Miss Schofield has made a video which talks through this information with you. You can watch it here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S7NwQYF1W4iAWA9nNMPebBvpgUy4YP0- Wales information sheet Thousands of people visit Wales every year to see the beautiful scenery. There are stunning mountains, beaches, lakes and many castles to see. Watch this video to see more of Wales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCr4gt-lUP4 Wales’ capital city is Cardiff. Cardiff has several famous landmarks, including the Wales Millennium Centre, which is an arts centre in Cardiff Bay. Wales is famous for having lots of castles. Cardiff Castle is located in the centre of Car- diff but there are over 400 castles in Wales altogether. The Welsh language The Flag of Wales is a (Cymraeg) is the oldest red dragon on a green language in the UK. and white background. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgo- gerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogog ogoch is a town in North Wales and has the longest place name in the world. Saint David The daffodil is Wales’s is the Pa- national flower but the tron Saint leek is an important sym- of Wales. bol of Wales too. Wales information sheet Wales is well known for its hills and mountains, with the highest moun- tains found in the northwest of the coun- try. Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales and England. It is found in Wales’s National Park of Snowdonia. Wales also has lots of specialty food dishes. Some of them sound very different to what they actually are. Welsh Rarebit is a Bara brith is a Laverbread is a sea- fancy cheese on toast. fruit cake with tea weed dish mixed with cockles. It has no But it involves no rab- added in. bread in it either! bits! Cawl is a hot stew Glamorgan sausages Welsh cakes are flat made with meat and are cheese fla- circular scones with vegetables. Some- voured sausages raisins. times it can be made with leeks. They with just vegetables. have no meat at all. LO: To identify Welsh specialties. Task 1—Quick quiz Look through the information sheet to find the correct labels for the images of things special to Wales. You can just label with the letter so A, B, C, D, E, or F. 1. 4. 2. 5. 3. 6. A) The ‘Red Dragon’ B) leek C) daffodil flag of Wales E) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgo- D) Cardiff F) Cardiff gerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch castle Have a listen to this song to help the pronunciation of the longest place name in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUIzou7ySQ&feature=emb_rel_pause LO: To identify Welsh specialties. Task 2—Below are descriptions of some of Wales’ national foods. Can you read them and write them next to the correct name of food in your exercise book? 1. Welsh ________________________ Rarebit ________________________ 2. Cawl ________________________ ________________________ 3. Bara brith ________________________ ________________________ 4. Laver ________________________ bread ________________________ 5. Glamorgan ________________________ Sausages ________________________ 6. Welsh ________________________ Cakes ________________________ A seaweed dish mixed with cockles. Fancy cheese on toast. Fruit cake with tea added in. Flat circular scones with raisins. Cheese flavoured sausages A hot stew made with meat with leeks (no meat at all) and vegetables. NS: Challenge: Which food would you like to try? Why? I would like to try _____________ because _________. .