世界上奇特古怪有趣的节日 英文版 Odd festivals of the world.ppt

广石化经英-121班 According to the American magazine Time，each May, the life and spirit of Mike, The Headless Chicken, is celebrated in in Fruita, Colorado. Mike was a Wyandotte rooster, born in 1945, who had the unfortunate mishap of having to live without a head. Mikes Festival is to honor not his disability, but the spirit that kept him alive. To this end, Time makes an inventory of some special holiday in the world. 可爱的土拨鼠，春天的使者 (February 2) In the U.S., the day that the groundhog predicts whether spring will be coming soon. If, on emerging from his hole, he sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter; if not, spring is imminent. ??Every year on July 4,the UFO Festival will be held in Roswell, New Mexico. It is said that, in the summer of 1947, there was an extraterrestrial spaceship crashed near Roswell. More than 60 years later, the legend is still a legend, no one knows the truth. However, whether or not to believe this legend, local residents would like to be dressed as an alien and hold a carnival on that day. Twins Days is a festival for biological twins which has taken place every summer since 1976 in Twinsburg, Ohio.It is the largest annual gathering of twins in the world, and draws thousands of participants from all over the United States and elsewhere in the world. Many western countries have festival about zombie.The annual Corpse Day was held on May 1st in Melbourne, Australia. On the day, a real Dead Rising was staged in the streets. About thousands of people took part in this years rotten parade。 Local time on May 1st, People who took part in the zombie activity dressed up as zombies in the movie. Baby jumping (El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620. During the act, men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) jump over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses in the street. The festival has been rated as one of the most dangerous in the world.The origins of the tr