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NE.se – Festivals: It’s all about tradition
Engelbrektsskolan, Stockholm Grundskolor · Senast uppdaterad: 10 januari 2022
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NE.se – Festivals
It’s all about tradition
7.2.1 Festivals, fiestas, holidays and gatherings
7.2.1 Discuss
- What is your favorite festival? Give reasons why you like it.
- Does your family have any special traditions during a holiday, birthday or festival? What are they?
7.2.2 – 7.2.7 Feasts and Festivals
7.2.2 Reflect and discuss: Feasts and Festivals
(Look at the pictures for assignment 6.2.2 via NE)
- What do you think these pictures represent?
- What do think these people are celebrating?
- Does a celebration in any of these pictures resemble a celebration or festival today? Which one and how?
- What is a name day? Do you celebrate yours? What do you do on your name day?
7.2.3 Write: Feasts and Festivals
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.4 What are the religions called? Feasts and Festivals
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.5 Pair off: Feasts and Festivals
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.6 Reflect and discuss: Feasts and Festivals
- Give different reasons for coming together and celebrating.
- Why do you think celebrations are important?
- What do we celebrate today? Give different examples.
- What traces of old traditions can you find in celebrations today?
7.2.7 Search on the Internet: Feasts and Festivals
- Find more information about Saturnalia and write down at least three things that happened at the Roman festival.
- What are the most well known feasts in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Pick one from each and present it to the class. Think about what happens. Where does it take place? What are people celebrating and why?
7.2.8 – 6.2.12 April Fools' Day
7.2.8 Did you understand? April Fools' Day
- What do people do on April Fools’ Day?
- What year did the BBC tell people spaghetti grew on trees?
- What was the program?
- When is April Fools’ Day?
- By when must all the practical jokes be over?
7.2.9 Quiz: April Fools' Day
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.10 Paragraphs: April Fools' Day
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7.2.11 Make the pranks complete: April Fools' Day
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.13 – 7.2.16 On the Way to Glastonbury
7.2.14 Answer the questions
- Where are Max and Debbie?
- Why does Max start talking to Debbie?
- Where is Max going?
- Who is Debbie going to?
- What’s he like?
- Do Debbie and Max live in London?
- What is Glastonbury?
- What could become a problem during the festival?
- Debbie likes what Max told her. How do we know?
- Could there be another reason for her change of plans?
7.2.15 Pair off: On the Way to Glastonbury
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.17 Missing words: Festivals in Different Countries
(Do the assignment/exercise on NE.se)
7.2.18 Write suitable questions: Festivals in Different Countries
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7.2.19 – 6.2.22 Festivals in Different Countries
7.2.19 Yes or no? Festivals in Different Countries
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7.2.20 Check your memory: Festivals in Different Countries
- What do people usually do before the Chinese New Year starts?
- Why is it important to prepare for this holiday?
- How do the Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead?
- What is a popular symbol on the Day of the Dead?
- What do the Kavadi bearers do before Thaipusam?
- Where are they taking their burdens?
7.2.22 Your festivals
With a partner or by yourself, list as many festivals, celebrations and gatherings as you can think of that happen in your country. They can be religious, cultural or just for fun.
World Festivals
7.3.1 Did you understand? Kara’s Diary
a) How much were the tickets to the festival?
b) How did Kara and Jessica get there?
c) What did they forget?
d) Why didn’t Kara go to the concerts?
e) What entertainment did Kara enjoy in her tent?
f) Where did Jessica go?
g) What do you think of Jessica’s behavior?
7.3.2 Writing time: Kara’s Diary
Kara’s time at Glastonbury was a disaster.
Write a story about a disastrous trip or holiday. It could be as a diary like Kara’s, a normal story, or even a script for acting out. Before you start writing, plan and think about:
- Where are you going and why?
- What time of year is it?
- What is the weather like?
- What goes wrong?
- How do the people around you feel and react?
- How does it all end?
- Would you do it again?
7.3.7 Did you understand? Mardi Gras
a) What does carnival originally mean?
b) What is the day after Fat Tuesday?
c) What other countries have a similar festival to Mardi Gras and celebrate on the same days?
d) From what language is Fat Tuesday translated?
e) Do the people in the video believe Mardi Gras is just for adults or the whole family?
f) What is Lent and which festival does it lead up to?
Optional
7.3.9 Festival Project
In pairs, design an advertising poster for a festival. You can choose one of the festivals mentioned in this section or another one from anywhere in the world, or even make one up!
Remember to include:
Pictures (they are worth a thousand words)
When it happens and where
The most interesting and fabulous things to see
How to get there
Cost – if any
A slogan to catch the eye
Take notes and then write a short history together of the festival you have chosen.
Things to include:
How old is it?
Where did it start?
What was the reason behind it?
What kind of people attend today – young, old, all ages?
Present your poster and the short history of the festival to the rest of the class. Prepare to answer questions.
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