Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.4 - Diwali celebrations for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the DVD. Which of the activities in Exercise 2A do you see? What other customs do you see?
  2. Work in pairs. Are sentences 1-8 true (T) or false (F)? Watch the DVD again and check your answers.
  3. Complete sentences 1-8 with words from the box. Then match again and check.

Answer

a)

Activities from Ex.2A

  • eat special food
  • give presents / gifts to each other
  • watch fireworks
  • decorate your home
  • wear new clothes

Other customs

  • clean rooms
  • wash money
  • buy gold and silver
  • throw food and water on the ground
  • make a picture
  • visit parents and grandparents (and bow to show respect)
  • send each other cards

b)

  1. T
  2. F → It lasts for five days
  3. T
  4. F → She throws it in four directions
  5. T
  6. T
  7. F → People visit their parents and grandparents
  8. T

c)

  1. full
  2. before
  3. long
  4. back
  5. about
  6. time
  7. everywhere
  8. everyone