3A
READING GRAMMAR
3 A Work in groups of throe. You are each going to read about a festival, relative clauses
before telling your classmates about it. Read about your festival.
Student A: Read the text below . Student B: Read the text on 4A Complete the sentences about the
festivals with who , which or where.
page 142 . Student C: Read the text on page 144 . Makes notes.
1 Burning Man festival, takes
• Name of the festival • Venue • Dates
place at the end of August, attracts
• Activities, events and features of the festival huge crowds.
• Eco-friendly ideas 2 Fuji Rock Paper reuses wood
would otherwise go to waste .
B Summarise the information about your festival to your group. Use
3 People attend the festival are
your notes from Ex 3 A to help you. encouraged to arrive by bus.
C Discuss and comment on all three festivals. Use the questions 4 The festival appointed Damon
below to help you. Gameau, is a world- renowned
filmmaker, as their Eco Ambassador
1 Which of the festivals would you choose to go to? Why? 5 Fuji Rock offers hot springs
2 Which one do you think has the best eco - friendly ideas? Why? festival- goers can relax.
6 These are tho eco initiatives
the festival encourages.
B Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
A
Burning Man 1 Which sentences contain defining
relative clauses? Which sentences
Where: USA When : August /September contain non- defining relative clauses?
2 In which sentences can you replace the
Burning Man is unique. Held every summer in Nevada’s pronoun with that?
Black Rock Desert, this famous festival attracts travellers 3 In which sentence can you omit the
from all over the globe . It’s officially an art festival and as you relative pronoun?1
wander around the desert you will find all types of amazing 4 Are commas used with defining or
art installations . But there is much more to the festival non defining relative clauses?
than just art. The desert location becomes a temporary city ,
C Learn and practise. Go to the Grammar
filled with people wearing costumes and enjoying complete
Bank .
freedom and creative expression. Nobody uses money -
people give each other gifts of food and drink. The week-long
event (they don’t like the word ‘festival ’ ) is dedicated to art
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and community. There’s no fixed line - up as such - things just
‘happen ’ At the end of the festival everyone gets together to
PRONUNCIATION
watch the burning of a huge statue of a man. 5 A 3.01 | pitch in non-defining relative
clauses | Listen to sentences 1 and 4
Despite the name, the iconic Burning Man event operates
from Ex 4 A . Does the speaker use a high
with the aim of ‘leaving no trace’. Throughout the festival, or low pitch in the non- defining relative
people are encouraged to pick up any rubbish they find and clause? Why?
put it in their pocket to dispose of later. Festival-goers are also
encouraged not to buy things which wall B Add commas to the text where there
later be thrown away. The organisers aim are non- defining relative clauses. Then
practise reading it.
to be carbon negative and to sustainably
manage their waste by 2030. They are The Green Man festival which is held
keen to use the city as an example of annually in Wales is an independent arts
and music festival. Being environmentally
how a sustainable city of the future friendly is fundamental to Green Man
could work . They use solar power for whose organisers encourage festival-
electricity and electric cars to get goers to bring their own water bottles and
around the desert. Every year , they take home all their waste. They also send
create Black Rock City in the middle any tents which have been left unwanted
at the site to refugee charities. Green Man
of the Nevada desert, and every year
which started with just a few hundred
they take it down , pack up and leave people in 2003 is now one of the UK ’s
the area without a trace. best- loved festivals.
C y
4|3.02 | Listen and compare your
pronunciation with the recording.
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