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Modified by Juan P. Lopez

HOLIDAYS

NEVER USED THIS PROGRAMME BEFORE

USED THIS PROGRAMME BEFORE

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The USA and the Colombian flag are______________

TheUSA and Colombian flag

Have the _______ number of

colors

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What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think

about Colombia?

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What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think

about USA?

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Discuss with your partners the similarities anddifferences between USA and Colombia.

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DID YOU KNOW... According to a recently released poll by WIN/ Gallup International Association, the South America country took first place on the "Global Barometer of Hope and Happiness", which surveyed individuals in 54 countries.

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“The survey found that Colombians are almost twice as happy as the global average”.

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Which one is the happiest country?

Colombian people is the ________ country in the world.

Colombian people is ________ than USA people

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DID YOU KNOW... For 234 years, America has strived, fought, invented, pushed, pulled and dragged itself towards the better. Americans have always loved to come up with new ideas, and patent them. This has its basis in the Constitution where early Americans defined their freedoms.

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Coffee is one of Colombia’s main exports!

Along with petroleum, coal, textiles, bananas, and flowers

Did you know around 12% of the world’s coffee is produced in Colombia?

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Made in the USA: Industrial supplies, 29.8%; production machinery, 29.5%; non-auto consumer goods, 12.4%; motor vehicles and parts, 9.3%; food, feed and beverages, 8.3%; aircraft and parts, 6.6%; other, 4.1%. (2008)

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USA exports _______ _________ ______Colombia

Colombia exports ________ _______ ____ the USA

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-America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy. Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an incomparably high standard of living for the "common man.-America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe.

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It is the only South American country that coasts both oceans, Pacific and Atlantic.

- We already knew Colombians were people with a lot of flavor, delicious dishes and high-spirited,

- Colombian economy is the fourth-largest economy of Latin America.

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USA is about one-half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about one-half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; about two and one-half times the size of Western Europe.

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Colombia’s population is 47’121.089

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Compare the two countries population

USA Population is _______ than Colombia’s

Colombia ________ ___ ______ _____ USA’s

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• People in every culture celebrate holidays. • Although the word "holiday" literally means "holy

day," most American holidays are not religious, but commemorative in nature and origin. USA has a rich ethnic heritage.In the United States, the word "holiday" is synonymous with "celebration! "

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The only risk is wanting to stay…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyFXVslYYzI

-There are more than 94 Holidays

-110 Festivals-32 Beauty Pageants -5 Carnivals, each year!

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• Año Nuevo (New Year's Day) (January 1)• New Year is considered as a very prominent and

special time by the natives of Colombia. private parties are organized at homes, where close friends and members of the families are invited. Invitations are send out well in advance to ensure adequate attendance, as potentially, there are many people in the same circle holding New Year parties at the same time. The moment when New Year arrived, everyone wishes one another with good luck and congratulatory messages. Hugging and kissing everyone in the family is considered to be the traditional way with which Happy New Year or Feliz Año is wished.

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New Year's Day(January 1)

On January first, Americans visit friends, relatives and neighbors. There is plenty to eat and drink when you just drop in to wish your loved ones and friends the best for the year ahead. Many families and friends watch television together enjoying the Tournament of Roses parade preceding the Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena California.

In the warmer regions all around the country there are other games whose names are characteristic of the state. People watch the Orange Bowl game in Florida, the Cotton Bowl in Texas, and the Sugar Bowl in Louisiana. In most cultures, people promise to better themselves in the following year. Americans have inherited the tradition and even write down their New Year's resolutions. Whatever the resolution, most of them are broken or forgotten by February!

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Dr. Martin Luther King Day(Third Monday in January)

" I have a dream...I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able

to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers

I have a dream today"

It is a time for the nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought. A time to remember his fight for the freedom, equality, and dignity of all races and peoples. A time to remember the message of change through nonviolence.

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Presidents' Day is celebrated in February to honor two of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The holiday is celebrated in the United States on the third Monday in February.

George Washington Born : February 22, 1732 atWakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia Died: December 14, 1799 at Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia President: April 30,1789 to March 4, 1797

Abraham Lincoln Born: February 12, 1809 inHardin (now Larue) County, KentuckyDied: April 15, 1865 in Washington, District of ColumbiaPresident: March 4th, 1861 to April 15, 1865

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St. Patrick's Day(March 17 or the preceding Saturday)

• Many people who immigrated to the United States have come from Ireland. More than one-half of the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War had Irish ancestors. Today, it is said, Irish descendants in the United States put on a noisier and bigger St. Patrick's Day celebration than the people in Ireland.

Every year on March 17 or the preceding Saturday, cities with a large population of Irish Americans have parades. Green is one of the national colors of Ireland and also one of the signs of spring

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Dia de la Raza

• October 12, 1942, Colon Discover america • Celebrated in Colombia as a holyday.• Many countries in the New World and

elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, in Venezuela until 2002, when it was changed to the Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance)

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Columbus Day(Second Monday in October)

• Columbus Day is celebrated in the United States to honor Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America in 1492.

It was Colorado, in 1905, that became the first state to observe a Columbus Day. Since 1920 the day has been celebrated annually, and in 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed every October 12 as Columbus Day. That's where it remained until 1971 when Congress declared it a federal public holiday on the second Monday in October.

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Mother's Day(Second Sunday in May)

In the United States, Mother's Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War.

The first Mother's Day was celebrated on 10 May, 1908. It continues to this day to be one of the most commercially successful. Mother's Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States. In Colombia Mother day is celebrated by giving flowers to the mothers and some stupid guys get drunk because they don’t care about their mothers.

