Anglais

07/01/14

Oral d’Anglais

 I‘m gonna talk about the festive season .First of all , we will see Brasil’s traditions and then Australia‘s traditions.

The festive season is the period where there are two importants days : Christmas and the New Year.

The first celebration is religious ,it’s Jesus’ birth and the second is simply a new year which begin.

On the first hand , Brasil is a country which is in the South America and where religion is very important (we can see that for example thanks to the big Jesus in Rio De Janeiro)

Christmas, is the December 25th and this is hot it’s like the summer for us .

The people decorate their home , office , sports hall … in early november

 At the office , they create the system of the « amigo secreto » , this is a,secret friend.

Everyone pick up a name and thus they have to make him a gift.

Then they exchange secret messages where they write what they want and sometimes they write jokes so there are always lots of laugh !

Moreover , this country is really united. So Chritsmas is share with the more poor people. Every people give to someone a shopping basket (clothes ,shoes,schoolbag and a toy).

Then for the new year, the first tradition is  like Spanish’s traditions

Indeed , they eat 12 grapes at midnight .It suppose to reprensent the 12 months of the year. 

Sometimes, the people go to the beach and jump on 7 waves and make a wish in the same time. They all dress in white because for them, it give luck .

After there is the Lemanjà Celebration . Lemanjà is a water goddess . They make basket which inside there are flowers , perfume , gifts, mirrors… then these basket are put on the water . They also put candles on the sea.

On the other hand , we will see Australia’s traditions.

Australia is a country which is in the Oceania, so it’s summer when there is the festive season.

Christmas is prepared at least a month in advance, and the Australians decorate their house, and  spaces public with a winter decoration,  

and then when it’s the december 24th families are brought together to share a normal Christmas . There is the same traditions as the United Kingdom who are to embrace someone under the mistletoe, to prepare glass of sherry and a pie for Santa claus, and to eat a christmas pudding.

Then, the december 25th people open their gift in the morning and the rest of the day generally happens on the beach with the Australians who share a barbecue in the softness of the summer

 the December 26th  , it’s the Boxing Day, the day following christmas when people don’t work and offer some gifts to the poorest, clean their home after the festival and also when there are culturals and sports events.

At the time of the New Year’s Eve who is celebrated with families or friends, there is a huge and splendid firework in Sydney, towards the opera house and the Harbour Bridge to celebrate the new year.

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