Unit 5
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COUNTRIES AND PEOPLE |
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Read and explain the meanings of the words in bold.
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Carnival is the most popular national holiday in Brazil. Brazilian people celebrate it in February. All people go to the musical parades in Rio De Janeiro. They wear costumes and colourful masks, dance to the beats of drums and music. Carnival means «no meat». This is a tradition not to have meat on some days. This means to keep away from bad things in their life.
During this spring festival, people visit each other. They give different gifts on this day. People have fun on this festival.
Children go out into streets with paper lanterns and guess riddles on the lanterns. Lanterns are often in the shape of animals. People watch lions or dragons dancing. A typical food is tangyuan*. They make it from rice balls with sweet fillings.
Some English villages still have a maypole dancing on the first Sunday of May.
In old England May Day was a holiday. It was a day of celebration of summer’s beginning. People decorated houses and streets with branches of trees and flowers.