Unit 2
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FREE TIME |
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Read and give the meanings of the words and expressions in bold.
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In Great Britain children like to celebrate a Teddy Bear birthday party and a football birthday party. They make lovely things for these parties. They make a cake in the shape of a ball, a bear and a ship. Children make a lot of things: fancy dresses, party masks, party hats, name badges, invitations, and posters. Most children like to celebrate birthday parties and Christmas parties.
September 9th is Teddy Bear Day. Teddy Bear Day is not an official holiday. In 1883 a German woman invented Teddy Bear as a toy animal. Her name was Margarete Steiff. She had polio* and used a wheel chair. She had an innovative mind. She sewed clothes in animal shapes. Her little animals were popular and she made more toys. One of them was a bear. It was her hobby to make animal toys. These toys were elephants, pigs, dogs and cats.
Halloween is on the 31st of October. Children dress in the costumes of witches, ghosts, skeletons. Children go in costumes from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, apples with the question: «Trick or treat?» and give them to poor people. Theycarve pumpkins and put candles into them, light bonfires, tell scary stories to each other and watch horror films.
At a Balloon party children make different colourful decorations. Children like to blow up a lot of balloons, decorate them and put them in the comer, on the ceiling and at the doorway. There are a lot of interesting games at this party. It is cool!
A Football birthday party for boys is popular in Great Britain. Boys love football. If a boy has a favourite football team, the party decorations are of team's colours: plates, cups, napkins, flags, balloons. In warm weather guests are outside and play some rounds of football. If the party is indoors, there are a lot of indoor games.