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Memorial Day(Last Monday in May)

• Memorial Day is a time to remember the U.S. men and woman who lost their lives serving their country. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was established in 1868 to commemorate the dead from the Civil War. Over the years it came to serve as a day to remember all U.S. men and women killed or missing in action in all wars. • It has become both, a

National Decoration Day of family graves, and the holiday that opens the summer season. It is celebrated with backyard barbecues, outdoor picnics, and parades.

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Pascua

• In Colombia the Pascua is a religious celebration that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus and it is preceded by 40 days of fast and pray that finish in holy week.

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Easter(A Sunday between March 22 and April 25)

Easter is celebrated in USA with traditional fervor and gaiety.

Sunday church services and festive celebrations

blend together during the Easter weekend.

On Easter Sunday in New York and other cities,

large Easter parades are held where people turn out

in their fashionable outfits and trendy Easter bonnets.

The person leading the parade holds

Easter candle or cross in his hand.

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• Declaration of Independence(July 20)• Colombian Declaration of

Independence refers to the historic events of July 20, 1810, in Santa Fe de Bogota, which resulted in the establishment of a junta in that capital. This experience in self-government eventually led to the creation of the Republic of Colombia.

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Independence Day(July 4)

• Independence Day celebrates the birthday of the United States of America. Founded July 4th 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The 4th of July is a time for the Red White and Blue. It's a day of picnics and patriotic parades, a night of concerts and fireworks, and a reason to fly the American flag.

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Father's Day(Third Sunday in June)

• The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special. Father's Day in Colombia 2013 is on Sunday, the 16th of June .

The origin of Father's Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908. Others say the first Father's Day ceremony was held in Vancouver, Washington.

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• Battle of Boyacá (August 7) The Flag day in Colombia, then known as New Granada, was the battle in which Colombia acquired its definitive independence from Spanish Monarchy, although fighting with royalist forces would continue for years.

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Flag Day(June 14)

• Flag Day, is a day for all Americans to celebrate and show respect for the flag, its designers and makers. The flag is representative of the independence and unity as a nation.....one nation, under God, indivisible. The flag has a proud and glorious history. It was at the lead of every battle fought by Americans. Many people have

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Primero de Mayo (Labor Day) (May 1) International Workers' Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the international labour movement. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries, though in some countries the public holiday is a commemoration of the traditional European spring festival known as May Day.

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Labor Day(First Monday in September)

• Labor Day is a national legal holiday that is over 100 years old. Over the years, it has evolved from a purely labor union celebration into a general "last fling of summer" festival.

• It grew out of a celebration and parade in honor of the working class by the Knights of Labor in 1882 in New York.

• It has come to be recognized in the U.S. not only as a celebration of the working class, but even more so as the unofficial end of the summer season. In the northern half of the U.S. at least, the summer vacation season begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day.

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• Candel light day (December 8)• Little Candle's Day is one of the most observed

traditional holidays in Colombia. It is celebrated on December 7, on the eve of the Immaculate Conception, which is a public holiday in Colombia. This day is the unofficial start of the Christmas season in the country.

• On this day, people place candles and paper lanterns on their windows, balconies, porches, sidewalks, streets, parks and squares, in short, everywhere they can be seen, in honor of the Virgin Mary and her immaculate conception.

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Navidad (Christmas Day) (December 25) Christmas in Colombia is a religious event also mixed with lots of "parranda" or fiesta, like it is common in Hispanic culture. As soon as December starts we take out our decorations which must include "el pesebre" or nativity, the Christmas tree, red and white candles, angels, and lights that we display on the windows or balconies of our home.

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Christmas Day(December 25)

• Christmas is a most important religious holy day for

Christians, who attend special church services to

celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

• Since most Americans are Christian, the day is one on which most businesses are closed and the greatest possible number of workers, including government employees, have the day off. Many places even close early on the day before.

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Veterans' Day(November 11)

Veterans Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is celebrated on the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I.

Veterans Day is largely intended to thank living veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served - not only those who died - have sacrificed and done their duty.

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(Fourth Thursday in November)• Thanksgiving Day is a joyous family

festival celebrated with lot of enthusiasm in US, Canada and several other countries. It is festival commemorates the feast held by the Pilgrim colonists and members of the Wampanoag people at Plymouth in 1621. On this day people express gratitude to God for his blessings and give thanks to dear ones for their love & support. Feasting with family is an integral & most delightful part of Thanksgiving Day celebrations.

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St. Valentine's Day(February 14)

• It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine's cards or candy. It is very common to present flowers on Valentine's Day.

The holiday is named after two men, both Christian martyrs among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine.

• The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

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Love and frienship day

• In colombia we celebrate this day the third Saturday of September, 21.

• Colombians play “secret friend” which consist on exchanging gifts in groups without choosing the name of the person that you are giving the gift.

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April Fool's Day (April 1)

• Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers on the first of April.

• One common trick on April Fool's Day, or All Fool's Day, is pointing down to a friend's shoe and saying, "Your shoelace is untied."

• Whatever the trick, if the innocent victim falls for the joke the prankster yells, "April Fool! "

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Colombians play with each other Heavy pranks and tricks

on December the 28th

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Halloween(October 31)

• On October 31st, dozens of children dressed in costumes knock on their neighbors' doors and yell, "Trick or Treat" when the door opens.

• Pirates and princesses, ghosts and popular heroes of the day all hold bags open to catch the candy or other goodies that the neighbors drop in.

• As they give each child a treat the neighbors exclaim over the costumes and try to guess who is under the masks.

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Halloween

• Much later, when Christianity spread throughout Ireland and October 31 was no longer the last day of the year, Halloween became a celebration mostly for children. It is celebrated in both countries.

• "Ghosts" went from door to door asking for treats, or else a trick would be played on the owners of the house.

• When millions of Irish people immigrated to the United States in the 1840s the tradition came with them.

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