Some

Special Days
Chinese Children’s
and
New Year
January/February
Day Festivals
May 5th
in the World

Thanksgiving Day of the Valentine’s NYEPI

Fall (October/ Dead Day March
November) February 14th
November 2nd
Unique Customs in the World

Let’s explore some unique customs from

different places in the world!
 St. Anthony’s Day

• January 17th is Saint Anthony’s Day in Mexico. It’s a day

when people ask for protection for their animals. They
bring their animals to church. But, before the animals go
into the church, the people usually dress them up in
flowers and ribbons.
 Thanksgiving Day

• On the fourth of Thursday of November, Thanksgiving

Day is celebrated every year in the US. Meanwhile,
Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday
of October. People celebrate it to give thanks for the
blessing of the harvest. People usually prepare some
dishes or turkey with many other food.
 Chusok

• On the 15th day of the eight lunar month, Koreans

celebrate Chusok to give thanks for the harvest. The
festival is usually around September or early October.
It’s a day when people honor their ancestors by going to
their graves to bring food and wine. Moon cake is a
special food of Chusok day.
 Setsubun

• On February 3rd, people in Japanese family take one dried

bean for each year of their age. Then, they throw the
beans around their home and shrines while shouting
“Good fortune in! Evil spirits out!” They usually celebrate
it in the beginning of spring.
 Pingxi Lantern Festival

• Celebrated at the very end of the Chinese New Year, this

ceremony lasts whole night. Thousands of sky lanterns
light over the Pingxi District in Taiwan. The lanterns are
released to ward off the evil and let people know the
town is safe.
 Holi Festival

• Normally in February or March, Holi is celebrated in

India as a symbol of good over evil, the arrival of spring
and the end of winter. Also known as the Festival of
Colors, this event lasts for a night and a day, starting in
the evening of a Full Moon Day.
Vocabularies
- Ancestor = leluhur
- Lantern = lentera
- Harvest = musim panen
- Turkey = ayam kalkun
- Grave = makam
- Honor/honour = menghormati
- Lunar calendar = kalender lunar/bulan
- Custom = tradisi/adat
- Unique = unik
- Common = umum
- Similar = mirip
Grammar focus
How do we read date?
You see: “on January 1st”
You say: on January the first or on the first of January

You see: “on February 3rd ”

You say: on February the third or on the third of February

You see: “on August 15th ” or “on 15th August”

You say: on August the fifteenth or on the fifteenth of August

You can check the explanation in :

How To Read Dates In English - Spoken English Lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw54Nu1SXcE
Grammar focus
How about year?
In my mind: But When I say it:
Halloween Halloween Festival in
Festival in 1999 nine#@%$26errorr*

Some ways to say year:

1700: seventeen hundred
1999 : nineteen ninety nine (sembilan
belas – sembilan puluh sembilan)
2020: two thousand and twenty/ twenty
twenty
Example:
17/01/1998 : the seventeenth of
January, nineteen ninety eight
Do you have any unique
custom in your place?
Can you tell us more about
that?
Show it to the world!