--- title: Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A festival or holiday is a special day when people remember something important, celebrate a season or shar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Festivals, holidays and traditions in… # Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world Lesson 97 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/0/) — A festival or holiday is a special day when people remember something important, celebrate a season or share their beliefs. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/1/) — Many holidays have traditions — things people do the same way every year, like special food, songs or decorations. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/2/) — Some holidays come from religion: Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, and Easter remembers Jesus coming back to life. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/3/) — Others remember history: Independence Day in the USA marks 4 July 1776, and Remembrance Day on 11 November marks the end of the First World War in 1918. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/4/) — Some days are older than the countries themselves. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/5/) — Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/7/) — Learning about other people's festivals helps us understand our neighbours. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/8/) — The same holiday can feel very different in different places: in Australia and New Zealand Christmas comes in summer, so many families have a picnic or go to the beach. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/9/) — Christmas is on 25 December and celebrates the birth of Jesus. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/10/) — Easter is in spring in the north, and its date changes each year because it follows the Moon. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/11/) — Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of November in the USA and the second Monday of October in Canada. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/12/) — Independence Day in the USA is on 4 July and remembers the Declaration of Independence of 1776. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/13/) — Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival at the end of the harvest. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/14/) — Bonfire Night on 5 November in Britain remembers a failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/16/) — Remembrance Day on 11 November marks the end of the First World War in 1918, and people wear red poppies. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/17/) — Anzac Day on 25 April remembers Australian and New Zealand soldiers. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/18/) — Canada Day is on 1 July and Australia Day is on 26 January. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/19/) — Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, and Hanukkah is a Jewish festival of lights lasting eight nights. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/20/) — In the Southern Hemisphere Christmas falls in summer. - ← previous: [Laws, voting and how a country is run](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/) - next →: [Explorers and how the world was mapped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)