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May Day is an old festival celebrated in Britain on May 1st to mark the beginning of summer. Traditional May Day celebrations include decorating streets and houses with flowers, dancing around a tall pole decorated with colored ribbons, choosing a May Queen to lead a procession through town wearing a crown of flowers, and having cheese rolling competitions where people race down steep hills trying to catch a rolling cheese.

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May Day is an old festival celebrated in Britain on May 1st to mark the beginning of summer. Traditional May Day celebrations include decorating streets and houses with flowers, dancing around a tall pole decorated with colored ribbons, choosing a May Queen to lead a procession through town wearing a crown of flowers, and having cheese rolling competitions where people race down steep hills trying to catch a rolling cheese.

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May Day
1. Find the meaning of the following words: pole, ribbons, crown, roll, steep
2. Then read the text and fill in the table below.

The first of May is called May Day in Britain. This is a very old festival held to
celebrate the first day of summer. Many towns and villages still hold traditional May
Day celebrations. Some towns and villages decorate the streets and houses with
flowers. In others, there is dancing and the people put up a Maypole. This is a tall
pole with coloured ribbons hanging from the top. The dancers take a ribbon each
and dance around the pole. As they dance, the ribbons make a colourful pattern
around the Maypole. It is also traditional to choose a May Queen and crown her.
She wears a white dress and a crown of flowers and walks at the front of a
procession through the streets. In Padstow, a village in the south-west, two men
dress up as horses and everyone follows them through the streets singing an old
song. In another village there is a Cheese Rolling competition. Everyone goes to
the top of a very steep hill. A big round cheese is rolled down the hill and everyone
tries to chase it. The winner gets free cheese for twenty years!

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3. Share your information with your group and complete the table for all the festivals.
4. Discuss in your group: Which festival would you like to go to most?
5. Invent a festival! Work together and invent a festival for one of these events:
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Fill in the table for your festival and then write a description.
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