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Important days and holidays
New Year – 1st January
This festive day celebrates the start of the New Year. Some people still keep the tradition and prepare a big meal including pork for good luck and lentils for prosperity.
Easter
as it falls on the first Sunday after the spring full moon
Easter are the same as symbols of spring: lambs and eggs, representing new life. There is a tradition of “whipping girls” in our country. Boys go around the village or town and they whip girls with young sprigs of a willow, which is supposed to bring the girls good health.
It is connected with pre-Christian
On Easter Sunday children hunt for eggs all around the house, garden or even in parks in USA
The British eat Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday
Valentine´s Day
he 14th February is Valentine´s Day in Great Britain and the USA.
people exchange greeting cards, presents, sweets, chocolates and flowers.
St. Patrick´s Day
March l7th
A lot of Americans came from Ireland.
on St. Patrick´s Day and everything is green. Green is one of the national colours of Ireland
People wear something green on this day; shops prepare green food such as green bread, green pasta, green ice cream and green milkshakes.
People have parties where they sing Irish songs and eat Irish food.
April Fools´Day
1st April
playing practical jokes or tricks on people
If you manage a good joke then you can call the person “April fool!”
Mother´s Day
on the second Sunday in May in America and in Britain
all children, young and old, try to show how much they love their mothers
Father´s Day
This holiday which honours all fathers is celebrated both in Britain and the USA on 3rd Sunday in June.
Halloween
is celebrated on October 31
Among the old Celts it was the last day of the year and the beginning of winter when witches and ghosts were supposed to celebrate their rites.
It is generally celebrated in the USA and Canada
Children celebrate it by dressing up in Halloween costumes with masks over their faces. Carrying baskets or bags they go their friends’ and neighbours´to ask for candy Trick or Treat
Thanksgiving
on 4th Thursday in November
national holiday in the USA
it was first celebrated in 1621 by the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth colony, Massachusetts, on their first harvest.
Their first winter was hard and a lot of people died. Next year in spring they started to grow food with the help of Indians.
In autumn 1621 they celebrated their first harvest together. They wanted to thank God and the Indians for many things
the good harvest, their new home, new life and new friends.
their traditional dinner consisting of turkey, sweet potatoes, beans, corn with cranberry sauce, autumn vegetables, cider and pumpkin pie.
Christmas
24th
25th christmas day
CZ Liberation Day – 8th May
Liberation Day celebrates the end of World War II on 8th May, 1945. It is the time when we remember the people who fought and died for our freedom.
Jan Hus Day – 6th July
Czechoslovak Independence Day – 28th October