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Skills • Reading Comprehension 1 Leggi il testo e completa la tabella. name of festival location type of music number of people attending every year Cambridge Folk Festival Have you ever been to a music festival? Well, if you live in the UK, the answer is probably yes. Hundreds of thousands of people attend music festivals every year. The number of festivals has grown enormously over the last few years and now there are around 200 every summer. So let’s look at the history of five famous festivals: the Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, Reading, Womad and Monsters of Rock. The Cambridge Folk Festival started in 1964 and now about 10,000 people attend every year on the Cherry Hinton Hall site. The best traditional folk artists from the UK and Ireland appear with more contemporary musicians, the finest American country, blues and roots artists, famous singer songwriters and even a few pop stars. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a three-day festival held most years in Somerset, in the south-west of England. The entertainment consists of a rock and pop stage, an acoustic stage, a jazz stage, the Avalon stage, a theatre/cabaret/comedy stage, a cinema tent, a dance tent and a circus. The festival started in 1970 and about 120,000 people go to it every year. The Reading Festival is truly world-class with rock and pop bands appearing from all over the globe, particularly the USA. About 80,000 music fans invade Reading every August Bank Holiday. The festival first came to its present site on the banks of the River Thames in Reading in 1971, when it moved from Plumpton in Sussex. It is still on the same site over 30 years later! Womad stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance and was the idea of rock musician Peter Gabriel to promote World Music. The Womad Festival started in 1982 and takes place in July at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, and you can see an incredible variety of bands and musicians from all over the world. The festival welcomes over 26,000 visitors each year. The one-day Monsters Of Rock Festival at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes was first held in 1980 and gave visitors the chance to hear the very best of hard rock and heavy metal. There were no festivals between 1996 and 2003 as a result of changing musical fashions, but now it has returned and grown into a two-day festival with a campsite for the 30,000 people who go there. So it doesn’t matter what sort of music you like. If you come to the UK in the summer there is a fantastic choice of festivals you can go to! Fabulous Festival Fun! The Glastonbury Festival 64 Grammar, functions and vocabulary UNIT 12 UNITS 15-16
Transcript of UNITS Grammar, functions and vocabulary 15-16€¦ · same site over 30 years later! Womad stands...
Skills • Reading
Comprehension 1 Leggi il testo e completa la tabella.
name of festival location type of music number of people attending every year
Cambridge Folk Festival
Have you ever been to a music festival? Well, if you live in the UK, the answer is probably yes. Hundreds of thousands of people attend music festivals every year. The number of festivals has grown enormously over the last few years and now there are around 200 every summer. So let’s look at the history of five famous festivals: the Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, Reading, Womad and Monsters of Rock.
The Cambridge Folk Festival started in 1964 and now about 10,000 people attend every year on the Cherry Hinton Hall site. The best traditional folk artists from the UK and Ireland appear with more contemporary musicians, the finest American country, blues and roots artists, famous singer songwriters and even a few pop stars.
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a three-day festival held most years in Somerset, in the south-west of England. The entertainment consists of a rock and pop stage, an acoustic stage, a jazz stage, the Avalon stage, a theatre/cabaret/comedy stage, a cinema tent, a dance tent and a circus. The festival started in 1970 and about 120,000 people go to it every year.
The Reading Festival is truly world-class with rock and pop bands appearing from all over the globe, particularly the USA. About 80,000 music fans invade Reading every August Bank Holiday. The festival first came to its present site on the banks of the River Thames in Reading in 1971, when it moved from Plumpton in Sussex. It is still on the same site over 30 years later!
Womad stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance and was the idea of rock musician Peter Gabriel to promote World Music. The Womad Festival started in 1982 and takes place in July at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, and you can see an incredible variety of bands and musicians from all over the world. The festival welcomes over 26,000 visitors each year.
The one-day Monsters Of Rock Festival at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes was first held in 1980 and gave visitors the chance to hear the very best of hard rock and heavy metal. There were no festivals between 1996 and 2003 as a result of changing musical fashions, but now it has returned and grown into a two-day festival with a campsite for the 30,000 people who go there.
So it doesn’t matter what sort of music you like. If you come to the UK in the summer there is a fantastic choice of festivals you can go to!
Fabulous Festival Fun!
