Ingles

“Some traditional English holidays”
1. Are the following sentences true or false?Correct the false sentences.
1. In pancake races people have to eat a lot of pancakes.
2. Originally, the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue.
3. The harvest festival was held as a way of thanking the gods for a good harvest.
4. In guy fakes nigth, the bonfires are used to cook tomatos wrapped in foil.5. Boxing Day is traditionally a day following Christmas when wealthy people in the United Kingdom would give a box containing a gift to their servants.

* Harvest Festival.
In England the harvest festival is called the harvest home. This festival usually takes place during September. Offerings of fruit and vegetables are placed around the altar for a thanksgiving service that would makesure there was a good crop for the next year. After the service the offerings are given to those less fortunate.
History tells of how villages belonged to rich landowners as part of their estates and that the villagers were employed to farm and cultivate his gardens.
The harvest festival was held as a way of thanking the gods for a good harvest. It was also a way of thanking his employees for alltheir hard work. The harvest was supplied by the landowner.
Also in parts of England they celebrate Lammas also known as the Celebration of Bread, the preparation of bread as a primary staple is a ritual in and of itself. It is the time of year when they celebrate the passing summer and lean into fall, storing their goods and thanking the Gods/Goddesses for a plentiful harvest and asking themfor a safe winter.
In village churches in England sheaves of wheat were offered alongside leaves on the altar, and parishioners brought their own consecrated bread back home.
Another traditional Harvest festival celebrated every year in churches, chapels and school was only started in 1843.
Today’s harvest is celebrated on a Sunday during the main service of the day. The date for harvest festivalis set well in advance instead of waiting for the last of the harvest to be bought in. This is because it is no longer labor intensive with even the Children helping to gather the crops as machinery has taken over.

* Pancake Day.
In the UK, Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Tuesday to some people) because it is the one day of the year when almost everyone eats apancake.
Pancake Day is the last day before the period which Christians call Lent, which is time of abstinence. It is traditional on this day to eat pancakes. So Shrove Tuesday is the last chance to indulge yourself, and to use up the foods that aren't allowed in Lent. Pancakes are eaten on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent. A pancake is a thin, flatcake, made of butter and fried in a pan. Caster sugar (superfine sugar) is sprinkled over the top and a dash of fresh lemon juice added. The pancake is then rolled. Some people add golden syrup or jam.
Pancake races: They used a skillet (frying pan), a pancake, an apron and a chef's hat. The object of the race is to arrive first at the finish line on the condition that we must go "flipping"the pancake (the pancake toss) during the trip and it should come as intact as possible at the end.
Pancake Day always falls 47 days before Easter Sunday, so the date varies from year to year and falls between 3 February and 9 March. 
* Guy Fawkes Night
Bonfire Night is celebrated all over the UK.
Every year on 5th November, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes is remembered.
THETRADITION IS:
* light huge bonfires,
* let off magnificent fireworks,
* burn an effigy (a homemade model of a man, like a scarecrow) and
* celebrate the fact the Parliament and James I were not blown sky high by Guy Fawkes.
As well as burning effigy of Guy Fawkes, the bonfires are used to cook potatoes wrapped in foil and to heat up soup for the crowds that come to watch the...