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Create a personal document about Christmas (a text illustrated with photos, pictures or drawings, a sound file, a power point presentation, even a video if you want) and send it to me, using the "votre proposition" button. You can send me your work until Tuesday, December 22nd, 6 PM.

Christmas in United States of America The majority of Americans celebrate Christmas with the exchange of presents and greetings and with family visits. The day begins on Christmas Eve with a traditional ritual «the Midnight Mass”. Dinner usually is roast turkey, goose, duck or ham served with cranberry sauce, then plum pudding or pumpkin pie followed by nuts and fruits. American homes are decorated with holly, mistletoe and branches of trees; most have a Christmas tree hung with electric lights, tinsel, baubles, and candy canes.
Every year, in Washington D.C., a huge, spectacular tree floodlight the White House when the President presses a button and turns on the tree's lights.
Christmas in France On Christmas Eve, children leave their shoes by the fireplace to be filled with gifts from “Pere Noel”. In olden time, the 25th morning, they also found that sweets, fruit, nuts and small toys have been hung on the tree. Today, some families choose to open the gifts early, on the 24th evening. French home decorations are often like in American states, except, in Christman ‘families who display a Nativity scene of the Christ, which serves as the heart for the Christmas celebration. The Christmas tree has never been particularly popular in France; in fact, decorations are most electric lights and tinsel. For example, every years, a celebrity and the Paris ‘major used to light the “Champs-Elysées” but not a Christmas tree! The French traditional Christmas desert is called the “buche de Noël”, which means "Christmas Log." The cake is served at the grand feast, which is called “le Réveillon”, “the Christmas eve”. In France it is a time for the whole