Learning activity 1

Evidence: Take a break

Select a celebration around the world and describe it according to the format.
Include images to illustrate your ideas. You can find and example in Introductory
material section 1. Describing celebrations and special occasions around the
world. You have to make your description in minimum 250 words.

Aspects Description Image

What it is The Tanabata celebrates the
celebrated. meeting of the star "Orihime"
and "Hikoboshi".
According to Japanese
tradition, "the Milky Way is a
river of stars that crosses the
sky, separating the lovers
Orihime and Hikoboshi."
The Tanabata festival is based
on a Japanese love legend that
has its origin in an ancient
Chinese tradition based on the
popular Asian tale of the
princess and the shepherd

Where and It is celebrated on July 7. But

when it is we have a problem with
celebrated. celebrating Tanabata on July 7
is that in Japan, on those days,
they are in the middle of the
rainy season. So, it is usually
always cloudy or raining.

For this reason, in many

localities this celebration
usually moves to the end of
July. The celebration is usually
nocturnal so that the star
encounter can be watched.
What people There is no problem if you go
wear. with casual clothes. But if you
want be more “cultural” you can
use traditional clothes like
kimonos, yukata, hakama etc.

What people do. Although festivals vary greatly

by region, as in many other
Japanese festivals, the streets
are often filled with mobile food
and game stores.
The most popular tradition to
celebrate this day is to write
wishes, sometimes as poems,
on small strips of paper knowed
as tanzaku, to hang from the
branches of bamboo trees,
sometimes along with another
decorations...

Later, the bamboo and

decorations are usually floated
on river beds or burned after
the festival, at midnight or the
next day, if that day does not
rain, the wishes will be fulfilled,
since the star lovers will have
been able to meet and be
happy, granting their wishes to
all who write them in the
tanzaku. But if it rains that day,
they will not fulfill the wishes.
Why it is a "Just once a year, on the
special seventh day of the seventh
celebration. month of the ancient Japanese
lunisolar calendar, these lovers
(stars) gather in the sky."
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Criterios de evaluación

Describe celebraciones con la estructura y el vocabulario requeridos.