As soon as 2 January arrives, shops remove the Christmas
product lines from their shelves and the Christmas decorations from
their windows. What fills the empty spaces? Chocolate Easter eggs,
Easter bunnies and Easter chicks, despite the fact that Easter itself
doesn’t come along until a few months later. This year Easter Day is
on Sunday 16 April. Easter also means we have public holidays, Good
Friday and Easter Monday, it’s the longest public holiday after
Christmas and people sometimes take the opportunity to take a short
break away from work . Cheryl from Liverpool
said, ‘I use the Easter break to visit relatives and socialise with
friends, the chocolate giving and receiving is a good bonus!’
Easter is a spring festival. In the Christian festival, it
celebrates the resurrection of Christ. In the European pre-Christian
tradition, it celebrates the return of nature and greenery after the
cold, snowy winter. Both the Christian and pagan versions of Easter
celebrate life and rebirth. The Easter chick symbolises new life, the
rabbit represents fertility and the egg symbolises both. That is why
painted eggs or chocolate eggs are given as gifts at Easter.
Chocolate Easter eggs are sold in larger numbers every year
in the UK. The
British people consume more than any other country in
the world! That's not even per head; that's per country! Of course,
it depends on the amount of givers, but the average child in the UK
receives 6 – 10 large chocolate eggs and that’s not including the
small ones.
text from: www.teachingenglish.org.uk
WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO AN EASTER EGG HUNT AT SCHOOL? IF THIS ENTRY GETS 20 COMMENTS WE WILL DO ONE NEXT FRIDAY!
Have a look at this link if you don't know what an egg hunt is!
