Boxing Day (reading).

Boxing Day is the following day after ... .

It is on 26 December. Like Christmas Day, Boxing Day ... .

Traditionally, this was the day to open the Christmas boxes to share the contents ... (the Christmas box was a wooden or clay container where people placed gifts).

The tradition of giving money to workers ... .

It is customary for householders ... to regular visiting tradespeople (the milkman, dustman, coalman, papery boy) and, in some workplaces, for employers to give a Christmas bonus to employees.

Schools across the country gather together gifts to be put in Christmas boxes ... .

Traditionally, Boxing Day is the day ... .It is a day of watching sports and playing board games with the family.

Many families ... in the countryside together this day.

Shops are generally closed on Boxing Day. However, in recent times some shops have broken from the tradition and started opening on Boxing Day ... .

Hundreds of people now spend Boxing Day morning in queues outside shops, waiting to be the first ... as the doors are opened.