Easter

Name the season when people celebrate Easter

Who is it?

The main Easter tree is ...

• willow

• olive

• cedar

How do the British call Easter buns with raisin?

• spring buns

• hot cross buns

• easter buns

What is Easter Bonnet?

• an Easter Parade

• a silk ribbon

• a fancy hat

• an Easter dish

Another Easter tradition is “Egg hunting”. Parents tell their children that the

Easter bunny has brought some Easter eggs and has hidden them in the garden. The children then look for the eggs and the one with the most eggs is the winner.

What do children do during “Egg hunting”?

This competition is called “Egg-rolling”. People decorate hard boiled eggs with different colours, then take the eggs to the top of a hill and roll them down. The first egg to reach the bottom wins. In Avenham Park, in Lancashire, the annual egg-rolling attracts more

than 40,000 people. Nowadays, it’s common, though, to use chocolate eggs in this competition instead of real eggs.

What kind of eggs are used in the traditional Egg-rolling competition?

... is a fruitcake with layers of almond paste or marzipan and a set of eleven balls made of the same paste.

• Hot Cross Buns

• Simnel cake

• Easter cake

• marzipan cake

Schoolchildren and students in the UK have about a ... holiday at Easter time, which is almost as long as the Christmas holiday.

• one week

• two week

• three week

Peo­ple must not eat the ani­mal prod­ucts and meal 7 weeks before Easter. How do people call this period?

• diet

• lent

• veg week