Learning activity 1

Evidence: Take a break

Select a celebration around the world and describe it according to the format.
Include images to illustrate your ideas. You can find and example in Introductory
material section 1. Describing celebrations and special occasions around the
world. You have to make your description in minimum 250 words.

Aspects Description Image

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Halloween, also known as the
night of Halloween, the Night of the
Dead or Halloween Night of the
Dead, is a modern; Halloween
What it is celebration means "All Hallow's
celebrated. Eve", a word which comes from
the Old English, and that means
"Eve of all saints", since it refers to
the night of October 31, the eve of
the Feast of All Saints

It is celebrated on the night of

Where and October 31, the eve of All Saints
Day, in Anglo-Saxon countries like
when it is Canada, the United States, Ireland
celebrated. or the United Kingdom. His name
is a contraction of All Hallows' Eve,
(the eve of All Saints). The
Halloween night is also, to a lesser
extent, in some countries in Latin
America and in regions of Spain.

People dress up as zombies,

ghosts, witches superheroes
between costumes. Although the
What people official date of this festivity is set on
wear. the night of October 31, Halloween
takes weeks taking the shop
windows, counters of
supermarkets and starring in the
interior decoration of offices and
ministries, such as agriculture. Is
filled on the inside with black
pumps and oranges, pumpkins etc.
 In Colombia, The 31 of October is
celebrated by both children and
adults. It is customary to bring
What people do. costumes and masks and in some
places have parades of living dead
in the streets. Children ask for
candy door to door in the well-
known "trick or treat"; and adults
parties.

Halloween was a pagan

festival that the Celts
celebrated with the name of
Samhain, an ancient Gaelic
word that means "the end of
the harvest." The festival
was the moment in which the
ancient Celts pagans stored
Why it is a supplies and sacrificed cattle
special to prepare for the winter. In
celebration. addition, and this is its link
with the current, the Celts
believed that on the night of
Samhain (Halloween), the
spirits of the dead returned
to visit the mortal world
(according to their beliefs,
opened the dimension that
separates the living from the
dead), so that they lit huge
bonfires to scare away evil
spirits to these assumptions.
To this should be added that
the Celts left sweets and
food out of their homes to
not "enrage" to the spirits
that might be loose that day
and wore masks of diabolical
forms with figures and
decorations to "give them
fear" and drive them away.
 In that sense is that this
party took the fact that
children have to disguise to
go touring the houses asking
for candy under the slogan
"trick or treat". The "mischief"
refers to the "wickedness" of
the spirits.

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Describe celebraciones con la estructura y el vocabulario requeridos.