domingo, 19 de febrero de 2012

Pancakes Day

Pancakes Day is celebrated in the UK on the last Tuesday before Lent. Listen to the followig audio by the BBC and do the activities below.


-    What’s shrove Tuesday?

-    Define the following terms:
o   Feast:
o   Lent:
o   Fasting:

-    Complete the following sentence:
o   Pancakes are flat thin cakes made of __________, _________ and __________ which are usually fried and everyone loves eating them with ___________, ___________, ___________, ____________ or all other kind of things on Pancakes Day.
o   One of the big challenges of pancake making is __________ them: throwing them up in the air and caching them in the _________.

-    What strange tradition in the UK is associated to Shrove Tuesday? _______________.

-    Choose the correct answer:
o   There’s 2 / 4 / 10 people in every team
o   There’s about 30 or 40 / 20 or 30 / 40 or 50 yards stretch
o   Each member has to run up these yards carrying a flying hat / big bag / frying pan with a pancake inside it.
o   On the way they have to flip the pancakes at least once / twice / three times.
o   When they get to the end they have to pass the frying pan on to the next partner who then throws it back / jumps / runs back.
o   If you drop the pancake you have to pick it up and put it back in your frying pan / you are no longer part of the competition.
o   Unless you finish the race with a pancake in your frying pan, anybody’s pancake, it doesn’t have to be your team’s pancake, you are classified / disqualified / unqualified.

-    There are two reasons why the pancake race is held, what are they?

-    Why is the winning team called ‘Team Harris’?

 
Now watch and listen to this news clip and then complete these sentences with the missing words.


-   Lent is a time for ______ things.
-   Shrove Tuesdays is the day for cleaning out the _______.
-   Pancake races appeal to people’s ________ nature!
-   Everyone’s got ‘a _________ tooth’!
-   People in Britain have been celebrating Pancake Day for ________ years.
-   The tradition started in ________ when a woman ran to church holding a ______________!

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