July 7th today was 七夕(tanabata) in Japan. Tanabata is a Japanese star festival, related to the Chinese star festival. It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). According to legend, the Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. The celebration is held at night.
I showed this video in class today, and they had to guess what was happening in the video.
Here are the questions regarding the video.
1. How did the man and woman meet?
2. Why did she decide to get married with him?
3. Why did she leave him?
4. How did he get to heaven to meet her?
5. How did her parents like him?
6. What happened at the end?
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