HAPPY EASTER FUN & TRIVIA

Explore fun Easter traditions & trivia! Learn vocabulary and test your knowledge.

Bet You Didn't Know: Easter Traditions Watch this video on some familiar and less familiar facts about celebrating Easter. READ the vocabulary printed in bold and find the translation. Lent: in the Christian church, a period of penitential preparation for Easter. In Western churches it begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before Easter, and provides for a 40-day fast (Sundays are excluded), in imitation of Jesus Christ's fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry.Maunday Thursday: the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Washing of the Feet and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles. The Queen distributes gifts according to the number of years she has lived: for example, when she turned 80 she distributed 80 pence worth of Maundy money to 80 men and 80 women in recognition for their contribution to community and to the church.Good Friday: The Friday before Easter Sunday. It is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at CalvaryEaster Sunday:celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the deadEaster Monday: The day after Easter Sunday which is a holiday in some countries, including the United Kingdom Are these statements about Easter FALSE or TRUE? FALSE Easter is always on the same date. Easter eggs are decorated because Jesus decorated eggs. We celebrate Jesus's birth on Easter Day. Lent lasts for the 50 days before Easter. The date of Easter is connected to the sun. TRUE There is no school on Good Friday and Easter Monday in Britain. The name Easter comes from an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess, Eostre. We celebrate Jesus's resurrection on Easter Day. Easter is always on Sunday. The date of Easter is connected to the moon. Choose the right word and learn more about Easter around the world. In Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus, before being blessed and distributed to congregants. Now they're mostly just a fun way to celebrate the springtime season, especially with creative decorating ideas.Americans will consume more than 16 million jelly beans. That's enough jelly beans to circle the globe not once, not twice, but three times — or to fill a plastic egg the size of a nine-story building.Buying a new outfit for Easter stems from a superstition. Back in the mid-1800s in New York, people believed that buying new clothes to wear on Easter would bring them good luck for the rest of the year. And, lucky for us, the custom continues today.The world's largest chocolate Easter egg was made in Italy in April 2011. It measured 34 feet and 1.05 inches in length, and weighed approximately 15,873 pounds. (What is that in the metric system? Find out!)It is an Easter tradition in Norway to sit with your family members, see murder mysteries and solve the mysteries together. Also, the milk firms print small murder mysteries on the back of the milk cartons to psych individuals up for Easter.Norway, not content with simply being murder-loving crime solvers, actually have even crazier traditions than that. Outside of murder mysteries, the country doesn’t have a whole lot else to do. So they just shut everything down. For a week. We don’t mean shut down as in “kids stay home from school for a week.” No, we mean everything shuts down. You don’t go to work, your kids don’t go to school, you don’t cash your checks, and you don’t go to the grocery store to stock up on food. Everything is closed down for nearly the entire week of Easter, with the only exception being the grocery stores opening on the Saturday before. Hop Watch the trailer and answer the following questions The Easter Bunny works one day a year, travels the world and is beloved by everyone. Who wouldn’t want a job like that? E.B. is about to become the Easter Bunny but he is not interested. What does he want to do? What’s the problem in China? E.B. escapes to ........................ and he’s hit by a .................................. His father sends bunny ………………………. to find E.B. Why does Fred put faces when his sister eats the candy? Does Hoff like how E.B. plays the drums? Do you like it? Connect the eggpressions with its meaning You can't make an omelette without breaking any eggs You have to destroy something in order to create something better It’s a chicken and egg situation It’s impossible to know which problem came first He’s no spring chicken He isn’t young She’s egging him on She’s provoking him That’s a cracking idea That’s a great idea I wish you and your families