Imagine you're preparing a project “Celebrations”. Your classmate has sent you four texts on the topic. Unfortunately, the file is corrupted and the headings have been mixed up. Match the texts to the headings.
ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ Read the text. Your teacher has asked you to post it on the school social media platform as the part of a weekly page called “Celebrations”. Choose the best format for this text to be presented on the platform. Unusual Festivals The World's Messiest Food Fight If you’re in the tiny Spanish town of Buñol in Valencia, Spain during the last week of August, make sure you take a spare change of clothes because things get very, very messy! “La Tomatina” is a huge food fight that has been a strong tradition in Buñol since around 1945. No one really knows how it began, but everybody knows how it ends! The week of the fight includes a fireworks party, music, dancing, colourful street parades and even a huge paella cooking contest. Then, about 30,000 people throw around 100,000 kg of tomatoes at each other for one hour. Experience Life as a Pirate in the Cayman Islands Have you ever wanted to be a pirate? If so, for ten days in November, Georgetown in the Cayman Islands transforms into a typical pirate town. The Pirates Week festival begins with a mock kidnap, complete with tall ships and rowing boats. Visitors have the chance to wear fancy dress costumes and experience life as a pirate. There are also street parties, treasure hunts and a huge fireworks display. March of the Scarecrows Every year on 6th October, the central market square of Brussels in Belgium becomes full of people made of straw … yes, scarecrows! This festival, which raises money for local charities, has been extremely popular since it first started in 2001. Past winners of the “Best Scarecrow Award” have included a medieval knight scarecrow and even a Che Guevara one! If you think you can do better, why not enter the competition yourself? All you need are some old clothes and a bright idea! A Celebration of the End of Winter If you want to watch parades, see fireworks and open-air theatre performances and eat until you burst, then the Maslenitsa carnival (or “Blini Week”) in the heart of Moscow is the festival for you! This fun festival takes place around the end of February and celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring. For this reason, all the festival-goers eat blini (pancakes), which symbolise the sun (round, golden and warm). At the end of carnival week, there is a big bonfire to say a final goodbye to winter!
Read the text. Your teacher has asked you to post it on the school social media platform as the part of a weekly page called “Celebrations”. You need to choose the illustrations to make your post eye-catching. Match the paragraphs to the pictures.
Imagine that your school is organizing “Role Reversal Day" when students have a chance to become teachers for a day. You are going to teach English and your teacher has asked you to plan lead-in activities based on one text. Read the text and choose all the lead-in activities that are related to it. The activities should cover the information in all paragraphs. Unusual Festivals The World's Messiest Food Fight If you’re in the tiny Spanish town of Buñol in Valencia, Spain during the last week of August, make sure you take a spare change of clothes because things get very, very messy! “La Tomatina” is a huge food fight that has been a strong tradition in Buñol since around 1945. No one really knows how it began, but everybody knows how it ends! The week of the fight includes a fireworks party, music, dancing, colourful street parades and even a huge paella cooking contest. Then, about 30,000 people throw around 100,000 kg of tomatoes at each other for one hour. Experience Life as a Pirate in the Cayman Islands Have you ever wanted to be a pirate? If so, for ten days in November, Georgetown in the Cayman Islands transforms into a typical pirate town. The Pirates Week festival begins with a mock kidnap, complete with tall ships and rowing boats. Visitors have the chance to wear fancy dress costumes and experience life as a pirate. There are also street parties, treasure hunts and a huge fireworks display. March of the Scarecrows Every year on 6th October, the central market square of Brussels in Belgium becomes full of people made of straw … yes, scarecrows! This festival, which raises money for local charities, has been extremely popular since it first started in 2001. Past winners of the “Best Scarecrow Award” have included a medieval knight scarecrow and even a Che Guevara one! If you think you can do better, why not enter the competition yourself? All you need are some old clothes and a bright idea! A Celebration of the End of Winter If you want to watch parades, see fireworks and open-air theatre performances and eat until you burst, then the Maslenitsa carnival (or “Blini Week”) in the heart of Moscow is the festival for you! This fun festival takes place around the end of February and celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring. For this reason, all the festival-goers eat blini (pancakes), which symbolise the sun (round, golden and warm). At the end of carnival week, there is a big bonfire to say a final goodbye to winter!
Imagine that you are an editor of your school social media site and you have interviewed seven classmates for your new online post “Celebrations have become too commercialised”. Read the texts and count how many classmates are not sure if it is good that celebrations have become too commercialised or not. Write the correct number of the students in figures. 1. Sophie: "I don't like Valentine's Day and Halloween because they seem like they're all about buying things instead of actually celebrating something special. Last year, my friends spent a lot of money on roses for Valentine's Day and it didn't feel honest". 2. Mike: "I don't care if festivals are commercialised or not as long as I can have fun with my friends. I love going to music festivals, even though there's a lot of advertising and product placement". 3. David: "It's sad that people waste money on unnecessary things for fake holidays. We should show love for our partners or family every day, not just on Valentine's Day. Big corporations just want to make money”. 4. Max: "I absolutely hate commercialised celebrations! It's all just a way for companies to make more money and for people to show off what they have. Every year at Halloween my neighbours spend hundreds on decorations and it's such a waste”. 5. Emily: "Well, celebrating special occasions is nice and having traditions is important, but seeing ads for products seems too focused on materialism. It depends on the situation, like if it's a small family gathering or a big corporate event". 6. Tom: "I love commercialised festivals because they always bring something new and exciting to the table. For example, I cannot wait for New Year this year because my favorite coffee shop has a special line of holiday drinks that I know I'll enjoy, and they only have them during the New Year season". 7. Kate: "I'm really on the fence about commercialised celebrations. On one hand, it's great because it brings people together and it's fun, but on the other hand, it can feel like companies just want you to spend your money. I just can't decide which way I lean".
Your friends have had an argument about celebrations. Read the dialogue. Whose opinion do you agree with and why? Write 3-4 sentences grounding your opinion.
Imagine that you are an editor of your school social media site and you have done a survey on the topic “What’s good and what’s bad about celebrations”. Now you need to sort the results. Read the statements expressing the opinions on the topic and match them to the correct category.
Imagine that your class participates in a penfriend programme corresponding by email with peers from another region of your country. You have asked your penfriend to describe a festival attended by her. As an editor of your school social media site, you would like to share this information with your readers. Read the email and choose all the questions answered by your penfriend in it.
Imagine you are celebrating your birthday in the café. You have invited three close friends and your sister. Your friends have ordered: 2 cheesecakes, 1 panna cotta, 9 scoops of ice cream and 3 Americanos while your sister has ordered 1 apple strudel, 2 scoops of ice cream and 1 Cappuccino. Study the menu and calculate how much you will pay for your company.
You are going to celebrate your birthday in the theme park. Read the information on the website of this theme park and choose all the rules you should follow before entering the park.
