Le Carnaval de Binche
Le Site du Carnaval de St Pierre de Chandieu

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Click here to look at the Carnaval de Binche site.

Click here to look at the Carnaval de St Pierre de Chandieu site.

Click here to look at the Activity on the Carnaval de Binche site.

Click here to look at the Activity on the Carnaval de St Pierre de Chandieu site.

Click here to see the answers to the Carnaval de Binche Activity.

Click here to see the answers to the Carnaval de St Pierre de Chandieu Activity.

These two municipal websites present a couple of long-established festivals from a town in Belgium and a town in France. The first of these, in Binche, has already featured in the Student's Book on page 160, so visiting this site is a logical progression from that topic area. However, both of these sites have quite complicated language so pupils will have to try and skim the texts for words they understand. You might want to suggest that pupils work in pairs if you feel that the level will be too difficult on their own. The fusée activities have comprehension questions about various aspects of each festival, the answers to which should be understood relatively easily. The sites are quite entertaining even if much of the language is too complicated to understand, with lots of fascinating and colourful photographs of the processions.

You could link the information about these two carnivals in with the discussion on page 162 of the Student's Book where two children discuss which festivals they like and dislike. In this case, get pupils to choose one or the other carnival and to have one of them giving reasons why they like it, while the other lists why they don't.

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