Around the world :

• List of historical anniversaries From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Holidays From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Festivals Around the World (Fact Monster)

• The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world.
  (Pour un jour donné, vous obtenez toutes les fêtes de ce jour dans le monde entier)
  (Earth Calendar)

• Culture Quest World Tour -
  "Join Parsifal and Ophelia as they sample the delicious cuisines, play the games, see the museums full of arts, crafts and history, hear the folktales and learn about the holidays & festivals of many of the world's cultures." (ipl.org)

• National holidays - (festivals.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  "Click on a region of the world to explore the countries and their national days."

• Birthday traditions from around the world. (kidsparties)

• Comparing December Celebrations (Education World) :
  Christmas / Hanukah / Kwanzaa / Las Posadas / Ramadan
  ( Date - Countries - Foods - Symbols - Key Words / Decorations - Songs - Gifts - Stories - Light/Candles )

• CUISINE : Recettes (epicurious.com)

EUROPE :

• EUROPEAN FESTIVALS AND TRADITIONS (european-schoolprojects)
  (Partner schools in France, Germany, Romania, Scotland and Spain)

• Learning through Celebrations (in EUROPEAN countries) - (ekola.net)

UK / US :

• Fêtes et Traditions par mois

• Kids'Domain (kidsdomain.com)
  

• UK summer music festivals - text + vocabulary explained (BBC)
  
  

• British Culture, British Customs and British Traditions (learnenglish.de)
  

• English Customs and Traditions (written by kids - Woodlands Junior School Kent)
  English dos and don'ts - Facts about England - Traditional Foods - Festivals and Special Days - Royal Traditions - Flags and Emblems - Education in Britain - Songs, Sayings and Superstitions

• Special Weeks and Days in Britain (Woodlands Junior School - Kent)

• British Customs and British Traditions in July (learnenglish.de) :
  - St Swithins Day - July 15th (See Interactive games)
  
  - The Tolpuddle Procession - Third Week in July
  
  - Royal Garden Parties - Throughout July
  - Rushbearing Ceremonies - Throughout July/August/September

• Pentecost / Whitsun :
  
  

  Pentecost Clipart (faithclipart.com) Whitsun (Pentecost) in England - Customs and Traditions (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)   Whitsuntide - "Pentecost or Whitsun is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter." (traditions-uk)

  
  
  
  

Up Helly Aa :

• Up Helly Aa in pictures: Viking festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands
  "Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and has employed this theme since 1870.
  Up Helly Aa is held on the last Tuesday in January every year, whatever the weather."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• Up Helly Aa
    "refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland, in Scotland, annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the yule season.
  The festival involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers in Lerwick  and considerably lower numbers in the more rural festivals, formed into squads who march through the town or village in a variety of themed costumes...
  The procession culminates in the torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley."
  (Wikipedia)

SHROVE TUESDAY and LENT :

• Shrove Tuesday and Lent - présentation PowerPoint (primaryresources.co.uk)
  Si le lien n'aboutit pas directement sur la présentation, cliquer sur SEARCH, écrire "shrove tuesday".
  
  

• Shrove Tuesday / Pancake Day (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)

• Shrove Tuesday (Wikipedia)
  1 Shrove Tuesday traditions in Britain, Ireland, and Australia
  1.1 Pancake Day
  2 Shrove Tuesday traditions particular to England
  2.1 Pancake Races
  2.2 The Pancake Greaze
  2.3 Shrove Tuesday Football
  3 Other cultures that eat a particular food on the day before Ash Wednesday
  4 Dates

• Pancakes - a VIDEO (YouTube)
  
  
  
  
  

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance :

• Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
  It is on the Monday dated between September 6 and September 12.
  (Wikipedia)

• The Horn Dance
  "The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, performed at the Barthelmy Fair in August 1226, is one of the few ritual rural customs to survive the passage of time. Today the Horn Dance, which takes place annually on Wakes Monday, offers a fascinating day out attracting visitors
  from all over the world..."
  (abbotsbromley.com)

   

CALENDARS :

• Surfing the Calendar - avec des liens vers les évènements importants et les fêtes (surfnetkids)
  

