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Project task
Planning a music festival
Plan a one-day music festival and
make sure your budget works.
Then present your ideas and your
budget to the class. Each student
chooses the festival they think will
be most successful financially.

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Introducing the topic

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Work in groups of three
to discuss the questions.

• Have you ever been to a

music festival?
• Have you seen a music
festival on TV?
• What can you see and do at a
music festival?
• What are the best things
about music festivals?

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Look at the photos and discuss
the questions in your groups.

• What things do you need to think

about when you are planning a
music festival?

• How does a music festival make

money?

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Understand

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Match the words to the definitions.

budget expenses financial income price selling point venue

1 where something happens

2 how much money you spend
3 how much something costs
4 how much money you make
5 the amount of money you can spend on something
6 relating to money
7 a reason people want to buy or do something

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Read How to plan a music festival
on page 24 and discuss the
questions in your groups.

1 What are the advantages of a large venue?

2 What are the advantages of a small venue?
3 What kind of things can your selling points be?
4 Where does your income come from?
5 Where do your expenses come from?
6 Why does your income need to be higher than
your expenses?

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Look at the information about
Castle Fest on page 24.
Answer the questions.

• What information is missing?

• Do you need to listen for a date, a place, a
number or something else?
• Listen and complete the table in your books.
• Do you think Castle Fest is a good music
festival? Why? / Why not?

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Look at the information
about Castle Fest and answer Total income Total expenses
the questions.
$153,000 $131,500
1 Will Castle Fest make money?
2 How much money will it make?

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Look at the Castle Fest income
and expenses sheets on page 24
and answer the questions.

1 What do merchandise stands sell?

2 What are optional extras?
3 What other optional extras can you think of?

Complete the income and expenses sheets.

Listen and check your answers.

• Would you like to go to Castle Fest? Why? / Why not?

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Collaborate and plan

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Look at the four venues on
page 25 and discuss the
questions in your groups.

• What are the advantages and

disadvantages of each venue?
• Which venue would you like to
use for your festival? Why?

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In your groups, plan your festival. Think about:
• the venue and the date
• your selling points and the festival name
• the ticket price
• your income
• your expenses.

Use these phrases in your discussions.

Phrases for agreeing Phrases for disagreeing
I (completely) agree with you. I’m afraid I disagree with you.
I couldn’t agree more. I (completely) disagree.
You’re (absolutely) right! I don’t think that’s right.
That’s true. That’s not always true.
You have a point there. I’m not sure about that.

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In your groups, complete income
and expenses sheets for your festival.

Make sure you balance your budget!

Use these phrases in your discussions.

Giving an opinion Asking for an opinion
In my opinion … What’s your opinion/idea?
The way I see it … What do you think (about that)?
As far as I’m concerned … How do you feel about that?
If you ask me … Do you agree?

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Share

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In your groups, prepare a short
presentation about your festival.
Include:
• details about your festival. Provide an
information form in this section.

Name: Date:
Venue: Ticket price:
Selling points:
• the reasons for your choices about your festival.
• how you balanced your budget. You can show
your income and expenses sheets in this section.
• some time at the end of the presentation for
questions.

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Decide who will present each
section of your presentation.

• Write notes to help you with your section.

• Practise your section of the presentation. Remember to speak naturally.

Useful phrases for giving a presentation

I’d like / I’m going to talk to you about …
The objective / purpose of this presentation is …
Our presentation is divided into … sections.
Firstly … / Secondly … / Finally …
We decided to …
The reason for our decision was …
A good example of this is …
I’d now like to move on to …

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Present

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Present your festival to the class.
Tips for giving a presentation
Smile at your audience and introduce yourself and your presentation.
Speak slowly, clearly and loud enough for everyone to hear you.
Look at your audience, and not at your notes.
Don’t speak for too long, and include pauses in your speech.
Use body language and facial expressions to make your presentation interesting.
Relax, breathe deeply and enjoy giving your presentation!

At the end of your presentation, answer questions from your classmates.

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As you listen to each presentation, complete the chart.

Festival name Selling points How the group A question to ask

balanced their the group
budget

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In your groups, discuss which music festival
you think will be the most successful financially.

Remember to use phrases for giving an opinion, asking for an opinion, agreeing
and disagreeing.

Do a class vote. Which festival won the vote?

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Reflect

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Complete the chart about your presentation.

Things that went well Things that didn’t go well What I will do to improve

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In your groups, think about your
project and answer the questions.

• What are the most important things to think about when you are planning a music festival?
• What things have the biggest effect on how financially successful a music festival is?
• Was it easy to balance your budget? Why? / Why not?

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As a class, discuss the questions.

• What are the best and the

worst things about planning
a music festival?
• Would you like to organize
music festivals in real life?
Why? / Why not?

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We hope you enjoyed
your project!
Acknowledgements:
Alamy Stock Photo (Edward Westacott), Shutterstock (Alan Heartfield, Anastasios71, Ashley
Pickering, Elena Dijour, Goran Djukanovic, Halfpoint, Mattia B, Pecold, Racheal Grazias, vinnstock,
wavebreakmedia. Illustration by John Haslam.