Friday, 14 October 2011

Blackbeard's Treasure (Chapter 4)

Moon Festival in China (Mod 2) Lesson (2c)





Chinese celebrate the moon festival in autumn (the season between Summer and Winter) and it lasts one day. Before the festival people prepare tarditional mooncakes to eat or send to their friends and relatives. On that day , Chinese families get together to celebrate the end of the harvest season (when the crops are gathered from the fields). Later in the evening , families watch the full moon, eat mooncakes and sing moon poems, In China the moon symbolises beauty (represent beauty). The Chinese believe that on that evening little children can see a lady on the moon. When the children make a wish (ask for something to happen) to the lady on the Moon, their dreams can come true (happens). Everyone has a great time.

A very popular festival in Thailand (Mod 2) Lesson (2b)



Loy Krathong happens at the end of the rainy season to apologise to water for making it dirty. The festival starts in the evening when there's a full moon in the sky. They decorate rafts with flowers and candles. They light candles and put the rafts on the rivers. They believe they carry away bad luck and start a new life.

Module (2) Lesson (2a) Special Days(Fiesta Time In Spain)

People are weaing costumes and they are dancing in the streets