How to have a British Christmas

Before you watch

• Do you celebrate Christmas? Do you like it?
• What Christmas traditions do you know?

Vocabulary

• Brussels sprouts
• gravy
• trampled to death
• pantomine

Questions

• How do British people send their letters to Santa? Why?
• Who hang their stockings around the fireplace? Who hang them around the bed?
• What do British children leave for Santa?

Brandy and mince pies

Christmas crackers

Questions

• What’s a British Christmas dinner?
• What’s soaked in alcohol and set on fire?
• Who gives the royal Christmas message?
• What’s Boxing Day? When? What’s the origin?

British Christmas dinner

Brussels sprouts

Gravy

Watch telly

Christmas pudding

Boxing Day

Trampled to death

Questions

• What’s a pantomime? Who likes them?
• When should you take down the Christmas tree? Why?

Pantomime

After you watch...

• Did you know all of the traditions in the video? If not, which one didn’t you know?
• Do you want to try any of them?

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