Holidays and Traditions

Questionnaire

I. Listen to your teacher and write a number in the box under the pictures:

II. Match the words with their definitions:

a. Krewe 1. Silver-dollar sized aluminum coins.

b. Floats 2. A sweet roll like-cake made in a ring.
c. Balls 3. People who belong to your club or parade.
d. Doubloons 4. They are held in hotels and centers.
e. King Cake 5. Any decorated, movable platform for carrying Carnival maskers.

III. Unscramble the words to make sentences:

1. /time / and masks / a long/ Costumes / tradition /are/ on Mardi Gras Day. /
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2. /bull/ paper-mache/ on a float/a traditional part of the parade./ Giant/ is/

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3. /Mardi Gras Indians/ that parade / are / African-American people/ on Mardi Gras. /groups of/
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4. / to trade. /willing/ Be /
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5. /and wears a lard can /King Zulu /a banana stalk /on his head. /carries/
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 Holidays and Traditions
Questionnaire
Answer key:

I. Teacher reads to students:

1. It is referred as “Rex, the king of the carnival.”

2. The prize of the “Zulu” parade. They are decorated and given to people as presents.
3. African. American marching groups that parade on Mardi Gras.
4. It symbolizes the last meat eaten before lent.

2 4 3 1

II. a-3
b-5
c-4
d-1
e-2

III.
1. Costumes and masks are a long time tradition on Mardi Gras Day.
2. Giant paper-mache bull on a float is a traditional part of the parade.
3. Mardi Gras Indians are groups of African-American people that parade on Mardi Gras.
4. Be willing to trade.
5. King Zulu carries a banana stalk and wears a lard can on his head.