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高中圣诞节英语作文20篇

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圣诞节英语

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hristmas is one of the most important celebrations of the year for the western countries. It falls on the twenty- fifth of December and has the same importance as Chinese New Year to people with English backgrounds. The celebration is for the birth of Jesus Christ, who is the son of God in Christianity. Now days Christmas is no longer only celebrated by the Christians, but by most people from all over the world.

On the twenty- fourth of December everyone gets excited for it’s the day before Christmas which is called Christmas Eve. The children are usually sent to bed early and are warned that “Santa Claus will only come and give you a present if you be good.” The younger kids actually believe that Santa will come down the chimney on the sleigh that’s pulled by his reindeers. Food like short bread and beer are prepared for Santa when he comes, however most times parents just eat them. Some children put socks and sacks up for the holding of the presents (that their parents put in).

Rise and shine on Christmas morning! The children are always the first ones to wake up, some even do at four. Present wrappers everywhere! They look into their presents with a big smile on their face and oh dear….I hope no one’s disappointed. I feel sorry for anyone that got pink underwear. Children play while dinner is prepared by the adults. The Christmas dinner are usually eaten together by relatives. The tradition of Christmas pudding and roosters are usually eaten with deserts afterwards. The rest of the day is usually games and fun before the good days all come to an end.

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

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Hello,everyone here.Now,please let me introduce myself to you.I am the only girl in my family. For my own hobbies, I love traveling,listening to music and reading.From these hobbis, you can see,I would like to live a free life.Of course, everyone has some strong points.without myself exception,for instance,both of playing the piano and drawing are my strong points.At present,I am satified with my life. The activities in school are great.My teachers and classmates are friendly to me.For my parents,both of them are managers.They are always busy working.As for my ideas of going abroad to study, I think it is useful and wonderful if we have the chance to do so.I also would like to go abroad to study to improve myself.Thats all.Thank you.

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篇2:圣诞节的英语

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a special christmas party

it is hardly make me forget the christmas party that i spent a whole night whih my friends.

this christmas,i invited some frineds to my home to celebrate.we made the house up ,like a magic world. to be honest ,i haven‘t got any experience like that.we got togather,song and danced. one of my frineds was dressed like santa----the father of christmas.he collected all the presents of us.put them into a bag ,then let us chose one of them.so we can get all the best wishes from all of us.

we talkde so much what about our friendship and other interesting things. all of us thought that night

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翻译:我现在很难忘记和朋友在一起度过的那个圣诞晚会

这个圣诞节,我邀请了一些朋友到我家来一起庆祝圣诞节,我们将房子装饰了一下,就像一个魔法世界。说实话,我们还都没有过这样的经历。我们聚集在一起,唱歌,跳舞。我的一个朋友还打扮的很像圣诞老人。他收集了我们所有的礼物,把它们都放在一个袋子里,然后让我们再从中选择一样。这样我们可以得到所有朋友的最好祝福。

我么还讨论了很多关于我们的友谊以及其他有趣的事情,我们所有人都认为这个夜晚是非常有价值的。

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篇3:万圣节的高中作文英语

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Today is Halloween in the west. I went to suzhou park with my parents and went to Halloween.

I feel very lively as soon as I get in! Many, many monsters! They are all tourists. Then I saw the floats! The people on the float came down, cats, death, vampires and so on. I took pictures with them.

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篇4:高中写人英语作文:怀孕的少女

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The Pregant Teenage Girl

Recently, a girl who was born after the year of 2000 showing a picture of her pregant image in Weibo. This teenage girl wrote down the words that she was busying giving birth to a child for her so called husband, who was also a teenager. Soon this picture became the hot issue. People were so shocked by the girl’s young face, which looked so innocent and she was just no more than 16!Such a young girl surely did not have the ability to raise a kid, what’s more, they even did not figure out the meaning of responsibility. The problem of family education was brought to the public again. The root of young pregancy lies in the parents’ caring. The lack of communication between parents and chidren is easy to have such problem. It is not appropriate to have baby at such early age.

