圣诞节英语作文初三优秀20篇

Internet shopping is a new way of shopping. It offers a lot of advantages. The most important one is convenience. You can shop whenever you like because the online shops are open 24 hours a day. And you don’t have to queue with others. And it is often cheaper to buy goods through the Internet and it is also easy to find what you are looking for.

There are some disadvantages, too. You can not see the products or check their qualities. Besides you can not enjoy walking around the shops and talking with your friends.

[Internet shopping初三英语优秀作文

Chritmas is the day that Jesus Christ was born. people in the world celebrate and worship this day in his honor. The santa claus will come out and send presents for children. Christmas cards and decorated trees are all over the place. The carolling of Christmas songs echo through the air. I am not a Chirstian， but I also enjoy the atmosphere of Chrismas. I wish everybody have a merry Chirismas.

Dear Sandy,

亲爱的桑迪，

I offer my warmest congratulations to you for receiving the first prize of The Olympic English competition for the middle school students. I know that you are always good at English. You often win the praise of our English teacher and always in the first place of our class. So I’m surprise at all that you become champion for this competition. However, in my mind, this match is very difficult. So I becomemore and more admire you. Sincere congratulation to you again.

我表示热烈的祝贺你接收的获得了中学生奥林匹克英语竞赛一等奖。我知道你的英语一直都很好。你经常赢得我们的英语老师的表扬而且在班里总是第一。所以我一点都不惊讶在这个竞赛中你会成为冠军。然而，在我看来，这竞赛是很困难的。所以我越来越佩服你了。真诚的祝贺你。

Best wishes,

Mandy

曼迪

First cut up two tomates.Next put two teaspoons of oil into the pan.When the oil is hot,put the tomatoes into the pan and fry for a few minutes.Then add a bowl of water and boil.When the water boils,put the noodles into the pan and boil for 5 minutes.Break two eggs and put them into the pan.Finally ,add two teaspoons of salt.It’s very easy.

You can try to make it.

[最新初三英语作文：How to make tomato and egg noodles.

外籍教师Richard想了解一下你所在班级学生的到校方式。假如你是李华，请以The way I go to school为题，写一篇英语短文，想Richard介绍自己的到校方式。

提示：

1. How do you go to school?

2. Why do you prefer to go in that way?

注意：

1. 短文必须包括所有提示内容，并围绕你所选择的某种交通方式，写出二至三个理由，可适当发挥。

2. 文中不得出现真实的人名，校名和地名。

3. 词数60-80个。(短文开头已给出，不计入总词数)

The way I go to school

I’m Li Hua.

参考样文：

I’m Li Hua. I go to school on foot. I have several reasons for that.

First, my home is not very far from my school, it is just about two kilometers away from school. It takes me about 20 minutes to get there. Second, walking to school is a kind of exercise. It is good for my health. Third, it’s pretty safe to walk to school because there is a lot of traffic on the road at this time of a day. So I prefer going to school on foot. It’s really a good choice.

christmas is the most important festival in the western world. it falls on december 25th. when my mother and i stayed in america, we were invited by one of my mother‘s friends to have christmas with an american family. we bought some presents for our american friends on our way to their house.

they had prepared different kinds of gifts for their family and guests when we got to their house, such as christmas candles, cakes, cards, little toys, biscuits and so on. a christmas tree was placed in the comer of the brilliant hall. how beautiful it was! we were impressed by these. we had a big meal. after dinner, they told us some interesting stories about christmas. we learned that christmas had something to do with god. we went to bed at midnight. though we knew the santa claus was not true, we were still waiting for the santa claus with white beard to bring us presents.and we received many beautiful presents the next morning.

this christmas was really unforgettable. not only did i have a good time, but also i knew something about foreign culture.

