B1 – Intermediate
Every culture has a different way of celebrating certain events. Christmas in Spain might be celebrated differently from Christmas in South Korea.
Read the article and watch the video to learn how Peru celebrates the Festival of the Sun.
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
3. What other traditional festivities from other countries do you know of?
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
Every year in Peru it’s celebrated the Festival of Sun. This Festival, called Inti Raymi, occurs when winter solstice arrives. During the ceremonial an actor play an Incan leader. He pours a corn drink over the ground. Also, the priests sacrifice a llama and they pull out its heart for put it on the fire.
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
In spain there are a lot of festival. The most famous are Easter (Semana Santa). It commemorates the dead and resurrection the Jesus. The most important acts are the processions. They consists of different brotherhoods carry religious images (usually carved from wood) that represent episodes of the passion and death of Jesus Christ.
3. What other traditional festivities from other countries do you know of?
I remember the Oktoberfest. It is a festival held in Munich since 1810, being the main party in Germany and one of the most important in the world.
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
It is a ceremony where the Inca corn drink is poured over a ceremonial urn as an offering to Mother Earth.
The ceremony reaches its climax with the sacrifice of a llama to the Sun God Inti.
The priests remove the heart of the animal and place it in the fire as part of the ritual.
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
In Spain there are two main festivals, Christmas and Holy Week.
During Holy Week there are many processions with religious images and many people participate and in some cities they last all night.
Christmas is lived in a calmer way and is used to do a lot of shopping.
I do not actively participate in any
3. What other traditional festivities from other countries do you know of?
I know about the 4th of July in the United States, with all the fireworks and parades.
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1. They celebrate the winter solstice giving two offerings to the Mother Earth, a corn drink and a llama heart.
2. In Spain we celebrate Christmas and Easter. In Christmas we buy presents for our family commemorating how three kings brought presents to Jesus child. In Easter we usually do not eat meat for a day and we eat sweet bread at the end of the Easter.
3. Tibetan monks create a Mandala with coloured sand on the floor. They put the sand grains one by one. When the Mandala is finished and ceremonies are over, they destroy de Mandala.
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
They celebrate the Festival on the winter solstice. They kill a llama and they put his heart in the fire. They do this in honor of the god Inti Raymi.
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
My country, Spain, is mostly christian and here it’s common to celebrate Christmas and Easter. I celebrate Christmas with my family but but not religiously.
3. What other traditional festivities do you know of?
A very rare festivity in spain is “La Tomatina” in Buñol where people throw tomatoes at other people.
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1.Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
As it is a traditional festival, many Peruvians recreate what their ancestors did. Many people go and see how Mother Earth is offered a corn drink. Then, they culminate with the sacrifice of a llama.
2.Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
The most traditional festival in Spain is Holy Week, this festival is very important, especially in the south. A group of people called COSTALEROS carry a religious image on their shoulders in procession. These images, also called “Pasos” steps, represent the life of Jesus.
I participate in a traditional festival from my area called Moors and Christians. This festival represents the entry of the Moors into Spain and later the Christian reconquest.
3.What other traditional festivities do you know of?
In the north of Spain there is a traditional festival called “San Fermines”. People run to escape some Bulls through the narrow streets.
Las Fallas are traditional too. The falleros make giant wooden monuments during the year. These monuments are kept secret until a few days before the festival. On the last day of the festival, these monuments are burned.
You have some interesting festivals in your country! Thanks for sharing about them.
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
Peruvians calebrate the Festival of the Sun with a ceremony where a principal actor pours the ancient Incan corn drink over the ground from a ceremonial urn and scacrificing a llama and placing its heart in a fire.
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
There are several traditional or religious festivals, most of them religious festivals but not all of them. One of the most important is known as Semana Santa, when several groups of people, called Cofradías, make parades with religious icons representing the death of Jesus.
3. What other traditional festivities do you know of?
In my city and others around we celebrate Moros y Cristianos, this is a recreation of muslim conquest and christian reconquest.
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1. The Peruvians conmemorate the Festival of sun with the sacrifice a Llama and offer corn’s drink.
2. In my country is more tipycal to Semana Santa. Some spanish people goes to the towns & citys for pray a Virgin’s and God’s. Some people keep the “Pasos” in his back’s for all streets for offer the other people the posibility for pray and make his promises.
3. I don’t know more festivals like this or Peruvians 😉
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1.The peruvian community celebrate the Festival of sun with the sacrifice a Llama and offer corn,s drink.
2.In Spain celebrate the Festival of the crosses.Varius sites of Granada make flowers crosses and server traditional food.
3. I honestly do not know many traditions, because I don’t travel often. I only know some Spanish traditions
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
Peruvians celebrate the Festival of the Sun in the following way: the actor Nirvado Carrillo played an Incan leader for the grand entrance. He pours the ancient Incan corn drink over the ground from a ceremonial urn as an offering to Mother Earth.
The ceremony reaches its climax with the sacrifice of a llama to the Sun God Inti. Priests pulled out the animal’s heart and placed it in a fire as part of the ritual.
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
In Spain are celebrated different religious festivals as Easter. God and virgins are exposed in very famous processions in the streets, and Christimas where is celebrated god’s birthday.
3. What other traditional festivities do you know of?
Other traditional religious festivities are christening, holy communion and marriage.
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to the Sun God Inti. Priests pulled out the animal’s heart and placed it in a fire as part of the ritual.
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1. Peruvians make an offering to the sun, with the sacrifice of a llama, and offer the corn drink
2. In Spain we have other traditions, for example, Holy Week, (Easter week)
Where many religious bring holy figures to the street and walk them and sing songs to them.
I don’t participate
3. I honestly do not know many traditions, I have seen some of them on television, but I have only seen the Spanish ones live.
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1. Peruvians have been an annual reenactment to celebrate the ancient Incan Festival of the Sun, which marcks the winter solstice.
2.In my country, there are typical processions. I don´t participate.
3. I don´t remember other traditional festivities that are not religious
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
In Peru, since 1944, Peruvians reenact a ceremony that consists of tribal dances and the climax is when the leader sacrifice a llama to the Sun God Inti
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?
In my city we celebrate the patron saint on August 5. It is the saint of the fishermen because according to history San Basso helped and protected the fishermen in their work. His lifeless body was found in the sea of my city, and that is why a procession of boats is made from the port of the city to the point where the body was found, where they leave branches of flowers, pray and return to the port to celebrate the day.
3. What other traditional festivities do you know of?
One of the most bizarre festivities I know is the celebration of fertility. Kanamara Matsuri (Metal Phallus Festival) is a Shinto festival in honour of fertility held annually every spring in Kawasaki.
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1. Describe how Peruvians commemorate or celebrate the Festival of the Sun.
the sacrifice of a llama to the Sun God Inti
2. Describe how traditional or religious festivals are observed in your country. Which ones do you participate in?it’s more typical processions. in some cities in these processions people do typical dances
3. What other traditional festivities do you know of?
I dont know
1- The ceremony reaches its climax with the sacrifice of a llama to the Sun God Inti.
Priest pukked out the animal’s heart and placed it in a fire as part of the ritual
2.- In my city don,t celebrate traditionals festivals religous
3.- I don,t understand the question