Life in the United Kingdom Test
Answer set 9: National Days and Holidays
Answer 1: (1)
Answer 2: (2)
Answer 3: (3)
Answer 4: (4)
Answer 5: (4) For Father Christmas to fill with presents.
Answer 6: FALSE. The British Father Christmas is a cheerful old man with a beard, dressed in a red suit trimmed with fur. He travels from an area close to the North Pole on a sledge pulled by reindeer, delivering presents to children.
Answer 7: (2). Boxing Day, the 26th December, refers to a time when servants, gardeners, and other trades people used to receive money (a Christmas box) in appreciation for the work they had done throughout the year.
Answer 8: FALSE. Mothering Sunday, three weeks before Easter, is a day on which children, young and old, remember their mothers by giving them flowers or chocolates and trying to make their day as easy and enjoyable as possible.
Answer 9: (4). Remembrance Day, November 11th, keeps alive the memory of those who died in both World Wars and in later conflicts. Many people now hold a two minute silence at 11.00am in remembrance of this, for it was at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh days of the eleventh month in 1918 that the First World War (often called the Great War) finally came to an end.
Answer 10: (1) Spring.
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