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Xmas holidays

  • Most countries have got Xmas (Christmas) holidays, but they might not be the same everywhere. Can you use the questions below as a guide to tell us about yours?

    How long are your Christmas holidays?

    Do you celebrate Xmas? 

    If you do, what do you like best? Is there a day or activity you especially like? 

    What type of food do you usually eat at Christmas? 

    Is there a special type of music? Can you show us?

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    If you don’t celebrate Christmas, tell us about your holidays. 

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    What about New Year’s Eve? How do you welcome the new year in your country? 

     

    Use the twinboard below to do your writing.

    Then you can use the discussion if you are curious and want to know more things about your partners’ Christmas holidays.

     

  • Xmas for me

    Christmas Holidays-Daniel Torre-Laviana

    Hello everyone! :)
    My Christmas holidays starts the twenty of December and it finishs the eight of January. I usually celebrate Christmas with my family. We go dinner in the Christmas Eve and in New Year´s Eve. The typical food in this dinners are the shelfish soup and the lamb. We go lunch in the Christmas day and in New Year too.
    The night of the five of January, the Three Kings arrive. The six of January is the The Three Kings Day. All the people have a lot presents.
    The typical song of the spanish Christmas are the villancicos.
    My favourite day in the holidays is Christmas Eve because all the family are together.
    In Spain,to do welcome to the New Year we eat 12 grapes as the time the bells song.
    https://youtu.be/aTM2-CaCOws

    CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS!!- Carlota

    Hello everybody!!
    My Christmas starts this Friday 20 of December and it finishs Wednesday 8 of January. In my family since I was child every year we celebrate this festivies. We eat lamb, shellfish and more things, also traditionales deserts. We sing christmas carols.
    My favourite day of this holidays is the Three Kings Day ,probably this festivie doesn´t exist. It is a traditional story of Spain that Three Kings come here to give us presents, if we were polite, also they do a procession with candies, costumes and a lot of things.
    And in the New Year´s Eve we dinner together and we eat twelve grapes and it comes the new year.

    Melilla Christmas

    1.Two week.
    2.No.
    3. I like holidays. I like eat with muy family.
    4. Tipical cake of Christmas.
    5.No,I don't listen special music.
    6.I go to holiday in Morroco, I visit special monument and eat with my family a special morrocan food.
    7. In New Year's everybodi have a dinner in family and before go to a party.

    My Xmas holidays- MOHAMED LAHATA

    Hello everybody! My Xmas holidays starts the twenty-forth day of December and finishs the twenty-fifve of this month. I not celebrate the Christmas Holidays. my favourite activity are table games. In my family we eat couscous, a typical eat of Morocco. my favourite music is Jingle Bells, of Rosemary Clooney(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWJNqyub3o). I'm having a happy holidays. I have passed all the subjects and i started my holiday the last week. I went to Marrakech, a beautiful city of Morocco. Then, I went to my aunt in Beni-Enzar and now I'm in Tanger. There is little left for New Year. In New Year's Eve, we(spanish) wait the hour to be 12 o'clock of midnight and we eat 12 grapes as the time the bells songs.

    My Christmas holidays.(Melilla,Spain )Asma Kariouh

    Hello,my christmas holidays begin on December 20 and end on January 8. I do not celebrate Xmas . Although, Christmas is not celebrated in my family I like to sing Christmas carols. My favouite Christmas carols is Bells on bells ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx85ZvU5AEs ).
    On my holidays I go to my grandparent's house in Morocco,there we eat tajin, a typical Moroccan meal ( https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enES804ES804&biw=1024&bih=657&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=q08GXvvgJYvJgwfx5).
    In Spain,in New Year,we are in the family and we eat twelve grapes.

    Our Chirstmas Holidays - Erika (Laviana)

    My Christmas holidays last around two weeks, starting at December 20 and finishing at January 8. At December 24, we celebrate Christmas Eve (Nochebuena), and I always have dinner with my dad´s family. They always give me a book. At the following day, on Christmas, I have lunch with my mum´s family. We spend several hours in my grandmother´s house. In Spain, some typical dishes are prawn, shellfish soup, goatling and, here in Asturias, we eat "casadielles". One of the best memories I have is had been singing, as a child, with my whole family, something that now is imposible. On New Year, (Nochevieja) I have dinner again with my mum´s family and we eat grapes during the last twelve seconds of the year while the chimes sound. To finish, the night of January 5, the Three Wise Kings "come" to our houses and we receive our Christmas presents.

