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5. On Easter Day (Easter Sunday), young There‘s a party and barbecue for the snail
children receive chocolate or sugar eggs – owners and observers. This custom began in
as long as they are good. In many the 1960s after a local man saw something
countries,people crowd the streets to watch similar in France. In the UK we don‘t eat
colorful parades. snails, by the way.

E LISTENING F WRITING
XIII. XV.

1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. F 1. My father used to go to work by bicycle
XIV. even though he had a car.
1. Scotland 2. good luck 2. Despite of the fact that watching TV a lot
may affect people‘s health, he spent 4
3. spring 4. lettuce 5. 1960s
hours watching TV per day.
Listening transcript:
3. I am very interested in joining the Water
Hello. I‘m going to talk about British festivals. festival of Thailand; however, I haven‘t
I‘m sure you‘ve heard about the Notting Hill had a chance to go there.
Carnival in London and the Edinburgh
Festival, but today we‘re going to look at a lot 4. I couldn‘t wait to see the film;
more that you might not know about. Actually, nevertheless, its ending was really
a lot of these are not exactly festivals, but disappointing.
strange races or competitions. Some of them 5. What used to make me excited was
are ancient and some are modern. watching cartoon films with my cousin.

So, let‘s start in January in the north of XVI.
Scotland with the Burning of the Clavie. This 1. What impressed me was the way she
is a whisky barrel which is set a light then performed the dancing at the party.
carried through the streets as a bonfire. It‘s an 2. In what way did they get through the traffic
ancient tradition which always takes place on jam this morning?
11th of January, the first day of the year, 3. Despite not being selected as the winner,
according to an older form of the calendar. The he was still happy.
bonfire brings good luck for the coming year
and people used to keep bits of burnt wood as 4. It is surprising that the main character in
protection against evil spirits. the film was still alive and came back
home.
Another kind of race takes place in spring –
cheese rolling. In Gloucestershire, in the 5. Although Jimmy was in a big hurry, Jimmy
southwest of England, round cheeses in round didn‘t take the shortcut to his workplace.
boxes are sent rolling down a hill and people
run after them and try and catch them. The hill Unit 10 SOURCES OF ENERGY
is very steep, so people often fall over – if you
take part in this you need to be very fit and
wear your oldest jeans. Nowadays this strange A PHONETICS
custom attracts visitors from all over the world, I.
but the people from the local village are 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. C
usually the ones who catch the cheese. II.
From people-racing, to animals, very tiny 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. B
animals. World Championship Snail Racing III.
takes place in a village in Norfolk. The snails st nd
have to race from an inner circle to an 1 syllable 2 syllable
outercircle and the winner gets a lot of lettuce. fortune, comfortable, exhausted,

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