The Glastonbury Festival
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Vocabulary 2 Scegli la traduzione corretta per queste
parole.
1 thousands a intrattentimento
2 attend b tenda
3 has grown c partecipano
4 around d scelta
5 held e rive
6 entertainment f è aumentato
7 stage g migliaia
8 tent h ha luogo
9 banks i che si tiene
10 takes place j all’incirca
11 changing k palco
12 choice l in via di cambiamento
Comprehension 3 Vero o falso? Scrivi V o F negli spazi.
Correggi le frasi false. P
1 There are only fi ve music festivals in the UK every year.
2 A lot of people attend music festivals in the UK.
3 Only British musicians play at the Cambridge Folk Festival.
4 Glastonbury is the biggest festival of the fi ve.
5 Before it moved to Reading, The Reading Festival was held in Plumpton.
6 Peter Gabriel started the Womad Festival.
7 The fi rst Monsters of Rock Festival was in 1996.
8 There was a two-day Monsters of Rock Festival in 2001.
Comprehension 4 Rispondi alle domande.
1 Which is the oldest of the fi ve festivals?
2 What types of music can you hear at the Cambridge Folk Festival?
3 How long does the Glastonbury Festival last?
4 Where do a lot of the foreign bands at the Reading Festival come from?
5 What makes the Womad Festival different from the other festivals?
6 Why were there no Monsters of Rock Festivals between 1996 and 2003?
Womad
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Skills • ListeningComprehension
5 19 Ascolta una parte di un radiogiornale e rispondi alle domande.
1 Who is Rhys Jones?
2 Where was Rhys on his 20th birthday?
3 Who is Peter Duncan?
Comprehension 6 19 Riascolta e metti le seguenti
informazioni nell’ordine in cui le senti. Scrivi il numero corretto nello spazio.
A Peter Duncan thinks Rhys is a very good example to other scouts.
B Rhys Jones has climbed Mount Everest.
C Rhys has climbed Mount McKinley.
D Rhys Jones comes from Hampshire in the UK.
E The weather was good for climbing Mount Everest.
Comprehension 7 19 Ascolta ancora una volta e completa le
frasi. P
1 Rhys is the person to climb all seven highest mountains of the seven continents.
2 The snow on Everest was .
3 Rhys climbed the side of Everest.
4 Mount McKinley is metres high.
5 Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in .
6 Rhys has climbed mountains in Asia, North America, South America, Antarctica, , Africa and .
Dictation 8 20 Ascolta e scrivi sei frasi del dialogo.
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Skills • Writing
10 Immagina di partecipare anche tu al concorso per vincere la vacanza dei tuoi sogni. Scrivi una lettera (100–150 parole). Includi le seguenti informazioni: P T
• dettagli personali • esperienze di viaggi passati • dettagli della vacanza dei tuoi sogni
Non dimenticare di impostare la tua lettera inmodo corretto con l’indirizzo e la data al posto giusto e con l’apertura e la chiusura corretta.
6 Townsend Road
Richmond
Surrey
1 9th June
2 TeenAge Magazine,
I’m sixteen years old and I’m from Southampton.
I like Southampton but I’d like to travel. I’d like to
travel all round the world. Every day I see the big
cruise ships leaving the harbour and 3
about where they’re going. And I’d like to be on one
of them.
4 , my parents don’t like travelling
very much so I’ve never been anywhere interesting.
I’ve never been to the USA, Paris or Italy. And I’m
sixteen years old! Last summer we went abroad for
the first time. We spent two weeks in Majorca. It
was fantastic! But my mum and dad didn’t enjoy
themselves. They didn’t like the food, they didn’t
like the 5 hot weather and they didn’t
like the people. But I was in paradise!
I’ve always wanted to go on a world 6 .
I’d like to visit the USA, Australia and South Africa,
but I don’t want to be a typical 7 – I
want to meet and talk to the real people of these
countries. And that’s my dream holiday! I really
hope I win this competition.
Yours 8 Charlotte Price
9 Completa la lettera con le parole nel riquadro.
TW9 10CD sincerely tourist fabulous unfortunately dream Dear cruise
Holiday CompetitionWin a fabulous holiday to the destination of your choice!
Write to TeenAge Magazine about your dream holiday!
The writer of the winning letter can choose to go anywhere in the world for two weeks!
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