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Student’s Worksheet 1Easter

Task 1

TOMB ROMAN SOLDIER

CROSS ENORMOUS BOULDER

CAVE RESURRECTION

DISCIPLES MARY MAGDALENE

CRUCIFIXION FOLLOWERS

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Student’s Worksheet 2Easter

Task 2. Read the sentences below. Put them into the correct order to make a text. The fi rst and last sentences have been done for you.

1. Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar.____ The tomb was guarded by the Roman soldiers and an enormous boulder was put

over the entrance so that no one could steal the body.____ After Jesus was crucifi ed on the Friday, his body was taken down from the cross and

buried in a tomb.____ His followers realised that God had raised Jesus from the dead.____ It celebrates Jesus’s rising from the dead three days after he was executed. Easter

Sunday marks Jesus’s resurrection.____ On the Sunday, Mary Magdalene, followed later by some of Jesus’s disciples, visited

the tomb and found that the boulder had been moved and that Jesus’s body had gone.____ Jesus himself was seen that day by Mary and the disciples, and for forty days afterwards

by many people.8. Christians call this the Resurrection.

Task 3. Rewrite the sentences from Task 2 to reconstruct the missing parts of the text below.

Easter is ............................................................................................. .

It celebrates ...................................................................................... ,

three days a� er he was executed

................................................................................................................... .

....................................................... marks Jesus’s resurrection.

A� er Jesus was cruci� ed on the Friday (now known

as Good Friday), ............................................................ .

� e tomb was guarded by Roman soldiers

and an ............................................................. , so that no

one could steal the body. On the Sunday,

............................................................. visited the tomb and

found that the stone had been moved and that

Jesus’s body had gone. Jesus himself was seen

that day by Mary and the disciples, and for

forty days a� erwards by many people.

His followers realised .............................................................

............................................................. . Christians call this the

................................................................................................................... .

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Student’s Worksheet 3APart AEaster

Student’s Worksheet 3BPart BEaster

1. Easter/date/vary/why/year/to/does/of/from/the/year?

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2. __________________________________________________________________________

An egg is a symbol of new life. For Christians, Easter eggs are used as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus.

3. it/called/is/why/Lent?

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4. ________________________________________________________________________

Easter Eggs are delivered and hidden by the Easter Bunny. An Easter egg hunt is organised to fi nd the hidden eggs.

5. mean/does/Shrove/what?

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6. ________________________________________________________________________

Pancakes are associated with Shrove Tuesday because they are a dish that uses up all the eggs, fat and milk in the house, with a little fl our.

1. ________________________________________________________________________

The date of Easter Sunday varies from year to year because it is based on the lunar calendar. It is celebrated on the fi rst Sunday after the full moon, on or after 21 March.

2. symbolise/do/eggs/what/Easter?

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3. __________________________________________________________________________

Lent is an old English word meaning ‘lengthen’. Lent is observed in spring, when the days begin to get longer.

4. Easter/and/hides/who/delivers/eggs?

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5. _________________________________________________________________________

Shrove Tuesday comes from the word ‘shrive’, which means to confess your sins.

6. do/Shrove/Tuesday/pancakes/why/people/eat/on?

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