Some of our Christmas traditions make absolutely no sense and yet somehow they haven't vanished.
It's not even close.
We have traditions where adults wear paper crowns all day,
where people set fire to their desserts on purpose and wait until you hear about the one that involves hiding actual coins in a pudding.
Yes.
real coins that you could easily choke on.
We'll get to that in a moment.
There's also a modern tradition, newer, stranger and definitely more mischievous,
that has taken over British family homes in the last decade.
I'll reveal that one at the end.
Hello everyone,
Anna here and today we're exploring some wonderfully weird British Christmas traditions that have survived for decades,
some even for centuries.
And as always I'm here to help you to improve your English.
So if you'd like to get a copy of my free vocabulary pack with all the keywords from today's lesson then I'll share the link in the description.
So Let's begin with something you simply cannot avoid on Christmas Day.
Christmas crackers.
These colorful paper tubes are designed to be pulled.
You'll traditionally find them on the dinner table and you pick up your cracker and ask somebody to pull it with you.
You each take a side and you pull hard and when it rips apart, you'll hear a loud bang.