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8C LET’S WHOOP IT UP

 Lead in

Discuss the following questions with your friends.
1 What can be the meaning of the idiom ‘whoop

it up’?
2 What makes a festival unusual?
3 If you were organising a festival, how would

you want it to be? a

Reading

a Discuss the following questions with your friends.

1 What makes people go miles away to attend a
festival in a different country?
2 Look at the photos. Would you have fun if you
could attend one? Why/ Why not?

b
b Scan the paragraphs and give short answers to
the questions below.

1 Which festival is based on a legend? ghgfhf

2 Which festival is the most colourful?

3 Which festival is celebrated on the beach?

c Read the paragraphs and match them to the
photos.
Holi Festival c

1 Holi Festival is the spring festival of India. It is good way. The night before Holi, people get together

celebrated at the end of winter, on the last full and make bonfires in a ceremony. They sing and
moon. As there is inequality among the people in dance; eat and drink. On the day of Holi, youngsters
India, this festival aims to create social equality. and children spray coloured powder to each other
People, without their family names, join the on the streets and adults join them, too. They laugh
celebrations all together and have a whale of a time. and celebrate this fantastic festival till the evening.
Besides being a cultural event, it has religious sides as After cleaning up and putting on new clothes, they
well. People celebrate the beginning of spring, pray visit their families and relatives. They have dinner
for fertile land for harvests and reset relationships in a together and end the conflicts if there are any.

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