I.
Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined.
1. A. festival
B. end
C. elephant
D. perform
2. A. celebrate
B. candle
C. cake
D. racing
3. A. prefer
B. desert
C. held
D. celebrate
4. A. thanksgiving B. they
C. than
D. those
5. A. apricot
B. lantern
C. gather
D. cranberry
II. Find which word or phrases does not belong to each group.
1. A. festival
B. celebration
C. tradition
D. dishes
2. A. halloween
B. costumes
C. pumpkin
D. turkey
3. A. tomatoes

B. flowers
C. ham
D. spain
4. A. feast
B. Rice God
C. harvest
D. dancing
5. A. desert
B. elephant
C. camp
D. party
III. Choose the correct answers.
1. People of (native/ local/ athnic/ village) minorities in Phu Yen celebrate Hoi Mua
Festival every March.
2. The (festive/ festival/ air/ tradition) atmosphere is felt around all the villages.
3. A lot of cultural and (arts/ artist/ artistic/ art) activities are held as part of the
Flower Festival in Da Lat. (art)
4. Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light, is the (more important/ most important/
importance/ most importance) holiday of the year in India.
5. The Academy Awards, commonly (know/ knew/ known/ be known) as The
Oscars, are the most famous film awards in the world.
6. It is (amaze/ amazing/ amazed/ amazement) to see elephants racing in the
Elephant Race Festival in Dak Lak.
7. La Tomatina is a (season/ seasonal/ year/ annually) festival to celebrate the tomato
harvest.
8. People put pumpkin (lanterns/ lights/ neon signs/ bulbs) outside the homes during
Halloween.
9. Everbody has gone to the (music/ musical/ musicians/ musician) festival.
10. The (importance/ highlight/ best/ performance) of the rio carnival is the Samba
Parade.

11. The Samba Parade in Rio Carnival has thousands of samba (perform/
performance/ performer/ performers) from various samba schools.
12. People in Cannes take the Cannes Film Festival (in/ at/ on/ with) a very serious
way.
13. The biggest prize of the Cannes Film Festival is the Palme d’Or, which is given
(of/ to/ with/ for) the best film.
14. The festival (takes/ takes place/ occur/ held) every year at the end of August.
15. La Tomatina (hold/ held/ is held/ be held) on the last Wednesday of August every
year.
16. Villagers voluntarily contribute money and other things to (open/ celebrate/
remember/ set) the festival.
17. A lot of dancers go to Rio de Janeiro to (play/ take/ attend/ follow) the Rio
Carnival.
18. In La Tomatina, people get to throw tomatoes at (themselves/ once/ together/ each
other).


19. Which do you think are (season/ harvester/ artistic/ music) festivals?
IV. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in
brackets.
1. There were lively New Year ……………… all over the town. (celebrate)
2. The hall looked very …………………. With its Christmas tree. (festival)
3. There are many ………………………. Differences between the two
communities.
4. She gave a wonderful …………………… as the Iron Lady – the former British
Prime minister Margeret Thatcher. (perform)
5. When we heard she’d got the job, we all went off for a ………………… drink.
(celebrate)
6. What forms of ………………… do you participate in during the festival ?
(entertain)

7. The Chinese New Year marks the …………………. Of spring and the start of the
lunar New Year. (begin)
8. Her eyes were wide with …………………. When she heard the news. (excite)
9. Street are decorated with ………………… lights and red banners. (colour)
10. It is ……………………. In America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
(tradition)
V. Make questions for the underlined parts, using the question words in
brackets.
1. La Tomatina in bunol near Valencia happens every year (How often)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. La Tomatina takes place on the last Wednesday in August. (when)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. The highlight of the festival is the tomato fight. (what)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
4. La Tomatina dates back to 1945 when an annual parade of enormous figures with
big heads was passing through the streets of Bunyol. (when)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
5.Some youngsters accidentally knocked over one of the giants. (what)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
6. Burning Man lasts one week. (how long)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
7. The festival began in San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986. (when, where)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
8. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in
September. (when)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
9. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden model of a hated person.
(what)
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
11. In 2010,51,515 people atended Burning Man. (how many)

…………………………………………………………………………………………..
VI. Choose the word or phrase a mong that best fits the blank space in the
following passage.


The Rio de janeiro Carnival – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil’s most popular and festival holiday is Carnival. In fact, many people (consider/
regard/ believe/ hope) Carnival one of the world’s biggest celebrations. Each spring,
on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday, the streets of Brazil’s largest city, Rio
deJaneiro, come alive (of/ in/ with/ at) wild parties, festival and glamorous dances.
The Samba School Parade is the highlight of the (four days/ four-days/ fourth day/
four-day) event. About 3,000 performers, in colourful costumes embellished with
feathers, beads and thousands of sequins, dance down the parade route into the
sambadrome – a dance stadium (build/ built/ to build/ building) built for the event.
Judges award a (prize/ price/ respect/ result) to the most spectacular group of dancers.
VII. Read the text carefully, and then answer the questions.
The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic
roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food
supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of
winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts
came back to the earthly word, people thouht that they would encounter ghosts if they
left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear
masks when thy left their homes. To avoid bein recognized by these ghosts, people
would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would
mistake them for fellow spirits. On halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses,
people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and
prevent them from attempting to enter.
1. What is the origin of the tradition of dressing in costume for halloween ?
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. What happened in winter hundreds of years ago ?

…………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. What would people encounter if they left their homes on halloween in the past ?
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
4. What would people do to avoid being recognized by the ghosts ?
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. And what would people do to keep ghosts away from their houses ?
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