对我初中生涯影响很大的老师就是阎丽老师，她的姓很恐怖，她总是自称自己是阎罗王，要管住我们这群小鬼。

她是个很美的老师，有一种古典美女的气质。记得我刚进安外的时候，第一次离开家去外面读书，刚开学军训的时候，阎老师总是对我慈爱的微笑，她总是担心我们这群孩子军训累了，热了，时常跟着我们军训的列队，教官下命令休息时，我一个孤零零地坐在草地上，阎老师和教官聊天，然后我听到他们的交谈，阎老师对教官说我很像她之前认识的一个孩子，然后就朝我笑笑，当时心里说不出的暖，也许阎老师不曾记得，但我至今难忘。

因为我的小学不学英语，所以我的英语底子不好，进入安外有点跟不上，阎老师就放弃中午休息的时间给我补习，从最基础的教起，不耐烦的一遍又一遍，我清晰的记得当时办公室里就是我和阎老师，她就坐在我身边教我，当我一个知识点了解的时候，她就满足的笑笑，然后摸摸我的脑袋，那种近似母爱的感情让我至今心里充满温暖。

当然，阎老师凶的时候还真的很可怕（阎老师，得罪啦，呵呵）记得那时我和一个男生和另外两个一个女生负责早上扫楼梯，我和另外一个男生刘涛总是早早过来打扫，等到女生来的时候我们都已经打扫好了。我们心里很不平衡，所以，有一天早上我和刘涛都没扫，等女生扫，最后女生以为我们已经扫好了，也没有打扫。最后，阎老师发现楼梯很脏，就让我们值日生出去扫地，两个女生和刘涛都出去扫地了，就是我坐在座位上读书，因为我平时做的最多，心里很不平衡，所以有点火大就没去。阎老师最后知道我也是当天的值日生而没有出去一起扫地，就很气愤的直接在班里很多人面前发我的火，还把我叫到她办公室谈话，她很凶地问我为什么不和他们一起扫地，我心里很委屈，就说之前几乎都是我一个在扫地，两个女生几乎都没扫过，我的心里不平衡就没出去扫地。说话的时候，眼泪都是含着的，因为确实觉得很委屈。阎老师就对我说，老师一直很看重你，觉得你身上有一股正气，当她说到这里的时候，我哽咽的难受，心里更难受。然后又说“吃亏是福”我知道她对我的要求远远胜过其他人，我也不忍心让她失望，所以很努力地做人，很努力地做事。

还记得她的一句话对我影响很大“今日事，今日毕！”这么多年来，我一直谨记这句话，可以说这句话已经渗透到了我的生活，今天的脏衣服，我也从来不留到明天洗，呵呵，有点傻哦。

很感激有一个这么善良的老师引我英语入门，更重要的是那些品行影响我至今。阎老师，好久不见了，你还好吗，希望你幸福。还有，阎老师，知道吗，你笑起来比凶的时候美多了。

We were sitting in the classroom quietly, waiting for the invigilator. We

were anxious to get the examination paper and see whether it was easy or

difficult.

The invigilator came into the classroom. He first looked around.

Then he counted the papers. We could only hear the papersfricative. I had a

look at my watch. We would be examined in eight minutes. I felt a bit nervous. I

thought to myself,"Will the exam be easy or difficult? Will the last question be

very hard for me to work out?"The invigilator began to deliver us the papers. I

had been ready. As soon as I got the paper, I began to write quickly. At this,

the invigilator said loudly,"You cant write until the bell rings".I felt sorry

for that. I watched the hands of the clock and thought hard. I counted

quietly,"four minutes, three minutes, two minutes,thirty seconds, twenty-five

seconds""Ding" The bell rang. We picked up our pens and began to write

quietly.

What a long time we had been waiting!

We cant have good luck forever,so learning how to face difficulities is important.Some people feel upset when they meet difficulities,and they dont want to try to let their dreams come ture anymore.They just want to find a place and stay at there for a long time.So they wont have a great success in the end.But others are different,some people dont think difficulities are troubles,they believe " Difficulities is the mother of the successand"Believe in myself and I will win ,they are confident and brave,and they choose to face the difficulities with a smile.They try their best to solve their problems and if they dont feel well,theyll talk to their friends or family members,so that they can be happier and more confident.And they dont mind what others say about them,they can always find a good way for themselves to relax.

I think if you can have a good psychology when you meet difficulities in your life,and be more confident and brave,

try to find a good way to relax,maybe talk to others or have a rest,and then think it over,make a plan to solve your problems.If you do so, youll find that your difficulities are not as difficult as you think before!

