Czech Christmas

Czech Christmas TraditionsAdéla, Aneta

We have many, many original traditions. We cut apples, pour lead, float little boats, throw shoes behind, … andwe have presents under the Christmas tree!

We will introduce two interesting Christmas traditions.

Don´t be sad, Christmas time is coming!

Floating boats

Adela's favourite tradition

You need:

Nutshells

Little candles (you must put candles into the nutshell)

Matches or a lighter

A bucket or a bowl

Light the candles and put them into the nutshells.

Let the little boats float on water. If your boat joins another one you will be with this person next year.

Slicing apples Aneta's favourite tradition.

You need:

a knife

some apples

… and a good Christmas mood ;)

Cut the apples into halves .

If you have a star in the middle, you will be healthy next year, but if you have a cross, you will have bad luck and you will be sick.

Gold piggy

We have a superstition about a Gold piggy.

If you don‘t eat all day before Christmas dinner, you can see a Gold piggy. Or if you don‘t only eat meat, it is a better posibility. But we think that it isn‘t true.

Little kids believe in that.

http://pixabay.com/cs/pras%C3%A1tko-prase-banka-%C3%BAspory-ulo%C5%BEit-35760/

AdventBára, Luisa

It is the time before Christmas. We prepare for Christmas Day.

We decorate our houses, bake Christmas cookies, prepare presents for our family and friends.

Advent starts four weeks before Christmas Eve.

Each Sunday we light one candle on the Advent wreath.

Christmas EveVáclav, Jana, Eva, Ben, Andrea

In the Czech Republic we celebrate Christmas Eve on 24th December. On this day we decorate the Christmas tree.

All day we watch fairy tales on television. We eat Christmas cookies. Some people don‘t eat all day, because they want to see a Gold pig.

1. We don‘t eat if we want to see a Gold pig.

2. We place the Christmas tree in the largest room in thehouse. We decorate a Christmas tree. The Christmas tree isa spruce or a pine.

3. The room is locked troughout the day.

4. At dinner, which takes place before unwrapping gifts, weeat Christmas dinner. We eat a fried carp, potatoe saladand fish soup.

5. Then the bell rings and we go to unwrap the presents, which Little Jesus has put under the Christmas tree!

Procedure for the perfectChristmas

Typical Czech Christmas foodŠtěpán B. Štěpán CH. Radoslav P. Ruben.J.V.

Christmas cookies and Christmas cake:

Vanilla rolls, Gingerbread, Linzer cookies. Rum balls, etc.

Vanilla Rolls

Ingredients: 2pcs yolk

280g plain flour

280g butter

80g powdered sugar

80g walnuts

Let butter soften. Grind nuts.

In a bowl mix flour and sugar . Mix it with nuts and egg yolks . Process the dough properly. Wrap the dough in cling film and putit in the fridge for half an hour.

Make small rolls. Bake at 180 ° C for 10 minutes.

Cover the hot rolls in sugar flavored with vanilla and store in a box.

What do we have for Christmasdinner?Fried carp with potato salad gutted carp

½ teaspoon of salt

1 egg

flour 5 spoons

beadcrumbs

oil

Season the carp with salt. Put the carp in the flour, eggsand breeadcrumbs. Fry the carp in hot oil.

Christmas carp is served with potato salad , mashedpotatoes or boiled potatoes. It depends on what you prefer.

Christmas CarolsVojta, Petr, Igor, Martin, Pavel

http://www.hustopece.cz/zpivani-pod-vanocnim-stromem

We sing Christmas carols under theChristmas tree on the 24 December.

People gather on the square and together they sing carols, drink to eachother‘s health and then go home forChristmas dinner.

Silent night (Tichá noc )

English 1.Silent night, holy night,

all is calm, all is bright round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

2.Silent night, holy night, shepherds quake at the sight; glories stream from heaven afar, heavenly hosts sing Alleluia! Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRVkgaIcaE

Czech 1.Tichá noc, svatá noc,

jala lid v blahý klid.Dvé jen srdcí tu v Betlémě bdí,hvězdy při svitu u jeslí dlí,v nichž malé děťátko spí,v nichž malé děťátko spí.

2.Tichá noc, svatá noc!Co anděl vyprávěl,přišel s jasností v pastýřův stan,zní již z výsosti, z všech země stran:"Vám je dnes spasitel dán;přišel Kristus Pán!„

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YK0qvh4ym8

Jingle bells (Rolničky)

English Dashing through the snow

In a one-horse open sleighOver the fields we goLaughing all the wayBells on Bobs tail ringMaking spirits brightWhat fun it is to ride and singA sleighing song tonight

Jingle bellsJingle bellsJingle all the way!Oh what fun it is to rideIn One-horse open sleighHey!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNJmOsBS94

Czech

Rolničky, rolničky, kdo pak vám dal hlas? Kašpárek maličký nebo děda Mráz?Rolničky, rolničky,co to zvoní v nich?Maminčiny písničky Vánoce a sníh.

Sláva už je sníh, jedem na saních,kluci křičí, zvonek zní, jenom táta ztich.Kouká na syna, uši napíná,co to slyší v rolničkách? Na co vzpomíná?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQUiRIMLCFg

And now the quiz https://www.examtime.com/en/p/1768372-Czech-Christmas-quizzes