Упр.20 Unit 2 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 7 класс
20. Read the text and choose the right item in the sentences after it.The best time to visit Scotland is on January 25th.
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20. Read the text and choose the right item in the sentences after it.
The best time to visit Scotland is on January 25th. It is the day when they have Burns Night in Scotland. On this day in 1759 Robert Burns, the world-famous Scottish poet was born.
Robbie Burns loved Scotland and Scottish people and wrote a lot of poems and songs about them.
He wrote about Scottish food and drink too. One day he wrote a poem To a Haggis, an old Scottish dish. That is why Burns Night begins with the parade of the haggis. The piper walks in. He plays Scottish music. After him walks the chef with a big haggis. He puts the haggis on the table.
Then some man or woman reads the poem To a Haggis and only after that they eat the haggis with potatoes and other vegetables. Then there are more songs and poems. The speaker makes a speech about Robbie Burns. All the people read Burns’s poems and drink some whiskey. They always drink to women (“to the lassies”) and speak about funny things which women do. Then women can speak about men and drink to them. Then all _- men and women _- dance Scottish dances. The evening finishes with singing Auld Lang Syne _- a song which Robert Burns wrote and which people in Britain sing at New Year too.
1. January 25 is a_ _time to go to Scotland.
a) good b) bad
2. January 25 is Burns’s_ _.
a) parade day b) birthday
3. Burns loved his_ _.
a) poems b) country
4. Haggis is_ _.
a) a Scottish drink b) Scottish food
5. The chef_ _food.
a) eats b) brings
6. At the party they_ _.
a) read the poem and then eat the haggis
b) eat haggis and then read the poem.
7. At the party all people speak about_
a) Robbie Burns b) Scottish food
8. Auld Lang Syne is a very _ _song.
a) long b) famous