我们不可能永远好运,所以学习如何面对英明是很重要的。有些人感到心烦时满足英明,他们不想让自己的梦想成真了。他们只是想找个地方,呆在那里很长一段时间。所以他们不会有一个巨大的成功。但其他人是不同的,有些人不认为英明的麻烦,他们相信“英明是成功之母”,“相信自己,我将赢”,他们有信心和勇敢,选择微笑着面对英明。他们尽力解决他们的问题,如果他们不舒服,他们会告诉他们的朋友或家人,这样他们可以更快乐、更自信。他们不介意别人怎么说,他们总是可以找到放松自己的好方法。

我认为如果你能有一个好的心理学当你遇到你生命中的英明,和更加自信和勇敢,

找一个放松的好办法,也许跟他人或休息一下,然后好好想想,制定一个计划来解决你的问题。如果你这样做,你会发现你的英明并不像你想的那么困难!

evely nation has its own folk festivals. Those festivals give people a chance to be away from their regular work and everyday worries to enjoy themselves and to develop kindship and fiiendship. The spring festival is the chief holiday in china while christmas is the most important redletter day in the western world.

the spring festival and christmas have much in common. Both are prepared hefiorehand to create a joyous atmosphere; both offer a family reunion with a square feast: and both satisfy the children with new clothes, lovely presents and delicious food. However, the chinese spring festival has no religious background while christmas has something to do with god and there is santa claus with white heard to bring children presents. The westerners send each other christmas cards for greetings while the chinese people pay a call on each other.

nowadays, some of the chinese youth has begun to celebrate christmas, following the example of the westerners. Perhaps they do so just for fun and out of curiosity.

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I like Christmas, it is just like our Spring Festival. Maybe the Spring Festival is much more important and interesting than Christmas, but I like Christmas Day better. Because we can spend time with our friends and classmates during Christmas. When it is snowy, Christmas becomes much more lovely, just like in fairytales. I can imagine I am in a fairytale, the girl who sold the matches is my friend, the ugly duck becoming more and more beautiful and so on. What a beautiful place! So we can also call Christmas “Snowy Lovely Day.” On Christmas Day, shops are red and green. There are so many Christmas cards, Christmas hats, Christmas dolls and many colourful things. So shops look very beautiful. We can give a card or a doll to our friends and say “Merry Christmas.” By the way, I think studying can also become much more interesting. Christmas is coming, it also means a new year will come. Let’s study harder to welcome the new year!

译文：

我喜欢圣诞节，这就像我们的春节。 也许春节更重要，比圣诞有意思，但我更喜欢圣诞节。因为我们可以花与我们的朋友和同学在圣诞节期间。当它是雪，圣诞节变得更加可爱，就像童话故事。我可以想像我在童话，谁卖女孩的比赛我是我的朋友，老母鸡变得越来越美丽，等等。多么美丽的地方!因此，我们也可以拨打圣诞“雪可爱的一天。” 在圣诞节那天，商店是红色和绿色。有许多圣诞卡，圣诞帽子，圣诞娃娃和许多丰富多彩的事情。因此，商店的非常漂亮。我们可以提供一个卡或向我们的朋友娃娃，说“圣诞快乐。”对了，我想学习也可以变得更加有趣。 圣诞节即将到来，这也意味着新的一年到来。让我们加强学习，以迎接新的一年。

My mother is very good at raising plants and flowers. We have plants and flowers indoors and outdoors all the year round. Some of our plants were very small in the beginning,but now they are large and very beautiful. On top of our roof there is a big glass-enclosed greenhouse. All our friends love to come to our house to see the beautiful world my mother has made for us. Every morning and evening we see my mother taking care of her plants like little children. As her real children grow older and more independent,my mother devotes more time to her garden. This is a very good way to spend one’s free time.

if we have a book ,we will not be felling of being longly

如果我们有一本书，我们将不会被孤独的感觉

When I`m free or in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. In no time, I`ve put my heart into it so that I`ll forget all the troubles. It`s in this way that I`ve formed the habit of reading in any time.

当我`米自由或麻烦，我总是拿出一本书静静地看书。在任何时候，我`已经把我的心让我`会忘记所有的烦恼。它`的这样，我`已经形成在任何时间阅读的习惯。

Little boys as I was, I was interest in picture books and storybooks. I was struck by them. No sooner had I entered the middle school than I began to read novel, plays, essays and so on. I found I could get much from them. Little by little I took great interest in literature and last term I won the first prize in the composition contest among middle-school students in Zhe Jiang.

