La Navidad es, sin duda, una de las celebraciones más importantes en Estados Unidos, junto con el Día de Acción de Gracias y el 4 de julio
Algunas de las tradiciones familiares durante esta celebración son salir a recorrer los decorados de luces de casas aledañas al vecindario, tomar ponche de huevo y chocolate caliente con malvaviscos. Además, la Navidad o noche buena en Estados Unidos se festeja el 25 de diciembre y no el 24 como en Colombia.
A continuación, conocerás expresiones y vocabulario en inglés sobre esta celebración
Christmas Expressions
• Seasons Greetings
• Happy Christmas
• Merry Christmas!
• Happy New Year!
• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
• All the best for the coming year
• Wishing you a prosperous New Year
Christmas vocabulary
- Angel: a spiritual being, usually represented as having a human form with wings
- Berry: a small round fruit
- Bethlehem: a small town close to Jerusalem, where Jesus is said to have been born
- Candle: a stick-shaped piece of wax with a wick
- Christmas: the annual Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ ( is on 25 December)
- Christmas cake: a rich fruit cake covered with white icing
- Christmas card: a greetings card that people send to friends and family.
- Christmas Day : 25 December, the birthday of Jesus
- Christmas Eve : the evening or day before Christmas Day
- Christmas tree : an evergreen tree that people decorate with lights
- Cracker : a decorated paper tube that makes a sharp noise («crack!») and releases a small toy when pulling it apart
- Decoration: something that adds beauty
- Egg-nog: a traditional Christmas drink made of alcohol with beaten eggs and milk
- Father Christmas : also known as Santa Claus
- Fireplace : a partly enclosed space in a house where people light a fire for warmth
- Holly : an evergreen plant with prickly dark green leaves and red berries.
- Mistletoe : a parasitic plant with white berries, traditionally used as a Christmas decoration.
- New Year’s Day: 1 January
- New year : the period just before and after 1 January
- New Year’s Eve: 31 December
- Reindeer : a deer with large antlers found in some cold climates.
- Santa Claus : an imaginary being who brings presents the night before Christmas Day
- Sleigh : a sledge pulled by horses or reindeer over snow and ice.
- Snow: white pieces of ice that sometimes fall from the sky when it is cold.
- Tinsel: a decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil
- White Christmas: a Christmas with snow on the ground.
- Xmas: abbreviation or informal term for Christmas
