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Chinese festival reading card: Dragon Boat Festival
A short cultural reading on zongzi, dragon boats and festival greetings.
Who it is forChinese learners interested in festivals
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What is inside?
- Dragon Boat Festival usually falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
- In some places, people eat zongzi and watch dragon boat races.
- What foods do people enjoy at festivals where you come from?
How to practise
- Read the short sentences and look up unfamiliar words.
- Introduce a festival food in Chinese.
- Find one thing two festivals have in common.
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