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4TO MODULO FIFTH GRADE

TALK MAGAZINE ARTICLE ABOUT CELEBRATIONS
AROUND THE WORD.
INSTRUCCIONES: Debes leer el modulo para entender cada celebración y luego
desarrollar las actividades.
What is a celebration?
It is a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event.

What is the difference between holiday, festival and vacation?

The words holiday or vacation have related meanings in different English-speaking
countries and continents, but will usually refer to one of the following activities or
events:

 A general leave of absence from a regular occupation for rest or recreation

 A specific trip or journey for the purposes of recreation / tourism
 Official or unofficial observances of religious/national/cultural/other significance,
often accompanied by celebrations or festivities (public/religious holiday)

So what is the difference between holiday, vacation and festival?

Holiday
Holiday is a contraction of holy and day, holidays originally represented special
religious days. This word has evolved in general usage to mean any extra special day of
rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such as the weekend).

Festival
A festival is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some
unique aspect of that community. There are numerous types of festivals in the world.
Though many have religious origins, others involve seasonal change or have some
cultural significance.

Vacation
In the United Kingdom the word "vacation" referred specifically to the long summer
break. The French term is similar to the American English: "Les Vacances." The term
derives from the fact that, in the past, upper-class families would literally move to a
summer home for part of the year, leaving their usual family home vacant for
countrywide holidays.

Sabbatical, gap year or career break

Longer breaks from a career or occupation also exist, such as a sabbatical, gap
year or career break

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Types of holidays:
Holidays are either religious or secular:

 Most holidays are linked to faiths and religious. They are religious holidays.
 Secular or non religious holidays can be national (Independence Day)
or international (Mother Day)

CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD:

April Fool's Day Brazilian Carnival

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day,
although not a holiday, is a day celebrated
in many countries on April 1. The day is
marked by the commission of hoaxes and
other practical jokes of varying
sophistication on friends, family members,
enemies, and neighbors, or sending them
on a fool's errand, the aim of which is to
embarrass the gullible. Traditionally, in
some countries, the jokes only last until
noon: like the UK, Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and South Africa,
someone who plays a trick after noon is
called an "April Fool" Elsewhere, such as
in Ireland, France, and America, the jokes
last all day.
Brazil’s most popular and festive holiday
is Carnival. In fact, many people consider
Carnival one of the world’s biggest
celebrations. Each spring, on the Saturday
before Ash Wednesday, the streets of
Brazil’s largest city, Rio de Janeiro, come
alive with wild parties, festivals and
glamorous balls.
The Samba School Parade is the highlight
of the four-day event. About 3,000
performers, clad in ornate costumes
embellished with feathers, beads and
thousands of sequins, dance down the
parade route alongside dazzling floats and
into the Sambadrome-a dance stadium
built for the event. Judges award a prize to
the most spectacular group of dancers.

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Chinese new year Christmas

Chinese New Year is a very old Christmas , also referred to as Christmas

celebration, a time for repaying debts, Day, is an annual holiday celebrated
enjoying feasts, giving "red envelopes" of on December 25 that commemorates the
lucky money to friends and relatives, and birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
remembering ancestors.This holiday is
celebrated approximately 15 days after the Modern customs of the holiday include
start of the Chinese New Year. gift-giving, Church celebrations, and the
display of various decorations—including
Yan Yat - The seventh day of the Chinese the Christmas
New Year is called Yan Yat, "Everybody's tree, lights, mistletoe, nativity scenes,
Birthday." and holly. Santa Claus (also referred to
as Father Christmas, although the two
The last day of the celebrations is called figures have different origins) is a popular
Chinese Lantern Festival. mythological figure often associated with
bringing gifts at Christmas for children.
There are many old and delightful ancient
superstitions surrounding this holiday. Christmas is celebrated throughout
People buy presents, decoration, material, the Christian population, but is also
food, and clothing. It is also the tradition celebrated by many non-Christians as a
that every family thoroughly cleans the secular, cultural festival. Because gift-
house to sweep away any ill-fortune in giving and several other aspects of the
hopes to make way for good incoming holiday involve heightened economic
luck. activity among both Christians and non-
Christians, Christmas has become a major
event for many retailers.

