Macmillan Le Paty (fa ~- = Check it out ba Es Festival Food =< page 6 _ ere) page 10 Do you know? page 14 Projects page 15 Ae MACMILLANHello, Welcome to Festivals! Festivals are part of our lives. We have personal festivals, like birthdays. And we have big festivals, like Carnival and Christmas and New Year. Then there are national festivals, like Independence Day and Republic Day, In some towns, there are special, local festivals to celebrate local events. There are also the religious festivals: Christmas, Lent and Easter in the Christian World, Ramadan and Eid for Muslims, Diwali for Hindus, Hanukkah for Jews, Buddha’s Birthday in Asia... Now there are moder festivals, like Women's Day and World Environment Day, too. The list goes on and on, Many festivals have their own food and celebrations, Some festivals occur in different forms in different countries, And some change their dates, like Valentine's Day (14th February in Europe and North America, June in Brazil) Let’s try to understand these differences. In this way, we can find out about people in different places and cultures. Why are they different? Perhaps, through their festivals, we can under. stand other people better: In ‘Festivals’, we have information and pictures about festivals in different places. ‘There are also opportunities to reflect, to compare, and to do research. FESTIVAL EYE suggests things that you can find out. There are also some fun projects on festivals. Now, over to you! Check it out Let's begin with the New Year Chinese New Year Scottish New Year Festival food Your Carnival... My Carnival... Whose Carnival? Carnival in August! Life and death ‘Family’ festivals Festival raps, songs and rhymes Do you know? Projects Topics chatrooms You can find the key vocabulary for every article in the WORD FILE on that page. The pictures will also help you to guess the meaning in context. There is a summary of useful vocabulary on the Check it out page. Finally, you can use a dictionary to consolidate the new vocabulary. There is a list of useful website addresses on page 2 Remember that websites change. Be selective!celebrate commemorate decorate dress up enjoy remember wear welcome beautiful colourful exciting fantastic happy local national noisy political religious sad traditional January New Year’s Day Chinese New Year" February Carnival Mardi Gras* Pancake Day” Eid* Lent* ate on ancestor anniversary —_ band March/Apal=-seastar bonfire calendar candle ‘Muslim New Year" costume custom death Indian New Year* decoration disguise fancy-dress _ —— (orea)* fireworks float grave 3 June Valentine's Day (raz) lantern mask music July Independence Day (U.S.A) musician procession spectators Bastille Day (France) symbol August ©-bon* (Japan) September Jewish New Year" October Columbus Day Halloween Ramadan* Si We used several internet websites to research ‘Festivals Revehiber Al'Souls Day Some ofthese contain extra material that you ray find All Saints Dey useful All of them were ive" at the date of publication, Dayoof the Dead ‘Add your own favourite sites to this list Bonfire Night Chinese New Year: waw.chinapagecom/newyeartmt Thanksgiving Pancake Day inthe UK wwe coulfraligon December Hannukah* Quebec City Snow Carnival: www.carnavalge.ca Christmas Eve London Carnival: wwrnettinghllearnivaLorg.uk Christmas Day Thanksgiving (USAI: www.wilstar.com/holidays/thanksgy.htm New Year's Eve Mexican Day of the Dead: www.mexconnect.com/mex_/ Hogmanay dayofdead. htm Note: The exact dates ofthe festivals marked with * change from year to year: