Cemeteries

November, 1 is All Saints’ Day and, as you know, people take flowers to the graves of dead relatives. So, let’s talk about cemeteries.

1. What do cemeteries look like?
2. How do you feel when you go in a cemetery?
3. Do you go to the cemetery on All Saints’ Day?
4. What do people do at cemeteries on the days prior to All Saints’ Day?
5. Some people go to cemeteries all-year round. What offerings do they do?
6. Complete different question now: What do these colours symbolise?
   1. white
   2. turquoise
   3. yellow

Now watch this video and answer the following:

1. Which traditions are mixed in this Guatemalan cemetery?
2. Check your answers to number 3 above.
3. Why do other colours symbolise?
4. What do they do on the day of the dead?
5. What offerings are made year-round?