• Holiday Calendar 2007 (Enchanted Learning)
  
  
  
  
  

ENCYCLOPEDIA :

• Encyclopedia of Days - with short descriptions of holidays (shagtown.com)
  
  

• Birthday-Related Words with pictures (Enchanted Learning)

• Celebrations (about.com)
  "The words ... are some of the most important used when talking about Celebrations."
  (with Pronunciation, Example Sentences and Definitions )
  
  

CLIPARTS and FLASHCARDS :

• Cliparts : All Major Holidays (about.com)

• Holiday Images (esl-library.com) : LIEN MODIFIE
  Christmas Images - Easter - St Patrick's Day - Valentines Images
  (aussi en ESPAGNOL) flashcards
  Click on FLASHCARD LIBRARY.

• Birthday-Related Words with pictures (Enchanted Learning)
  
  

CARDS :

• Cartes à envoyer (123Greetings)
  
  
  

EXERCISES :

• American Holidays - "Put the words into the right box." - exercise created by Renée Maufroid.
  
• American Holidays and suggestions - Matching exercise (Les phrases commencent par 'Let's...')
  
  
• The World (with listening exercises) : Holiday Traditions (Difficult) - (esl-lab)

• A quelle occasion mange-t-on ces plats ? Exercice d'association (interactif) - (Ac. de Limoges)
  
  

• Events - Matching exercise (with pictures) - interactive (csmm.qc.ca)

• Celebrations - "Match each picture on the left with its celebration on the right." (interactive) - (absolutenglish-972)

• Celebrations - Vocabulary - "Match the words on the left with their definition on the right." (interactive)
  (absolutenglish-972)

• Celebrations - Dates - "Match the celebration on the left with its date." (interactive) -
  (absolutenglish-972)

• USA Holiday Matching Game with pictures (Teacher Vision)

• Nobel prizes (British Council)
  "At the top are the names of the 6 disciplines that are awarded Nobel Prizes each year, and a description of each.
  Below are pictures representing each discipline and spaces to put the names and descriptions.
  Can you put the names and descriptions in the correct boxes?"
  
  
  
  

LESSON PLANS :

• December: A Month of Multicultural Holiday Celebrations (Education World)
  "Handfuls of great teaching lessons and resources!"

  

• celebrations and events - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
  - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.

• Holidays and Observances: Looking at Diversity and Culture - a lesson plan (thirteen.org)
  Introductory Activity : What We Already Know
  Activity 1: Writing About a Favorite Holiday
  Activity 2: Research on Holidays
  Culminating Activity : Making a Display about Holidays and Culture

• Carnival - a lesson plan (Elementary - Pre-Intermediate)
  with Notting Hill Carnival, London - Rio de Janeiro Carnival - New Orleans Mardi Gras
  (Reward English)

• Carnival for Pre-Intermediate - Intermediate (Reward English)
  
  

WEBQUESTS :

• HOLIDAYS - SCAVENGER HUNT (erp.oissel.onac)
  (Labor Day, Grandparents'Day, Columbus Day, Halloween, Guy Fawkes, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Boxing Day, Valentine's Day, St Patrick's Day, Easter, Arbor Day.)
• Federal Holidays Webquest - (eev.liu.edu)

• CELEBRATIONS - a webquest to know about foreign countries. - different tasks (absolutenglish-972)
  
  

• Holiday Scavenger Hunt
  "research the origins of these holidays by using multimedia encyclopedias, books, and the Internet." (newbedford.k12.ma.us)

• Holiday Treasure Hunt (de différents pays) - (museummania.com)

INTERACTIVE games :

• Weather quiz - interactive
  Sun, rain, thunder - test yourself on the British summer
  "The weather on St Swithin's Day was a typical British mixture - sunny spells and cloud, heavy showers and light drizzle.
  The Magazine tests your knowledge of all things summertime with a weather quiz, starting with the legend of St Swithin himself."
  (BBC)

  

• Bank Holidays
  "Watch the animation , then try to unjumble the words."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

Games TO PRINT :

• Word Search Puzzle: Holidays (free-online-word-search-puzzles.com)

• see Games to print (Fêtes et Traditions)