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27.07.2021 15:49 •  Английский язык

Unusual holidays Listen to the recording and choose the information to the gaps and complete the dialogue.
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MC Dan: Hello, dear listeners! This is 'Intstories FM, and I'm MC Dan, and today I'm not going to be alone. Here we
have a guest who traveled around the world and would like to share with experience and exciting stories
Say hi to the audience and introduce yourself, please.
Arina: Good day, everybody! I'm Arina
I'm happy to be here, and I hope you
will like the stories I'll tell you here.
MC Dan: So, before beginning today's program, we did a survey where the most requested topic from our listeners
was 'unusual holidays around the world.'
Arina: Oh, I can't believe it Before the show, I wanted to talk about this topic, and now it turned out to be a requested
topic. It is interesting and my favorite subject to talk about
MC Dan: AlrightThen the mic is yours
Arina: I've traveled around the world in three years, and there were moments when I participated in different events,
sometimes even the holidays. Unusual holidays. So, while traveling, I understood that every culture is unique.
MC Dan: Let me ask a question?
Arina: Sure!
MC Dan: Can you
that you know?
Arina: The first holiday I would like to talk about would be a Japanese holiday called Bean Throwing Day Japanese
people celebrate this day on the first day of spring. This day people throw beans around places, like, homes, churches
and temples. They do this to get rid of evil spirits. The second holiday is a Spanish holiday called 'La Tomatina. A
festival where people throw tones of tomatoes at each other. It is celebrated on the last Wednesday of August, where
around 40.000 people take part in it, and throw around 150 tons of tomatoes. To be honest, I was shocked when I sa
it. So, the last one is 'National Punctuation Day in America on September 24. The holiday reminds people to use​