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Speaker 1 We don’t really go to Church. Unless there is a wedding, Christening or funeral we go a maximum of three times a year Christmas, Easter and Harvest Festival. Harvest Festival, usually at the end of September, is my favourite. I think mainly because it reminds me of school and my childhood. I loved the Hymns we sang and the church looked so pretty filled with flowers and vegetables. After the Church service, all the vegetables and other products given to the church were taken to the village hall. They were then sold by auction with all the profits going to charity.
Speaker 2 Everybody loves Easter! You don’t need to be religious you just need to love chocolate. Throughout the year I have to be careful about eating too much chocolate. The occasional treat is OK but in general I have quite a healthy diet. But for one long weekend a year all restrictions are abandoned. We have traditional chocolate but each year on Easter I look for something unusual a chocolate lorry or space rocket! Usually they are hollow but filled with chocolate sweets, tiny Easter eggs or chocolate toys. I feel pretty ill by the end of the weekend but it is worth it.
Speaker 3 I like Shrove Tuesday an important Christian festival that occurs every year 47 days before Easter Sunday. Shrove Tuesday is traditionally the last day before Lent a 40-day period of eating restrictions celebrating Christ’s journey through the desert. In the UK this is celebrated by eating lots of pancakes a last treat before 40 days of strict diet and denial. Does this mean that I am a very religious person? Not really. I am afraid, like nearly everybody else in the UK, I simply adore pancakes!
Speaker 4 Hot Cross Buns are sweet spiced buns filled with currants and marked on top with a cross. During the reign of Henry VIII an attempt was made to ban the buns! This is because it was believed that they were baked using the same dough as was used in making communion wafers or communion bread. These wafers were a part of the Catholic Church Service which at that time was illegal in England. The problem was that buns were too popular to ban them, so Elizabeth I eventually passed a law making them legal but only at Easter and Christmas.
Speaker 5 After Harvest Festival each year we’d take the vegetable, pies and cooked meats to the Village Hall to sell them in an auction. This was great fun because it was not treated seriously. The highest prices were traditionally bid for a can of soup or a strangely shaped vegetable. Nobody really cared because all the money raised was sent to charities like OXFAM a charity dedicated to fighting poverty and injustice and giving aid in times of famine or natural disaster.
Speaker 6 Lots of people celebrate Lent every year but not all of them for religious reasons. The fact is that it is good for you to ‘detoxify’ your body each year. This means to live for a period without eating toxins or poisons that harm our bodies over time. So for 40 days I don’t touch coffee, processed foods (with all their chemicals), fatty and salty foods and red meat. It’s my personal choice. I also eat only organic (or naturally farmed) foods as these also tend to be free of harmful toxins. It is quite hard for the first days but after 40 days I feel great, like a superwoman!
Утверждение:
A. It’s possible only one week a year. B. It’s a national tradition to eat them on this day. C. It combines fun and profit. D. It’s one of the days worth going to church. E. English people aren’t very religious. F. This treat was officially allowed only twice a year. G. This healthy habit has little to do with religion.
