Grade 5 - English Vocabulary words: shamrock, Saint Patrick's day, pinch, Trung Thu, cornucopia, Mardi Gras, culture, Lunar calendar, blow out, blessing,

1. Vocabulary
words

2. Shamrock – a plant
that has three round
on each stem, symbol
of St. Patrick’s day in
Ireland.

4. Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of
Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig,
"the Day of the Festival of Patrick"),
is a cultural and religious celebration
held on 17 March, the traditional
death date of Saint
Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the
foremost patron saint of Ireland.

7. pinch – a small
amount of
something, such as
powder

9. Trung Thu –
harvest festival in
Vietnam and China.

10. The Mid-Autumn Festival is
a harvest festival celebrated by
ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese
people

14. Chu Suk -
harvest festival
in Korea

15. Chuseok originally known
as hangawi from archaic Korean for "the
great middle (of autumn is a major harvest
festival and a three-day holiday
in Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the
8th month of the lunar calendar on the full
moon.

16. As a celebration of the
good harvest, Koreans visit
their ancestral hometowns and
share a feast of Korean traditional
food such as songpyeon and rice
wines such
as sindoju and dongdongju.

22. Homowo- festival
in Ghana which
lasts for three
days

23. Homowo is a festival celebrated by the Ga
people of Ghana. The festival starts in the month
of May with the planting of crops before
the rainy season starts.
During the festival, they perform a dance called
Kpanlogo. The Ga people celebrate Homowo in the
remembrance of the famine that once happened
in their history in precolonial Ghana.

24. Famine - extreme
scarcity of food.
Shortage, hunger

29. Cornucopia – also known as
the “horn of plenty” most
common symbol of
harvest festival, horn
shape

32. Mardi Gras – the day
before the beginning of
Lent, celebrated in some
countries with a lot of
music.

38. culture– the way of life,
ad beliefs of a
particular group of
people at a particular
time

42. Lunar calendar– the
period of time (about
29.5) that it takes the
moon go around the
earth

43. Blow out– force air
through the mouth,
cause to breath
hard

44. Blessing – a beneficial
thing for which one is
grateful. Something
that brings well-being