INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO SALESIANO ELOY VALENZUELA

BUCARAMANGA
Educamos evangelizando al estilo de don Bosco

AREA: HUMANITIES SUBJECT: ENGLISH SUBJECT: ENGLISH

TEACHER: SCARLETT MARÍN RUSSELL AND MONICA RODRIGUEZ DATE: _____________________________
STUDENT: GROUP: 10-1

The Sapporo Snow Festival is one of Japan’s

most exciting winter events – held for seven
days in February. The festival started in 1950
with a group of students making sculptures
with snow and ice in the park. Now, over two
million people come to Sapporo to see around
400 huge sculptures. They are usually of
famous people, building or events, and teams
from different countries take part in a
competition, with prizes for the best scultures.

In March, people in parts of Azerbaijan, Iran

and Turkey celebrate the beginnning of spring
with the festival of Novruz Bayram. Arround
March 22nd, the day and the night are equal
length, and people celebrate the fact that
plants are starting to group again after the
winter: people light candles and share
traditional food, and There are special theatre
performances in the Street. It is also
traditional for children to go from door to
door asking for sweets.
 People celebrate Midsummer’s Day all overthe
world, but it is particularly important in sweden.
Swedish people celebrate on the Friday and
Saturday nearest to June 24th by dancing round a
huge maypole. There is traditional music and
people wear traditional costumes. They also wear
crowns made of wild flowers. Special food, like
the year’s first strawberries, is on the menu, and
people decorate their houses with flowers to
bring good luck for the year ahead.

Harvest festival in the autung are very

popular in the USA especially in the north-
east of the country, where the autum trees
are beautiful. Harvest festivals are usually
held in October and they are about
celebrating local food. There are always
incredible display of food, such as apples,
pumpkins and garlic. Children dress up in
traditional costumes and take part in
parades, and there are pony rides,
entertainers and plenty of traditional music.

Tomado de PETER, S. C. y CRACE, A. (2013). Cutting Edge, England: Pearson Educational.

1. What is this text about?
a. Special seasons in the world
b. Tributes or homages to seasons though celebrations
c. Celebrations around the world at the end of the seasons

2. How long does the Sapporo festival last?

a. Seventeen day
b. Thirty days
c. One week

3. What is the purpose of Harvest festivals?

a. To celebrated food produced in the area
b. To gather and share with people
c. To celebrate life
4. According to the text:
a. Celebrations of seasons are important for people all over the world
b. Celebrations related to seasons are fun and people enjoy them
c. Seasons are special occasions for being thankful for food production

5. The word MAYPOLE, in paragraph 3, may be replaced by:

a. A small place
b. A tiny plant
c. A big tree

6. What type of text is it?

a. Descriptive
b. Expository
c. Narrative