Introduction
Pongal is the harvest festival of South India, among Tamils. It is celebrated for four days, and it starts around January 14th. The festival is named after Pongal, a sweet dish made of rice, milk and jaggery.
Families get together to celebrate this festival, wear new clothes, and houses are cleaned and decorated painting kolams on the floor and hanging mango and banana leaves. In the villages, cows and oxen are also bathed and decorated with garlands.
Task
1) Sameera’s family is preparing for the festival next week. They have to buy and prepare a lot of things. Check this website: https://www.tripsavvy.com/guide-to-celebrating-pongal-festival-1539253 to know more about Pongal, and help them organize the program for next week. Complete the table below with the activities (what to do) and products (things they need) from the list, and then find in the “Mall directory” the best place to find everything.
What to do:
visit friends and relatives and bring them presents
clean and decorate the house with kolams
wear new clothes
take oil bath
cook pongal
Things they need
-jaggery
-necklaces and bracelets
-traditional sweets
-new kurti for Sameera
-traditional earthen pot
-bath oil for Sameera
-milk
-rangoli kolam powder
-rice
-new sarees for mom and grandma
-cleaning products
2) Below, you will find the beginning of an account of Sameera’s plans for next week. Continue it with the information from the previous activity.
On Wednesday, the first day of Pongal, Sameera is going to take an oil bath, so she has to go to Health&Glow to buy bath oil. Her family is going to clean and decorate the house, so they have to go to Big Bazaar to buy cleaning products and rangoli kolam powder.
On Thursday, the second day of Pongal, they...