Proba orală de verificare a cunoştinţelor de limbă modernă
pentru admiterea în clasa a IX- a cu program bilingv – limba engleză
mai 2012
Ticket 5
A Welsh Festival
I think the last days have been two of the most interesting days I have ever
spent. I have seen a Welsh Eisteddfod, a national gathering of an enormous
crowd of people devoted to music and poetry. The Welsh are a nation of
singers. Wherever you get a crowd of Welshmen, whether they’re down the
mine, in the factory or waiting on the platform for train, they just can’t help
bursting into song ” Anyone”. I heard a crowd of 50,000 Welshmen before
a rugby match at Cardiff singing “Land of my Fathers” and I will never
forget it.
You could hardly find a town in Wales, however small, that hasn’t a choir.
Its conductor isn’t a trained musician; he may be only a miner, an agriculture
labourer or the milkman; but the university lecturer or the doctor’s daughter
will be happy to work under his leadership. The choir will gather in the little
chapel almost every night for practice as they are preparing for the
Eisteddfod, and the pieces set for competition (this year they are two
difficult works by Bach and Brahms) need a lot of practice to bring them to
perfection. I should think the Welsh are the only people in the world whose
only national festival is devoted to music and poetry.
Answer the following questions:
1)What does the author think about the Welsh?
2)What did the author hear before a rugby match at Cardiff?
3)Why will the choir gather in the little chapel ?
Preşedinte , Profesori evaluatori,