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For the questions below, choose your answers from the names of the festivals/celebrations from the reading.
(Sometimes you can give more than one answer and some choices may be required more than once.)
Before you start highlight the key words in the questions in the left-hand column below.
Then, skim the texts looking for expressions to match those key words
(phrases which give the same information as the questions but in different words).
Those for numbers 1 and 2 have been highlighted in the text.
Ask each other these question.
- What are the main festivals in your country? What are their origins?
- How do you celebrate them? Do you have a special routine? What food and drink do you have?
- What kinds of presents do you give?
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Which festival/celebration(s)
involve giving presents?
1 ____
celebrates the triumph of
2 ____
good over evil?
involves changes in the home?
3 ______
take place in the first three
4 ______ 5 ______
months of the year?
come from disagreements
6 ______ 7 ______ 8 _____
with authority?
is celebrated n
9 ______
different places?
involve fireworks? 10 _____ 11 _____ 12 ____
involve begging?
13 ______ 14 ______
came about partly because
15 ______
of anger over money?
involves a symbolic food?
16 ______
arose because of military
17 ______
needs?
came about partly because of
18 ______
an intercepted message?
have connection with love
19 ______ 20 ______
and romance?
followed a formal political
21 ______
agreement?
involved strange clothes?
22 ______
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A Halloween
B Independence Day
C Diwali
D Carnival
E Guy Fawkes' Night
F Valentine's Day
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