Unit 8 celebrations1getting started listenread

Febuary, 2008
Unit eight:

Lesson 1: Getting Started – Listen and read
pages 65, 66


Match the icons with the name of the celebrations

Christmas

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


10
1
4
0
3
2

9
8
7
6
5

Christmas

1

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


2

10
1
4
0
3

2
9
8
7
6
5

Christmas

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


3

10
1
4
0
3
2

9
8
7
6
5

Christmas

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


10
1
4
0
3
2
9
8
7

6
5

Christmas

4

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


10
1
4
0
3
2
9
8
7
6

5

Christmas

5

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


10
1
4
0
3
2
9
8
7
6
5

Christmas

6

Easter

Lunar New
Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival


Answers:

3

1

2
Christmas

Easter

Lunar New

Year

Birthday

Wedding

Mid-Fall
Festival

4

1

6

3

2

5
6

4
5


* New words:


 (n.)

- celebration

+ celebrate (v.)
 (v.) : happen, take place
- occur



- sticky
rice cake (comp. n.)



- Jewish (adj.)



- ancient (adj.) : a long time ago

- parade (n.)


* New words:
 (n.)
- celebration

+ celebrate (v.)
 (v.): happen, take place
- occur


- sticky rice cake (comp. n.)

- Jewish (adj.)

- ancient (adj.): a long time ago

- parade (n.)


take
1place
occur

6
parade

sticky rice
5 cake

7

A long time
2
ancient
ago

Leã
kæ3nieäm
celebration

4


1

2

3

2. Tet

3. Passover

1. Easter


Although
there
are
many
celebrations throughout the year,
Tet or the Lunar New Year
holiday is the most important
celebration
for
Vietnamese
people. Tet is a festival which
occurs in late January or early
February. It is a time for families
to clean and decorate their

homes, and enjoy special food
such as sticky rice cakes. Family
members who live apart try to be
together at Tet.


Passover is in late March or early April. This festival is
celebrated in Israel and by all Jewish people. On this
festival, people celebrate freedom from slavery.
Passover is also an ancient spring festival. On the first
and second nights of Passover, Jewish families eat a
special meal called the Seder.


Easter is a joyful festival which is celebrated in many
countries. It happens at around the same time as
Passover. On Easter Day ( Easter Sunday ), young
children receive chocolate or sugar eggs – as long as
they are good. In many countries, people crowd the
streets to watch colorful parades.



1. When does (Tet) occur?
2. What do people do at (Tet)?
3. What food do they eat?
4. In which country is (Tet) celebrated?


Celebration

Tet

1.

When?

Activities

clean and
in late
January or decorate
homes; enjoy
When
early is (Tet)?
special food
February

Food
sticky
rice cake

2. What
do
people
do
at
(Tet)?
special
late March

Passover

3.

or early
What
Aprilfood

Country
Vietnam

Israel

(Not
meal
doavailable)
they eat? called
Seder

4. In around
whichthe
country
(Tet) celebrated?
peopleis
crowd
chocolate in many
Easter

the streets to
same time

as Passover watch colorful
parades

or sugar
eggs

countries


1. Tet is a festival which occurs in…………………
A. early January
B. late January or early February
C. late March or early April
2. People often…………………….at Tet.
A. clean and decorate their homes
B. go on a picnic
C. do nothing