BIGGEST PARTIES and FESTIVALS

BIGGEST PARTIES and FESTIVALS

Check your understanding on some world's celebrations.

MARDI GRAS!

Mardi Gras is a festive holiday celebrated all around the world. Mardi Gras parades often include colourful floats, feathered masks, and lots of food. The name “Mardi Gras” is French, translating into “Fat Tuesday” in English. The celebration originated as a religious holiday, marking the day before the Christian tradition of Lent. Christians would often make pancakes on this day to use up all of the milk, butter, and eggs in their houses. This became known as Pancake Day, and later as Mardi Gras when people began to celebrate it in France. Today, Mardi Gras is celebrated by people of all cultures. In some places— such as New Orleans, Louisiana— the parties and parades can last for two weeks.

Multiple Choice

The name Mardi Gras is French for:

• Fat Tuesday

• Shrove Tuesday

• Happy Tuesday

• Ash Wednesday

Multiple Choice

In places like New Orleans, Mardi Gras celebrations can last for ...

four weeks

two weeks

forty days

• one week

• two weeks

• four weeks

• forty days

Multiple Choice

What are the three traditional colours of Mardi Gras?

• Red, white and blue

• Orange, black and gold

• Purple, green and gold

• Purple, pink and white

MIDSUMMER

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Multiple Choice

People decorate the maypole with flowers and leaves.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

They eat new potatoes with fish after they eat strawberries with cream.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

People sit around the fire after they dance around the maypole.

• TRUE

• FALSE

INTI RAYMI

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INTI RAYMI

Inti Raymi is the Inca festival of the sun, the most respected divine being in the Inca religion. Incas believed that they were the descendants of Inti, the Sun God. This traditional religious ceremony in honour of the Sun God Inti takes place each year on 24 June (the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere) in the ancient Inca capital, Cusco, Peru. Once a religious tribute to The Sun God Inti, today the theatrical presentation of the festival attracts thousands of local visitors and international tourists to Cusco each year.

Multiple Choice

INTI RAYMI is a celebration held in Peru.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

This celebration takes place each year on 24 June in the ancient Inca capital.

• TRUE

• FALSE