Unit 4 Page 39 Lesson C3

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Three: Listening, Celebrations around the world.

Look at the pictures of these two festivals. What’s happening?

Then listen and answer the questions.

1.I’m from Sweden, and we celebrate Santa Lucia Day every year. We call it Lucia.

How can I describe it? Well, Santa Lucia was from Italy, originally, Sicily, I think, but we celebrate her day in Sweden.

It’s on December 13th, and it’s just a nice little celebration, for children, really, especially little girls about ten or eleven. So, young girls dress up in white dresses, and they hold candles and sing a song, the Santa Lucia song, and they serve coffee and cake and things in their school, and sometimes they go to offices or hospitals, or they can do it at home, too.

2.We have a lot of national holidays here in Britain, we call them bank holidays, I think because the banks are closed or something. Anyway, there are about nine or ten days a year, I think, but there aren’t any in the next month or so. I’m trying to think, the next special event here, The next one is, oh, it’s Bonfire Night on November 5th.

It’s not a holiday, really, you don’t take time off work for it, but a lot of people celebrate it. It’s fun. People get together and they light big bonfires, and we have fireworks and things.

But it’s usually very cold in November, and sometimes it rains and we all get wet!

But it’s really for the children, they enjoy it.