2. Christmas in Slovakia Frederika Horváthová Frederika Horváthová Sindy Horváthová Sindy Horváthová Frederika Horváthová Frederika Horváthová Sindy Horváthová Sindy Horváthová

3. Christmas Christmas time starts from 24 to 26 December Christmas time is the most beautiful time of year Christmas time is a feast of love and peace During the Christmas time people usually relax and watch Christmas fairies or listen to Christmas carols On Christmas I and my sister Sindy help our mum when she prepares Christmas Eve dinner. Christmas are not about gifts, but Christmas time is about nice time spent with the whole family

4. Preparations befor Christmas Before Christmas time we usually clean our flat. All activities are divided fairly. Mother washes windows and cleans the kitchen. Dad cleans dust from our furniture. Sindy and me hoovers our rooms and washes the floor. When all these activities are done we begin to decorate our flat

5. Christmas decoration At Christmas time we do decoration of our flat. It are our favourite activities before Christmas. We decorate our flat with various types of decorations. Sindy cuts reideers and bethlehem and I stick these pictures on the windows. Our parents build the Christmas tree and we help too. When the tree is ready, we put bethlehem under it. We have a Christmas wreath on the door. On the table we have a Christmas branches with decorations and Christmas wreath with four candels too.

6. Christmas traditions in our family before the Christmas time we usually do these avtivities: buy a carp build and decorate Christmas tree decoration of our flat baking and decorating of gingerbreads meeting with our family sending Christmas cards to our relatives or friends buying Christmas rose buying a wreath with four candels, whitch we gradualy lighten

7. Christmas in our family from 24 to 26 December On 24 December we prepare Christmas dinner the whole day.Our mum prepares mayonnaise salad and other specialities. Our dad cuts carp into pieces. Me and my sister Sindy help them or watch Christmas fairy. When the Christmas Eve dinner is ready we sit down at the table. This day the whole family sits together around one table. It is the most beautiful day of the year. We love this day. On 25 and 26 December we visit our relatives.

8. Christmas Eve Dinner Our Christmas Eve Dinner starts at about 6 p.m. In our family Christmas Eve Dinner starts with pray, then we eat wafers with honey, nuts and garlick. On Christmas Eve dinner we have traditional Christmas food and it is cabbage soup, mayonniase salad with fried carp. Later we eat Christmas cakes such as: gingerbreads, vanila rolls, bear paws, chocolate cups and many others cakes.

9. Gingerbreads AND HOW TO PREPARE GINGERBREADS? You need: 500 g flour, 200g sugar, 50g of almonds, a half of a packet of baking powder, ground cinnamon, shredded cloves, lemon peel, anise, 40g butter, 3 eggs, 100g of honey, 1 egg Bon appetit

10. Habits in our town Every year during Christmas time we have Christmas market in our town. On the town square very high Christmas tree is built. Christmas market provides us with a lot of stalls with traditional Christmas specialities, gingerbreads... Our town is nicely decorated with various colourful decorations.

11. And what do we do after Christmas? After Christmas time we do these activities : relax at home. when it is snowy, we usually build a snowman or go sledging. We walking outside with our parents. And prepare for New Year This is all about our Christmas time

12. MERRY CHRISTMAS