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9 B SHOP & FEAST

READING & WRITING

1 Match the words with the pictures.

a) a kilo of
b) a box of
c) a bouquet of
d) a dozen of
e) a bottle of
f) a carton of
g) a slice of 1. f owers 2. rice 3. apples
h) a plate of

4. milk 5. bread 6. orange juice 7. chocolate 8. eggs

2 Imagine you are going shopping for a celebration. Say what you need.

e.g. I need f ve bottles of fruit juice./ I want to buy two boxes of chocolate.

3 a. Look at the photos of the Basant Panchami Festival in India. What do you know about
this festival? What can you guess from the photos?

A. Basant Panchami means the purity of spring.
The festival celebrations take place in North India
every year. Most Indians look forward to this colourful
festival. Preparations usually start months before the
celebrations. a)___________________. Indians are
going to celebrate it at the end of January this year.

B. Yellow is the colour of this festival. Each
Indian citizen is going to rush to the shops to buy
something yellow and get ready for the festival.
Shops are going to sell bouquets of yellow f owers.
b)___________________. Farmers are going to
harvest mustard f owers. Fathers are going to
purchase dozens of kites to make their kids happy.
And mothers are going to get kilos of saffron and
packets of nuts to cook traditional dishes like saffron
rice or laddu. Everybody is going to decorate their
doors with yellow f owers to welcome spring.

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