C) Get ready to discuss in class what holidays and festivals are celebrated in Britain and how they are celebrated

A) Listen to what Thomas says about the way people celebrate different holidays in Britain and fill in the table below.

C) Get ready to discuss the text in class.

Open the brackets and write the verbs in the appropriate forms.

A) Learn the rest of the geographical from exercise 4.

B) Listen to the interview again and try to remember more details.

c) Answer the teacher’s questions.

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Winning at all costs?

The spirit of the Olympic games ________________ (1 – always / to be) clear: ‘The important thing is not winning but taking part.’ In recent times, however, the desire to win _________________ (2 – to go) to extremes.

People still __________________ (3 – to remember) the incident in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics when South African-born Zola Budd (4 – to trip – ставить подножку) the medal favourite, Mary Decker in the 5,000 metres, causing her to fall and lose the race. Nor can the international sporting public forget the shame brought to the Olympic ideal by Canadian Ben Johnson’s use of steroids in the 100 metre final in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Athletics is not the only sporting event in which competitors __________________ (5 – to cheat). Weightlifting, football, boxing _____________________ (6 – all / to attract) their share of scandal. During the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994, the world of competitive ice skating __________________ (7 – to shock – Passive) by an incident involving two American figure skaters, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, the favourite to win a medal. While training in Detroit, Nancy _______________________ (8 – to attack – Passive) by a man with an iron bar.

Tonya eventually _____________________ (9 – to confess – признаваться) to her involvement in the crime and _______________________ (10 – since / to see) her skating career destroyed. Although she ____________________ (11 – to escape) a prison sentence, she _____________________ (12 – to pay) a high price for her part in the scandal. She ___________________ (13 – to pay) $100,000 as a fine and _________________ (14 – to get) 500 hours of community service. She also ____________________ (15 – to resign) from the US Figure Skating Association. However, she ________________________ (16 – already / to earn) $600,000 by giving an exclusive television interview and ____________________ (17 – to receive) an offer of two million dollars to move to Tokyo to become a wrestler.

Tonya Harding finally ________________________ (18 – to achieve) fame and fortune but at what cost?

Holiday, date	Key-words	Features
	Celtic fire festivals /	Banks are ________
Beltaine	Museums are _____
__________ pole
__________ tree
	Solstices
Equinoxes
Guy Fawkes night   ______________
	religious
Easter	Easter Bunny, the rabbit Chocolate eggs	Rolling eggs down the hill / selling eggs for charity
New Year’s Day
Halloween ______________

b) Complete the sentences:

1. Holidays are important because … 2. In the past most holidays used to be … 3. It is an English habit to go away whenever holidays come because … 4. Unlike the Germans the English …

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