Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему British bizarre festivals

beginning of September, the World Cup in eating of oysters is held. Strict judges calculate who has eaten more mollusks and has drunk more Guinness beer. Except a gluttony, entertainments for children are provided in the program of a festival, for example the Friday night ball and a lot of Irish music.

with the burning pitch. This tradition is known since the 17th century. It is annual event which is held at the beginning of November in Ottery, the County of Devon. This festival is very popular despite the serious danger for participants and for the audience.

Straw Bear Festival
(Фестиваль соломенного медведя)

This festival is celebrated in Whittlesea, the County of Cambridgeshire, from immemorial times. One of the villagers dresses up in clothes from straw and goes with the company of dancers and clowns from house to house, clumsy gestures asking drinks and food. Thousands of people from all over the country and tourists who have chosen winter rest in England dance and have fun despite of January cold.

recently, in the last 50 years.
Tough Guy Competition
(Гонка крутых парней)

The race of cool guys who overcome many kilometers obstacles (mu, fields with low tense barbed wire, walls of fire and ice lakes). It has been organized in 1987 in Perton, the County of Staffordshire. Each participant previously signs the special contract in which he recognizes all risks and dangers and exempts organizers from responsibility.

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Each participant is offered to float at least two distances which pass across the swamp.  Compulsory condition is using one of the known styles of swimming – only in this way swimmer who will come to the finish the first can win. Today such sport has become known around the world.

Competition of flying suits and devices in Bognor-Redzhis, Sussex (Конкурс летательных костюмов и аппаратов Богнор-Реджис, Сассекс)

Annually participants of a competition jump from a pier to understand who of them can fly further than the others. Here you can see the most bizarre suits and unknown aircrafts which are operated by the creators. The participant who manages to overcome distance in hundred meters and flys at the same time further than other competitors will get a prize in 30 thousand pounds sterlings.

Meldonsky races in dirt, Essex
Мэлдонские гонки в грязи, Эссекс

250 competitors participate in this festival. These people go to fetid (badly smelling) Blackwater River in Essex.
Before the race , participants are recommended to put a tetanus inoculation (прививка от столбняка) and to attach footwear to legs by means of an adhesive tape (клейкая лента). Races are held in January at quite low temperature.

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Annually in June several volunteers gather in a pub and compete with each other on eating leaves of a nettle. A winner is a person, who will eat more leaves of a nettle during an hour. The history of a competition have begun two farmers who have argued about the fact whose nettle is higher. The third farmer has risked and has shown a stalk of the nettle, having declared that he can eat with ease any stalk which will be longer than his nettle. He had to keep the word.

May. During the festival people dressed in beautiful festive suits look for the count Ron.
A count is found in the evening of Monday after that he passes the streets, sitting on a donkey (осёл) back to front. People shoot at him and try to force him down from a donkey. In conclusion of a holiday people throw the count into the sea.