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篇5:有关音乐英语作文高中

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What is your favorite kind of music? Do you like jazz, popular music,

classical music, folk songs, blues, and so on? In high school I took one course

called music appreciation which I greatly enjoyed. This was not to learn how to

play a specific instrument but to learn how to read and listen to music as an

art form. We read the stories about the lives of many composers and the history

of the musical instruments themselves. Sometimes we listened to tapes at the

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language. A composer who cannot speak a single word of our language can make us

feel joy and pride, exaltation and despair, peace and mystery through his

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篇6:高中英语作文:我的未来计划

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I always dream of becoming a teacher, because teaching is the most glorious project in the world. Nothing is more important than education to a nation. Im honored to devote myself to education.

我一直梦想成为一名教师,因为教师是世界上最光荣的职业。对于一个国家来说没有什么比教育更重要。我很荣幸能为教育献身。

As far as I know, a teacher can be described as a candle. Hes very kind-hearted and generous; Hes wise and intelligent; Hes diligent and hardworking. He has the willingness to help others, so people always speak highly of teachers.

据我所知,老师被喻为蜡烛。他是非常的善良和慷慨的;他是明智和聪明的;他是勤奋和努力的。他乐于助人,所以人们都高度赞扬教师。

If I could be a teacher, I would be very honorable. After all, my major is English Education. I must take up this career. Now my dream comes true, so I will work harder and harder. I believe I can make it.

如果我能成为一名老师,我会感到很光荣。毕竟,我的专业是英语教育。我必须要从事这个职业。现在我的梦想成真了,所以我会更加努力地工作。我相信我可以做得到。

[高中英语作文:我的未来计划

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篇7:高中面试自我介绍英语

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good morning/good afternoon teachers,

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I think ... middle school is the perfect choice for me and I really wish to study in this school.

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篇8:关于描写圣诞节的英语作文

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篇9:初中新年计划英语作文高中英语作文素材新年新计划Myplanforthenewyear

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选修课(Selective Courses) This term our school laid down a new rule about selective court. For the first two weeks, we may sit in as many classes as we like before we decide on which courses to choose. We jumped for joy. The first week I attended classes for four evenings on end and found out that most of the teachers took it serioualy. They were busy in "winning votes" for fear, that later on no one would attend their lectures.

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篇10:高中英语作文:坚强的意志

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Since I go to high school, I live in the school and stay away from my parents. I have three roommates, at the beginning, we have trouble in staying in the same room, but now we have got used to it.

One of my roommates impresses me so much, since she comes to our room, she keeps the habit of reading the novel when we go to bed. She told me that when she lived with her parents, she dared not to read it because her mother would blame her for sleeping late. Now she is very happy that she is out of control, it seems that she is free.

But I feel sorry for her, because she is short-sighted now, what’s more, she is lagging behind other students in the study. Staying away from her parents, she is not strong enough to behave herself. We should have the strong will and behave ourselves.

自从我上了高中,我就住在学校,远离父母。我有3个室友,刚开始,我们不习惯同处一室,但是如今,我们已经习惯了。有一个室友让我印象很深刻,自从她住进我们的房间,她就在我们睡觉的时候保持看小说的习惯。她告诉我们在她和父母住在一起的时候,她不敢看小说,因为她妈妈会责怪她那么晚睡觉。如今她很高兴再也不受控制了,似乎她得到了自由。但是我为她感到遗憾,因为她现在已经近视,而且,在学习方面也落后于其他同学。离开了父母,她不够强大,无法自律。我们应该有坚强意志,并且自律。

[高中英语作文:坚强的意志

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篇11:描述生活英语高中

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When I go to high school, our school has the rule to ask students to live

in the dormitory. Most students live with their parents before, so we all feel

excited and afraid of the group life. Luckily, I have three nice roommates. Soon

we become close friends. Living with others, we learn to do the house work, such

as everyone needs take turn to clean the floor, when we have something good to

eat, we will share with each other. The group life makes us have less private

space, but we enjoy the moment when we have the little talk before sleep, the

secrets that we dont want our parents know can talk to these girls. Whats

more, I become much independent. I learn to take care of myself and have really

grown up.

