You may be familiar with the most common Christmas traditions, but have you ever heard of these ones around the world? I'm sure the last one rings a bell with you... ;)
Thanksgiving
Day is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in November. It is
the harvest festival that dates back to 1621, the year after the
Pilgrims from England arrived in Massachusetts.
If you really love songs in general, why
don’t you try to learn English with them? Let’s have a look to a traditional
and iconic songs from the UK.
From lots of songs made by musicians ever,
I would put my attention on this one: “The drunken sailor”.
“The drunken sailor”, as you can see, is a
traditional song from the 19th century. The authorship and the origin are
unknown. This song is a “sea shanty”, a sailor’s song, that they sang while
they were fishing whales.
Enjoy with the interesting pronunciation
that the song has and try to guess the lyrics.
Take your boat, take a pint of stout in
your hand and sing this traditional song with other sailors. Let’s do it!
Christmas is only one month away! Have you already thought about giving someone the Christmas they've been dreaming of? John Lewis has! Department stores are always so altruistic...
It is a special day when Brits wear a red poppy in memory of all those
men and women who sacrificed their lives for their country and were
killed during war conflicts.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice, on 11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War One.
At that time the day was known as Armistice Day but was renamed Remembrance Day after the end of World War Two.
Today Remembrance Sunday washeld, the second Sunday in
November, the nearest to the 11th November. At 11am on each Remembrance
Sunday a two minute silence is observed at war memorials and other
public spaces across the UK.
A national ceremony took place in
London. The Queen placed a wreath at the Cenotaph. Special services
were also held at war memorials and churches all over Britain.
Thanksgiving is a holiday in
the USA and Canada
when people give thanks.
It is
celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November in the USA and on the
second Monday of October in Canada.
Nowadays the Thanksgiving
holiday is a four-day holiday over the weekend. Families and friends usually
eat a special meal together (usually with a turkey as the main
dish). This meal also usually includes mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, several casseroles,
and stuffing. The food eaten today for
Thanksgiving is very different from the food that was eaten at the First
Thanksgiving in 1621.
To learn more about the origin of Thanksgiving day…..let’s see thisvideo.
Let’s check what you have learned doing this Quiz!
