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Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny are both fertility
symbols, holdovers16 from the feast of Eostara. Other
symbolic parallels include the pagan joy in the rising sun of
spring, which coincides17 with Christians’ joy in the rising
Son of God, and the lighting of candles in churches, which
corresponds to the pagan bonfires. The symbol of the cross
and images of Jesus Christ, through paintings or statues,
are remembered on Easter Day.
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How to colour Easter Eggs.
1. Put the eggs in a pot of water and boil them for 15 minutes. Then
let them cool.
2. Wash your hands. Dirty hands will make dirty eggs.
3. Fill each cup with hot water in half.
4. Put one tablespoon of vinegar in each cup.
5. Add 5 – 10 drops of food coloring to each cup.
6. Put an egg into the colored water. Let it stay in the water for one
minute or two.
7. Take the egg out and put it on paper towel to dry.
8. It you want to make a two-tone egg, sea dipper. Hold the egg half
way in the colored water.
9. When the eggs are dried, draw pictures on them with colored
markers, you can draw faces, flowers, or chicks. You can design
your own eggs. Have fun!
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Vocabularies
No Vocabulary Part of Speech
1. springtime noun
2. celebrate verb
3. commemorate verb
4. resurrection noun
5. legend noun
6. derivation noun
7. mythology noun
8. signifying verb
9. fertility noun
10. vernal adjective
11. equinox noun
12. embody verb
13. feast noun
14. slavery noun
15. holdover noun
16. coincide verb
17. bonfire noun
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Directions : Read the instructions of Exercise 1 how to make Easter Eggs and number the steps 1-5 (5 scores )
…………… Draw pictures on the colored eggs.
…………… Let the eggs cool.
…………… Boil the eggs.
…………… Put the eggs into the colored water.
…………… Put vinegar and some drops of food
coloring in the cups.
Color and decorate Easter Eggs
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Directions : Circle the best answer Exercise 2 answer and write in the blanks. (10 scores )
1. Easter is a ……………………………holiday ( Jewish, Christian, Muslim )
2. It is always on…………………………….. ( Sunday, Saturday, Friday )
3. Christians go to…………………………….on Easter Sunday.
( school, church, work )
4. People are ready for……………………………………… ( winter, autumn, spring )
5. The Romans killed……………………….about two thousand years ago.
( Santa Claus, Jesus Christ, Columbus )
6. Flowers, chicks eggs, and rabbits are all……………………..of Easter.
( Signs, bunnies, animals )
7. Take the ………………….. out and put it on paper towel to dry.
( egg, chicken, rabbit )
8. Put an egg into the ………………………… water. ( bowl, colored, tower )
9. Let it stay in the ………………………for one minute or two.
( water, color, paper )
10. It you want to make a two-tone egg, sea……………………….
( paper, water, dipper )
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Directions : Choose the words in Exercise 3 the box to complete the sentences. (10 scores )
legends Celebrated Sunday century Scandinavian
Easter rabbit Easter eggs 8 days April 25 The Christian
1. Christian countries Easter is ………………………as the religious holiday.
2. The celebrations of Easter have many customs and …………………that are pagan in origin.
3. Accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-…………… English scholar St.
4. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the …………………………"Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring.
5. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the…………………, a symbol of fertility.
6. Colored…………………, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.
7. ………………………………celebration of Easter embodies a number of converging traditions.
8. Passover is an important feast in the Jewish calendar which is celebrated for ………………………and freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
9. Easter is observed by the churches of the West on the first ………………………following the full moon.
10. Occurs on or following the spring equinox (March 21). So Easter became a "movable" feast which can occur as early as March 22 or as late as ………………………………………
Exercise 4 Directions : Write T for true if the following sentence is true and F for false it the following sentence is false. (10 scores )
……………………1. Easter is a time of springtime festivals.
……………………2. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating Jesus Christ, the son of God.
……………………3. The celebrations of Easter have legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.
……………………4. Accepting the derivation proposed by the 9th-century English scholar St.
……………………5. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring.
……………………6.Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rat, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter chick, originally painted.
………………………7. The Christian celebration of Easter embodies a number of converging traditions which is derived Pasch, another name used by Europeans for Easter.
………………………8. Passover is an important feast in the Jewish calendar which is celebrated for 8 days and freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
………………………9. Easter is observed by the churches of the West on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or following the spring equinox (March 21).
………………………10. So Easter became a "movable" feast which can occur as early as March 25 or as late as April 27.