jueves, 19 de abril de 2012

Easter in England!

Hi,
I know this is a little late but I thought I would tell you all about Easter in my country.
In England, Easter is not widely celebrated as a religious holiday. There are religious ceremonies over Easter weekend, but the majority of people don't really celebrate in a religious way.
In schools, we have two weeks off to celebrate Easter. The special days include: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Sunday. This year, Easter weekend started on Friday 6th April and finished on Monday 9th April. We also celebrate Shrove Tuesday. This takes place before Easter, and is more commonly called 'Pancake Day'. On this day, everyone eats pancakes. This started because in the olden days, people used to give up all rich foods for 40 days (not including Sundays) before Easter, so they would have a feast the day before. These days, most people just give up one item of luxury food, for most this is something such as meat or chocolate. Most Christian people take part in Lent, even if they are not very religious. The day after pancake day is called Ash Wednesday, and this is the official date Lent begins. Lent finishes on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. The main reason Christians celebrate Lent is because in the Bible, it says that Jesus spent 40 nights alone in the desert and was not tempted by the food offered by the Devil. Christians stop eating luxury foods for 40 days to represent the sacrifice made by Jesus.
The main tradition at Easter in England is to give chocolate eggs to children on Easter Sunday, and they are delivered by the Easter Bunny (a bit like Santa Claus bringing presents at christmas!). These are given on Easter Sunday to celebrate the end of Lent, when people can eat luxury foods again. We give chocolate eggs because an egg is a symbol of a new life, and this represents Jesus being resurrected. People used to give decorated eggs to each other at Easter, but now we have changed to chocolate eggs. However, in primary schools, most children spend the day before the Easter holidays decorating eggs in school, and there are usually competitions to judge who has the best decorated egg.
As you can see, Easter is very different in England compared to Spain!!

12 comentarios:

  1. I think Easter is the best celebration in the World!!!Easter is celedrates in a lot of countrys.I love Easter because I have holiday.

    Alex

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  2. Good morning ;)
    Yeah, Easter in UK is tottally different compared to Spain. But I think it has to be very curious, one day, I'd like to do some activities at school about that, it would be funny! And eat chocolate eggs, mmm yummy! :-P
    Kisses, Beatriz Bella 3º ESO B

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  3. Hello everybody ;)
    That's curious because it happens in Romania too. I really like this because you'll have fun painting eggs, eating too much chocolate and receive gifts :)
    Kisses, Mónica 3º ESO C

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  4. I'd like to celebrate Easter in UK to eat a lot of pancakes and chocolate eggs!
    I think that here in Spain, religion has more influence in the "holy week".

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  5. Hello everyone! I'm Antonio from 4ºA!
    I don't know if I would like the Easter because I don't like the chocolate, but I would want to do the Easter here onde day because it will be funny!
    Bye

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  6. Hello! I'm Rocío Cózar from 3º B Bilingual group
    I like Easter in UK, is different compared to Spain.
    I'd like to celebrate Easter in UK sometime, would be fun.
    Bye Bye! :DD

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  7. hello!My name is Antonio Martin and I am for the 3º ESO C.I think that is a good celebrate, but I like the spain celebrate for example El Rocio

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  8. Hi, in UK, the culture is different but I reckon that each place have his charming. Of course that I'd like to celebrate Easter in UK someday :)

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  9. Hello! :)
    This celebration is so practical because I think that all people like holidays and people in general can do other activities.

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  10. Hello!! I'm Jose Mª García from 4ºA

    I don´t like old celebrate Easter but after that when I have continued reading it has improved and now I think that it's funny.

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  11. Hello, I´m Francisco from 3rd Eso, I agree with Antonio Martín, I think that is a good celebrate, but I prefer the celebrations of my town like 'El Rocío' and the easter.

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  12. Hi I am Damián Ponce from 3b.
    I think that this celebration is very well.

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