Here is a talking point:
What are some Christmas or New Year traditions in your family?
The Talking Point series provides an opportunity to discuss things in English, exchange ideas, and learn from each other.
What are some Christmas or New Year traditions in your family?
The Talking Point series provides an opportunity to discuss things in English, exchange ideas, and learn from each other.
The Christmas traditions in my family are to change house every year. (One year at my elder son’s, another at mine or at the children’s father. This year, one of my other sons invited us to his new home!
Everyone brings food and a gift.
For the new year, my father receives his children and grandchildren. But unfortunately this year, with the Covid-19, it will not be possible because he is 86 years old and he prefers not to take risks…
… to go to a different house every year.
For the new Year…
the New Year
As I have a very large family all around France, our Christmas tradition is to come together every other year. In order to do that we have to rent a big house for everyone (around 40 persons) in the center of France so that the trip is pretty much the same for everyone (in hours). When it’s the year of the “small Christmas”, most of the time I go to my parents’ house in the South of France and my sisters go to their in-laws’ house.
I think I should have written and my sisters go to their in-laws’ home.
their in-laws’ homes
No Christmas traditions in my family. We (six children, 13 grandchildren) try to be at my mother’s home on the first of January. My mother is 86 years old. My father is dead twenty years ago. In one way, New Year’s day is a celebration for my mother.
This year my mother asked us to go and see her. Of course, we don’t go and see her on the same day. She takes risks. She told us that she would like better to die than to be alone.
She chose quality over quantity. I can understand her. And I respect her.
Yes, I agree with this idea but did she really choose this? I think Jean-Marc and his brothers/sisters didn’t take risks for her as almost all big families. Their mother would like better to die than to be alone…
Maybe, I should have written:
Their mother would prefer to die…
Yes:
(would) prefer to do something
Or:
would rather do something