Christmas Day

day opening their presents which are often _______ ________ the

Christmas tree decorated with ________, _________, ______ _______. They eat and drink together. The most important meal is Christmas Dinner. At the start of the meal, British people often pull a _________, which contains a small toy, a paper bat, and a joke.

piled around

tinsel

baubles

fairy lights

cracker

pile

tinsel

baubles

fairy lights

crackers

vegetables such as carrots and ___________. In Britain it is

followed by Christmas _________ - a sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy. Other traditional foods in Britain include Christmas cake – a cake containing a lot of dried fruit and usually having a ____________ ___ ______ (hard sugar) made to be eaten at Christmas, and _______ ____.

sprouts

pudding

covering

of icing

mince pies

sprouts

pudding

covering
of icing

Mince pies – pies with
raisins, almonds,
cinnamon and sugar

over the Christmas season (the time when people prepare for

and celebrate Christmas, from mid-December to the end of the year).

bake

cookies

and is also a public holiday. A lot of sports

take place on Boxing Day and many people now spend time watching sport on television. In the US many ________ hold special sales where thing can be bought cheaply, on the day after Christmas. Twelve days after Christmas is the time when people are supposed to take down their ____________ and remove their ____________ _____.

Boxing Day

stores

decorations

Christmas trees

store

Christmas tree

decorations