FAMILIE, FESTE UND FEIERTAGE

B. Feiertage im Frühling ...
Which holidays are celebrated in which season in your home country or by your family? Sort the
German and American holidays into the correct season/month. Discuss the different holidays you
all might celebrate. Are there variations among you and your classmates or do you all celebrate
the same holidays, at the same time and in the same way? What might the results suggest about
cultural practices?
Man feiert folgende
Feiertage im Frühling:
im März
im April
im Mai
Man feiert folgende
Feiertage im Sommer:
im Juni
im Juli
im August
Man feiert folgende
Feiertage im Herbst:
im September
im Oktober
im November
Man feiert folgende
Feiertage im Winter:
im Dezember
im Januar
im Februar
in den deutschsprachigen
Ländern
COERLL - Germanic Studies - First Year German
in Ihrem Land
Zum Nachdenken:
What do the holidays listed in Aktivität 14A tell you about the German-speaking
countries? Specifically, about the connection between church and state? Did
you know that there is – to this day – a church tax in Germany? All Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish residents of Germany pay about 9% of their income
along with their income tax to support a church. They have to renounce their
religious affiliation and sever relations with the church they were raised in if
they wish to go through the lengthy legal procedure of getting out of paying the
church tax. For further information, see:
http://www.steuer-forum-kirche.de/church-tax.pdf
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