Welcome to the unit festivals can tell us a lot about the cultures of different countries. Watch the video and finish the following exercises. E paying lantern festival is celebrated in chain my thailand. During the festival, you can see different styles of lanterns and special parades around chasing my on the evening of the full moon. In the twelve thai lunar months, people light hundreds of paper lanterns and launch them into the air. This is a way to let bad memories go and make a wish for the future. In sweden, the winters are long and cold. There are only six hours of daylight in stock home, its capital city, and twenty four hours of darkness further north. As a result, the swedish people like summers very much and celebrate midd summer er's day. This festival is traditionally held on the saturday between the twenty eighth and the twenty six of june. People hold parties, singing and dancing around amid summer pole, traditionally called the maple. The day of the dead is a mexican holiday which lasted for three days, beginning on the thirty first of october and ending on the second of november. Throughout the country and beyond, people take some time to remember loved ones who are no longer alive. Traditions include visiting grades with flowers and gifts for the dead, eating sweet bread and telling stories about dead family members or friends. Believe IT or not, the day of the dead is not a sad festival. Many mexicans sing and dance at this festival, believing that the souls of the dead return every year to visit their loved ones.