Christmas

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For those who take part in the holiday, the season of giving gifts, hanging out with family, and celebrating is upon us. While Christmas is a lot of fun, it’s also a very stressful time of year. Between planning large family gatherings and shopping, it’s easy to forget that the holiday is meant to be fu. You need ways to make your life easier, and that’s exactly what these awesome Christmas life hacks will show you! Check them out, and get ready to enjoy the holiday season! Via KidRated. Christmas In Numbers. Christmas Dinners Around The World. With Christmas day fast approaching, many of us eagerly look forward to catching up with relatives, tearing the shiny wrapping paper off our new presents and spending some down time curled up on the sofa enjoying festive flicks and Christmas TV specials.

But there’s no denying that the main event of the day centres on food, and lots of it! It can only be the almighty Christmas dinner, the feast of all feasts that we only tuck into once a year. The UK’s traditional Christmas dinner is a nationwide favourite, featuring a huge centre piece roast turkey complete with all the trimmings of golden roast potatoes, thick bread sauce, crispy pigs in blankets, zesty cranberry sauce, and starchy stuffing with a mandatory heap of steamed vegetables.

But do you ever wonder how other countries and cultures celebrate Christmas dinner around the world? Dining habits and dish choices undoubtedly vary across the globe, and there is no exception when it comes to Christmas day. Infographic: Christmas Meals Around The World. I’m adding this infographic to The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa: Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. by Gourmandia Related November’s Infographics & Interactives Galore -- Part Five There are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Interactives Galore.”

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Merry Christmas to one and all – may you have a happy and joyous Christmas day. This year I thought it would be nice to see what we are all eating on Christmas day – so I am going to start the ball rolling by telling you what people in various nations will be eating, and you can then use the comments to tell us what you will be eating. This will be a nice way for us to all get to know the nicer details of Christmas as enjoyed by Listversers! The source for this list is Wikipedia, but there are many sites around on the net containing details of international dishes, so be sure to have a look around – they can be quite fascinating. In the areas of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g., Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania), an elaborate and ritualised meal of twelve meatless dishes is served on the Eve of Christmas (24th December). Twelve Interesting Christmas Food Traditions From Around the World. Christmas Dinners Around The World. WATCH: Thai children set world record for largest human Christmas tree.

Christmas is not a holiday in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, but that didn’t stop hundreds of schoolchildren getting into the festive spirit with a world record-breaking effort.

One of the country’s largest shopping malls arranged for 852 schoolchildren dressed in green, red and brown hoodies to break the Guinness World Record for the largest human Christmas tree – easily beating the previous record of 672 set in Germany in 2011. To the relief of parents, and the chagrin of a few teenagers, the children were not hoisted onto a human pyramid shaped like a conifer. It was more an exercise in crowd control, grouping the assembled six to 15-year-olds into a tree-like formation on the ground. The record was set in 15 minutes, 29 seconds. Guinness representative Fortuna Burke certified the feat, counting on a clicker as children filed onto an outdoor verandah at Siam Paragon mall, the event’s organiser. Once in place, the children waved as a drone flew overhead to capture aerial images.

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This is a fat man who spends 364 days of the year sitting around doing very little, but who then manages the impossible by delivering presents to kids around the world in the space of one night. He’s a legend and an enigma, but what does the Internet think of good ol’ Saint Nick? The Evolution Of Santa Claus Who is Santa Claus, anyway? He’s been around in one form or another for centuries, starting life as St.

The Origins Of Santa Claus For those who need a little more information than the video embedded above provides, we have a National Geographic article that recounts the origins of Santa Claus in greater detail. Santa Parkour As Santa has already evolved over the course of centuries, it’s very likely he’ll continue to do so into the future. Santa Claus FAILs. Christmas Video — History.com. Pre-Intermediate EFL Lesson Plan: Using Christmas to Teach Holiday Vocabulary. As an EFL teacher in Thailand, one of the subjects I always teach about is Christmas.

Most of my Thai EFL students are Buddhist, so even though some people in Thailand celebrate Christmas, most Thais don't know much about it. With EFL students from other countries, while they may celebrate Christmas, many don't know the basic Christmas vocabulary in English. That's why it's great to teach an EFL class for pre-intermediate students and talk about Christmas. Expected Learning Outcome - EFL students will understand basic Christmas vocabulary, be able to spell it and be able to use it correctly in simple sentences. Materials and Resources - Whiteboard markers, whiteboard, Christmas vocabulary handout. Time Frame - 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes Teaching Procedures: Vocabulary Brain-Storm - I begin all my classes on Christmas, by asking what vocabulary my EFL students already know about the holiday.

Now, each team must read out one sentence to the class. Christmas unWrapped- The History of Christmas Part 1 of 5. A British Christmas. CBBC Newsround - Australian family set Christmas lights record. WATCH: Thai children set world record for largest human Christmas tree - National. John Lewis Christmas Advert 2013 - The Bear & The Hare.