Christmas Food

what were you in your first christmas play?

i was a christmas pudding

Can Anyone with a great imagination help me with a costume idea?

I am in a Christmas play and my character is a 40 something drama queen english teacher! She is a very dramatic person who goes around singing “Bring me some figgy pudding ” and loves Christmas!!! i want an outfit that is “out there” and very colorful!!!! Please somebody help!!! I need all the ideas I can get!!!

How do you say ‘We usually have Christmas parties once every year.’ in Spanish?

and how do you say

‘We had a lot of fun but we didn’t play sports in the large garden because it was raining and cold. I ate a lot.’

‘There was a lot of food, I liked the turkey it was tasty and I enjoyed the chocolate pudding.’

in Spanish?

Thanks in advance

Christmas Questions????????????????????

My english homework is to answers these christmas questions:

Put them end to end and they would stretchfrom the Tower of London to the Pyramids of Egypt?
The mince pies we eat each christmas
The £20 notes taken from bank tills on christmas shopping day

The british isles could sink under the extra 158,000 tonnes we put on them each christmas. tonnes of what?
Tinsel
Human fat

Britain spends £450 million on them every christmas
Mince Pies
Chocolate

they’ve been on earth 9 million years longer than humans
Turkeys
Reindeers

Put end to end they would go almost 4 times around the world
The christmas wrapping paper bought each year
Toilet paper used on christmas day

5 million people in the UK take them at christmas
Indigestion tablets
Baths

Put end to end they would stretch to the moon
rolls of Sticky tape bought for christmas
christmas puddings we buy every year

if santa could deliver toys at christmas how many reindeer would he need?
200,000
210,000
215,000

When there are doors and windows why does the fat guy insist on squeezing down the chimney?
st nicholas was the patron saint of chimney sweeps
pagan legend about an earth goddess who arrivied via the chimney
doors hadnt been invented when he first started

how long did it take charles dickens to write ‘a christmas carol’
22 years
2 years
2 months

how long did it take for the book to become a hit?
slow at first but sold out in ten years
instant hit and sold out straight away
by the following christmas it had sold out

what did dickens say about the book?
I was a bit surprised – ive written better
Im amazed no-one else had the idea. id pinched it from an old scottish story

The greatest, i think, ive ever written
dickens made still more money by doing what?
travelling the country talking about it
making a record of the story and selling it
turning it into a panto and playing scrooge himself

what effect did dicken’s success have on him?
all the travelling and performing killed him
it made a jealous writer kill him
it made him so rich that his wife killed him to get his money

when dickens died it was a shock to the christams industry. one little girl said what?
does that mean father christmas is dead
does that mean tiny tim is dead
does that mean there’ll be no more christmas

THE NEXT ONES ARE TRUE OR FALSE

x in xmas stands for the cross jesus died on

In the middle ages you could by a ready cooked goose to take away for christmas

Tinsel’s put on a tree because it looks like spiders webs

christmas pudding was invented after the first christmas

rosemary (the herb) was thrown on the floor and trampled on by everyone

the popular song ‘Jingle Bells’ was specially written for Christmas

santa is dead and buried in italy

in the usa there is a town called santa claus

tinsel was invented as a christmas decoration

ducks in walmer, kent get a present every christmas

how many white christmases did london have in the 20th Century
2
7
13

an english law states that everyone should go to church on chritmas day on
foot
fire
their best behaviour

victorian postmen were nicknamed ‘robins’ because of their bright red uniforms. why were their uniforms red?
so they could be seen in the snow
it was the royal mail and red is a royal colour
if they were attacked and robbed the blood wouldnt show

in the netherlands the dutch santa is dressed as a bishop and rides through the sky on what?
reindeer
horse
angel

in 1841 gateshead had a colourful whatt?
a white christmas when snow fell 2m deep
a blue christmas when people turned blue from cholera
a red christmas when the town was covered in red brick dust

electric christmas lights were first used in america around?
1850
1880
1920

in 1932 king george V gives the british public its first what?
christmas message
christmas street-lights which he switched on at chelmsford
christmas firework display form buckingham palace

in 1880 so many christmas cards were being sent, the Post Office makes its first plea to the public to do what?
post early for christmas
dont waste post office time. do not send cards
deliver you own christmas cards and save the postman’s feet

rudolf the red nosed reindeer started out as and advertising campaign in 1939. Rudolf wasnt his original name was it
rollo
rambo
rumpo
reginald
ringo

in 1999 300 santas from the german city of berlin went on strike. why?
they wanted a pay rise
the government said they had to pay tax
they wanted christmas eve off work

how do we know santa has a white beard, red and white suit and black boots when no-one has ever seen him?

Thank you so much — huge help if you answer!!!

it didnt take me that long — ive already spent 2 hours looking

Is your home a little cottage in the country with snow on the roof and children happily playing snowball?

fights in the lane? When people ride past on there bicycles do they call out “Morning, Merry Christmas?” Have you bought your great big turkey from Mr Nice, the butcher? And what about the great big Christmas pudding that you are making, Is it finished yet? My Christmas tree has lots of lights, Has yours?

This bleeding Xmas is driving me nuts. Do you think that I’m going cuckoo?