WorksheetsARTS-Festivals in the Philippines.
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
Philippine festivals are famous for their colorful and artistic costumes, masks, and props. It is divided into religious festivals and non-religious festivals.
TRUE
FALSE
A fiesta in Kalikbo, Aklan held every Third Sunday of January. The march of the early Aetas of Aklan while performing the upbeat tune of traditional dances and music.
Ati-atihan
Sinulog
A festival in Cebu City held every Third Sunday of January. The Cebuano’s transition from paganism to Catholicism
Ati-atihan
Sinulog
A festival in Iloilo City held every Fourth week of January, The Ilonggo’s conversion to Catholicism from paganism; dancing the ancestors’ upbeat dance using modern choreography
Dinagyang
Moriones
A festival in Marinduque held every Holy Week March or April Tribute to Saint Longinus a commander of the centurions in the Roman army, who was blind in one eye. The Marinduquenons wear masks to appear like the Roman soldiers of the biblical times
Dinagyang
Moriones
A festival in Lucban, Quezon held on May 15. Asking for intercession when praying to Saint Isidore for a bountiful harvest
Carabao
Pahiyas
A festival in Angono, Rizal held on November 23. Celebrating bountiful marine harvest by means of enlarging the image of Saint Clement, the fisherman’s patron saint. Male devotees carry the image during a procession accompanied by “pahadores” (devotees dressed in colorful local costumes, wooden shoes and carrying boat paddles.
Pahiyas
Higantes
A religious parade by the Catholics devotees of St. Helena. It is held every month of May and at the end of the month is the Flores De Mayo. It is a procession where the Reyna Elena, escorted by a little boy representing Emperor Constantine and the sagala or the court of the queen walk under arches decorated with colorful flowers and decorations.
Moriones
Santacruzan
An annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the friendly greeting “Madayaw”, from the Dabawenyo word “dayaw”, meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful.
Pintados
Penafrancia Fluvial
Kadayawan
MassKara
A month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.
Sinulog
Ati-atihan
Panagbenga
Dinagyang
A religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. It is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis.
Dinagyang
Ati-atihan
Panagbenga
Sinulog
An annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines. The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu.
Ati-Atihan
Dinagyang
Panagbenga
Sinulog
The Festival which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. These are made of paper-mache and measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda.
Giant Lanterns
Higantes
Turumba
Carabao
In Moriones festival, what does the word "morion" means?
Holy Week
Mask/Visor
Like water current movement
Roman Soldier
The dance movements of the Sinulog festival resembles the water current movement. What is the word it is derived from?
Sulog
Subsob
Hala, bira!
Morion
Every what time of the year do Sinulog festivals are being celebrated?
3rd Week of August
3rd Sunday of June
3rd Sunday of January
2nd Sunday of January
What festival does the images show?
Kadayawan
Sinulog
Ati-atihan
Moriones
What festival does the images show?
Ibalong
Sublian
Ati-atihan
Moriones
What festival does the images show?
Moriones
Sublian
Sinulog
Kadayawan
The following are examples of religious festivals:
I. Panagbenga
II. Sinulog
III. Pahiyas
IV. Dinagyang
I, II, & III
II, III, & IV
I, III, & IV
I, II, III, & IV
The following are examples of nonreligious festivals:
I. Panagbenga
II. Moriones
III. Kadayawan
I & II
II & III
I & III
I, II, & III
Where did the Higantes festival originate?
San Isidro
Angono, Rizal
Lucban, Laguna
Marinduque
A month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.
Sinulog
Ati-atihan
Panagbenga
Dinagyang
A week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental province. The festival features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina.
Penafrancia Fluvial
Pahiyas
Higantes
MassKara
The Festival which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. These are made of paper-mache and measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda.
Giant Lanterns
Higantes
Turumba
Carabao