当我还是小孩子时，我在图画书和故事书感兴趣。我很惊讶他们。我刚进入了中学，我开始读小说，戏剧，散文等。我发现我可以从他们身上得到很多。渐渐的我开始对文学感兴趣的最后一学期我在浙江省中学生作文竞赛中获得一等奖。

Reading “The Emperor`s New Clothes”, I had to let out a burst of laughter over his fool. “The Little Match Girl” couldn`t keep me from crying for her misery. “ Robinson Crusoe” took me into a strange world full of danger. And I was also deeply impressed by Helen Keller`s patience and perseverance… Besides these, books also tell me other thing -how to be a man and how to tell the difference between right and wrong. In a word, good books can make me know what I didn`t before. So I think of a good book as my best friend.

阅读“皇帝的新衣`”，我不得不把一阵笑声在他的傻瓜。“卖火柴的小女孩”也`却令我痛苦。《鲁滨孙漂流记》把我带进了一个充满危险的陌生的世界。我也深深打动了海伦凯勒`的耐心和毅力……除此之外，本书还告诉我其它的东西——如何成为一个男人，如何分辨对与错。总之，好的书籍可以让我知道我并`之前。所以我认为一个好的书是我最好的朋友。

I`ll never forget this famous saying,“ Good books are best friends who never turn their backs upon us.”

我`永远不会忘记这句名言，“好书是最好的朋友，谁不背对我们。”

Man has been fascinated by outer space for thousands of years, It has been almost over forty years since man s first landing on the moon. Now, some people believe that space exploration is a sheer waste of time and money. They point out the thct that it cost billions of dollars to can3 on the space research, but a little infrmation was brought back. In addition, the time and money spent on space exploration is too much to calculate.

However, every coin has two sides. There are still a majority of other people who believe that space exploration has more advantages. And I agree with those people. Many new products, such as weather and communication satellites, are also products of space programs, and they have benefitted people all over the world. And what s more. scientific knowledge about outer space has been acquired by the mankind.

We benefited a lot from space exploration. We believed that it will bring more benefits in the future, which perhaps we can not even imagine now. Space exploration is a challenge to human beings. That s why several nations try hard to carry out space exploration continuously.

[Do We Need Space Exploration初三英语作文

In the present society, with the exploration of human needs, pursuit and desire, human beings have pushed the life together. But most people can not follow the evolution of the joint, will feel the pressure of life, to the life of the roll!

Dont always want to finish much more work than you can do, because one day, you will feel depressed because of less work done than planned. Only to increase your own pressure. You should try to improve this situation now. Relying on your own ability to complete the workload, so that you will not be disappointed by the completion of the work that is less than the plan. People should hold this kind of mentality: do one thing no matter what, because of difficult to achieve perfection, in the work, to show their talent, to play their own potential, not because of the existence of self humble causal work.

In the final analysis, in the final analysis is to survive, in order to meet the needs of life! That is to meet the desires of the individual!

I think all the origin is a place of "common human heart"! It can dilute the evolution and sublimation of all of you! What do you think of it, what is it! Oh, can make you a lifetime of pain, also can let the happy life! As long as we do it, how to live through share it, how to drive it, only you can clear direction, you need to test your life infiltration surrounding environment to identify and travel!

If you have to accept the truth, what has happened cant be changed. No matter what you do wrong, you turn it into a small thing, hehe, relative to life is just a small thing. Let it be the story of the past, it can also be a lesson to remember! But you must remember that the unfortunate story must not be allowed to play again. Do not weigh anything to life, everything is a thing of life, life is not brought, death does not go. Its not worth doing that, only you know the best. For things to take it up and put it down, can take temporary setbacks. Looking for a best balance point to carry to scratch your heart, with the "lost" to do the balance! You will lose, lose win, gain and loss, loss is too lazy to human survival interlocking protocol is! You can never keep off the saturation state, is a new idea, the pursuit of!

You cant be too greedy, everything is just a passing traveller. A flower world, you have to take its process, use it to dilute your life for a period of time, it can not be two days in the world is the same. You have to know that everything will have the precious and unreflux time of your life, and dont have too much demand, and you cant overdo yourself too much. All things have a moderate, more than moderate you will be troubled by the outside world, natural will become a load! To learn "know Stop" "contentment". How to release pressure, relieve pressure, and more importantly, how to relieve pressure, alleviate the need for a certain process, everything is how you do it, so as to ease the pressure in your heart. Other people are only the role of guidance, so you do what you like, what you should do!

