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1 What is the capital of Scotland?
2 How do Scottish people
celebrate the New Year?
3 What is Scotland’s national dish?
4 What happens at the Edinburgh
Festival?
5 What are the following?
a
bagpipes
b
first footing
c
a kilt
d
tossing the caber
While-reading activities
2b Read about Scotland and check your answers for ex.
2a.
Scotland – A place to celebrate
Scotland is famous for its own culture. Here are some of
the ways visitors to Scotland can join in the fun.
Hogmanay, 31 December
Scotland celebrates Hogmanay, the New Year, with the music of
bagpipes, Scotland’s traditional instrument, and dancing in the street
throughout the night. At midnight, there are fireworks and everyone
sings ‘Auld Lang Syne’, a song by Robert Burns, a famous Scottish
poet. Soon after midnight, Scottish families go ‘first footing’, visiting
the houses of friends and relations to continue the celebrations!
Burns Night, 25 January
Robert Burns is Scotland’s
national poet and Scottish
people have a big dinner every
year to celebrate his birthday.
The main part of the meal is
‘haggis’, Scotland’s national
dish made from liver, cereals
and fat served in a sheep’s
stomach. Then everyone reads
poems and sings songs written
by the great ‘Rabbie’ Burns
himself.
The Edinburgh Festival,
August
Edinburgh is famous all over the
world for its arts festival. There is
an official festival for theatre,
opera and classic music, and the
‘Fringe’ festival where you can
see a large variety of plays,
films,
comedians,
dance
companies and concerts. Finally,
there is the Military Tattoo, a
military parade held in Edinburgh
Castle.
The Highland Games,
May-September
Nearly every weekend in the
summer, there are highland
games
somewhere
in
Scotland but the biggest
games are at Cowal. People
from all over the world come
to watch or take part. Over
three thousand bagpipes and
drummers play all day and
there
is
a
wonderful
atmosphere.
There
are
highland
dancing
competitions as well as
events like throwing the
hammer or ‘tossing the caber’
– throwing a large tree-trunk
as far as possible! All the
athletes wear traditional skirts
called kilts.
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After-reading activities
2c Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false information.
1 Scotland is an independent country.
2 Scotland has its own football team.
3 The Romans conquered Scotland.
4 Scottish New Year celebrations finish at midnight.
5 Scotland’s national poet is Rabbie Burns
6 Haggis is a vegetarian dish.
7 The Highland Games at Cowal are winter games.
8 The Edinburgh Festival is a classical music festival.
2d Which Scottish celebrations would these people probably prefer?
1 Kim loves the theatre and classical music.
2 Carol likes sport and is interested in Scottish culture.
3 Lena loves parties and dancing all night.
4 Peter likes poetry and trying different food from around the world.
2e Tell the class which celebration you would like to go to and give your
reasons why.
Factfile:
Area:
78,769 sq km
Population:
5,200,000 approx
Capital:
Edinburgh
Political:
Scotland is part of the United Kingdom but it has
its own parliament, legal system, education system and its
own international football team.
History:
The Romans never conquered Scotland. Between
the years 120 and 140 AD, they built Hadrian’s Wall, a huge
wall, 118 km long, to protect their empire. In the Middle
Ages, Scotland became a united country. There were many
wars between England and Scotland. In 1603, the Scottish
king, James VI, became king of England and a century later
Scotland and England were united.
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Language skills
3a Fill in the gaps with the following words. There are some words you do
not need.
GOING-AWAY PARTY BONFIRE RECEPTION PARADE
COSTUME FEAST DISPLAY FLAG FIREWORKS
CELEBRATION BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATE EVENT
1. People of my country light a ________ in the open air at night to celebrate a
religious festival
2. They are planning to ________Mother Teresa for her call to peace.
3. Tom put on a beautiful ________ during his wedding party.
4. There were hundreds of ________ displayed in the sky to welcome the
national football team.
5. There was an interesting ________ at the Gallery last week celebrating a
national event.
6. He proudly held the ________ of his country and made a tour around the
stadium when he broke the 1500 metres record.
7. The host prepared a big ________ for the special guests
8. We're going to organise a ________ for my brother because he is going
overseas for a year to study.
9. The president who visited our country last week was given an enthusiastic
________.
10. The lady lit just four candles on her fortieth ________.
Making suggestions
3b Listen to the Lowell Festival
committee meeting about the programme.
How many people speak at the meeting?
What are their names? Track 20.
Factfile
Every year the city of Lowell in the
USA has a Southeast Asian Water
Festival. This is a free cultural event and
over 60,000 people from all over the
world come to it.
3c Listen again to the conversation and complete the missing information
1-4 on the programme.
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3d Listen again and complete different ways of making suggestions,
asking for ideas and responding to suggestions from the conversation.
suggestions
1 having a music show on Friday evening?
2 have traditional music and modern music.
3 to have the dance workshop in the morning.
4 Saturday evening?
5 have a drum concert then?
asking for ideas
1 anyone have any ideas for the
last few spaces?
2 What think?
3 What to have then, Li?
responding to suggestions
1 I think .
2 I’m not .
3 I don’t .
4 Great Li.
OTHER USEFUL PHRASES
Excellent. Fantastic.
That sounds fun/good/interesting/boring.
I don’t want to do that.
3e Complete these suggestions with the correct form of go, play or visit. Use
each verb twice.
Lowell Water Festival:
August 18
th
-19
th
River area
Stage 1
Stage 2
Friday evening
Parade
by river
(traditional clothes)
Candle ceremony
Dance show
(Laos national flower dance
and modern dance)
1
(Cambodian
traditional then Malaysian
pop)
Saturday morning
Save Water Now
(talk by Professor Rees)
Boat tour of river
(history of the river and
canal)
Fashion show
(designs from Asia)
2
(learn
Asian styles)
Thai boxing
(watch and learn)
Drum workshop
(learn to play and make
drums)
Saturday afternoon
Traditional boat races
3
(Thai,
Burmese, Cambodian)
Children’s activities
(face painting, games)
Saturday evening
Short
films
from
Thailand
(open air cinema)
Barbecue and party
($29 charge)
4
(Burmese)
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1 Why don’t we a museum this
weekend?
2 Let’s tennis this weekend.
3 What about to the cinema
this weekend?
4 I’d like to the theatre this
weekend.
5 What about an art gallery
this weekend?
6 I’d like football this
weekend.
3f Listen to the end of the
conversation
and
answer
the
questions. Track 21.
1 Does Andy think having the food
market in the afternoon is a really
good idea?
2 Does Andy think going for
something to eat is a really a good
idea?
3 Does Cassie think having a burger
is a really good idea?
3g Listen to the word OK.
Which intonation shows strong
interest or enthusiasm and which
shows
weak
interest
or
no
enthusiasm,
a)
or
b)?
Then
practice with your partner.
Track 22.
3h Listen to some more examples. Which intonation do you hear? Strong
interest (SI) or weak interest (WI)? Track 23.
1 Great idea.
2 Yes.
3 Excellent.
4. OK.
5 Fantastic.
6 Great.
3i With your partner, make and respond to suggestions about this weekend.
Use the language in ex. 3.c, 3.d, 3.g.
4. Speaking
4a Look at the programme for Tralee St. Patrick’s Festival. In pairs or
groups:
decide and agree what to do at the festival;
make suggestions;
reply to your partner’s ideas.
Use the phrases from the Language Skills section.