Christmas Traditions from Around the World! (Conversation Club)

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Conversation Questions: Christmas Traditions from Around the World!

1. Do you celebrate Christmas? Do many people in your country? If so, how?

2. In your opinion, what is the best, and the worst thing about Christmas?

3. Did you believe in Santa Claus or Father Christmas when you were younger?

4. What is the strangest Christmas or Winter tradition in your country?

5. What food do you associate with Christmas?

6. What do you think of Christmas decorations?

7. Do you like Christmas music? What is the best/worst Christmas song?

8. Do you buy Christmas presents? Is it a popular tradition in your country?

9. Has Christmas changed in recent decades? Will it change in the future?

10. Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.

Edna Ferber

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Celebrate
  • to take part in special enjoyable activities in order to show that a particular occasion is important
• Strange
  • unusual and unexpected, or difficult to understand
• Associate
  • to connect someone or something in your mind with someone or something else
• Decoration
  • something added to an object or place to make it look more attractive; the act of doing this
• Present
  • something that you are given, without asking for it, on a special occasion, especially to show friendship, or to say thank you
• Decade
  • a period of ten years
• Season
  • one of the four periods of the year; spring, summer, autumn, or winter

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