Hello everyone and welcome to episode 5 of Weekend English Club, where I tell short stories to help you train your English.

Today I will tell you about another holiday called Easter. It is a Christian holiday celebrated on a different day every year, but usually somewhere around April. So what is Easter about? For Christians, Easter is a religious holiday where they celebrate Jesus coming back to life. But for people who are not religious in many Western countries it is a bit different. My family was not religious, so when I was growing up I did not know anything about the religious story of Easter.

For people like us, Easter is a day where we eat a lot of chocolate eggs and have a big Easter breakfast. My parents would tell me that the Easter bunny had hidden chocolate eggs around the house, and then I would go look for them. After I found them all, I could eat them. Most Western countries will have a day off work on Easter, so people might start the day with a big breakfast and then spend the rest of the day at home doing things like hiding eggs or painting them.

It is common in the West for people to paint eggs during Easter. All you need is some boiled eggs, a paintbrush and paint. If you look up Easter eggs online you can see a lot of beautiful colorful eggs. If you want to make this kind of painted eggs, do not forget to boil them first, because you can break them easily if they are not boiled. Then after you finish painting the eggs, you can still eat them later. So why are eggs so important during Easter? Well, I read that since a very long time ago eggs were seen as a symbol of life. This is why eggs were used by Christians for Easter and this tradition still exists today. Maybe you can also try painting eggs sometime and share them with your friends. Easter can be a very fun day.

Please read the vocabulary along with me.

• Easter: 复活节
• Christian：基督教的，信基督教的
• Somewhere：某个地方
• Christians：基督徒（复数）
• Religious：宗教的
• Jesus：耶稣
• Bunny: 小兔子
• Look for：寻找
• Boiled：煮熟的
• Paintbrush：画笔
• Break：弄破；损坏
• Symbol：象征；标志
• Exist：存在

Thank you for listening and I will see you again next week.

主播：Daniel

校对：nan_nan