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5a Reading Video

There are many special days throughout the year in In October the British
the UK and British people love to celebrate with food.
celebrate Halloween.
Christmas is on 25th December
Children wear costumes, go
and it’s a national holiday. The to parties and eat sweets.
British make Christmas (or Plum) No party is complete
puddings for the traditional without toffee apples. These
Christmas dinner. This is a brown are apples on a stick in
pudding with raisins, nuts and cherries. They usually serve sugar. They are delicious.
it with custard. Traditionally, they hide a silver coin inside
the pudding. They believe that the coin can bring good
luck to the person who finds it.

Good Friday, the Friday before On 5th November British

Easter Sunday, is a national holiday in people celebrate Bonfire
the UK. British people eat hot cross Night or Guy Fawkes Night
buns for breakfast. These are sweet
bread rolls with white crosses on top. to remember a plot against King James I.
They have fruit in them and people eat
them hot. Some people keep them because they believe They have fireworks, parties and large fires.
they can protect the house from bad things.
They also eat parkin, a sweet cake. They

bake the cake and leave it for three days,

then they cut it into small pieces.

Reading

Check these words 1 Listen to and read the texts. Match the phrases 1- 4 to the
phrases a-d to make correct sentences. Write in your notebook.
• raisin • nut • cherry
• custard • coin Christmas is 1 a a sweet cake.
• luck • bread rolls Cross buns are 2 b a sweet the British eat at Halloween.
• protect • stick Toffee apples are 3 c sweet bread rolls.
d a national holiday in the UK.
Parkin is 4

84 eighty-four 2 Read the text again and decide if the sentences are R (right) or W
(wrong) or DS (doesn't say).Write in your notebook.

1. A Christmas pudding has sometimes got a coin inside.
2. Most people eat hot cross buns with butter on them.
3. People eat toffee apples on Good Friday.
4. People make parkin days before Bonfire Night.