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篇12:高中英语作文:努力和运气

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There is a saying that man proposes, goddisposes, which means man plan the things and the rest of the outcome lies inthe luck.

This saying reflects the connection between hard-work and luck, whichis though sometimes we have worked so hard, luck occupies great position, theunexpected things happen and refrain us from succeeding.

In order to besuccessful, people work so hard, they believe they can achieve their goals, butlacking luck stops them achieving their goals.

So working hard doesn’t meanbringing people success directly, they just need to try more times, withoutluck, they still can make their goals. Luck can help people close to success,without hard-work, they can’t be successful. Hard-work and luck make peoplerealize their goals, but without luck, people still can make it by trying moretimes.

有一句话说谋事在人,成事在天,意思是人们计划事情,剩下的结果依赖于运气。这句话反应了努力和运气之间的联系,那就是虽然有时候我们很努力工作,但是运气也占据了很重要的位置,意外的事情会发生,阻挡人们成功。为了取得成功,人们努力工作,他们相信能达到目标,但是运气的缺失让他们无法达到自己的目标。因此努力并不意味着能直接给人们带来成功,他们需要多试几次,没有运气,人们仍然可以达到目标。运气帮助人们接近成功,没有努力付出,无法成功。努力和运气能让人们实现目标,但是没有运气,人们多尝试几次,也能终将办到。

[高中英语作文:努力和运气

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篇13:有关圣诞节英语作文高中

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Most westerners always celebrate Christmas Day as their major festival, in

order to memorialize Jesus. During that time, they always have several days off,

so they can enjoy this festival with all their hearts. The children often get

together with their friends. The adults are busy with decorating their houses.

They also send the postcards with their best wishes to each other. In the

streets, there are so many Fathers Christmas sending presents to the passers-by.

And everything is on a discount in the supermarkets. Thus the supermarkets are

the busiest places.

In the evening, the families usually have pudding, sandwiches, apple pies

and some other desserts for dinner. After supper, the families always sing and

dance around the Christmas tree. Sometimes, they also go to church. Before going

to bed, the children often hang up their stockings beside their bed, so that

Father Christmas will fill them with presents. It is said that Father Christmas

always drives a deer to the human world and entering into each house from the

chimney. Now the children no longer believe in Father Christmas, but they still

hang up their stockings, because their parents will fill them with presents.

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篇14:圣诞节送给英语老师的一封信

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Dear Mr. X,

Hello!

You are the most respected teacher in my mind, although you are very strict, but you put your heart on us. You work from dawn to dusk, thinking about better teaching methods. You are like a candle, let me feel the infinite future of the bright, but burned themselves.

Trees cant grow without sunshine, rain and dew, only their selfless charity, will have a vibrant. The life of a flower is inseparable from the earth. With the nutrition provided by the earth, there will be a beautiful and moving flower. And our life, inseparable from the teacher, with your enthusiasm to help, with your inculcate, will have our healthy growth... Thank you so much, teacher! Shi-en is like a fish in water. In the past three years, you have taught us with great care. Every one of your epigrams is still vividly in my mind, which reminds me of a lot of things.

Teacher, I want to say to you: "You are really great! You are my best teacher! I like you!

It is because of your education, we can have todays knowledge, will have todays such a talent to learn, it is because of your care, we these "flowers of the motherland" to healthy growth, it is because of your little teachings, we understand the truth of life. You are like a tree, we thrive under your shade. You give us care like a mother, let me feel very happy, let me have the interest of learning, let me feel that you give endless strength, let me feel that you are my rely on, let me feel inseparable from you. Teacher, our good grades cannot do without your hard education, our good grades cannot do without your careful cultivation. Every step forward is inseparable from your hard sweat.

