Session 4

EASTER DAY:

1. Vocabulary
Easter - Vocabulary
Conejito de Pascua - Easter bunny
Cuaresma - Lent
Domingo de Pascua o Resurrección - Easter Sunday
Domingo de Ramos - Palm Sunday
Felices Pascuas - Happy Easter
huevo de chocolate - Chocolate egg
Huevo de Pascua - Easter egg
Huevo decorado - Decorated egg
Miércoles de Ceniza - Ash Wednesday
Pascua - Easter
Pasión de Cristo - Passion of Christ
Pentecostés - Pentecost
Resurrección - Resurrection
Sábado Santo - Easter Saturday
Semana Santa - Holy Week
Vacaciones de Semana Santa - Easter break
Vacaciones de Semana Santa - Easter holiday
Viernes Santo - Good Friday

2. Surround the words from the left on Easter





3. See the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2NH8Wpoog

4. Read and answer the questions

At Easter time in the UK we have two bank holidays (public holidays): Good Fridayand Easter Monday. This means that many families can enjoy a long weekend together.

 When is Easter in 2014?

This year Easter will fall on 20 April 2014

• What is Easter?
• What is the Easter Story?
• Where does the name "Easter" come from?
• When is Easter?
• Why does the date of Easter move?
• When is the Easter Season?
• What took place on Easter Sunday, about 2000 years ago?
• What happens on Easter Sunday today?
• What are the connections with Passover and Easter?
• What other names are there for Easter?
• Why do we have eggs at Easter?
• What foods are traditionally eaten at Easter?

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What is Easter?
Easter is the time for holidays, festivals and a time for giving chocolate Easter eggs. But Easter means much more....
Easter is the oldest and the most important Christian Festival, the celebration of the death and coming to life again of Jesus Christ. For Christians, the dawn of Easter Sunday with its message of new life is the high point of the Christian year.
What is the Easter story ?
Easter is the story of Jesus' last days in Jerusalem before his death.The Easter story includes Maundy Thursday (the Last supper leading to the Eucharist), Good Friday (the day on which Jesus was crucified) and Easter Day (the day on which Jesus came back to life).
It is a sad story because Jesus was killed. But the story has a very happy ending, because Jesus came back to life and visited his friends and followers once more. He did not die at all, but went back up to Heaven to be with God, his father.
Where does the name 'Easter' come from?
Pagan traditions give us the English word "Easter" which comes from the word "Eostre". The Anglo-Saxon word for April was "Eostre-monath" (the month of openings). However, it should be remembered that Christians celebrated the resurrection of Christ long before the word "Easter" was used, and the word they used for the celebration was "Pascha", which is derived from and linked to the Jewish festival of Passover.
According to Bede, the English monastic historian, the English word Easter comes from the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of April, which was known as "Eostremonath" in the AngloSaxon tongue and since Paschawas most often celebrated in Eostremonath, the English Christians began calling it "Easter". Bede also notes that the month was named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess Esostre.
Rituals related to the goddess Eostre focus on new beginnings, symbolized by the Easter egg, and fertility, which is symbolized by the hare (or Easter bunny).