Fabulous Festival Fun! Have You Ever Been to a Music Festival? Well, If You Live in the UK, the Answer Is Probably Yes

UNIT 12 Grammar, functions and vocabulary UNITS 15-16 Skills • Reading Fabulous Festival Fun! 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 The Glastonbury Festival more contemporary musicians, the finest American country, blues and roots artists, famous singer Womad stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance songwriters and even a few pop stars. and was the idea of rock musician Peter Gabriel to The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary promote World Music. The Womad Festival started Performing Arts is a three-day festival held most in 1982 and takes place in July at Charlton Park, years in Somerset, in the south-west of England. near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, and you can see an The entertainment consists of a rock and pop incredible variety of bands and musicians from all stage, an acoustic stage, a jazz stage, the Avalon over the world. The festival welcomes over 26,000 stage, a theatre/cabaret/comedy stage, a cinema visitors each year. tent, a dance tent and a circus. The festival started The one-day Monsters Of Rock Festival at the in 1970 and about 120,000 people go to it every National Bowl in Milton Keynes was first held in year. 1980 and gave visitors the chance to hear the very The Reading Festival is truly world-class with rock best of hard rock and heavy metal. There were and pop bands appearing from all over the globe, no festivals between 1996 and 2003 as a result of particularly the USA. About 80,000 music fans changing musical fashions, but now it has returned invade Reading every August Bank Holiday. The and grown into a two-day festival with a campsite festival first came to its present site on the banks for the 30,000 people who go there. of the River Thames in Reading in 1971, when it So it doesn’t matter what sort of music you like. moved from Plumpton in Sussex. It is still on the If you come to the UK in the summer there is a same site over 30 years later! fantastic choice of festivals you can go to!

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

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Vocabulary 5 Before it moved to Reading, The Reading Festival was held in Plumpton. 2 Scegli la traduzione corretta per queste parole. 6 Peter Gabriel started the Womad Festival. 1 thousands a intrattentimento 7 The fi rst Monsters of Rock Festival was in 1996. 2 attend b tenda 8 There was a two-day Monsters of Rock 3 has grown c partecipano Festival in 2001. 4 around d scelta 5 held e rive Comprehension 6 f entertainment è aumentato 4 Rispondi alle domande. 7 stage g migliaia 1 Which is the oldest of the fi ve festivals? 8 tent h ha luogo 9 banks i che si tiene 2 What types of music can you hear at the 10 takes place j all’incirca Cambridge Folk Festival? 11 changing k palco 12 choice l in via di 3 How long does the Glastonbury Festival last? cambiamento 4 Where do a lot of the foreign bands at the Comprehension Reading Festival come from? 3 Vero o falso? Scrivi V o F negli spazi. Correggi le frasi false. P 5 What makes the Womad Festival different 1 There are only fi ve music festivals in the from the other festivals? UK every year.

2 A lot of people attend music festivals in 6 Why were there no Monsters of Rock the UK. Festivals between 1996 and 2003? 3 Only British musicians play at the

Cambridge Folk Festival. 4 Glastonbury is the biggest festival of the fi ve.

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Skills • Listening Comprehension 19 7 Ascolta ancora una volta e completa le Comprehension frasi. P 19 5 Ascolta una parte di un radiogiornale e 1 Rhys is the person to climb rispondi alle domande. all seven highest mountains of the seven 1 Who is Rhys Jones? continents. 2 The snow on Everest was . 2 Where was Rhys on his 20th birthday? 3 Rhys climbed the side of Everest. 3 Who is Peter Duncan? 4 Mount McKinley is metres high. 5 Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in . Comprehension 6 Rhys has climbed mountains in Asia, North America, South America, Antarctica, 19 6 Riascolta e metti le seguenti , Africa and . informazioni nell’ordine in cui le senti. Scrivi il numero corretto nello spazio. Dictation A Peter Duncan thinks Rhys is a very good 20 example to other scouts. 8 Ascolta e scrivi sei frasi del dialogo. B Rhys Jones has climbed Mount Everest. 1 C Rhys has climbed Mount McKinley. 2 D Rhys Jones comes from Hampshire 3 in the UK. 4 E The weather was good for climbing 5 Mount Everest. 6

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Skills • Writing

Holiday Competition Win 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!

9 Completa la lettera con le parole nel riquadro. 10 Immagina di partecipare anche tu al concorso TW9 10CD sincerely tourist fabulous per vincere la vacanza dei tuoi sogni. Scrivi unfortunately dream Dear cruise una lettera (100–150 parole). Includi le seguenti informazioni: P T • dettagli personali 6 Townsend Road • esperienze di viaggi passati Richmond • dettagli della vacanza dei tuoi sogni Surrey 1 Non dimenticare di impostare la tua lettera in modo corretto con l’indirizzo e la data al posto 9th June giusto e con l’apertura e la chiusura corretta. 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

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