Dia dos Namorados 

Valentine’s Day 

Christmas

The name Christmas comes from “Christ’s Mass”.

It is celebrated on 25 December when people visit their families, exchange presents and eat dinner together – usually turkey and Christmas pudding.

It is the tradition for children to leave out stockings when they go to bed on Christmas Eve for Father Christmas (Santa Claus) to fill with presents. Christmas Day and Boxing Day (26 December) are both public holidays in the United Kingdom.

       Christmas Facts:

• The image of Santa Claus as a fat old man with white hair and beard and dressed in a red suit was the invention of a nineteenth century American artist.

• An old tradition says that bread baked on Christmas Eve will never go mouldy.

• The very first Christmas pudding was a kind of soup with raisins and wine in it.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States. It celebrates the time when Native Americans helped the English in the 17^th century. The English didn’t have much food left and the Native Americans told them how to grow crops like corn. This way, the English were saved because they had enough food to survive. They gave thanks to God during a meal together with Native Americans.

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

Families get together for a traditional meal. It consists of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, yams, corn bread and pumpkin pies.

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