Yes, sometimes you are very strict with us, and often strict with us, and often teach us, serious and responsible for us, even if we have a little mistake, you will find. But I know, you are for us to be able to better further study, so that we can have great achievements in the future.

Teacher, thank you for our serious and responsible education, thank you for your concern about us, thank you for teaching us a lot of knowledge, thank you for your selfless dedication to us, one thousand ten thousand "thank you" can not return your teaching to us.

merry

A healthy body

Your students

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篇15:高中优秀英语作文

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In our life, everyone 情态动词+have . Some could be found at last. But some of them couldn’t be found forever. I had an unforgettable experience. One day, I went home happily. I I found my watch gone (be about to do ...when ...句型 ) . I was very worried. I looked for it everywhere but 省略 ), it is very important.It’s the gift that my parents gave to me for my Two days later, to my surprise, I found my watch in my drawer, which made me overjoyed (非限制性定语从句 ). The experience precious gift (虚拟语气 ) . I should take care of it and avoid missing it again.

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篇16:我的朋友高中生英语作文

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friends are very important to us. when in trouble, we need friends to offer us en couragement and help. with success achieved, we also need friends to share our joys. its hard to imagine life without friendship!

a person should make as many friends as he can. the more friends he has, the more meaningful his life will be. similarly, a country, too, needs friends. china today, for example, has friends all over the world. with the open policy being successfully carried out, she is certain to make more friends in the future.

however,real friends are not easy to find. thats why we highly value our friend ship with them. false friends also exist. they may have a bad influence on our character and are even worse open enemies. therefore, it is essential we take care in making friends.

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朋友对我们很重要。当遇到了麻烦,我们需要朋友给予鼓励和帮助。以达到成功,我们也需要朋友来分享我们的欢乐。想象没有友谊的生活是艰难的!

一个人应该广交朋友。朋友越多,他的生活将更有意义。同样,一个国家,太,需要朋友。今天的中国,例如,有世界各地的朋友。随着开放政策成功的进行,她一定在未来作出更多的朋友。

然而,真正的朋友是不容易找到的。这就是为什么我们非常珍视朋友的船。假朋友也是存在的。他们对我们的品格有不良影响,甚至是更糟糕的敌人。因此,我们有必要谨慎交友。

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篇17:小学生圣诞节英语作文附翻译

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Christmas is very important for a foreigner, it is equally important for Chinese people, today is Christmas Eve, is the first day of Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus is ready to gift this year, in the day but to send oh! I was just about to send mom a big apple, after school, I quickly came to a store, "boss, have a Christmas fruit?" I loudly of say, the boss looked at me and shook his head, ah! Not so soon, alas! I had to go home crestfallen, mother see me frown, said: "whats wrong?" I like sewed the mouth not to tell the truth, I turned her eyes a brainwave, then find ways to make Christmas fruit, see I like listen to the who command to lay down their bags, hide in the room not to come out, first of all, I first took a red and big apple for the main body, with my favorite ribbons to decorate the tree, suddenly a princess appeared in front of me gorgeous dresses, translucent jade bracelet, blue glass slipper, ah! How beautiful, use my card made into the shape of a Christmas tree, the above also write a words: "mom, I love you, you are the most beautiful in the world of the mother, mother Christmas to you soon!" Succeeded, I quickly ran to mom, mom was shocked, she shed a drop of tears, the tears are sweet.

The second day of Christmas morning, I received a gift, I know this is from the mother, but I still like a child, when I came to school, my drawer is filled with CARDS, mother and I am very touched, the card is the card are He Yu, only written on a card, I was very angry, because he and I played a joke on.

Christmas, someone make fun of others makes me very moved, anyhow I wish you all a merry Christmas!

