Introduction
It’s Pongal!
Pongal is the harvest festival of South India. It is celebrated for four days, and it starts on January 14th or 15th.
During Pongal, people wear new clothes, clean and decorate the houses with kolams and cook ‘Pongal’, a sweet dish made of rice, milk and sugar.
Task
1) Sameera’s family is preparing for the festival next week. They are at the mall. Help them. Complete the table with the words below:
-Sweet Shop; Sri Krishna
-visit friends and give presents
-cook pongal
-sweets
-Thursday
-wear new clothes
-Second day
-rice, milk, and sugar
-new blouse
-Saturday
-bracelets
-supermarket; Big Bazaar
-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 and her family are going to clean and decorate the house, so they have to go to Big Bazaar to buy cleaning products.
On Thursday, the second day of Pongal, they...