Its polite to say “thank you” when others help us or say something kind to

us.

Being polite is a good tradition in our country.Nobody likes a person who

is impolite. Its important for us to be polite. We should say “thank you” to

parents when they cook for us. We should say “thank you” when they wash clothes

for us. We should also be polite at school. When the teachers help us work out

questions ,we should say “thank you” to them. When we get bad grades and the

teachers and classmates encourage us, we should say “thank you”. When someone

open the door for us,we should say “thank you”. We should say “thank you” as

often as possible.

If everyone is polite to others,the world will be more and more

beautiful.

The environment is very important to human beings, but some people dont care for the environment, also do not know the importance of environment for human.

You see, many people dont care for the environment, they throw garbage everywhere, some people think: what is a garbage? However, many a mickle makes a muckle, and neighborhood became a dump the most beautiful place. Some people cut trees to build houses dig mountain, beautiful hill into desert and house. Some people dont have time to cook, just walk outside in the fast-food restaurant to buy rice, I eat, after dinner they also put the disposable lunch box, disposable chopsticks thrown to the ground. Some people in order to display their own home is very rich, driving a car on the road around. They didnt realize that both environmental pollution and waste of energy. Some factories take some sewage, smoke into the rivers and the sky.

For the sake of our environment, for the sake of our life, I want people to throw garbage into the trash can, little cut down a tree much afforestation, try to go home for dinner. Will exhaust waste water is introduced into the ground, dont show how rich, attention should be paid to energy conservation and emissions reduction.

Believe in you in the near future, with the help of our city will be more beautiful!

环境对人类十分重要，可是有些人不爱护环境，也不知道环境对人类的重要性。

你看，许多人都不爱护环境，它们随地扔垃圾，有些人认为：一个垃圾算什么?可是积少成多，小区里最好看的地方成了垃圾站。有些人为了建房子挖山砍树，美丽的小山变成了沙漠和房子。有些人没时间做饭，就在外面快餐店买了饭一边走一边吃，吃完饭后他们还把一次性饭盒，一次性筷子丢在地上。有些人为了展示自己家里很有钱就开着跑车在路面上到处跑。他们没有意识到既污染环境又浪费能源。有些工厂将一些污水、浓烟排入江河和天空。

为了我们的环境，为了我们的生活，我希望人们可以把垃圾扔进垃圾桶，少砍树多造林，尽量回家吃饭。将废气废水引入地下，不要展示自己多么有钱，要注意节能减排。

相信在大家的努力下不远的将来，我们的城市会更美!

Please join in “Clear your plate” campaign.

Now, some of us students like buying a lot of snacks. They eat a lot even if they were not hungry. If they don’t like the food, or they can’t eat up the food, they will throw it away.

It is really a bad thing. We have wasted lot of food. And at the same time, it is bad for the students’ health.

So boys and girls, let’s change our habit. When we have dinners in restaurants, don’t order too much food. And try to eat up all the food we ordered. If we can’t eat up all of them, just pack them and bring them back home to eat. Please give up the snacks between meals. Encourage your classmates and parents to join us. If you find somebody is throwing away food, just stop them.

Come on, dear friends. Let’s start with ourselves.

人人都会遇到困难，当遇到困难时，有人说：“我胆小，不敢面对困难，只会逃跑。”也有人说：“我不怕，敢于面对困难，勇往直前。”我也遇到过困难，我是这样做的：

Everyone will encounter difficulties, when in trouble, some people said: "I am timid, dare to face the difficulties, will escape." Some people say: "I am not afraid, dare to face a difficulty, march forward courageously." I have also experienced difficulties, I will do so:

在我练习扬琴时，开始时，每次都感觉头痛，有时还打哈欠，不想练琴，总想出去玩。渐渐地，我明白了，如果我认真练琴，就能上台表演，于是我渐渐认真专心起来，结果我进步很大，我自己也很有成就感，老师也表扬我进步很大，这说明我克服了困难。

Starting in my practice, dulcimer, always feel a headache, sometimes also yawn, do not want to play, always want to go out to play. Gradually, I understand, if I earnestly practicing, you can perform on stage, so I gradually seriously, result I made a great progress, I also have a sense of achievement, the teacher praised me great progress, this shows that I have overcome difficulties.

