CHRISTMAS CRACKER

Christmas crackers are very popular.Crackers are very traditionally items to have at Christmas.A Christmas cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends. A person pulls on each end of the cracker and when the cracker breaks, a small chemical strip goes “Pop” and the contents fall out.
A Christmas cracker traditionally contains a paper crown, a small gift and a joke written on a slip of paper.A box of 12 crackers costing £10 could come with gifts such as a shoe horn, compact mirror, playing cards, screwdrivers, address book, tape measure, pad lock, bottle opener, tweezers, travel chess, photo frame and pen.
HOW TO PULL A CRACKER:
The traditional way to pull a cracker is crossing your arms and ..

... pulling a whole circle of crackers around the table.

Everyone holds their cracker in their right hand and pulls their neighbours cracker with the free left hand.

The tradicion of wearing hats at parties goes back to the Roman Saturnalia calebrations(celebrated aroud 25 december) when the participans also wore hats. 

During a visit to Paris he came across the bob-bon, a sugar almond wrapped in tissue paper (with a twist either side of the centrally placed sweet). Thomas decided to try selling similarly wrapped sweets in the lead up to Christmas in England. His bon-bons sold well at Christmas but not at other times of the year.
In the early 1850s Thomas came up with the idea of including a motto with the sweet. As many of his bon-bons were bought by men to give to women, many of the mottos were simple love poems.
In about 1860, Thomas added the banger, two strips of chemically impregnated paper that made a loud noise on being pulled apart. At first these novelties were called 'cosaques', but they soon became known as 'crackers'.
Unfortunately for Thomas, his 'cracker' idea was copied by other manufactures and so he decided to replace the sweet with a surprise gift.
When Thomas died his two sons took over the business. The paper hat was added to the cracker the early 1900s and by the end of the 1930s the love poems had been replaced by jokes or limericks.

BY: MARINA, RODRIGO, SILVANA AND DIEGO.R

Christmas Day

Christmas day is the favourite day for children. They wake up very early in the morning to find their stockings have been filled by Father Christmas and excitedly unwrap the presents before going down to breakfast.

The Main Presents.
Family presents are opened either late morning or during the afternoon. The family gather together to open the presents found under the Christmas tree.

MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Christmas Decorations.

               
         Tinsel.                                               Bauble.                       Fairy ligths.      

The Christmas decorations are very traditional and  beautiful. Some are trees, candles, tinsel, bauble... Our favourite decoration is the Christmas tree, because is the nicest decoration.Christmas trees are an integral part of the Chirstmas decorations in most British households. We decorate it because the Germany German Martin Luther was the first person to decorate a tree with candels, baubles, tinsel, fairy lights... In the UK and United States

The starts are a decoration that represents the Three Wise Men and the Child Jesus.

The children like the decorations because some decorations are very fun. For example, the fairy lights are very exciting  because these are "hypnotic" for them.



                                  The End
             By: Alberto, Julián, Natalia and Claudia




                             Merry Christmas!!!

Boxing Day

                                                                       The Boxing Day
In Britain, Boxing Day is usually celebrated on the followen day after Christmas Day, which is twenty six December. However, Boxing Day is the first weekday after ChristmasLike Chrstmas Day, Boxing Day is a public holiday. This means it is typically a non working  day in the whole of Britain. When Boxing Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday the following Monday is the public holiday. The Christmas box was a wooden or clay container where people placed gifts.  Traditionally 26 of December was the day when people opened their Christmas boxes to share the contents with the poor.
                                                The history of Boxing Day
Christmas boxes were used in different ways:
-To protect ships
-To help the poor
-A present fot the workers
-And the tradition still cntinues today...                                              By: Jaime, Lola,Diego V. and Moisés.

Christmas dinner

The Christmas dinner is the main Christmas meal and is traditonally eaten at mid- day or early  afternoon on Christmas Day in England, and also in the rest of Britain.

A traditional English and British Christmas dinner includes roast turkey or goose, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cramberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrappet in bacon  (pigs in a blanket) and lashings of hot gravy.

A Christmas tradition involving the turkey is to pull its wishbone. This is one of the bones of the turkey wich is shaped like the letter ''Y''. Two people will each hold an end and pull. The person left with the larger piece of the bone makes a wish.

And don't forget the Christmas pudding!

 

           MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!

  BY:Nuria, Javier, Maria Desire and  David.P

SANTA CLAUS

HE IS AN OLSD JOLLY MAN WITH WHITE HAR A BEAR AND A MOUSTACHE. HE IS DRESSED IN A RED SUIT OUTLINED IN WHITE. FATHER CHRISMAS AND HIS ELVES MAKE ALL THE TOYS FOR CHRISMAS IN HOME IN THE NORTH POLE.

