Task 1 Read the text and answer the questions. The most popular holiday in Great Britain is Christmas. They celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December. There are a lot of traditions connected with Christmas. Every year the people of Norway give the city of London a present. It's a big Christmas tree and it stands in Trafalgar Square. Most families decorate their houses with a Christmas tree; buy presents for the family and friends, write Christmas cards. In England almost every family receives more than 60 Christmas cards. Questions: 1.Who gives the city of London a Christmas tree every year? 2. Where does the Christmas tree stand? 3. What do English people do before Christmas? Task № 2 Read the text and answer the questions. The traditional Christmas dinner is roast turkey with vegetables and Christmas pudding. In England people make Christmas pudding before Christmas. Everyone in family stirs the pudding and makes a wish. It's a traditional meal, which people cook for Christmas party. When the pudding is hot they put 5-penny pieces in it, and sometimes a little silver horseshoe, a button and a ring. If you find a button in your piece of pudding you will be rich, a horseshoe means happiness and good luck, a ring - marriage. Questions: 1. What is the traditional Christmas dinner? 2. What do people put into the pudding? 3. What does it mean if you find a button (a horseshoe, a ring) in your piece of pudding? Task № 3 Read the text and answer the questions. The fun starts the night before, on the 24th of December, Christmas Eve. Traditionally this is the day when people decorate their trees. Children hang stockings at the end of their beds hopping that Farther Christmas will fill them with toys and sweets. Christmas is family holiday. Relatives usually meet for the big Christmas dinner. The 26th December - Boxing Day is an extra holiday after Christmas. This day people usually give and receive presents. This is time to visit friends and relatives or to sit at home and watch football. Questions: 1. When does the celebration of Christmas start? 2. What do children do on the Christmas Eve? 3. What is Boxing Day? What do people usually do on that day? Task 4 And now listen to the groups of words. In each group there is a word, which does with others. Find this word, please! Name the odd word. Orally. not go 1. Turkey, pudding, pumpkin pie, vegetables. 2. Santa Clause, holiday, Christmas tree, birch tree. 3. Christmas pudding, Easter, ring, horseshoe. 4. Trousers, stockings, presents, socks. 5. 23rd December, 24th December, 25th December, 26th December. 6. Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas.