HOLIDAYS AND TRADITIONS SECOND CUT

VOCABULARY 

Mardi Gras 

According to historians, Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years and is related to the boisterous pagan celebrations of spring and fertility in Rome. When the Christian era arrived during the Middle Ages, religious leaders decided to incorporate the popular local traditions of those pagan celebrations (by which we mean parades and large quantities of food and drink) and turn them into a prelude to Lent, the 40 days of fasting and sacrifice between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. The French later called the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday "Mardi Gras", or "Fat Tuesday". 

Bastille Day

Bastille Day is France's National Day, known as the "National Day". It is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, when a French mob seized it and freed the prisoners. The day symbolizes the beginning of the French Revolution. 

Tsagaan Sar 

Tsagaan Sar is the Mongolian New Year holiday and falls between late January and early March, according to the lunar rather than the solar calendar. That is, it is determined by the position of the moon in the sky. What is celebrated is the change of the year, the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Well, it is believed that the lunar calendar was invented in Central Asia and according to it the year has 12 months and a day 12 hours.

Grammar 

👀 Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns who and that. 

💥Important fact: Don’t use a subject pronoun after the relative pronouns WHO or THAT.

who or that.after the relative pronouns who or that.

Don’t use a subject pronoun after the relative pronouns who or that.

👉 Adjective clauses identify or describe people or things. Introduce adjective clauses about people whit the relative pronouns, WHO or THAT.  

👊Use that, not who, for adjective clauses that describe things. 

EXAMPLE:

👧The woman who works at my office is very efficient.
📖The book that I read last week is very interesting.
🐤The chicken that I bought was very salty
👰Ana has a brother who has a wife and two children

In some adjective clauses, the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause. In other adjective clauses, the relative pronoun is the object of the clause.

In some adjective clauses, the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause. In other adjective clauses, the relative pronoun is the object of the clause.

Conversation Model 

👦What are you doing?

👧Looking at tourist sites

👦You are going to travel 

👧Yes, but I'm between two places

👦Which ones, if you want, I'll help you

👧Ooh that's a good idea, these are the Philippines and Curacao.

👦Pick the Philippines is the place to go, Mary has a brother who went and enjoyed the beaches. 

👧Ok, so that would be the place I should go. 

cláusulas sobre personas con los pronombres relativos who o that.cláusulas sobre personas con los pronombres relativos who o that.

Grammar: Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns who, whom, and that. 

In some adjective clauses, the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause. In other adjective clauses, the relative pronoun is the object of the clause. 

who	subject and object pronoun for people only. (*whom can be used as an object relative pronoun.) E.g. The man who(m) I saw was old.

that	subject and object pronoun for people and things. E.g. The book that I saw was red.

cita: (englishcurrent, 2023). 

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