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UNESCO has given an award to a festival ___(25)___ South Korea. It decided ___(26)___ South Korea’s Lotus Lantern Festival to its list of intangible ___(27)___ heritage. The festival is one of 25 things the UN added to its heritage list this year.
The South Korean festival ___(28)___ in spring to celebrate Buddha’s birthday. It symbolizes lighting up the world to make things fair for everyone. The festival dates back 2,000 years. There was an ancient temple in 57BC that royals visited to see lotus lanterns. Today, it is one of Korea’s biggest festivals. People decorate temples with lanterns made of paper and bamboo. Villages, towns ___(29)___ cities hold parades where people carry lanterns through the streets. A spokesperson said: “We will try to make the festival a cultural heritage that can be loved by people around the world.”
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EARTH HOUR
Earth Hour is an annual event which asks you to switch off all your lights for one hour. The aim is to involve as many people as possible in positive change for our planet.
What is Earth Hour?
Earth Hour is organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and it’s a big event usually at the end of March every year. In this evening, people 'go dark’ - that is, switch off lights in their homes, schools and businesses all at the same time for one hour. Earth Hour started in Australia in 2007, when 2.2 million people in Sydney turned off all unnecessary lights for an hour. Since then, it has grown into an international event, and many countries around the world have taken part. Famous buildings that have gone dark for Earth Hour include the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace in London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Forbidden City in Beijing and New York’s Empire State Building.
What’s the idea behind Earth Hour?
The idea is to raise awareness of environmental issues and call for action to protect nature, so that people enjoy healthy, happy and sustainable lives now and in the future. It’s true that switching off the lights for just one hour saves only a small amount of power. But this is only the beginning. On one level, joining Earth Hour makes people think about the problem of climate change and what we can do in everyday life to protect nature.
What does ‘60+’ mean?
The logo of Earth Hour is ‘60+’. The number 60 is for the 60 minutes of Earth Hour, and the plus invites people to keep on taking action even after Earth Hour is finished. In fact, people who join Earth Hour say that taking part makes them want to do more for the environment. The climate activist Greta Thunberg says that ‘Earth Hour is every hour of every day.’