Welcome to "Holiday Talk"
Everyone loves to celebrate!
We all follow a calendar. A calendar shows the months of a year, and in those months, we all experience different holidays. Before we talk about the many holidays we celebrate, what is the definition of a holiday? If you look up what a holiday is in a dictionary, you will find different but similar definitions. According to dictionary.reference.com, a holiday is a day where we celebrate an event or a person without the stress of having to work or go to school and the holiday is a fixed day on our everyday calendar. In the coming posts, we will look into the many major holidays that are part of all of our lives.
Vocabulary List
Calendar: (noun) a table or register
with the days of each month and week in a year
Different: (adjective) not the same
Holiday: (noun) a day where we celebrate an event or a person without the stress of
having to work or go to school and the holiday is a fixed day on our everyday
calendar
Celebrate: (verb) to observe or take part in an event with ceremonies or
festivities.
Stress: (verb) to experience worry over
something or someone
Major: (adjective) greater in size or
importance
Vocabulary Exercise Number One: Match the Definition to Each Vocabulary Word
1. Calendar ____ a. take part in an event
2. Different ____ b. greater in size or importance
3. Holiday ____ c. consists of days of each month and week
4. Celebrate ____ d. we don't work or go to school on this day
5, Stress____ e. to experience worry
6. Major ____ f. not the same
Vocabulary Exercise Number Two: Write the correct vocabulary word next to each sentence.
1. Today is the greatest day ever! I don't have school today because we are celebrating a ____________________!
2. I have a lot of ________________. I hope I pass my math test.
3. An apple is not the same as an orange. They are _________________.
4. My mom's birthday is on July 30. I need to mark it on my _________________.
5. The next blog post will be about one of the _______________ holidays.
6. We are at a wedding to _______________ the marriage of two people.
Let's Learn Grammar!
You just read and defined two nouns: Calendar and Holiday
A noun is a word that is either a person, place, thing or idea.
Exercise: Write two sentences using the nouns "Calendar" and "Holiday".
Check out this website! Fun holiday games!
Holiday Video!
This video explains all the different holidays!
Resources
(n.d.). Retrieved September 28, 2015, from http://dictionary.reference.com/
Really nice thematic organization to your blogs (1 & 2)! I love the videos that you have included, and the grammar and vocabulary points.Good work!
ReplyDeleteReally like how you put a theme to the blog and not random paragraphs!
ReplyDeleteI think it's very cool that your blog follows a theme. Students will get to learn a lot about culture as well as language.
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