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7. It is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on
44 Time to celebrate 17 March every year. The day celebrates the arrival

of Christianity in Ireland. There are public parades
Festivals around the world are a time for celebration and fun. and people generally wear green on this day.

Read about these famous festivals and name them. ____________________

8. People in Thailand celebrate the New Year by throwing
1. It is the biggest holiday in China with dragons, water on each other using water guns, buckets and
fireworks, symbolic clothing, flowers, lanterns and hoses. Elephants can also be seen walking around
celebrations. roads and splashing off water jets at people!
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2. This festival is celebrated on the evening of October 31,
which is the evening before the Christian feast of All 9. It is a famous festival of Spain. Hundreds of people
Saints Day. It is a fun festival for kids and is associated can be seen running in front of a small group of bulls
with carved and lit pumpkin lanterns. that have been let loose on the streets of a town.
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3. This fun filled festival is celebrated in Spain where 10. During this carnival, the city comes alive with
participants throw tomatoes at each other and ride masked people and tourists. Bands, jugglers and
down the lanes and roads filled with tomatoes. entertainers are everywhere and the canals of the
____________________ city are full of colourful boats.
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4. This holiday is celebrated in Mexico. Families and
friends gather to pray for and remember friends and
family members who have died.
____________________ Songkran Water Festival

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5. This festival of Taiwan lights up the sky with hundreds La-Tomatina is the world’s largest food
of lanterns. It was originally celebrated to ward off evil Chinese New Year fight which is held on the last Wednesday
and diseases from the town. People write their wishes La-Tomatina of August each year. It is held in the
on the lanterns before releasing them in the sky. Carnival of Venice town of Bunol near Valencia in Spain.
More than one hundred metric tons of
____________________ St.Patrick’s Day overripe tomatoes are thrown in the

street. Before 2013, around 40,000
6. It is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the Running of the Bulls to 50,000 people crammed into this
United States of America. It was originally celebrated Halloween Day huge tomato fight. Since 2013, official
as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the Day of the Dead ticketing has limited the number of
harvest of the preceding year. participants to just 20,000 lucky people.
____________________ Pingxi Lantern Festival

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