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Nowruz is celebrated in Iran and other parts of the world as the Persian New Year. It begins on the spring equinox and lasts for 13 days. People clean their houses and wear new clothes to celebrate. Children bang pots and pans and go door-to-door asking for sweets. Families gather around the haftseen table, which displays seven symbolic items starting with the letter 's' in Farsi, to celebrate health and beauty in the coming year.

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Nowruz is celebrated in Iran and other parts of the world as the Persian New Year. It begins on the spring equinox and lasts for 13 days. People clean their houses and wear new clothes to celebrate. Children bang pots and pans and go door-to-door asking for sweets. Families gather around the haftseen table, which displays seven symbolic items starting with the letter 's' in Farsi, to celebrate health and beauty in the coming year.

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Nowruz email – ANSWERS Reading practice

Level 3
What do you know about Nowruz? Practise your reading in English
with this email.

Preparation
Match the words with the definitions.

Persia to make a loud noise by hitting something

to celebrate round containers used for cooking

a bonfire an old name for the country of Iran

to bang the official language of Iran

pots and pans the opposite of illness

to decorate a big fire, often in a festival

Farsi to do something to show that it’s a special day

health to make something nice to look at

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1. Choose the answer!
Read the sentence. Circle the correct answer.

a. Nowruz is a celebration at the beginning of . spring / summer / winter


b. In Iran Nowruz lasts for days. 7 / 13 / 30
c. It’s important to clean your before Nowruz. teeth / car / house
d. People wear clothes to celebrate Nowruz. new / bright / old
e. The before Nowruz, people jump over bonfires. Monday / Wednesday / Friday
f. Children knock on doors and ask for . goldfish / eggs / sweets
g. The ‘haftseen’ is a special . cupboard / table / picture

h. The means health and beauty. banana / pear / apple

2. What’s the order?


Put the words in the correct order.

a. New Year is the Persian Nowruz celebration.


Nowruz is the Persian New Year celebration.
b. clean. to start year fresh and It’s important the new
It’s important to start the new year fresh and clean.
c. for next mean year! clothes a fresh start New
New clothes mean a fresh start for next year!
d. light bonfires them. and jump People over
People light bonfires and jump over them.
e. pans. on pots and Children bang
Children bang on pots and pans.
f. ‘haftseen’ table. seven We put objects on the special
We put seven special objects on the ‘haftseen’ table.
g. Farsi the sound in the language. They ‘s’ begin with
They begin with the sound ‘s’ in the Farsi language.
h. give We other each presents.
We give each other presents.
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