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Christmas

What do the English call the day after Christmas Day?

Football Day, Boxing Day or Fighting Day?

A time of happiness that brings family and friends together.

We wish you a merry Christmas!

The word "Christmas" means "Christ's Mass". It comes from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse. "Cristes" is from the Greek Christos, and "mæsse" is from the Latin missa. "Xmas" is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas.

The word "Christmas" comes from the Old English "Cristes maesse", meaning "the festival _______ of Christ".

Mass, holiday or mess?

Vocabulary: bags Premium-Inhalt

Soon Santa Claus will be making deliveries all over the world. And what does he use to carry all those gifts with him down the chimney? A bag! Let's talk about the bags we all carry.
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Christmas pop songs.Photo by Bernd Boscolo/pixelio.de

A great Christmas - Fun

Band Aid recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" exactly 25 years ago. Great song, terrible session — like a Christmas reunion gone terribly wrong. Come on down to the pub to remember the funny disasters of Christmas!

Happy Christmas! Santa must be here!

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "It's polka time at Bob Dylan's house party."

Britain's lowest-priced supermarket for 12 years running.

Asda gives its staff a big Christmas thank-you

At a time when British retailers are spending big on their Christmas campaigns, UK shopping giant Asda casts staff in its TV ads and eases the recession blues with a £16 million present to make the Advent season a little merrier for its workers.

"How we managed to drink so much on Christmas Day last year is _______."

Beside me, behind me or beyond me?

Many children in the English-speaking world believe that Santa Claus lives ________.

On the East Coast, at the South Pole, in the West End or at the North Pole?

Wash your mouse out!

Call me cheesy, but I prefer the Dean Martin version!

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