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Christmas is in the Air!(Celebration of Christmas)
Culturological group Yuzhakova Angela,
Potrashkova Marina,Pyzhyanov Denis,
Zudikhin NikitaPupils of 6V class
School Nr.1Aramil
Aim: to learn peculiarities of Christmas celebration in Great Britain and RussiaTasks:1. To learn how people in Russia and Great Britain prepare
to celebrate Christmas. 2. To find out the main Christmas symbols and tell what they
mean.3. To find information about folk rites in Christmas and Holy
days in Russia and Great Britain.4. To find examples of folklore and make a theatrical
performance.5. To learn about charitable actions of the Trios church in
Aramil and find the names of sponsors.6. To take part in a charity action7. To make an interview among pupils.8. To make a presentation of your work in Power Point.9. To make a booklet in Publisher
Before Christmas in Great Britain
Christmas is one of the brightest Christian holidays in the year.
From the end of November people arrange Christmas Sales, buy presents.
People decorate houses, offices, streets, make competitions.
• All the family gathers together pupils and students have holidays, adult people have day offs. • Children wait for Santa-Claus, write letters to him, put stockings for presents on their beds or above the fire-place.• Religious people go to Christmas service. It starts in the midnight. The other people gather at Christmas table.
Christmas traditions of Great BritainChristmas mysteries – dramatic performances of Bible scenes about Christ’s born.
Balls-masquerades and pantomimes
Christmas services
Fairs and sales
New programs in theatres, concert-halls.
Orthodox Christmas
Calm quiet holiday
People celebrate it in families
Churches organize services, make Christmas misteries.
People go round carol singing, sing hymns to Christ and wish welfare and health to hosts of the house.
On Christmas Eve and Holy days people tell fortunes.
Symbols of Christmas
Night of candles.
Candle is the light of Jesus Christ. There is a tradition to decorate houses with candles, lanterns, garlands.
Christmas tree
The tradition to decorate a Christmas tree comes from German people. It was a tradition to decorate it with fruit, sweets, and hand-made toys. Now we decorate it with special glass toys and light garlands
Bells
Ringing the bells comes from pagan times. People need to make noise and to kick bad spirits. Now bells ring in all churches after services. In such a way people greet the born of Jesus Christ.
Christmas Symbols:
Christmas Log
The tradition to burn Christmas log comes from the Vikings. They make a cross on it, put grains with honey on it and the log burns for a long time. If it does not burn long it is a bad thing for the hosts. Now people in Great Britain also have such a tradition. They do not go to sleep and see how it is burning. They eat, drink tea, talk and watch it.
Christmas cards
Christmas presents
Christmas wreath
a wreath from evergreen tree with for candles, they symbolize Christ’s wreath
Christmas dishes
Christmas Symbols
In Aramil there are organizations which spend money for charity purposes every year
Joint Stock Company “Aramil Gorpo”
Joint Stock Company “Transgaz”
Aramil City Charitable Fund under the head of A.P. Babushkin
Christmas is a holiday connected with charity.
We learn that
In an action “Give holiday to children” of Novotikhvinskiy Monastery in Yekaterinburg.
We take part it
We make a sociological search among pupils of primary school
and 6 classesQuestions
1. Do you know symbols of Christmas and their meaning?
2. What traditions of Christmas celebration do you know?
3. Have you ever gone and sung carols on Christmas?
4. Have you ever been to Christmas service in church?
5. Do you know traditions of Christmas celebration in Great Britain?
Results of our search in diagrams
1. Do you know symbols of Christmas and their meaning?
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yes
no
2. What traditions of Christmas celebration do you know?
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put Christmastree
give presents
sing carols
3. Have you ever gone and sung carols on Christmas?
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primaryschool
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yes
no
4. Have you ever been to Christmas service in church?
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primaryschool
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yes
no
5. Do you know traditions of Christmas celebration in Great Britain?
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0102030405060708090
primaryschool
6 class
1 correctvariant
2 corectvariants
none of correctvariants
Our conclusions
Traditions of celebration Christmas in Great Britain and Russia are very various.
There are both church and folk traditions.
The main traditions of Christmas celebration in Great Britain are similar with Russian but there are a few different.
Christmas symbols are the same for the whole Christian world.
Interview of pupils shows that many of them do not know well symbols and traditions of Christmas celebration and it underlines the importance of our topic!