cultural parades celebrations holiday performamnces Trang 2/2 Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India. Special Diwali (1) …….are held across the country in October or November. The festival shows the (2) ……. richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance (3)……... and watch fireworks. Also, people can watch (4)…... with beautiful floats. There is a very strong festive atmosphere across India during Diwali. cultural parades celebrations holiday performamnces 

Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India. Special Diwali (1) …….are held across the country in October or November. The festival shows the (2) ……. richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance (3)……... and watch fireworks. Also, people can watch (4)…... with beautiful floats. There is a very strong festive atmosphere across India during Diwali.               cultural    parades celebrations    holiday    performamnces 

          Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India . Special Diwali celebrations are held across the country in October or November. The festival shows the cultural richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddes of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance performances and watch fireworks. Also , people can watch parades with beautiful floats. There is a very strong festive atmosphere across India during Diwali.

B. Read the passage and tick true (T) or false (F) 

Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India. Special Diwali celebrations are held across the country in October or November. The festival shows the cultural richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance performances and watch fireworks. Also, people can watch parades with beautiful floats. There is a very strong festive atmosphere across India during Diwali.

Statements True False

23. Diwali is called the “Festival of Lights”

24. They are held across the country in October or November.

25. The festival shows the colourful richness of this country.

26. People don’t open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth.

Complete the description of Diwali. Fill each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets.

Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India. Special Diwali (1. celebrate)_________ are held across the country in October or November. The festival shows the (2. culture) _________richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance (3. perform) _________ and watch fireworks. Also, people can watch (4. parade) _________with beautiful floats. There is a very strong (5. festival) _________atmosphere across India during Diwali.

I. Complete the passage with the words in the box. There is one extra word we don’t need for the blanks

Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India. Special Diwali (1) …….are held across the country in October or November. The festival shows the (2) ……. richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance (3)……... and watch fireworks. Also, people can watch (4)…... with beautiful floats. There is a very strong festive  atmosphere across India during Diwali.

Diwali is also known as the Festival (51) ___________ Lights. It is the (52) ___________ important religious festival in India. The yearly festival is (53) ___________ all over the country in October or November. It gives people a chance to leam about the cultural richness of India. During the festival, people wear their best clothes and (54) ___________ ___their houses with thousands of candles and lights to welcome lakshmi - the Goddess of Wealth. There (55) ____________ also fireworks and music performances. Diwali attracts thousands of people because of its festive atmosphere.

51.  A. at        B. on    C. of     D. with

52.  A. most   B. many      C. more  D. as

53.  A. celebrate   B. celebratory   C. celebrated    D. celebration

54.  A. wash   B. repair    C. clean  D. decorate

55.  A. areB. is     C. was      D. be 

IV. Complete each question with a suitable H/ WH – question word. More than one question word may be accepted:

1. Look at this photo! …………were you doing with the candles?

2………………did you stay when you were in Hanoi?

3. ……………..do you pronounce the name of the festival?

4. ……………..festival does your brother prefer the Tesselaar Tulip or the Tulip Time Festival?

5. ……………..do people celebrate Diwali?

6……………….did they arrive in Da Nang? on 29^th April?

7. ………………did you watch this film? – Because it was intersting.

8………………..do you go to the festival?- once a year.

V. Complte the desciption of Diwali. Fill each blank with the correct form of the word in the brackets:

Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, is the most important holiday of the year in India. Special Diwali(1. celabrate)………………are held across the country in October or November . The festival shows the( 2. culture)……………richness of this country. People open their doors and windows and light candles to welcome Lakshimi, the Goddess of Wealth. They also enjoy traditional music and dance (3. perform)…………………….and watch fireworks. Also , people can watch (4.parade)………………….with beautiful floats. There is a very strong(5. festival)…………………atmostphere across India during Diwali.

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