圣诞节对于外国人来说非常重要,对于中国人来说也同样重要,今天就是平安夜,也是圣诞节的第一天。

平安夜到来了,圣诞老人正在准备着今年的礼物,在这一天里可是要送苹果的哦!我正准备送妈妈一个大苹果,放学后我赶忙来到小卖部,“老板,有没有圣诞果?”我大声的说,老板看了看我,摇了摇头,啊!这么快就没有了,唉!我只好垂头丧气的回家了,妈妈见我皱起眉头,便说:“怎么了?”我像针缝了嘴似的没说出真相,我转了转眼睛灵机一动,便想出法子来做圣诞果,只见我像听了谁的命令似的放下书包,躲进屋子里不出来,首先,我先拿来一个又红又大的苹果来做主体,再用我那最喜欢的彩带来装饰它,顿时一位公主出现在我面前华丽的服装,透亮的玉镯、蓝色的水晶鞋,啊!多么漂亮,用我的卡纸做成了一个圣诞树的形状,上面还写上了一句话:“妈妈,我爱你,您是世界上最漂亮的妈妈,妈妈祝你圣诞快了!”成功了,我急忙跑去送给妈妈,妈妈惊呆了,她流下了一滴眼泪,这滴眼泪很甜。

圣诞节的第二天早晨,我收到了礼物,我明知道这是妈妈送的,但我却依旧像个小孩子,当我来到学校时,我的抽屉里堆满了贺卡,和妈妈一样我非常感动,贺卡就是贺卡上面都是一些贺语,只有一张贺卡上写的,我非常生气,因为他和我开了一个玩笑。

圣诞节正是如此,有人开玩笑,也有人令我非常感动,总之祝大家圣诞节快乐!

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篇18:高中英语次不愉快的旅行

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高中英语作文一次不愉快旅行

一次不愉快的旅行

I went to Changsha for my holiday by train on the night of July 15th,2012. It was so hot in the carriage that many passengers wanted something to drink. Just then, a young man came to deliver water with a water jug in hand. "Water, water. Free water. "shouted the young man.

A middle-aged woman asked for a glass of water and was very grateful to the young man. But after a while, two tall and strong men came to charge her five yuan for that glass of water. The middle-aged woman looked at them and took out a five-yuan note from one of her pockets slowly. Without a word, she handed the note to one of them, her eyes being filled with anger.

The carriage was silent. The two men went away without any sense of shame. "Robbers!" someone said in a low voice.

This was really an unpleasant trip I have ever had!

2012年7月15日晚,我乘火车去长沙度假。由于天气很热,车厢里有很多乘客都想喝水。正好,一个年轻人提着水壶来送水。"水,水,免费供水。"年轻人大声嚷着。

一位中年妇女喝了一杯水,非常感激他。可过了一会儿,来了两个又高又壮的人向她要5元水钱。中年妇女看着他们,慢慢地从兜里掏出了5元纸币给其中一个人。她什么也没说,眼里充满了愤怒。

车厢里一片寂静。那两个人毫无愧色地走了。"强盗!"有人小声说道。

这是我经历过的一次不愉快的旅行。

On the night of July 15th,2012,I went to Changsha for my holiday on a train. It was very hot. The temperature went up to 38 centigrade. It was stuffy and crowded in the carriage, so many passengers wanted something to drink, Just then, a young man came to deliver water with a water jug in hand. "Water, water. Free water. "The young man shouted while walking.

A middle-aged woman asked for a glass of water and was very thankful to the young man. But after a while, two tall and strong men came to charge her 5 yuan for that glass of water. The woman looked at them for a while,then she took out a 5-yuan note from one of her pockets and handed it to one of them. Though she said nothing, her eyes were full of anger. The two men went away without any sense of shame.

This was the most unpleasant trip I have ever had.

