2-      What do British people do with the letter they write to Santa?

 

3-      What name do British people use to call Santa?

 

4-      What do they do nowadays on Boxing Day?

 

5-      Name as many things as possible – What do British people eat on Christmas Day?

 

6-      What’s a Christmas cracker?

 

7-      What does her Majesty the Queen speak about on her speech?

 

8-      What’s a stocking?

 

9-      When should you take down the Christmas decoration?

 

10-   Name as many things as possible – What can you find inside a Christmas cracker?

 

11-   Where do British people hang their stockings?

 

12-   What happens if you don’t take down the Christmas decoration when you’re supposed to?

2-      Is it optional to wear the paper crown?

3-      What other word do British people use instead of ‘Christmas’? – Crimbo

2.they toss them into the fire

3.Father Christmas
4 . receive a box of gifts from their bosses
5 . Christmas pudding this is a very dense boiled cake flavored with dried fruit and spices

6.Brightly decorated cardboard tubes filled with fun prizes
7.She gives a hoiliday speech about what has happened during the previous year
8. stocking are decorative hangings
9.decoration should be taken down within 12 days of christmas
10. A cheesy plastic prize, a paper crown and a terrible joke
 11. Near their bed
 12. You'll have bad luck for the rest of the year

1.plays for kids that are based on fairy tales
2.they toss them into the fire
3.Father Christmas

4 . receive a box of gifts from their bosses
5 . Christmas pudding this is a very dense boiled cake flavored with dried fruit and spices
6.Brightly decorated cardboard tubes filled with fun prizes
7. The events from last year.
8. Socks that santa would put presents in

9. within 12 days of Christmas
10. A cheesy plastic prize, a paper crown and a terrible joke 
11. Near their bed 
12. You'll have bad luck for the rest of the year

8. Socks that santa would put presents in

9. within 12 days of Christmas
10. a cheesy plastic prize, a paper crown, terrible joke

11. around the bed

12. have bad luck for the rest of the year

2.They toss them into the fire

3.Father Christmas
4.Receive a box of gifts from their bosses
5. Christmas pudding this is a very dense boiled cake flavored with dried fruit and spices

6.Brightly decorated cardboard tubes filled with fun prizes
7.The events from last year
8.Socks that santa would put presents in
9.Within 12 days of christmas
10. A cheesy plastic prize, a paper crown and a terrible joke
 11. Near their bed
 12. You'll have bad luck for the rest of the year

1-      Letters to Father Christmas. In America kids write letters to Santa and put them in the mailbox, but in England we toss them straight in the fire. We're not trying to make children cry. Burning the letters sends them directly to the North Pole where Santa can read your Christmas wishes in the smoke. Yes it may seem a little weird but it does save on postage.

2-      Hanging stockings. American children traditionally hang stockings around the fireplace for Santa to fill with presents, but in the UK we hang stockings around the bed being surrounded by presents. Is a great way to wake up on Christmas morning and a great way to let father Christmas (a total stranger who's been watching you all year get really close to your sleeping body) sweet dreams! Also instead of leaving out milk and cookies for Father Christmas, we leave him brandy and a mince pie because he is a grown-up.

3-      Christmas Crackers may not seem like the most festive thing to serve on Christmas dinner, but these are not the type of crackers that you put cheese on. A Christmas cracker is a brightly decorated cardboard tube filled with fun prizes. When grabbed and pulled apart, a tiny explosive inside makes a loud cracking noise, hence the name. Inside the cracker is usually a cheesy plastic prize, a paper crown and a terrible joke: ‘why is a ghost so bad at lying? Because you can see right through them’. I'm so sorry.

4-      Christmas hats. Inside the Christmas cracker are colourful paper hats that it is absolutely mandatory to wear. In fact 90% of Christmas arguments stem from trying to make your grumpiest relative put their paper crown on. The other 10% comes from playing Monopoly, because there are some Christmas traditions that we share unfortunately.

5-      Christmas dinner. A British Christmas dinner is just as big a feast as an American one. The main dish is usually roast turkey, often surrounded by bacon-wrapped chipolatas which are mini sausages bacon-wrapped miniature pork sausages. Now that's a tradition that you Americans should get behind. We serve the turkey with gross potatoes and veggies, traditionally Brussels sprouts, which are gross but it's tradition so we eat them anyway. We have gravy to smother everything in and something called bread sauce, which isn't a sauce to put on bread, but a sauce that's thickened with bread, which looks a little lumpy but tastes delicious. Then we eat until we can't move, and watch ‘telly’ until we pass out. Sound familiar?

6-      Christmas pudding. Americans love to have their pumpkin and pecan pies for Christmas dessert, but in the UK we have Christmas pudding. This is a very dense boiled cake flavoured with dried fruit and spices. It's then soaked in alcohol, aged for several months, boiled again, soaked in alcohol again, and then set on fire. Come to a British Christmas! We soak everything in alcohol and then light it on fire.

7-      The royal Christmas message, that's right. Every Christmas day, Her Majesty the Queen gives a holiday speech reflecting on the events of the past year. We all sit around pretending to pay attention, but secretly carrying on with whatever it was we were doing before. Think of it as the State of the Union but with much more gold.

8-      Boxing Day. Boxing Day is the day after Christmas Day. Its origins are debatable, some say that it's a day when workers would receive a box of gifts from their bosses, others say that it's a day when people would box up gifts for the poor. But the main thing that happens on Boxing Day nowadays is shopping. It's kind of like our Black Friday, only nobody gets trampled to death.

9-      Pantomime. Every year around the Christmas ‘hols’ pretty much every theatre in the country puts on a pantomime. These are plays for kids based on fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Aladdin, involving a lot of high-camp cross-dressing and audience interaction. They're normally starring jaded celebrities so if the idea of seeing David Hasselhoff in a dress excites you, you should definitely check one out.

10-   Taking down the Christmas tree. We Brits believe that the Christmas tree and decoration should be taken down within 12 days of Christmas, otherwise you'll have bad luck for the rest of the year. This is maybe a tradition that America should consider adopting. I've certainly seen people keep their old brown dry withered Christmas trees until almost the fourth of July. 

2.In America kids write letters to Santa and put them in the mailbox, but in England we toss them straight in the fire
3.Father Christmas

4. They are shopping on nowadays boxing day
5.British people eat turkey with gross potatoes and veggies on Christmas day
6.Christmas cracker is a brightly decorated cardboard tube filled with fun prizes

7.Her Majesty the Queen gives a holiday speech reflecting on the events of the past year.

8. stocking box
9. Normally starring jaded celebrities so
10. A cheesy plastic prize, a paper crown and a terrible joke
 11. Near their bed
 12. You'll have bad luck for the rest of the year