WE OWE MUCH ABOUT WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE FATHER CHRISTMAS TODAY TO THE AMERICANS OF THE 19TH CENTURY. IN 1822, CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE DESCRIBED WHAT HE IMAGINED FATHER CHRISMAS TO LOOK LIKE IN A POEM.

       

By: VICENTE ÁNGEL, CAROLINA,  ROSA MARÍA Y JÓSE ÁNGEL

My Avatar Amnesio

Hello I´m Amnesio. I´ve got short, straight, black hair and small brown eyes. I´ve got small ears, a small nose and a big mouth. My teeth are very clean. I´m wearing a blue shirt and a white T-shirt. I´m polite, good, brave, strong, intelligent, friendly, handsome, funny, happy, cheerful, kind, sesitive and nervous.I like pizza.I love chips and meat. I like playing football and tennis because I love sports. I always go to the cinema. I often go out alone. I sometimes go horse riding. I never go to pop concerts. I´m the shortest in my family. I´m faster than my friend Pepe. I look like Elvis Presley.                

                                                                          By Rodrigo.         

My avatar Pitufina

This is my avatar Pitufina.She has got blue eyes and long straight blond hair. Her face is blue. Her T-shirt is white.Her eyebrows are blue. Her nose is small and blue. Her mouth is pink.

My friend Ping

Hello!
My fríend has got pink hair , one eye is big and small , he's got a big nose and a small mouth.His favourite sport is playing tennis and his favourite food is the apple.

MY FRIEND, PINKHAIR

Hello my name is Pinkhair because my hair is pink.I've got blue eyes and pink hair.I've got small eyes, a small mouth and small
 ears.I'm  eleven yeras old.

My friend peludo.

Hello my friend is Peludo. Peludo is very ugly. He has got a big eyes  and red long hair. He has got a small nose.

My friend Vigco

Hello
My friend is Vigco.
He´s got one brown big eye and one green big eye. He´s got a big nose. He´s very very ugly. He likes doing aerobics, and he hates swiming. He hasn´t got a girl friend. He´s got a double chin. Vigco´s got red short straight hair. He´s mouth is very big and ugly. The kids hate Vigco. He´s got a round face. Vigco is frightened. He´s  is cross-eyed and he's got bulging eyes.
The end.

My friend Vizcolinny

Hi!

This is my friend Vizcolinny. He is very very ugly. This is his name because he is cross-eyed. He's got two different and enormous eyes. He's got a very big nose with two big holes.He is slim. He has got long auburn hair. He's got a thick hair. He's got a lot of buck teeth and big ears. He hasn't got eyebrows. He wears a light blue T-shirt.

He loves sports. His favourite sports are football and basketball. He also likes playing video games and going out alone. 
Do you like it?

THE END By: Alberto Glez. Cano                    




                                                                                    

My friend Salmonete

My friend Salmonete is funny.He has got nine eyes,four blue eyes,three green eyes and two brown eyes.He has got seven noses,one big nose,one medium nose and five small noses.He has got two mouths,one pink mouth and black teeth.He is a very good person.
By:Silvana

My friend Pepi.

sMy name is : Claudia 

Hello my friend is very ugly. he has long brown hair.
He has one eye bigger than the other eye.
He is cross-eyed. His mouth is ugly.
I love Pepi.
 By Claudia.

My friend Emilia

Hello my friend is Emilia. It´s a girl. She is chubby. She is weak. She is tall. She has an oval face. She has got a smiling face. She has got wavy, long and auburn hair. She has got piggy eyes . She han't got any eyebrows. She has got  false eyelashes. She has got a pug nose. She has got big pink mouth. She is  pretty. Her favourite sport is doing aerobics. She never wears earrings and always wears T-shirts. Her favourite hobbies are listening to music and wathing Tv. 
I love my friend.


                                            A kiss goodbye


By: Marina

My friend Bull

My friend bull is very handsome. He has got  green big eyes.His mouth is very ugly.He has two horns.
He has got an earring in his nose. His nose is very beautiful. He is bald. My friend is very sporty.
He heats people. He's a very good friend.

My friend Falopia

 My friend is  Falopia.
She has got very very big green eyes.
 She has got short straight black hair.
She has got a big mouth and very clean teeth.
She has got a small nose.
She likes sporst and singing.
Her favourite sport is tennis

She's got small ears.
Her favourite food is macarroni with cheese.
She is very funny, but sometimes is very crazy. She often plays tennis .
I like her favourite sport because is very easy.
SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND!!!!!!
SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND!!!
By: Nuria

My friend Terror.

