Learning activity 1

Evidence: Take a break

Select a celebration around the world and describe it according to the format.
Include images to illustrate your ideas. You can find and example in Introductory
material section 1. Describing celebrations and special occasions around the
world. You have to make your description in minimum 250 words.

Aspects Description Image

What it is Uruguayan Carnival is a
celebrated. festival takes place every year
in Uruguay, is related to
Candombe, Murga. It is has
evolved into a dance parade
in which play the drums and
dance to the music at parade
Innaugural of carnival.

Where and It is celebrated Montevideo,

when it is Traditionally, the "fifth season"
celebrated. (carnival season) is declared
open at 11 minutes past 11 on
the 11th of the 11th month
November. The Carnival spirit
is then suspended during the
Advent and Christmas period,
and picks up again in earnest
after 6 January (Biblical Magi)
in the New Year
 What people The people wear colored
wear. clothes and the painted face.

What people In Uruguay, the Societies of

do. blacks and Lubolos, also
called comparsas are a group
of persons who sing and
dance candombe music. The
word lubolos refers to the
white people in blackface that
dresses as black people in the
past in order to take part in
the dance parades.
Why it is a
special They were allowed to sing their
celebration. songs and perform dances. Some
common practices of carnival in
Europe, bran and flour shed; shed
water syringes, throwing eggs,
oranges, or other objects were
imported into Uruguay. The
importance of some of these
practices by the first inhabitants of
the city of Montevideo led to the
carnival celebrations.

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Criterios de evaluación

Describe celebraciones con la estructura y el vocabulario requeridos.