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Eid al-Adha Eid ul-Fitr or Id-ul-Fit

Eid al-Adha (Arabic: ‫" )عيد األضح‬Festival Eid ul-Fitr or Id-ul-Fitr (Arabic: ‫عيد‬
of Sacrifice" is a religious festival ‫)الفطر‬, often abbreviated to Eid, is
celebrated by Muslims worldwide to a Muslim holiday that marks the end of
commemorate the willingness Ramadan, the Islamic holy month
of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael as of fasting. Eid is an Arabic word meaning
an act of obedience to God. However, God "festivity", while FiTr means "to break
provided a ram in place once Ibrahim the fast" (and can also mean "nature",
demonstrated his willingness to follow from the word "fitrah"); and so the holiday
God's commands. symbolizes the breaking of the fasting
period. It is celebrated starting on the first
Eid al-Adha annually falls on the 10th day day of the Islamic month of Shawwal.
of the month of Dhul Hijja (‫ )ذو الحجة‬of the
lunar Islamic calendar. The festivities last Eid ul-Fitr is a three day celebration and is
for three days or more depending on the sometimes also known as the "Smaller
country. Eid" (Arabic:‫ )العيد الصغير‬as compared to
the Eid ul-Adha that is called the "Greater
Men, women, and children are expected to Eid" (Arabic:‫)العيد الكبير‬
dress in their finest clothing to
perform Eid prayer in any mosque.
Muslims who can afford to do so sacrifice
their best domestic animals (usually sheep,
but also camels, cows and goats) as a
symbol of Ibrahim's sacrifice. The
sacrificed animals,
called uDHiyyah (Arabic: ‫أضحية‬, also
known as "al-qurbān"), have to meet
certain age and quality standards or else
the animal is considered an unacceptable
sacrifice. Generally, these must be at least
a year old.

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Easter Day
Easter is the time for holidays, festivals
and a time for giving chocolate Easter
eggs. But Easter means much more....
Easter is the oldest and the most important
Christian Festival, the celebration of the
death and coming to life again of Jesus
Christ. For Christians, the dawn of Easter
Sunday with its message of new life is the
high point of the Christian year.
Easter is the story of Jesus' last days in
Jerusalem before his death.The Easter
story includes Maundy Thursday (the
Last supper leading to the
Eucharist), Good Friday (the day on
which Jesus was crucified) and Easter
Day (the day on which Jesus came back to
life).
May Day
May Day occurs on May 1. In many
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July 4th(USA Independence Day)
In the United States, Independence Day,
commonly known as the Fourth of July, is
a federal holiday commemorating the
adoption of the Declaration of
Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring
independence from the Kingdom of Great
Britain.
Independence Day is commonly associated
with fireworks, parades, barbecues,
carnivals, picnics, concerts, baseball
games, political speeches and ceremonies,
and various other public and private events
celebrating the history, government, and
traditions of the United States.
Mother's Day/ Fathers Day
Celebrations which honor mothers and
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countries, May Day is synonymous with
International Workers' Day, or Labour
Day, which celebrates the social and
economic achievements of the labor
movement
New Year's day
New Year's Day is the first day of the new
year. It is celebrated on January 1, often
celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of
midnight as the new year starts.
January 1 marks the end of a period of
remembrance of a particular passing year,
especially on radio, television, and in
newspapers, which usually starts right
after Christmas Day.
This day is traditionally a religious feast,
but since the 1900s has become an
occasion for celebration the night of
December 31, called New Year's Eve.
There are often fireworks at midnight.
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fathers. They are celebrated on various
days in many places around the world.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival.
Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for
the harvest and express gratitude in
general. It is a holiday celebrated primarily
in Canada and the United States. While
perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving
is now primarily identified as a secular
holiday.
Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the
second Monday of October in Canada and
on the fourth Thursday of November in the
United States. Thanksgiving dinner
(turkey) is held on this day, usually as a
gathering of family members and friends
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Valentine's Day International Women's Day

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's The international women's day is

Day is a holiday celebrated on February
14. In the Americas and Europe, it is the
traditional day on which lovers express
their love for each other by sending
Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or
offering confectionery. The holiday is
named after two among the numerous
Early Christian martyrs named Valentine.
The day became associated with romantic
love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in
the High Middle Ages, when the tradition
of courtly love flourished.
celebrated on 8th of March.
Women's Day or Working Women's Day is
a day of international solidarity, and a day
for reviewing the strength and organization
of proletarian women.
It was decided to have a Woman's Day in
every country as a form of struggle in
getting working women to vote. This day
was to be a day of international solidarity
in the fight for common objectives and a
day for reviewing the organized strength of
working women under the banner of
socialism.

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