradition – 1 invited all Muscovites to decorate their homes with pine, spruce flowers. All had to greet relatives and friends on the holiday. At 12 am Peter I went to Red square with a torch in his hand and launched into the sky the first rocket. Began a salute in honor of the new year holiday. Three hundred years ago people believed that by decorating the Christmas tree, they do evil forces of good. About the evil Jan. Peter

The tradition of the New year And now a little about the traditions of celebrating this wonderful, winter holiday. Christmas winter holidays had a lot of rituals: people played games, sang songs and danced. The Magi foretold the future, and the girls wondered at her spouse. But, the main thing is all went to each other's homes. So, going into the house during a celebration at the table of our ancestors could see the pies in oil, dumplings, porridge with honey, mushrooms stuffed with goose and pudding. And after the meal the guests were definitely treated to a sweet drink suritsa. The tradition of decorating the Christmas tree went from pre-Christian times. In this ritual there is a deep ritual meaning: festive fir tree is a symbol of the World tree, the so-called Axis Mundi, connecting heaven and earth( at its branches, in craze, is inhabited by the spirits of ancestors). Therefore, decorating the tree with sweets, we give gifts to them. But that's just barely alive, growing in the ground. To cut down the tree was strictly forbidden, one could only cut the branches. What prevents us to make garland from dried fruit, bake cookies in the form of birds, animals, houses and hang them on the live Christmas tree in the woods, in the country or Park near the house? And when