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Country: Spain, Catalunya |
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for Choice: PAGE 8: • Grandpa, grandpa! I'm going to dress up too. Now they are making my dress – says Maria – PAGE 10: Page 12: Page 14: Page 16: • Sara , don't roll so quickly or you will feel sick. Look at Anna, Silvia and Jordina , they are doing it slowly. Page 18: • Montserrat , Olga and Jordi ! Don't let go of our hands, or you will break the snake, and it won't work properly Jaume, Magí, Pere, Rodolf, Faust and Teresa , are doing bridges to cross under them. Page 20: Pull Anna 's handkerchief –says Immaculada . Page 22: - Look, Daddy, that is my mask! - Maria says. - It's very nice –answers her father. Page 24 • Let's see what he will say! –says Josep to Fina .
Page 28 • My mum hangs it on the wall, and every week I will cut a leg. • I will do the same, Elvira , - Fina says. Page 30 Page 32 Page 34 Tomorrow the whole family will go to the countryside to eat the mona cakes .
ACTIVITY 1: • New words from Catalonia ! We will carry out some activities in order to practice the vocabulary. There are some words that they will probably have never heard before. For this reason, we will show them some flashcards with the pictures of these words: the old lent woman, Mr.Carnestoltes, mona… After looking at the flashcards we will relate it with the wordcards and stick them around the class. • Bingo! After doing this introductory activity, we will play Bingo. Each pupil will have a different card with other pictures. The teacher will say slowly and clearly a word that will be taken from a bag. The first pupil to finish with all the pictures will say: bingo! Another possibility is to make them say Carnestoltes! These can be some examples of pictures to be used in the Bingo game and also in the flashcards.
• Where are the words?
• Carnestoltes : Catalan Cultural Reference It is a doll made by children that represents the Carnival day. It is made with newspapers, plastic bags and other materials and dressed up with old clothes, hut and whatever you want! So children have to be very creative and original. The tradition says that carenstoltes has to be burn before the day finishes because it means that the time of having fun has finished until next year in Carnival. Before of being burned the oldest School students read Carnestoltes' will, which normally says that there can be no celebrations until next year.
• Lent : Christian Cultural Reference It is a liturgical time of seven weeks, established to prepare Easter. The church says that it is a fasting and an abstinence time in memory of the forty days that Jesus fasted in the desert.
• The Old Lent Woman : Catalan Cultural Reference It is popular to represent the lent period with an old woman of seven legs, made of paper and painted with dark colors. Each week a leg has to be cut, until the seven weeks pass and Easter has arrived. It is typical to practice this tradition in Primary Schools. Depending on the Schools, the Old Lent Woman has something hidden in her leg, as poems, stories… and after cutting her leg, children read it. It is normal to have a big Old Lent Woman for each class or cycle.
• The palm leaf : Christian Cultural Reference Palm Sunday is a Christian feast which always falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem . The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and victory in pre-Christian times. Catalan Catholic practicing people go to mass and the priest blesses the palm and people keep it at home as a protective symbol. The palms are normally decorated with colored strips. Boys have a long one, and the girls have one much more elaborated and decorated with ribbons or loaded with sweets. • Mona : Catalan Cultural Reference In Catalonia the tradition says that the Easter day, godfathers have to give to their godsons a cake with chocolate figures on it. Normally these cakes had chocolate colored eggs and a chocolate hen on them, but now it is normal to find much more elaborated cakes, with famous characters.
• Catalan names : Catalan Cultural Reference The following names are Catalan; some of them are the same in Spanish or English or have translation into English. Maria, Sara, Jordina, Anna, Silvia, Montserrat, Olga, Jordi, Jaume, Magí, Pere, Rodolf, Faust, Teresa, Josep, Fina.
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