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    The summary provides background information on the Notting Hill Carnival, describing it as the most colourful street event in England that is held each August in London. It celebrates the British black community's traditions from the West Indies. Preparations take weeks with costumes, masks, and steel bands rehearsing, while speakers and streamers decorate the streets. The carnival lasts three days and features a procession of floats and dancers in exotic costumes, as well as street performers and tropical fruit stalls. Thousands attend to dance and have fun, embracing the Caribbean magic that touches the city for those days.

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    The summary provides background information on the Notting Hill Carnival, describing it as the most colourful street event in England that is held each August in London. It celebrates the British black community's traditions from the West Indies. Preparations take weeks with costumes, masks, and steel bands rehearsing, while speakers and streamers decorate the streets. The carnival lasts three days and features a procession of floats and dancers in exotic costumes, as well as street performers and tropical fruit stalls. Thousands attend to dance and have fun, embracing the Caribbean magic that touches the city for those days.

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    The summary provides background information on the Notting Hill Carnival, describing it as the most colourful street event in England that is held each August in London. It celebrates the British black community's traditions from the West Indies. Preparations take weeks with costumes, masks, and steel bands rehearsing, while speakers and streamers decorate the streets. The carnival lasts three days and features a procession of floats and dancers in exotic costumes, as well as street performers and tropical fruit stalls. Thousands attend to dance and have fun, embracing the Caribbean magic that touches the city for those days.

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    The summary provides background information on the Notting Hill Carnival, describing it as the most colourful street event in England that is held each August in London. It celebrates the British black community's traditions from the West Indies. Preparations take weeks with costumes, masks, and steel bands rehearsing, while speakers and streamers decorate the streets. The carnival lasts three days and features a procession of floats and dancers in exotic costumes, as well as street performers and tropical fruit stalls. Thousands attend to dance and have fun, embracing the Caribbean magic that touches the city for those days.

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    Descriptive Article

    Name: ________________________ Class: _________ ( )


    Language
    1. Use a good range of _____________ and _____________to paint a vivid picture in

    readers’ minds (to appeal to the readers’ _______________________)

    2. Use __________________ to describe the activities

    3. Use __________________ to describe the place

    4. Use __________________ to describe your experience

    Sample analysis
    Read the sample below. Highlight the target language features used according to the
    following:
    adjective passive voice descriptive language
    Notting Hill Carnival ✓ Title

    The most colourful street event in England is the Paragraph 1: Introduction


    Notting Hill Carnival. It is held in London each ✓ Background information
    August Bank Holiday. The festival celebrates the
    traditions of the British black community who
    emigrated to Britain from the West Indies in the
    1950s. They brought the Caribbean idea of
    ‘carnival’ – with magnificent processions, colourful
    costumes, steel bands, reggae and street dancing.

    Preparations begin weeks beforehand. Costumes Paragraph 2: Main body #1


    and masks are carefully designed and lorries ✓ Preparations
    decorated. Steel bands rehearse. Huge ✓ Use of
    loudspeakers are placed in the streets to carry the __________________
    throbbing beat of reggae over the roar of London
    traffic. Shortly before the festival, the streets are
    decorated with dazzling red, green and yellow
    streamers.

    The carnival lasts for three days and is a glorious Paragraph 3: Main Body #2
    feast of music and colour. A stunning procession ✓ Activities
    of floats followed by dancers in exotic and original ✓ Use a range of
    costumes parades through the narrow London ____________ to paint a
    streets. There are street entertainers of all kinds and vivid picture
    stalls sell thirst-quenching tropical fruits, such as
    fresh pineapple, water melons and mangoes.
    Thousands of people watch the carnival, and ✓ Use action words (sways,
    everybody sways and dances, black and white, dances)
    young and old! Even the policemen on duty take
    part in the fun!

    For these three carefree days in August, a little Paragraph 4: Conclusion


    Caribbean magic touches the grey streets of ✓ Final thoughts
    London. ✓ Contrast (magic vs grey)

    Summary: Useful Vocabulary and Expressions

    Adjectives/ Adverbs

    incredibly fun gigantic/ enormous picturesque

    fascinating rapturous (applause) the best-known

    electric stunning brightly coloured/ decorated

    spectacular cheerful colourful

    enthusiastic/ amazed/ amazing elegant/ elegantly

    enthusiastically

    well-known glittering/ shimmering glamourous

    delighted over the moon mouth-watering


    Verbs

    grin ear to ear attract (locals and tourists alike)

    bring (somebody good fortune) celebrate

    enjoy (the event immensely) Join in the fun

    Other descriptions/ expressions

    a great party atmosphere/ a lively well worth a visit

    atmosphere

    fresh in my mind parade

    street stalls It is a day for…

    firework display spectators

    appetizing food refreshing drinks

    … is the highlight of the event … is the time for…

    costumes … is eagerly awaited by…

    in honor of…

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