City of Widows – level 1

14-03-2017 07:00

Holi is an Indian festival. It is a festival of colour. It is celebrated in the City of Widows. It is a city in the north of India.

There are many widows in the city. The city is their new home. The widows dance at the festival. There are some tourists, too.

An Indian man starts the festival in 2013. He makes the lives of the widows better. They do not feel like widows any more.

Difficult words: festival (an event to celebrate something), widow (a woman whose husband died).

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