Unit 9: Festivals Around The World

Tet is a national and family festival. It is an occasion for every Vietnamese to have a good time while thinking about the last year and the next year. At Tet, spring fairs are organized, streets and public buildings are brightly decorated and almost all shops are crowded with people shopping for Tet. At home, every is tidied, special food is cooked,offerings of food, fresh water, flowers and betel are made on the family altar with burning joss- sticks scenting the air. First-footing is made when the lucky visitor comes and children are given lucky money wrapped in a red tiny envelope. Tet is also a time for peace and love. During Tet, children often behave well and friends, relatives and neighbors give each other best wishes for the new year.

Nghinh Ong Festival
Eight-hundred participants of the annual Nghinh Ong Festival marched through the streets of Phan Thiet City yesterday amid swarms of onlookers. Palanquins (elevated seats carried by two or four people), flowers and music flooded the streets for the cultural immersion festival that has brought together the Viet and Hoa (Chinese ethnic) people living together in the town to worship Quan Cong and wish for peace, good weather and prosperous harvests throughout south central Binh Thuan Province.
"The festival expresses clearly the cultural identity of the Hoa community in Phan Thiet, living together with other ethnic groups. The high amount of community involvement in the festival is what makes it original and entertaining," said Lam Quang Hien, director of the provincial Department of Culture and Information, and the festival's organising committee chief.
"Many people look forward to when Ong's palanquin and the delegation march past their street; they believe that good things will come to them," he adds.
Nghinh Ong Festival - one of five main ethnic festivals in Binh Thuan - brings calligraphy, gastronomy, exhibitions and Chinese chess to life in an impressive China Town form.
Fifteen dance troupes bearing colourful unicorn, lion and dragon costumes performed programmes to wow visitors. Included was the town's native Thanh Long troupe which presented their popular Truong Long Lion.
Classical opera (tuong) performances by HCM City based Tran Huu Trang Theatre also delighted audiences.
The festival, held on August 11-14, aims to promote tourism activities in the region, said Nguyen Van Thu, deputy chairman of the provincial People's Committee. Officials estimated the event attracted more than 40,000 visitors.

The Elephant Race Festival is usually held in Don Village or in forests near the Sevepoi River. In preparation for the festive day, people take their elephants to places where they can eat their fill. Apart from grass their food also includes bananas, papayas, sugar canes, corns, sweet potatoes. The elephants are free from hard work to preserve their strength.The race track is on even ground, preferably wide enough for ten elephants to stand simultaneously in a line with a length of one to two kilometres. People from near and far in their best and colourful costumes flock to the festival.

With the signal of of tu va (horns made into musical instruments), the mahouts command their elephants to go to the race track, standing in a row at the starting point. The leading elephant stands in front, whirling his trunk and nodding his head in greeting the spectators. Atop each elephant there are two handlers in traditional costumes for generals. The tu va signals the start of the race and the elephants rush ahead, excited by the sound of the drums, gongs, and cheering from the spectators. Upon seeing the first elephant dashing to the destination, the spectators shout boisterously amidst the echoing sound of drums and gongs. At the end of the race, the winning elephants lift their trunks above their heads to wave to the viewers, walk deliberately flapping their ears gently, gazing through half-closed eyes to receive sugarcane from their viewers.

The winning elephant is given a laurel wreath. Like its owner, the elephant expresses its happiness and enjoy the sugar canes and bananas from the festival-goers. After this race, the elephants participate in the competition of swimming across the Serepok River, of tug-of-wars, or throwing balls and playing football. When the race comes to an end, the competing elephants bring back the atmosphere of the festival to their villages. Upon returning to their village, they receive warm welcome from the villagers. Very often, the elephants from Don Village win the prizes as the village has a tradition of training and tending elephants.

  1.   A. cannon                    B. chaos                       C. culture                    D. direct

      2.   A. Easter                      B. festive                     C. rename                   D. harvest

      3.   A. highlight                  B. enjoy                       C. reverse                    D. review

      4.   A. invest                      B. major                      C. perform                  D. machine

      5.   A. leather                    B. account                   C. adapt                       D. decide

      6.   A. answer                    B. believe                    C. rely                          D. decrease

      7.   A. police                      B. result                       C. correct                    D. traffic

      8.   A. funny                       B. pretty                      C. lucky                        D. alone

      9.   A. breakfast                 B. pepper                    C. hotel                        D. ticket

      10. A. parade                    B. copy                        C. replace                    D. arrive

Komorebi ơi,  canal /kəˈnæl/ là 2rd syllable chứ nhỉ;

1st syllable bổ sung thêm species /ˈspiː.ʃiːz/ nữa nha: ancient, species, happen, borrow, pleasure, creamy, paper, leaver, person, sentence, people, rapid, system, purpose, ruler, money, pirate, river, damage 

2nd syllable: còn lại

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Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31st. The most common colors of the day are orange and black. Halloween comes from the ancient Celtic festival Samhain.

The ancient Celts believed that on October 31st, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased is not clear, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops.

On Halloween, the ancient Celts would place a skeleton by their window to represent the dead. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body, containing the spirit and knowledge, the Celts used the "head" of the vegetable to decorate their houses.

On this day people often wear strange clothes as characters in horrible novels or movies to frighten others.

People usually like to dress as ghosts, skeletons, or witches. Now Halloween is an official holiday in almost all European countries.

1 How far is it from Ho Chi Minh City to Hue?

2 Although she is young, she performs experience

3 The light will be turned off by my children when they go to bed

4 My father used to live in a small village when he was a child