The Christmas Quiz Activity Sheet
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The run-up to Christmas
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It’s Christmas — well, almost. All over the world, people are preparing for
the big day by sending cards, shopping for Christmas gifts, decorating their
homes and going to church. To start with, we’ve got some questions for you about
the run-up to Christmas ( orweihnachtszeit) in English-speaking countries.
Christmas!
1.
In the US, the Christmas shopping season starts the day after Thanks-
How do Australians celebrate Christmas? Why do the British
giving, which is known as ________________.
wear paper hats at the Christmas dinner table? And what is
a)
Red Tuesday
b)
Black Friday
c)
White Saturday
Boxing Day? In our fun and informative quiz, put together by
TOBY
SKINGSLEY, you can test how much you know about
2.
A highlight at many schools in December is the ________________ play, in
which children dress up as biblical characters to tell the story of the
Christmas in the English-speaking world — from the rush to
birth of Jesus.
send Christmas cards to friends, to the way families welcome
a)
shepherds’
b)
crib
c)
Nativity
Father Christmas on Christmas Eve. And on page 19, we have
some very special prizes for you in our Christmas competition.
3.
Which word below (a–c) can be used with all the words in bold?
calendar
,
candle
,
Sunday
,
wreath
([ri T]: Kranz) _______________
Good luck!
a)
Advent
b)
Jesus
c)
angel
4.
Children often write letters to Father Christmas with a list of what they
would like for Christmas. In Britain, they can send these letters by post
or throw them ________________.
a)
into special delivery vans
b)
c)
on to the fire and up the chimney (Kamin)
out of the window
5.
Christmas cards
are big business in the English-speaking world. In
the US, roughly ________________ cards are sent each year.
a)
2 million
b)
200 million
c)
2 billion
CHRISTMAS CARDS
6.
The church service ( ottesdienst) on the evening of 24 December is
called ________________ Mass.
In most English-speaking countries, people send
a)
midnight
b)
mid-evening
c)
mid-winter
Christmas cards
to friends and family in early
December. The first commercial Christmas card
7.
Before going to bed on Christmas Eve ( eiligabend), families in the US
was designed in 1843 by the British painter John
often leave out ________________ for Santa Claus.
Callcott Horsley. The card, pictured above, in-
a)
a pizza
b)
a doughnut and milkshake
cluded the greeting “A Merry Christmas and a
c)
biscuits and a glass of milk
Happy New Year to You”. In the 1870s, Boston
printer Louis Prang created the first mass-
8.
Match the names of the typical Christmas decorations below with the
produced Christmas cards in the US. Today,
correct picture (1–7).
cards typically show images linked with Christ-
a)
angel
b)
bauble
c)
candy cane
mas, such as Father Christmas, snowmen or
d)
fairy lights
e)
holly
f)
robin
holly (Stechpalme).
g)
tinsel
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