a very important day for Welsh people?
2. What flower do people wear on St. Davids Day?
3. Is May Day an important celebration nowadays?
4. How did people celebrate May Day in the Middle Ages?
5. What is maypole dancing?
Text 2. SUMMER
1. What person has got two birthdays?
2. What ceremony is traditionally held on the Queens official birthday?
3. How can you explain the word colour in this text?
4. Does the Queens swankeeper mark all the swans on the Thames?
5. The Highland Games are not only sport competitions. What else do they include?
6. When did the Braermar games become the most famous tradition in Scotland?
7. What competitions for strong people are held in the Highlands?
Text 3. AUTUMN
1. Who traditionally opens Parliament?
2. For what purposes is the Irish State Coach used nowadays?
3. What does the Queen do in the Parliament and what does she wear?
4. What kind of person was Guy Fawkes?
5. How do people celebrate Guy Fawkes Day?
6. What do children usually do on Guy Fawkes Day?
Text 4. WINTER
1. Whom do the Shetlanders remember with Up-Helly-Aa festival?
2. What is the capital of the Shetlands?
3. How do the people of the Shetlands celebrate Up-Helly-Aa?
4. What are carols?
5. Is Carol Singing a Christmas tradition? Prove your answer.
3. Take True-False test.
Text 1. SPRING
1. St. Davids Day is a very important day for British people.
2. May Day is a very important celebration nowadays.
3. May Day is the celebration of springs beginning.
4. The symbol of St. Davids Day is a maypole.
5. The striped maypole is decorated with daffodils.
Text 2. SUMMER
1. The Queens official birthday is on the second of June.
2. Troop
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