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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Phrases: Festivals and Celebrations

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. On Christmas Day most UK citizens stop what they are doing at 3.00 p.m. to listen to the Queen's   on TV or radio.
  2. Since Dickens published his famous story of Ebenizer Scrooge, everybody has used the expression 'Bah   ' to exemplify stinginess.
  3. Thank you so much for a delicious Christmas meal. Now, I'm   and I couldn't eat another thing.
  4. In the UK, the day after Christmas Day, known as   Day is traditionally a time for showing your appreciation of people who work for you.
  5. In England, Christmas Day is probably the most important   holiday throughout the year. It is the one day when nearly everything is closed.
  6. The Christmas Market was great this year. There were lots of nice little things that I can use as   fillers for my two young nephews.
  7. It was my cousin's birthday last week, so we sent her a card to wish her many happy   .
  8. According to a British custom, people hang a branch of   in a high place in their houses and if they meet somebody under it they are supposed to kiss them.
  9. Last year I went to a fantastic party on New Year's Eve. I had so much to drink that I wasn't capable of anything, the morning   .
  10. Many people in the UK find the Christmas season quite stressful and about twenty percent of UK citizens would like to   with it altogether.
  11. Every year, I make the same New Year's   to give up chocolate and usually it only lasts two or three days.
  12. Every year at Christmas Dinner, my partner wants to pull the   bone with me because he thinks it's lucky. But I just don't want to touch a nasty greasy bone from inside a turkey.

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