Video Activity :
Students can watch this video about Carnival around the world and answer a series of questions about it. CLICK HERE
source : ISL Collective
Tag: Costumes and floats
Brazilian Carnival
Vocabulary Chunks to learn after watching the video :
- in Brazil, we speak Portuguese Brazil is in South America
- the biggest festival in the world
- there are more than 60 000 people participating in the Carnival parade
- people who are on the stands watching
- millions of people that dress up in costumes
- Samba is a type of music
- they didn’t have instruments so they made music with plates pots and pans spoons and forks
- schools of Samba were formed schools
- it is a competition amongst these schools of Samba
- the communities work hard the entire year
- they have to pick a theme and write a song
- they make costumes and floats with decorated cars
- there are around 5 000 people participating in the parade
Vocabulary in Chunks 