- 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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