Pourquoi means why. Je suis is passe compose in etre. Une pomme de terre means potato. You NEED a verb.(Ex. Je suis couper le pomme de terre.) I cut the potato. Plus you need to know when to use passe compse avoir and etre. As well as Imparfait if you are talking about the past. Trust me I am in french 3.
Holiday is vacances
western europe is Europe de l'Ouest
celebrated is célèbre
candy is bonbons
cold is du froid
new year is nouvel An
countries is des pays
children receive is les enfants reçoivent
I can’t help bc you didn’t provide the reading part