Okay this is the vocabulary okay this is the vocabulary for Day of The Dead so day of the
dead i arrive in guatemala on the day of the dead november 1st i'm curious about this holiday
holiday is the normal word we use for uh festival some people say festival but holiday is more
common christmas is a holiday halloween is a holiday so holiday is common word the most
common word we use okay so i say i'm curious about this holiday so i go to the cemetery
cemetery is a place for dead people okay many many dead people in a cemetery so that's what
a cemetery is right a place for dead people cemetery it's a large area usually large place
cemetery okay in the next paragraph i say the atmosphere is like a party here atmosphere
means the the general feeling of a place for example i might say this house has a happy
atmosphere right it means the place has a happy feeling maybe it's very warm maybe a
lot of nice people there many reasons but atmosphere means the feeling of a place a
place the atmosphere so the cemetery had an atmosphere a feeling like a party there are
many people everywhere and people were sitting around the graves of their dead ancestors
a grave a grave is a place where one dead person is buried right one dead person is
in a grave one dead body in a grave many graves in a cemetery right so a cemetery has many
many graves so each grave has one body and then many graves in a cemetery okay and they're
sitting around the graves of their dead ancestors an ancestor ancestor is a person who comes
before you in your family for example your grandfather or grandmother is an ancestor
or your great grandmother is an ancestor so all the people in your family older than you
you know who came before you these people are r ancestors these people are your ancestors
so it's ancestors ancestors we say urs ancestors okay they clean the graves and add fresh flowers
the families clean the graves and i walk around through the cemetery and i admire i appreciate
i like i admire the beauty of all the colorful flowers there's also color in the sky because
many kids kids means children so many children many kids are flying kites kites are paper
or plastic you know with a string and you fly them in the wind usually children fly
kites that's kites some families are having a picnic next to the graves picnic is when
you eat outside right you eat outside with many people that is a picnic a picnic okay
and the people they eat drink and chat together they laugh and they smile and this is different
than the united states in the united states cemeteries are always somber somber means
very serious serious somber serious and not fun all right serious and not fun somber somber
so in america in the united states cemeteries are somber they are somber very serious not
fun somber and we certainly we never have festivals or parties next to graves we don't
laugh or play music or fly kites in cemeteries either and then i say i find that i prefer
the guatemalan approach i find that here find means realize i realize that i prefer the
guatemalan approach i find i realize i find that i prefer i realize that i prefer i understand
that i prefer okay so here find has a different meaning than normal a little bit so i find
that i prefer the guatemalan approach approach here approach means way okay i prefer the
guatemalan way the guatemalan method i prefer the guatemalan way i prefer the guatemalan
approach okay i like the way they remember and celebrate those who have passed away passed
away to pass away means to die it's very polite very polite and very soft way to say die so
if someone someone's mother dies you can say i'm sorry your mother passed away i'm sorry
your mom passed away i'm sorry she died i'm sorry she passed away passed away is softer
and more polite okay next sentence i say i like that they acknowledge death acknowledge
means to recognize to see and recognize instead of denying it denying is the opposite of acknowledge
deny means avoid to say no to something to avoid something is to deny it to deny it and
the opposite of deny is acknowledge acknowledge and deny opposites okay so they don't deny
death the way americans do i like that there is life as well as death in their cemeteries
guatemalans call it the day of the dead but it's also a day to appreciate life appreciate
means celebrate to understand and like something so to appreciate okay that is all of the vocabulary
listen to the vocabulary lesson a few times read the text several times read the text
several listen to the audio article listen to the audio article a few times and then
finally listen to the mini story many many times a lot every day okay