Hello.
He's wearing  blue trousers and a white T-shirt.
He has got pink hair and a pink beard.
He has got small eyes and asmall mouth.
       by José Ángel

My friend Frenchu

He's my friend Frenchu. He's got  two eyes. One eye is green and big. Two eyes are big and blue. He's got short black hair. He's got a big nose. His favourite hobby is playing hockey. He loves sports. His favourite sport is playing basketball. Frenchu is  bigger than me. He likes animals. He hates watching TV. He's wearing a white t-shirt, blue trousers and green shoes.  I love my friend Frenchu.

By: Carolina 

My avatar Perico

My avatar Perico. She's got big red eyes and short straight hair. She has a round face. She has a smiling face. She has a pointed nose. She has arched eyebrows. She has a crew cut. She's medium height.  She the thinest!  She  beautifull. She's wearing a red scarf, a black T shirt,  white trousers, and red shoes. She's wearing glasses 3D. Perico loves animals. She hates sports. She likes ice cream. I love my Avatar Perico.

By: Carolina

My friends Famosus

My friend's name is Famosus. He is tall,strong and very young. He is a student at Harvard university. But sometimes is a teacher in Argamasilla de Alba. 

He loves sports and especially loves to play tennis. He's got straight long blong hair. He has many friends. Up Famosus! 

By:Moisés 

MY FRIEND PEPA

Hello my friend is Pepa. She´s short. She is thing. She is medium height. She is strong. She is pretty. She has got a thin face. She has got a flat nose. She has got hazel eyes. She has got arched eyebrows. She haen´t got false eyelashes. She has got wisdom teeth. She has got short, straigh, black hair. She's wearing purple long dress and black glasses. She always wears a white scarf. Her favourite sport is swiming. Her favourite hobbies are playing video games and reading  books. I love my friend.

A kiss goodbye 

BY: Marina

My avatar Monita Mona

My friend Monita Mona is very beautiful. She has got big brown eyes and stright long black hair. She's wearing a red T-shirt, a blue scarf and black glasses. She has got earrings. She has got one pink mini skirt . She has got  pink lips. She has got a serious face. She has got a chubby face. She has got a small nose. She has got brown big eyebrows. Monita is polite. She is thin and strong. She has got one sister and two brothers. She has got a husband.

By: Verónica Jimeno Cañas.

My avatar Rachet

Hi!

This is my avatar Ratchet. He is very handsome. He is very tall and large. He has got a round face. He hasn't got moles, warts or blackheads. He's got arched eyebrows. He is smiling. He has got big blue eyes. His eyebrows and his mouth are big but his nose is very little. He's got short curly auburn hair and his eyebrows are red too.

He's wearing a white T- shirt, a black jacket and black sunglasses.

He loves sports. His favourite sport is football but he also likes basketball and tennis.

Do you like it?

           The End     By: Alberto Glez. Cano

My friends Monster

Monster has got a normal nose and the perfect mouth. He's got black hair.
By: Jaime

My friend Topacia

The name of my friend is Topacia.
Topacia´s got three eyes, one eye is blue and big, one eye is green and smal, and one eye is green and big. She's got an oval face. She's got a very big nose. She´s got a small mouth and black teeth. She´s got a bulbous nose and she is very, very big. She´s got short hair and she´s got two bunches. She´s got small ears. She´s wearing one T-shirt.
She's very very beautiful. By: Lola

My friend Eustaquio

Hello my friend is Eustaquio. Eustaquio is very ugly. He has got blue big eyes and short straight blond hair. He has got a small nose and a small mouth. He has got a round face. He´s wearing a blue T-shirt. 

He likes peas and chips. He doesn´t like pizza. He is a very funny and happy person. He is a very good friend because he is polite, funny, happy, good and brave.                                         By Rodrigo.

My friend is Mash

My friend is Mash. He has got  one big eye, one big nose, a big mouth and red hair. My friend Mash is polite. He likes rice, the tomatoes and he loves yellow rice. He loves  Real  Madrid. He likes Cristiano Ronaldo because is goodlooking.

By: Diego Valenciano

My friend Canuto

My friend Canuto is very very ugly. He has got big green eyes and short stright grey hair. He has got a big nose and a a big mouth. He has got an oval face. He has got a sad face. He looks worried. he has got bulging eyes. He likes playing football. He doesn´t like dancing. He loves sausages. He hates vegetables and rice. He´s wearing a blue t-shirt. He´s wearing green and pink jeans. He has got a girlfriend. He has got one cousin.

By:Verónica Jimeno Cañas.

My friend Paco.

Hi this is my friend Paco. He has got a happy face. He has got a big pointed nose.He has got black hair and blue eyes.  Paco has got short hair and punk, and a big moustache. He is an athlete. And he especially   likes athletics. He likes fruit and meat.  By: Moisés.

My friend Tortonnisa

Hello, his name is Tortonnisa.
He has got four big eyes.
He has got seven small noses.
He has got fourteen small mouths.
He has got short pink hair.
He has got a pink beard
By: Raúl.