还有一次，我在“快乐大本营”爬网时，当爬到中间时，我感觉自己没有力气，爬不动了。当我打算放弃时，这时妈妈说：“儿子，我相信你能成功的。”妈妈的话给了我力量，使我最终鼓起了勇气，爬上了最高点。当我站在最高点时，我感觉很自豪。

Another time, I in the "happy camp" crawl, when the climb up the middle, I felt no strength, climb. When I intend to give up, and the mother said: "son, I believe you can succeed." Mothers words gave me strength, so I finally plucked up the courage, climbed up to the highest point. When I stand on the peak, I feel very proud.

通过这两件事，我明白了：面对困难时，只要克服自己，勇往直前，就能取得最后的胜利。

Through these two things, I understand: the face of difficulties, as long as to overcome their own, march forward courageously, will win the final victory.

Today is Christmas, I said to mother: "merry Christmas!" My mother said to me: "merry Christmas". I ran to the kitchen to grandma said: "merry Christmas!" , grandma also said to me: "merry Christmas!" .

I walked to the kitchen window and saw through the window there are many children with a Christmas hat on a snowman, children to raise the dog and cat with a Christmas hat, also they are in the snow to trash, like in the drawing!

So I walked out of the house, I saw the square have many children, some in a snowman, some in the snowball fights.

I also want to a beautiful snowman, so I put on the ground of snow to rub into two snowball, made of black glass ball eyes again, made from carrot nose, hand broom, finally gives a snowman Christmas hat, wow! What a beautiful snowman!

At this moment, I looked at the sky, ah! Its not late, I should go home.

At home, before going to bed I put my socks on my bed and wake up in the morning, wow, all of my socks is are Santa Claus gave me a gift, have wood ultimate dragon king toys, 36 color crayons, Hamburg. I said in my heart silently: "thank you Christmas grandpa!" .

今天是圣诞节，我对妈妈说：“圣诞快乐!”妈妈对我说：“圣诞快乐”。我又跑到厨房对奶奶说：“圣诞快乐!”，奶奶也对我说：“圣诞快乐!”。

我走到厨窗边，透过窗户看到有许多带着圣诞帽的小朋友在堆雪人，小朋友们养着小狗、小猫也带着圣诞帽，它们在雪地上踩来踩去，好像在画画呢!

于是我走出家，我看到广场上有许多小朋友，有的在堆雪人，有的在打雪仗。

我也想堆一个漂亮的雪人，于是，我先把地上的雪搓成两个雪球，再用黑色的玻璃球做眼睛，用红萝卜做鼻子，用扫帚做手，最后给雪人带上圣诞帽，哇!多漂亮的雪人啊!

这时，我望了望天空，呀!天色不早了，我该回家啦。

回到家，睡觉前我把我的袜子挂我在我的床边，早晨醒来，哇，我的袜子是全是圣诞老人送给我的礼物，有木拉多终极龙王的玩具，36色水彩笔，汉堡。我在心里默默的说：“谢谢圣诞老爷爷!”。

Christmas is a Christian holiday held on December 25 which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Eastern Orthodox Churches, which use the Julian Calendar to determine feast days, celebrate on January 7 by the Gregorian Calendar. Both dates are merely traditional and neither is thought to be the actual birthdate of Jesus. Christs birth, or nativity, is said to fulfill Old Testament prophecies concerning the coming of a messiah, or savior.

The word Christmas is derived Middle English Christemasse and from Old English Cristes m?sse.[1] It is a contraction meaning "Christs mass". The name of the holiday is often shortened to Xmas because Roman letter "X" resembles the Greek letter (chi), an abbreviation for Christ .

In Western countries, Christmas has become the most economically significant holiday of the year. The popularity of Christmas can be traced in part to its status as a winter festival. Many cultures have their most important holiday in winter because there is less agricultural work to do at this time. Examples of winter festivals that are believed by some to have influenced Christmas include the pre-Christian festivals of Yule and Saturnalia.

In Western culture, the holiday is characterized by the exchange of gifts among friends and family members, some of the gifts being attributed to Santa Claus (also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Father Frost). However, various local and regional Christmas traditions are still practiced, despite the widespread influence of American, British and Australian Christmas motifs disseminated by film, popular literature, television, and other media.