Unit 13: Festival - Read

Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces. Hello. My name’s Ruth. I’m from America, and I’m Jewish. We have lots of festivals, but my favorite (1) ____Hanukka. It takes place (2)_____December. The (3) _____ celebrates a miracle from (4) _____ times, when the lights in a temple burned for eight days (5) ______ oil. So we light a candle every day (6) _____eight days. We have parties and we eat nice food, (7) _____ sweets and cakes. We (8) _____ visit our relations, and children get a lot of presents.

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it. One of the festival’s in the Buddhist tradition is called Vesak. It takes place in April or May, and it lasts for three days. The festival celebrates the life of the Buddha, and it also marks the beginning of the Buddhist year. During the festival, Buddhists decorate their houses and streets with flowers and paper lanterns. They give presents to monks and to poor people, and they send each other cards. In India, they sometimes buy birds in cages and set them free.