CELEBRATIONS AND FESTIVITIES

1. Search the web to find the dates of the following holidays: Labor Day, Columbus Day, Guy Fawkes,  Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Boxing Day, St Patrick's Day and Easter,

2. Why was Valentine sentenced to death? What is he famous for?

3. What do people traditionally eat on Thanksgiving?

4. What do people traditionally wear on St Patrick's Day?

5. Cite as many things as you can which people traditionally do at Hallowen.

6. Which plot is Guy Fawkes famous for?

7. Which song do people traditionally sing on New Year's Day?

8. What is an Advent Calendar?

9. On October, 12 all Pan-American lands join to celebrate a special holiday. What is the name of this holiday?

10. Search the web and find information about another holiday which is not mentionned in the list above (see question one). Describe it.

11. What do people put in the Christmas pudding? Why?

12. Which holiday occurs when it is time to bid farewell to summer?

13. What is Columbus Day supposed to honour?

14. What is Columbus Day's other name?

15. Which holiday interests you the most? Why?

Remember to bring all your answers next Monday.