LearnEnglish KidsWinter Festivals

Sandra Cózar Ropero

What do you know about Winter Festivals around the world? Try thisquiz!

This is a useful website to help you: www.geocities.com/carolmdieter/xmas.htm

True or False?

1.Christmas has always been celebrated on December 25th. TRUE

2. In Holland children put out their shoes to receive Christmas presents. FALSE.

3. The Winter Solstice is celebrated on the longest day of the year. FALSE

4. A ‘Yule Log’ was burnt on a huge bonfire to celebrate the WinterSolstice. TRUE

5. In Tibet there is a 4 day festival to celebrate the dying year, wherepeople dance around a magic pole. TRUE

6. In Italy the kind witch delivers presents to good children and coal to bad children on the 1st January. TRUE

7. In Pakistan the Winter Solstice is celebrated with a festival of singing, dancing, bonfires and feasting. TRUE

8. In Ethiopia a special game called ‘Ganna’ is played with sticks atChristmas. TRUE

9. In England a game called ‘Snap Dragon’ (eating raisins on fire!) is stil popular. FALSE

10. In Oaxaca, Mexico on December 23rd there is a Festival of Radishes, where people carve pictures into radishes. TRUE