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Teacher Elaryan Gayane
8 grade
Holidays and
customs
Just imagine a year without holidays. How
boring!!! In Britain, in Armenia and in all other
countries there are a number of special days duling
byne year.There is no school on some of these days
and often something exciting happens.You can find
some British holidays on the calendar.The British
have got lots of their own customs, too. Some of
them are like those in Armenia, others are different.
You are myValentine
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweetAnd so ate you!
From?
February 14th is Valentine’s Day. On
this day people send cards to
somebody they love. They do not
always write their names on the
cards, so the person must guess who
sent them. Sometimes the cards have
funny rhymes.
Easter
At Easter children in
Britain get chocolate
Easter eggs as presents
from presents and
relatives. They also paint
boiled eggs.
Halloween
October 31st is Halloween, a day when many
strange things might happen. Witches might
fly through the night and dead people come
back from their graves- or so people say. In
the evening young people often have
Halloween parties. The girls put on witches
clothes and the boys dress as ghosts or
monsters.
The Romans dedicated this day to Janus, the god of gates, doors, and
beginnings. After Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC and was
subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate voted to deify him on the 1st
January 42 BC [1] in honor of his life and his institution of the new
rationalized calendar.[2] The month originally owes its name to the deity
Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking
backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan
traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was
stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were
identified) entered into office on that day, though no consensus exists on
the matter.[3] Dates in March, coinciding with the spring equinox, or
commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of
Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though
calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from
January to December.