/> What festivals are celebrated in our country?
What is your favourite festival?
How do you usually celebrate it?
II. Reading.
You are going to read some information about some festivals. For questions 1-9, choose from the festivals (A-D). Some of the festivals may be chosen more than once. When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order. There is an example at the beginning (0).
marks the death of a particular
0
D
marks the beginning of a religious
5
person?
period?
are meant to remind people of
1
probably dates back longer than
6
something?
was previously thought?
is based on a religious belief?
2
now takes place in a building?
7
involve a competition?
3
marks the beginning of a season?
8
makes unusual use of food?
4
involve dressing up in special
9
costumes?
The Festive Year
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The Rio Carnival in Brazil
This festival is by far the largest in the world. Hundreds of thousands of visitors come every year for the celebrations before the start of Lent, (a fasting period of forty days before Easter). The carnival takes place in the Sambadrome, a huge new stadium. There, samba schools compete with each other for the best costumes and dancing. They spend a lot of time and money on carnival preparations, making fantastic costumes, masks, decorations, mobile floats and teaching the samba. In the past, the carnival procession w
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