2012年7月15日晚,我乘火车去长沙度假。天气很热,气温高达38摄氏度。车厢里又闷又挤,因此许多乘客都想喝水。正在这时,一个年轻人提着水壶来送水。"水,水。免费供水。"年轻人一边走一边大声嚷着。

一位中年妇女喝了一杯水,非常感谢他。可是过了一会儿,来了两个又高又壮的人向她要5元水钱。她看了他们一会儿,从口袋里掏出5元纸币给了其中一个人。尽管她什么也没说,可是她眼里充满了愤怒。那两个人毫无愧色地走了。

这是我经历过的最不愉快的一次旅行。

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篇19:有关英语圣诞节

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the thankful great universe provides the environment of existence for us and give us sunlight, air, water and everything in keeping with we existence of space, bring storm to let us accept to toughen for us, bring to us mysterious let us look for.

the thankful parents give us the life, make us feel the merriment of the human life, feel the genuine feeling of the human life, feel the comity of the human life, feel happiness of the human life, also feel hardships and pain and sufferings of the human life!

the thankful teacher works with diligence and without fatigue everyday of teach, give us knowledge ability, put on the wing which flies toward the ideal for us.

the thankful classmate and friend grows up road of, let i no longer standing alone in the itinerary of life; the with gratitude is frustrated and let us become in a time the failure stronger.

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篇20:圣诞节英语作文:The Christmas Tree

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Although it is generally agreed that the Christmas tree in its current form came from Germany in the early 19th century, the tradition of decorating a tree to mark winter celebrations dates back hundreds of years to Roman times, when they used to decorate evergreen trees with small pieces of metal to celebrate Saturnalia.

In medieval times the Paradise Play was performed every year on 24 December. This depicted the creation of Man and the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and always included an evergreen hung with apples which represented the apple tree of temptation.

There is a legend that St Boniface, an English monk, came upon a group of pagans gathered around an oak tree who were preparing to sacrifice a child to the God Thor. In order to stop the sacrifice, and save the childs life, St Boniface is said to have felled the tree with one blow of his fist. Later on, a fir tree grew in place of the oak and this, St Boniface told the pagans, was the Tree of Life and represented the Christ Child.

Legend also suggests that, in the late 16th century, Martin Luther (the founder of the Protestant religion) was the first to decorate an indoor tree with candles when he attempted to recreate the stars shining over a forest of evergreens.

The first mention of decorated trees being taken indoors came in 1605 in Germany - a country with a long Christmas tree history! The trees were initially decorated with fruit and sweets together with hand made objects such as quilled snowflakes and stars. German Christmas Markets began to sell shaped gingerbreads and wax ornaments which people bought as souvenirs of the fair and took home to hang on their tree.

Tinsel was also invented in Germany in about 1610. Up until fairly recently real silver was used, which was pulled into wafer thin strips by special machines. This was durable but tarnished quickly and many experiments took place to try and find an alternative - including a mix of lead and tin, which was too heavy and kept breaking. It was only in the mid 20th century that a viable alternative was found.

Artificial trees were invented in the 1880s in a bid to try and stop some of the damage being caused to real trees due to people lopping the tip off large trees, thus preventing the trees from growing any further. It got so bad in Germany that laws had to be brought in to prevent people having more than one tree.

Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, is credited with being responsible for introducing the custom of the Christmas tree to the British public by decorating the first English Christmas tree at Windsor Castle in 1841 using candles, sweets, fruit and gingerbread.

The popularity of the Christmas tree grew in Britain during the first half of the 20th century, with trees becoming bigger and more elaborately decorated with bells, baubles and tinsel. However, the onset of the Second World War resulted in a ban on cutting down trees for decoration and people resorted to having small, artificial tabletop trees bearing home made decorations. These were often taken down into the air raid shelters when the sirens sounded to provide a bit of Christmas cheer!

This all changed following the war, and large trees were erected in many public places to celebrate Christmas. The most famous of these is the tree in Trafalgar Square, London which is an annual gift from the Norwegian government to give thanks for the help they received from Britain during the war.

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