Project: CarnivalEssencial Idiomaswww.essencialensino.com.brTeacher Daniele Krauz

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ContentGrammar points Question wordsVocabulary open Subject: History and culture about carnival around the world.Interdisciplinarity: EFL – culture – history Multiple intelligences: interpersonal – intrapersonal – visual – linguistic  Objectives: Observing cultural differences . Critical reading comprehension. We will be using text collected from different websites.The analysis will be developed covering material for the elementary and

the intermediate levels.

What is this?

What is a mask for?To hide your identity.

To be someone else or your real self.

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We Wear the MaskBY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,In counting all our tears and sighs?Nay, let them only see us, while       We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the clay is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise,       We wear the mask!

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When do you celebrate carnival?

Where do you celebrate carnival?

How do you celebrate carnival?

Who do you celebrate carnival with?

Why do you celebrate carnival?

What do you celebrate in carnival?

HISTORYAlso known as Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Fastnacht, Fastelavn, and Maslenitsa, Mardi Gras is celebrated many different ways around the globe, but eating well is a common theme. In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, Mardi Gras is considered the last call for the faithful¹ to eat meat and other rich foods before Lent (a six-week period of penitence and fasting² before Easter) arrives. Some international

celebrations of Mardi Gras and Carnival stretch³ the "indulge4 while you can" message to embrace pre-Christian festivals like Saturnalia and Bacchanalia, while in other countries, Carnival has become a largely secular party. Come February or March (dates vary by country and celebration, and are often timed to liturgical calendars), many hungry revelers5 in the U.S. celebrate New Orleans–style. (1)

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Read More  http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/mardigras/international-carnival#ixzz2uLkfF0gl

1. Believers, followers.2. Not eat.3. Extend.4. Permit.5. Party goers.

Carnival around the world

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BRAZILIn Brazil, the celebration is supposed to go on from the Saturday before Mardi Gras until Mardi Gras Day, but in some Brazilian cities the celebration can last seven or eight days. Just like New Orleans, not many important things are decided in Brazil from New Year's Day to Mardi Gras Day because they are preparing for or celebrating Carnaval (Portuguese for Carnival). Most Brazilian parades have a theme, or enredo, which could be political, historical, or a tribute to someone. The parades had to have a theme that related to Brazil until 1996. Some cities in Brazil do not have a street Carnaval but they might have an indoor ball.

Rio de Janeiro is the mother of all carnaval celebrations around the world. More than twelve escola de sambas, or samba schools, compete in categories of costumes, dance, and percussion. Escola de sambas include the floats, costumes, dancers, and musicians. They are also known as samba schools because the first escola de samba practiced in a grade school. The parades in Rio are known asbandas, with more than 10,000 participants per parade, the bandas go around most of Rio de Janeiro's neighborhoods.(2)

1. To be supposed to – should

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BELGIUMBefore dawn on the day of Mardi Gras, a drumbeat summons1 the residents of Binche, a Belgian town of 32,000 near the French border, into the streets. They come to chase away winter and participate in a folk tradition, dating back to the 14th century, that UNESCO has designated a cultural treasure.During the carnival, you'll see Pierrot, Harlequin, and peasant2 costumes, but the central characters are the Gilles—local men wearing wax masks, wooden clogs3, and elaborate black, red, and

yellow costumes that are stuffed with hay and adorned with white collars and bells. In the mid-afternoon, nearly 1,000 Gilles converge on the town's Grand Place, trade their masks for large ostrich-feather headdresses, sing, dance, and pelt4 the crowd with blood oranges, a symbol of fertility. 

1. Call together.2. Member of a class of low

social status.3. Wooden or shoes.4. Throw at.

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BOLIVIA Bolivia has Carnival parades for children and then more parades for adults. The children dress up in costumes and march in the streets. The adults make traditional dance groups and dance in the streets. But the main part of Bolivia's carnival is getting wet. Most everyone gets wet from water balloons and water buckets. In Oruru, Bolivia, their Carnival is the last ten days of the Carnival season. People there participate in

crafts and dancing, but their main Carnival event is a ceremonial parade that lasts for twenty hours and parades four kilometers. Over 20,000 dancers are involved as well as 10,000 musicians. This parade attracts at least 400,000 people.1. Call together.2. Member of a class of low

social status.3. Wooden or shoes.4. Throw at.

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REFERENCES

1. http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/mardigras/international-carnival

2. http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312226/aroundworld.htm

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