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Did you enjoy Christmas?
- What did you do last year on Christmas Day? |
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Do you celebrate
Christmas in your country? |
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Do you celebrate
Christmas in a special way? Do you have a traditional Christmas? |
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How long is
your Christmas vacation? |
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Did you believe
in Santa Claus when you were a child? |
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Do you remember
when you found out that Santa Claus wasn't real / or
when your children found out? What was your/their reaction
like? |
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Do people behave
differently during Christmas? - Do they
try to be better?
- Do you donate something (money,
clothes...) to charities?
- Do you give something
to homeless people? |
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Do you attend any
special religious ceremonies during the Christmas season? |
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Do you go to church
on Christmas day? |
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If you are not a
Christian, does the intense focus on Christmas in your country
make you feel bad in any way (e.g., ignored, dismissed, angry,
etc.)? |
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Do you think Christmas
is depressing? (There is a high suicide rate at this
time of year.) |
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What is your attitude
toward the commercialization of the Christmas season? - Is
Christmas becoming too commercialized? |
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Do you ever think
about the real meaning of Christmas? |
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Do you enjoy singing
Christmas songs? |
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Did it snow last
year at Christmas? |
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Do you think we
will have a white Christmas this year? |
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Do you usually put
up Christmas decorations in your house / outside of your house?
(Do you usually decorate your home?)
- How about at your school of the place where you work?
- Does your town get decorated at Christmas? What
kind of decorations? |
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Do you hang up a stocking? |
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Do you have a Christmas
Tree? - If so, how do you decorate
it?
- When do you put it up?
- When
do you take it down?
- Is it real or artificial? |
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When / how does
your family decorate the Christmas tree? |
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How long do you
keep your Christmas tree up after Christmas? |
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What is the significance of
a Christmas tree?
- What does it represent for you? |
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Do you have a part-time
job during Christmas vacation? |
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Do you have any
plans to go to a Christmas party? |
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Does you school have
a Christmas play? |
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Do you know why
Christmas is celebrated around the world? |
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Have you ever celebrated
Christmas in a foreign country? |
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Do you see your relatives at
Christmas time? |
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What do you eat
on Christmas Day?
- Do you eat a turkey dinner for your Christmas
dinner? |
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How many Christmas
cards did you receive last year? |
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How many Christmas
cards do you send? |
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Have you ever made
your own Christmas cards?
- If so, how did you make them? |
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How many presents do
you usually give? |
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What are you going
to buy your boyfriend / girlfriend / parents / . for their
Christmas present? |
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What is the best
Christmas present you have ever gotten? |
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What is the most
expensive Christmas present you plan to buy? |
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What kind of presents
do you expect to get this Christmas? |
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What time does your
family open the presents? |
| END
OF THE YEAR |
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How was this year? |
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Was this year better
or worse than last year? How come? |
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What was the happiest
/ saddest / toughest / thing for you this year? |
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What was the best
movie / music / tv show for you this year? |
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What was the best
place you visited this year? |
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What was the most useful thing
you bought this year? |
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What was the most expensive thing
you bought this year? |
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What was the biggest
waste of money this year? |
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What was something
you lost this year? |
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How do you usually
spend New Year's Eve? How about New Year's Day? |
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Do people in your
country usually make New Year's Resolutions? |
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Did you make a New
Year's Resolution this year? Eg:
- Get healthy
- Give up smoking / eating bad
food / shagging
- Be a better person
- Learn a skill. Which? |
| OTHER
FESTIVALS |
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Chinese new year (jan
or feb)
- how do you celebrate?
- firecrackers / dragon
dances / dock |
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Valentines
day - white day / black day / yellow
day |
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April fools
day
- where does it come from?
- Do you celebrate it?
- What are some tricks people play on April Fool's Day?
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Do you play tricks on April 1st? What? |
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Easter -
bunnies and eggs? Er... Pagan fertility festival
- date changes
each year... pagan Luna festival
- Mithras (see above) died
at this time |
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Children's day
(may 5) = colored streamers and toys |
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Halloween -
Can you explain the history of halloween? => pagan festival
renamed "all saints day" / Winter equinox
- How is Halloween
celebrated in your country?
- Ever been to a Halloween party?
What kind of costume did you wear?
- Trick or treat / Candy
- Pumpkins |
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Day of the dead
(nov 2 in mexico) - offer food in graveyards |
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Thanksgiving /
harvest festival / Chusok
- winter equinox |