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    Christmas Holidays-Cristina(Laviana)

    Hello!!!
    In Spain ,Christmas holidays lasts 18 days,from 20th December to 8th January.I celebrate Christmas all the years, because my family and I are catholics.Christmas Eve is my favourite celebration in this holidays ,this day all my family dinner together.
    My father usually cooks.We normally eat cold meat ,prawns,a typycal spanish food such as,lamb roast and seafood soap.I don´t like eating dessert but the rest of my family always eat nougat. The nougat it´s a typical Christmas sweet in Spain.After dinner they give us the gifts of Santa Claus.
    There is one type of music for Christmas, it is Christmas Carols.This type of the music is singing by people on Christmas Eve.I am not a good Singer but I enjoy sing then.
    https://youtu.be/DyRFHeNMoXA

    My Christmas Holidays-Amin Cherif (Melilla, Spain)

    Hi everybody!
    My Christmas holidays begin on December 20 and end on January 8. In principle, I don't celebrate Christmas but what I like most about her is when all the members of the family get together, whether to dance, give gifts or sing Christmas songs like Mariah Carey's song - All I want for Christmas is you ( https://youtu.be/aAkMkVFwAoo) which is the one I like the most .

    In my Christmas holidays I usually stay at my grandmother's house, in Morocco, where my family and I meet. Also, one of the activities I like to do during these vacations is to play with my cousins. As well, one of the foods that I like to eat the most is the cuscus, typical food of Maruecos.

    At the end of Christmas, a few days later, the new year begins that we welcome you eating twelve grapes, with fireworks and many exciting activities.

    Christmas Holidays - Alejandro - Laviana

    My Christmas holidays last approximately two weeks and have several holidays, Christmas (December 25), New Year (January 1) and the last one is a holiday due to a Spanish tradition, the wise men (January 6). The latter, bring gifts to children and ... Sometimes, also to adults. It is similar to the tradition of Santa Claus.
    In Spain a ride is organized, the eve of the day when the wise men give gifts.
    To celebrate these dates, some people like to sing Christmas carols, but I only meet with my family a few days to eat all together and give us gifts.
    I don't like this holiday very much, but I celebrate it with some enthusiasm and Christmas spirit.

    My Christmas holidays - Bilal Mohamed - Melilla,Spain

    Hello!

    1-My Christmas holidays start on December 20th and end on January 8th

    2-I don't really celebrate it, but I like to walk the streets with my friends when it's all decorated

    3-........

    4-At Christmas I usually eat the usual

    5-No, I don't listen to special music for Christmas, but if I can show you which one I hear--https://youtu.be/2zNSgSzhBfM

    6-I'm going to tell you about this Christmas holiday (2019) At first it was like a normal few days, but by the middle of the second week I traveled to Morocco to go to my cousin's wedding, I had a great time! And besides, I have to say it was my first time there. In conclusion my holiday was brutal
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    7-In my country we welcome the new year by eating 12 grapes in the last 12 seconds (one per second). After that there is simply happiness :)

    MIS VACACIONES DE NAVIDAD-Fatima Hamida,Melilla,España

    1-My Christmas holidays last from December 20 to January 8
    2- No, I don't really celebrate her but I really like her
    3-What I like most about Christmas is the atmosphere in the city
    4- The roscón de Reyes is really delicious
    5-I don't usually listen to Christmas music since it's not much of my style,but this one is very pretty,https://youtu.be/aAkMkVFwAoo
    check out Mariah
    6-My Christmas holidays have been very fun since I went out a lot with my friends and visited many places with my family, it is a time in the year when family and friends get together and go out to have fun
    7-In Spain, my country, the end of the year is celebrated in family and eating twelve grapes referring to the twelve bells, after this the friends or family go out to have fun together.

    My Xmas Holidays(Melilla, Spain)-Adam El Moumni

    Hello everybody! My Christmas holidays last 20 days, they start on December 20 and end on January 8. I normally don't celebrate Christmas .My favorite Christmas music is Merry Christmas(https://youtu.be/aAkMkVFwAoo).Fridays we eat cuscús, a typical Moroccan dish. My family and I went to Morocco to spend the holidays in Mequines and when I returned to Melilla my best friend came from France. In Spain on December 31 at twelve o'clock midnight we eat 12 grapes while the bells ring.

