Hello!
How are you? Today, for our last class of the year, let's do something a little different - let's look at some famous festivals (祭り) around the world!
The picture above is of a unique festival held every year in the U.S. called Burning Man. It's held in the western desert, in Nevada, every summer.
I won't tell you any more about it because today we'll do an activity about it, and some other festivals around the world, where you have to find out about it! Here's what we'll do:
Activity
1. Get together with others in a group. Look at the top picture again, and then look at the pictures of some other festivals in different countries.
Tomatina festival, Spain
Rio Carnaval, Brazil
Tet festival, Vietnam
Oktoberfest, Germany
Canadian National Exhibition, Canada
Holi, India
2. Now your group choose one (1) event. Go on the Internet and find out the following things:
- Where exactly the events are located in the country
- What kinds of things people can do there
- When these events are held
- How to get to the location all the way from Japan
3. Now your group pair up with another group. Teach the other group about what you found out, and let the other group teach you about their festival.
Have fun!
Images: Top - "Lightmatter
burningman" by Aaron Logan. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightmatter_burningman.jpg#/media/File:Lightmatter_burningman.jpg/Tomatina
festival - "La Tomatina (25.08.2010) - Spain, Buñol 30" by flydime -
La Tomatina (25.08.2010) / Spain, Buñol. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via
Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Tomatina_(25.08.2010)_-_Spain,_Bu%C3%B1ol_30.jpg#/media/File:La_Tomatina_(25.08.2010)_-_Spain,_Bu%C3%B1ol_30.jpg/Carnaval
- "Grazieli Massafera como Rainha da Bateria da Grande Rio 1" by Team
at Carnaval.com Studios - Grand-Rio-37.JPG. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via
Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grazieli_Massafera_como_Rainha_da_Bateria_da_Grande_Rio_1.jpg#/media/File:Grazieli_Massafera_como_Rainha_da_Bateria_da_Grande_Rio_1.jpg/Tet
festival - "Thương xá TAX, Tết 2012" by Pinus - Own work. Licensed
under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_x%C3%A1_TAX,_T%E1%BA%BFt_2012.JPG#/media/File:Th%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_x%C3%A1_TAX,_T%E1%BA%BFt_2012.JPG/Oktoberfest
- "Oktoberfest inside Hippodrom" by Aschuff - Own work. Licensed
under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oktoberfest_inside_Hippodrom.jpg#/media/File:Oktoberfest_inside_Hippodrom.jpg/Canadian
National Exhibition festival - "Canadian National Exhibition 2012" by
Kotsy - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_National_Exhibition_2012.jpg#/media/File:Canadian_National_Exhibition_2012.jpg /Holi festival - "Samaj gathering during Lathmar hoil" by Narender9 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samaj_gathering_during_Lathmar_hoil.jpg#/media/File:Samaj_gathering_during_Lathmar_hoil.jpg
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