Honeymoon

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.

Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

Vocabulary Help

• after – depois
• beer – cerveja
• bride – noiva
• father – pai
• honey – mel
• honeymoon – lua de mel
• mead – cerveja feita a partir do mel
• son-in-law – genro
• wedding – casamento