    Xmas Holidays/Musa Mohamed/Melilla Spain

    Hello! My Xmas Holidays begin on Decembre 20 and end on January 8.
    I not celebrate the Xmas Holidays. In my family the food we usually eat at Christmas is nougat.
    My favourite music is We Wish You a Merry Christmas (https://youtu.be/bVhCWYfpack).
    I am having a happy holiday, I'm enjoying them a lot by going out wiht friends for a walk, or going to Morroco.
    In spain, to do welvome to New Year we eat twelve grapes as the time the bells songs.

    Christmas Holidays - Nerea - Laviana

    My christmas holidays last 18 days , it start the twenty of December and finished the eighth of January . I usually celebrate Christmas with my family and friends , we always have prawn , shellfish cream and lamb for dinner , but however the best food in Christmas is the dessert , there is a great variety of desserts but the most typical is the nougat , in New Year we eat 12 grapes . What I most about Christmas is visiting all family and the present . The special typical Christmas music are carols .

    Christmas Holidays-Andrea Martinez-Laviana

    Hello! My Christmas holidays started on the twentieth of December and finished on the eight of January. I celebrated Christmas with my family. I like the most the Christmas day because I eat wiyh my family. The tipical food is the shellfish soup. Christmas carols are sung at the end of the New Year's parties.

    Christmas holidays! Gabriel Fernández - Pola de Laviana

    Hello friends! My Christmas holidays starts 20th December and finish the 8th January. I celebrate the Christmas Holidays. My favourite activity are videogames. In my family we meet at my house. My favourite music is Jingle Bells.
    https://youtu.be/VfLf7A_-1Vw
    I'm having a happy holidays because I went to Marrakech, a beautiful city of Morocco. In New Year's Eve, we(spanish) wait the hour to be 12 o'clock of midnight and we eat 12 grapes as the time the bells songs.

    Christmas Holidays- Miguel (Laviana)

    Hello!!
    My Christmas holidays started the 20th of December and it finished the 8th of Junuary. I celebrated Christmas with my family. I have dinner with my family the 25ft of December, and I have dinner with my parents and my brother the 31st of December. The 25ft we usually have shellfish soup and prawns for dinner, the 31 we usually have a stuffed turkey dinner. The night of the 5th of January three kings of Orient arrived. The morning of the 6th all the people have presents. My favorite villancico is "Los peces en el río". The 31 at 24:00 everybody eat twelve graves for the new year.

    My Xmas holidays SALMA MOHAMED

    1. My christmas holidays las two weeks🎅🤶
    2.No
    3.I don't celebrate it, but i go out one night with my friends for a walk and dinner👭👫
    4. When i go out for dinner pizza 🍕🍕
    5.I usually listen to k-pop🎶🎧
    6. I spend my vacations at home watching TV or netflix programs🖥💻
    7. Watching the program where they give the new year bells📺

    My Xmas Holidays- Amir Hadder

    Hello everybody.
    My Xmas holidays start the 19 of december , normally i don´t celebrate Xmas but my little cousin yes. I´m don´t do any special activity but i love it meet with my friends. Me and my family usually eat turkey and meat.I spent my holidays in Melilla my city and i did a lot of things for example met with friends, trained football,etc.
    My family and I stay in my house and eat the twelve grapes and then we hug and say happy new year.

    Christmas Holidays Elena/Spain

    My Christmas Holidays starts the twenty of December and finish te eight of January.I celebrate Chistmas and my favorite day is in 24 December,because i go to my grandmother´s house with my family.The typical song are villancicos.In new year we eat 12 grapes as the time the bells song.

    Romaisa Zannati. Melilla , Spain.

    Hello !1- My chrismas holidays start 21 of December and end on 8 January.

    2-Most of the time I don't celebrate Christmas
    3-We all had family dinner and after that we all met to play monopoly or cards
    4-The most famous Christmas food here is the turkey and the nougat
    5-We don't have any special music
    6-What we do in the new year is to welcome grapes and fireworks.

    Christmas Holidays. Kamal Hamed (spain).

    Hello everybody! My Christmas holidays last 20 days, they start on December 20 and end on January 8. I don't celebrate christmas, because in my relegion we don't celebrate christmas, So I will tell you how my Christmas holidays are:
    In my Christmas holidays I usually stay at my grandmother's house, in Morocco, where my family and I meet. Also, one of the activities I like to do during these vacations is to play with my cousins. As well, one of the foods that I like to eat the most is the cuscus, typical food of Morocco.
    At the end of Christmas, a few days later, the new year begins that we welcome you eating twelve grapes, with fireworks and many exciting activities. On new year's day my friends and I went out to celebrate