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Date Celebration Description JANUARY New Year’s Day (1st) Twelfh Night (5th) It celebrates the first day of the year. It is when Christmas decorations should be removed to avoid “bad luck”. FEBRUARY, 14th Valentine’s Day People give valentine’s cards, chocolates and flowers to their loved ones. MARCH Saint Patrick’s Day (17th March) It is a religious holiday from Ireland. It celebrates the arrival of Christianity to Ireland. APRIL April Fools’ Day (1st) Easter (8th) Day of fun and jokes. It is a religious holiday. Christians go to church. People celebrate: decorating eggs, giving candy, egg hunts... BRITISH FESTIVALS Isabel Arias martes, 15:14

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Date Celebration Description

JANUARY New Year’s Day (1st)

Twelfh Night (5th)

✴It celebrates the first day of the year.✴It is when Christmas decorations should be removed to avoid “bad luck”.

FEBRUARY, 14th Valentine’s Day People give valentine’s cards, chocolates and flowers to their loved ones.

MARCH Saint Patrick’s Day (17th March)

✴It is a religious holiday from Ireland.✴It celebrates the arrival of Christianity to Ireland.

APRIL April Fools’ Day (1st)

Easter (8th)

✴Day of fun and jokes.

✴It is a religious holiday.✴Christians go to church.✴People celebrate: decorating eggs, giving candy, egg hunts...

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Date Celebration Description

MAY May Day (1st) ✴It celebrates the coming of summer.✴The tradition is a dancing around a Maypole.✴Houses are decorated with flowers and greenery.

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST (last monday) Carnival (Notting Hill) - It celebrates the cultural traditions of the Caribbean inmigrants.

SEPTEMBER Harvest Festival ✴It’s a thanksgiving ceremony to celebrate that land gives food to us.

OCTOBER, 31th

Halloween ✴Children go “trick or treating” in their neighborhood and receive candy.✴People dress up.

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NOVEMBER Bonfire Night (5th)

St. Andrew’s Day (Scotland) - 30th

Remembrance Day (the second sunday)

✴It celebrates the night the king was saved to be killed by some catholic conspirators.

✴People celebrate this night with bonfires and fireworks.

It ‘s the national day of Scotland.

It’s the day remember those people who died in war and conflicts.

People leave small wooden crosses in their loved ones graves.

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DECEMBER- Christmas (25th)

- Boxing day (26th)

- Christmas, 25th. It is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.

- It celebrates on the following day after Christmas.

- It’s not a working day.- It’s the day to open the

Christmas boxes and to share with poor people.

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