CARNIVAL IN THE UK

Carnival Tuesday is often characterized by masks, music and colourful ……. on parade
for various festivities organized for the day. Trinkets are popular in some parts of the world,
while King Cakes symbolize the event in places such as New Orleans where …………
is celebrated. ………Tuesday in the United Kingdom is commonly known as ………
Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day is the ………..day before the period which Christians call Lent.
This day is one of the moveable ………….in the church calendar and is related to the date on
which ………..falls. Shrove Tuesday always falls ……… days before Easter Sunday, so the date
………from year to year and falls between 3 February and ……..March. In 2012, Pancake Day
falls on 21 February.
The forty days (not counting………….) before Easter is known as ………....
Lent begins the day …………Pancake Day. According to the Christian tradition, Lent commemorates the
………days that Jesus spent in the wilderness so observant Christians marked this event by fasting.
People generally eat a lot and have fun the day before Lent begins. Shrove Tuesday is often referred
to as Pancake Day because……….., which were generally ……………during Lent, had to be used
up. People would take eggs, fats and ……….products that they had left in their kitchens and
use them to make delicious…………... In the old days there were many foods that Christians
would not eat during Lent: such as meat and fish, fats, eggs, and milky foods. Nowadays
people don’t ………. but try to …………something like chocolate, sweets or smoking.
In the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and several other countries around the world,
Pancake Day is celebrated with fun, games, and of course a lot of eating. However, the
most well known activity on this day is the Pancake Day ………at Olney in Buckinghamshire,
England which has been held since 1445. According to tradition, a woman heard the shriving
bell being rang at the church but was still preparing her pancakes. The story says that as
she didn’t want to be ……….to church she ran there in her………., still clutching her frying…….
Little did she know that this would start a tradition that would be around for over 500 years!
The Olney pancake race is now world famous. Competitors have to be local ……….and
they must wear an apron and a hat or scarf. They must run a designated path with a frying
pan and end up at the church. Each woman has a frying pan containing a hot pancake and
she must …………it at least three times during the race. The first woman to complete the course
and arrive at the church, serve her pancake to the bell ringer, and be kissed by him, is the
winner. She also receives a ………book from the vicar. The current record is 63 seconds set
in 1967.

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