Järvakandi. In previous years the festival has been purely a rock festival, but this year sees it cater for more varied tastes. The lineup still features plenty for hard rock fans like Scandinavian acts Truckfighters, Los Bastardos Finlandeses and Kotiteollisuus. Electric Eel Shock, Black Lips and Danko Jones also rock pretty hard, while Vaiko Eplik & Eliit are an experimental local outfit. Krautrockinfluenced British band Fujiya & Miyagi offer a more spacey sound HOLIDAYS People's cultural activities are mostly based upon ancient traditions.The costums of the Estonians are those of the countryfolk, because rites usually sprang up in rular communities. They were passed on from generation to generation and quite often the actions were later performed without any thought being given to the original. As time passed, rural costums penetrated towns, where they were adapted to modern living conditions. The townfolk also introduced customs with an
discovered gravity, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin who is known for his many black and white silent films, musician and singer John Lennon, who is known as a member of legendary band The Beatles. English sportsmen are also known all over the world. Right now, it could be said that one of the most famous ones is footballer David Beckham, who plays for L.A. Galaxy in USA but is currently on loan in AC Milan, in Italy and is the most-capped player in England’s national football team. Traditions and holidays There are a lot of holidays in England and some of them are centuries old. They all have their own traditions. Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night is celebrated on 5 November. In 1606 Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators attempted to blow up the House of Parliament but they didn’t succeed. The celebrations involve firework displays and building bonfires on which stuffed figures of Guy Fawkes are burnt. Several foods are traditionally
4. What do they sometimes show? Vocabulary: entertainment -- to turn on -- passive -- to dominate -- to break down -- argument -- violence -- pop music -- ads (advertisemets) -- Sport in My School If you want to keep fit you must go in for one kind of sport or another. Sport is an essential part of my daily life. Every morning all the year round I do my morning exercises. Almost every day I do some training. In summer I go swimming or rowing. During my summer holidays I go on hikes. I usually spend my winter holidays in the country where I ski, skate or toboggan. I also go in for track-and-field (athletics) events. Different sports and games are popular with my classmates. All my friends go in for different kinds of sport, such as water polo, gymnastics, horse-racing, wrestling, fencing, weightlifting, boxing, ice-hockey, speed- skating, figure-skating, football, basket-ball, volley-ball, etc.
Some festivals have their roots in Chinese festivals but have undergone dramatic changes as they mixed with local customs. Some are so different that they do not even remotely resemble the original festival despite sharing the same name and date. There are also various local festivals (e.g. Tobata Gion) that are mostly unknown outside a given prefecture. It is commonly said that you will always find a festival somewhere in Japan. Matsuri is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday. In Japan, festivals are usually sponsored by a local shrine or temple, though they can be secular. There is no specific matsuri days for all of Japan; dates vary from area to area, and even within a specific area, but festival days do tend to cluster around traditional holidays such as Setsubun or Obon. Almost every locale has at least one matsuri in late summer/early autumn, usually related to the rice harvest. Notable matsuri often feature processions which may include elaborate floats
Kool Irish National Customs Nimi Tallinn 2009 Customs of Ireland i would like to talk about their families their holidays. the irish are a very cultural people and they're proud of all they've got. Marriage and Family People usually marry in their early to mid-20s. Most weddings are performed in a church, but a minority are also performed in a registry office. After marriage, many people in rural areas stay close to their family's home and visit frequently. Many couples, particularly in the cities, live together before or instead of marriage.
1. How many public holidays or Red-Letter Days are there in Britain? Name them. 8 public holidays in Britain: two at Christmas, one for the New Year(which was only introduced in the late 1970s) two at Easter and three Bank Holidays. 2. What is the same and what is different about the way Christmas is celebrated in England and Estonia? In England, there's common to sing Carol's and for children, Christmas means pantomimes plays based on fairy tales which combine comedy, dance and song. A traditional Christmas dinner includes roast turkey with roast potatoes, a range of vegetables, cranberry sauce etc., followed by Christmas pudding and Christmas cake
good harvest that year. Governor William Bradford invited the Indians to a feast. It lasted three days. They ate, danced, sang, ran races, whistled. This was called thanksgiving day. On October 3, 1863 Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national thanksgiving. Many of the traditions of the modern American thanksgiving come from that first thanksgiving celebration more than 300 years ago. People eat squash, corn, turkey, Indian pudding and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving is a four-day holiday. Schools are closed on thanksgiving, and grownups don't work. People spend the holiday among family. 5) MICHAEL FARADAY Michael Faraday was a physics and chemist. he was born in 1791. He was a son of blacksmith. He invented many things, which are used nowadays. He made important discoveries. Young Faraday was apprenticed to a bookbinder was allowed to read books there. Once a customer gave faraday tickets to attend the lectures of Humphrey Davy
The Carnival is a mixture of colour, music, and pure human (39) ____ . There are so many people it is sometimes difficult to work out what's going on. When you go try to see if you can experience a little bit of the five different musical themes that (40) ____ the carnival: Steelband, Calypso, Mas' (masquerade), Soca (the traditional music of carnival) and of course the Static Sound systems. IA make up B energy C appeared D multicultural E roots F proud G encouraged H attracts I Bank Holiday J equipped K including L festival K E EL E STRU KTUURID Ta s k 1 (6 points) Underline the correct answer. An example (0) has been done for you. Puppets (0) been/ were/ are among the oldest man-made objects in the world. Archaeologists in Egypt and India (41) had found/have found/found jointed clay models that are operated by pulling (42) your/its/their strings, which date from 4,000 years ago. Historians tell us that puppets have been created (43)
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