Customs and Festivals in Poland
Talk about Polish customs and festivals: learn the words for Christmas, Easter and New Year, and how to say what people do to celebrate.
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Customs and festivals 🎉
Poland has many customs and festivals through the year. You need the vocabulary for the main ones, like Boże Narodzenie (Christmas) and Wielkanoc (Easter), and the words for what people do, like świętować (to celebrate). Polish uses the Latin alphabet with a few extra marks, so read each word carefully to get them right.
Words for festivals 📖
Learn each Polish word with its English meaning.
Christmas and other festivals ⚖️
These festivals fall at different times of the year.
Getting the marks right 🔑
In Polish, to celebrate is świętować, and a Christmas carol is a kolęda. Small marks change the sound of a letter, so take care to write them correctly.
Match the festival to the English 🔗
- Boże Narodzenie
- Wielkanoc
- Sylwester
- Wigilia
- Christmas
- Easter
- New Year Eve
- Christmas Eve
Match the word to the English 🔀
- prezent
- choinka
- kolęda
- pisanki
- a present
- a Christmas tree
- a Christmas carol
- painted Easter eggs
What does it mean? ❓
What does Boże Narodzenie mean?
- Christmas.
- Easter.
- New Year.
Which are festivals? ✅
Select the TWO words that are festivals.
- Wielkanoc.
- Sylwester.
- prezent.
- choinka.
Order the year 🪜
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Complete the Polish 🧩
In Poland, _____ Narodzenie means Christmas and _____ means Easter. On Christmas Eve, called _____, families share a wafer and eat together. Children hope for a _____ under the choinka, the Christmas tree. New Year Eve is called _____.
Spot the two festivals 🖍️
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Which festival? 🧭
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Write in Polish ✍️
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