Fiestas y eventos culturales

¿Conoces alguna fiesta tradicional ¿Con qué fiesta están relacionadas las
norteamericana o británica? palabras de más abajo: con Bonfire
1 Busca diez fiestas tradicionales en la Night o con Thanksgiving?
sopa de letras. Como pista te hemos pumpkin pie fireworks
dado las primeras letras de cada una.
Guy Fawkes turkey
T H A N K S G I V I N G settlers gunpowder
C H O G M A N A Y H E C
Lee sobre estas dos fiestas y
P H K E I J L R O A R A
comprueba tus respuestas.
O M R A G E J R A L I R
F S E I R A Q A S L H N Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawkes night)
P O I O S S N M L O E I is celebrated on the fifth of November,
H H R G M T S A O W R V in memory of an attempt to blow
N S A H N E M D Y E Y A up the Houses of Parliament in 1605
U Y P E T R S A P E S L when King James I was inside. But
L E N T A T I N S N Z E on the evening before one of the
group, Guy Fawkes, was discovered
P A N C A K E D A Y E T
in the cellar with gunpowder, and
W I M O T H E R S D A Y all of the group were executed. For
HOG MANAY MOT Bonfire Night today, children make
CAR CHR a guy, a figure of a man made of old
THA HAL clothes and stuffed with newspaper,
LEN PAN to represent Guy Fawkes. Then, on
RAM EAS Bonfire Night, the guy is burned on
a big bonfire, and there are a lot of
¿Has encontrado alguna fiesta que no
fireworks.
conocieras? Utiliza el diccionario para
saber más acerca de ellas.
2 Relaciona las fiestas con las fechas. Thanksgiving (or Thanksgiving
Day) is an important festival in
Bonfire Night 24 December the US, on the fourth Thursday in
Hogmanay 2 February November. The festival celebrates
Groundhog Day 31 October the time when Europeans first came
Christmas Day 1 January to North America, in 1620. There was
Independence Day 31 December a very cold winter, and many of the
New Year’s Day 5 November European settlers died. But the next
Halloween 25 December summer Native Americans showed
Christmas Eve 4 July the Europeans what foods were
Dos de ellas son tradiciones norte- safe to eat, so that they could store
americanas. ¿Sabrías decir cuáles? food for the next winter. The settlers
survived, and held a big celebration.
3 Ahora vas a leer sobre dos fiestas Nowadays Thanksgiving is
importantes: Bonfire Night y celebrated with a traditional dinner of
Thanksgiving. ¿Sabes cuál de ellas se foods that come from North America,
celebra en Estados Unidos y cuál en like turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry
Gran Bretaña? sauce or jelly and, for dessert,
pumpkin pie.
4 Busca palabras en el texto para las
siguientes traducciones.
a hoguera There are competitions for poets and
b volar algo to sth
c sótano/bodega Welsh. These traditional festivals
d calabaza began a long time ago, in the twelfth
e almacenar/guardar to sth
Comprueba las respuestas en el
diccionario. Utiliza el Diccionario
temático del CD-ROM para encontrar
otras tres palabras relacionadas con
fiestas tradicionales o festivales.
5 Las fiestas tradicionales son
importantes en Estados Unidos y en
Gran Bretaña, pero también tienen
lugar otros festivales, a menudo
relacionados con las artes y la cultura.
Algunos grandes festivales duran
varias semanas, pero también hay
festivales más pequeños que sólo
duran un día o dos.
¿Conoces algún festival famoso
relacionado con las artes? ¿Alguno de
ellos tiene lugar en Estados Unidos o
en Gran Bretaña?
Lee sobre algunos festivales
importantes en Gran Bretaña y en
Estados Unidos. ¿Puedes completar los
párrafos con el nombre del festival?
Glastonbury the Proms
Monterey Jazz Edinburgh
Festival Festival
Eisteddfods
One of the biggest festivals in Britain
is the , held
in the capital of Scotland. It is an
arts festival, but is most famous for
theatre. The shows and concerts
include hundreds of events that are
not part of the official festival, and
these are known as the Fringe. Many
of these events are avant-garde, and
attract lots of young people.
In Wales several cultural events are
held every year, called the .
musicians, and the main language
of these festivals is not English, but
century A.D.
The most famous British classical
music festival in Britain is ,
which is short for “promenade
concerts” (concerts where there
are no seats in part of the hall). This
festival is held every summer at the
Royal Albert Hall, in London. Concerts
contain a mixture of old favourites
and new pieces of music.
The has been
held in this old Spanish city on the
coast of California since 1958. Every
September, many performers come to
play jazz, and also blues and rock.
One of the most famous popular
music festivals in Britain is the
festival. This is
a very large festival which is held
in June on a farm near the city of
Bristol. Sometimes more than 100, 000
people attend the festival, and camp
in tents for three days.
6 Ahora relaciona los nombres de los
festivales con el género artístico.
Monterey Festival classical music
Glastonbury theatre
the Proms jazz and blues
Eisteddfods pop and rock
Edinburgh Festival poetry and music