Easter in Guatemala - Semana Santa Authentic Video Activity

During the Easter season, it’s important for students to learn that other countries have different days to celebrate holidays. For example, in Guatemala, they have an elaborate system of decorating and preparing for a huge parade, including detailed hand-made “carpets” of sawdust and flowers that are trampled by the parade in the end.

This short Youtube video is a trailer for a documentary. It can be downloaded from Youtube:
http://youtu.be/I9n9GqHz2OU

If the link doesn’t work, search “Semana Santa Guatemala Documental 2009.”

The mini-worksheet has seven questions in English about what the students see and read in the movie trailer (text in the trailer is in Spanish).