Easter is a religious festival that celebrates Christ's resurrection. It is always on ____, in ____ or April, and its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess of ____, Eostre. This year Easter Sunday will be on ____ . The wish for this day is: ____ On ____, the British have a typical tradition: on this day the monarch gives money to a group of poor old people. On ____, British people eat ____. They are small fruit buns, with a white cross on the top; you eat them hot, with butter. Easter Sunday is all about ____. Eggs are a symbol of Easter because they represent ____. There are chocolate Easter eggs of all sizes. Inside the eggs there are more sweets or chocolates. Children sometimes colour the shells of real eggs. The ____ is a rabbit that, while children are sleeping, goes from house to house with a basket to bring chocolate eggs or chocolate rabbits. Traditional events are egg hunt, egg rolling and parades. The ____ is like a treasure hunt, but with chocolate eggs. For ____, you use decorated hard boiled eggs: you roll your egg, and the winner is the egg that goes the farthest without breaking. Some women and children decorate hats, called ____, with ribbons, flowers, rabbits or chicks, and wear them in Easter bonnet ____. A few people send ____ with religious images or pictures of hens, chicks, lambs, rabbits and spring flowers, all traditionally associated with Easter, as symbols of new birth; there are also doves, as a symbol of ____. In the United Kingdom, it is common to invite family and friends for Easter Sunday lunch. ____ is a public holiday, but not in Scotland. Schoolchildren and students have about a two-week holiday at Easter time. Finally, Easter is the traditional time for ____.

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