C1 Advanced Multiple Matching – test 7. Pięć recenzji festiwali: folkowego w Irlandii, literackiego, muzyki elektronicznej w Chorwacji, festiwalu jedzenia ulicznego i festiwalu teatralnego. Pytania sprawdzają rozumienie zalet i wad opisanych przez recenzentów.
C1 Advanced Multiple Matching – festiwale
Poniżej znajdziesz tekst podzielony na pięć części (A–E). Przy każdym pytaniu wybierz część, w której jest podana dana informacja. Każdą literę możesz wybrać więcej niż raz. To zadanie odpowiada formatowi Reading and Use of English Part 8: 10 pytań do kilku krótszych tekstów. Jak pracować:
- najpierw przeczytaj wszystkie 10 pytań i podkreśl w nich słowa kluczowe,
- szukaj w tekście parafrazy – rzadko pojawiają się te same słowa co w pytaniu,
- uważaj na informacje podobne w kilku częściach – pytanie zwykle dotyczy konkretnego szczegółu.
Test 7 z serii C1 Advanced Multiple Matching. W recenzjach zalety i wady często są w tym samym akapicie – czytaj do końca każdej części.
Festival season
A – Riverside Folk Weekend, Ireland
This small festival in the west of Ireland has a devoted following, and it is easy to see why. With only two thousand tickets available, it feels more like a large family gathering than a commercial event. The weather, it must be said, was dreadful: it rained for most of Saturday, and by the evening the campsite was a sea of mud. Nobody seemed to mind. The best music, in any case, was not on the main stage but in the town’s three pubs, where musicians who had finished their official sets carried on playing with anyone who cared to join them, often until well after sunrise.
B – Harbourside Book Festival
What makes this literary festival special is how approachable the writers are. After their talks, most of them wander into the festival café, and I found myself chatting to a prize-winning novelist over a cup of tea, something that would be unthinkable at larger events. The programme was intelligent and varied, and a heated debate on the future of the printed book was the highlight of my weekend. My only real complaint concerns the cost. At over twenty pounds per event, a full day of talks becomes an expensive business, and I noticed that the audiences were not exactly diverse as a result.
C – Sunset Beats, Croatia
The location is breathtaking. The stages are set among pine trees on a peninsula overlooking the Adriatic, and dancing as the sun sinks into the sea is an experience I will not forget. Unfortunately, the organisers appear to have sold far more tickets than the site can comfortably hold. Moving from one stage to another took up to half an hour, and the queues for water were worrying in the afternoon heat. I will also admit that, at forty-three, I was one of the oldest people there by some distance, and I spent much of the weekend feeling like a visiting teacher at a school disco.
D – City Street Food Festival
Entry to this annual celebration of street food is free, which explains the enormous crowds. More than a hundred stalls lined the streets of the old town, offering everything from Korean pancakes to Brazilian barbecue. The downside was the queues: I waited forty minutes for a plate of dumplings, and some of the more popular stalls had lines stretching around the block. The food, however, was generally excellent. My favourite dish was also the simplest – a traditional local stew served by an elderly couple who have been cooking it at the festival every year since it began.
E – Castle Fringe Theatre Festival
With over three hundred shows in a fortnight, the Fringe is less a festival than a lottery. I saw fourteen productions, and I would honestly describe about half of them as weak, and two as among the worst things I have ever sat through. But that is the nature of the event: for every disaster there is a discovery. Mine was a tiny company of three actors performing a play about their grandmothers in a converted garage. It was funny, moving and brilliantly performed. I am told that it has since been booked for a national tour. Remember that you read about them here first.