Задание

Match the custom to the country.

During the Christmas meal, Christmas crackers containing toys, jokes and a paper hat are pulled.

A white sponge cake covered with cream and decorated with strawberries is often consumed.

Children put their shoes in the window in the hope that the three wise men will deliver them presents.

Christmas carols are heard as early as 1 September.

On 6 January, female puppets are burned on a pyre to symbolize the death of the old year and beginning of the new year.

They celebrate the Cavalcade of Lights Festival.

The Christmas tree usually stands centrally in the home, decorated with ornaments, tinsel and lights, with an angel or star at the top.

People dress up in an ornamental hat named a Puritina and dance in a line.

Potato salad with frankfurters and wiener sausages is a popular meal in some families.

Children take presents of fruits, nuts and other sweets to older relatives.

In many cities, and even in small rural towns, neighbourhoods get together and decorate their whole neighbourhood or street, turning streets into ‘tunnels of light’.

Great Britain

Japan

Spain

Philippines

Italy

Canada

United States

Guatemala

Germany

Armenia

Colombia