A1 - Carnival Class

Objectives: Learning and reviewing vocabulary of nouns, colours and sizes by

describing pictures and learning about other Carnival celebrations around the world
and in Brazil.

Skills: Reading → basic images and an adapted text from a website, reading images to
collect vocabulary. Writing about their carnivals and taking research of different
Carnival parties in the UNESCO article.

Programme content: Start off by learning what UNESCO is and what it does,
provide them with the image on the top of the website and ask them to describe it.
Finally read the adapted version of its article “Carnival around the world”. After that,
have the student match the images to the names of the celebrations and their
locations; and once more, ask them to describe the images seen (Carnivals in
Recife, Trinidad & Tobago, Barranquilla and Oruro). To finish the class they must
write about their last and next carnival, as well as research about one of the
celebrations listed in the UNESCO article and write about it, too.

Vocabulary: colours, materials, objects, sceneries.

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Do you know what UNESCO is and what it does?

Exercise no. 1
Check the image and read this adapted article from unesco.org:

WHAT DO YOU IN THESE IMAGES?

- What is the event?
- Talk about: the elements (details) and their colours and sizes.

CARNIVAL AROUND THE WORLD

It’s carnival time! The exact dates of these traditional celebrations change every
year but they usually happen between February and early March. The parties
generally start on a Thursday and end the next Tuesday.

Carnivals offer local adaptations and mixes of practices like wearing of masks and
costumes and holding of parades, and street parties, too. In the Americas,
carnivals present elements of ancient celebrations started by Native Peoples or
Africans.

Anthropologists generally consider carnival to be something like the ancients used

to celebrate when the winter ended. They welcomed the spring with big parties and
joy.

From Oruro in Bolivia, all over Recife in Brazil, Barraquilla in Colombia, El Callao in
Venezuela, to Belgium and Austria, Croatia and Hungary, many festivities make
part of the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity for you
to discover and enjoy!

● Schemenlaufen, the carnival of Imst - Austria

● Aalst carnival - Belgium
● Carnival of Binche - Belgium
● Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife - Brazil
● Carnival of Oruro - Bolivia
● Carnival of Barranquilla - Colombia
● Carnaval de Negros y Blancos - Colombia
● Carnival if Granville - France
● Basel Carnival
● Carnival of El Callao - Venezuela

Exercise no. 2
Match these images to the Carnival celebrations below:

- CARNIVAL OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

- CARNAVAL DE BARRANQUILLA - BARRANQUILLA
- FREVO - RECIFE in Pernambuco, Brazil
- DIABLADA - ORURO in Bolivia

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Exercise no. 3
Describe the images above, mention: the colours, materials, objects, sceneries,
etc. Example: Two dancers are jumping with small sunshades in their hands.
One dancer is using blue clothes and the other one is using white clothes.

Exercise no. 4
Writing activity:
1. What are your plans for the next Carnival?
2. What did you do last Carnival?
3. Choose one of the celebrations listed on UNESCO’s webpage, read about it
and write the information here: