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Reading About Chile

Chileans celebrate their independence from Spain on September 18th each year. Celebrations include parades, dancing, music, drinking, eating traditional Chilean food, and children flying kites. The day after, September 19th, is also a national holiday known as Armed Forces Day, which features military parades celebrating Chile's military victories and independence. Parades on this day also include huasos, or Chilean cowboys.

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Reading About Chile

Chileans celebrate their independence from Spain on September 18th each year. Celebrations include parades, dancing, music, drinking, eating traditional Chilean food, and children flying kites. The day after, September 19th, is also a national holiday known as Armed Forces Day, which features military parades celebrating Chile's military victories and independence. Parades on this day also include huasos, or Chilean cowboys.

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Reading Lesson

Traditions in Chile
Name: ________________________________ Grade: ___________________ Date: ___________________

Warm up: Let’s start .


This is a reading and vocabulary lesson,

Before reading:

Let’s answer the following questions.

1. - Look at the pictures and describe them. What do they represent? ___________________________________
1. What other famous celebrations in the world do you know? _________________________________________
2. What´s your favourite celebration __________________________________________________________

The Word “independence”


Look for the meaning of these words in your dictionary.
is a cognate because it’s
similar to the Spanish
equivalent independencia.
ENGLISH WORD SPANISH MEANING

Independence
Spain
Parades
Kites
Armed

Reading comprehension:
Read this short text about a Chilean celebration.

Chile

Chile officially proclaimed independence on the 12th February 1818, but


Chileans celebrate their independence from Spain on September 18th.

Celebrations include parades, dancing, music, drinking, and eating traditional


Chilean food. Children and their families usually fly kites cheerfully.

The day after Independence Day,19th September, is also a national holiday,


the Armed Forces Day. It includes military and naval parades and events
celebrating Chile’s military victories, including independence. Parades also
include “huasos”, the
Chilean cowboys.
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Scan the texts and complete the following:

Name of the When is it celebrated? Who celebrates it? Activities people do

celebration:
Read the text and complete the chart.

Make a list with all the activities that people do during this celebration:

Text You Classmate

Answer the following questions according to the text:

1. What is the name of the celebration? ______________________________________________________________

2. When is it celebrated? __________________________________________________________________________

3. Who celebrates it? _____________________________________________________________________________

4. What are the activities people do in this celebration? _________________________________________________

HOMEWORKALERT! Look for information about our


national dance and then write some ideas about it. You will need to do
this for the coming test next Tuesday, August 27th.

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