Complete First - Unit 14 Reading and Use of English pt. 6 pgs. 154-155

B We were UP EARLY the NEXT MORNING, the MAIN DAY of the festival, despite HAVING SLEPT BADLY on the frozen ground. A From time to time during the PROCESSION, they stopped to DANCE on the GLACIERS, believing this would BRING LUCK to their VILLAGES for the year to come. festival activities.

After dining in a makeshift restaurant and sampling the dancing and partying, we WENT TO BED fully clothed inside our sleeping bags. (5) ____. The ukukus, men wearing black mask and costumes, had left the encampment in the early hours to climb the nearest mountain by the light of the full moon. (6) ___. In the dawn light, we watched them winding their way back down like a great black serpent. As they descended, they were joined by groups of dancers in bright traditional costumes. They performed wherever there was a space. Although there did not seem to be anyone organising them or any timetable, the whole festival had become a huge harmonious celebration. Paragraph subject: _______

F. SOME , like me, had COME by bus to MAHUYANI, the nearest town, and were walking up from there. People who attend the festival.

As I looked back down the trail we had climbed and up towards where we had to go, I marvelled at the colourful sight. Entire families wearing local customes were travelling to this unique festival from all over Peru. Among them were old men, mothers with small babies and children all following the same route. Many of them had horses and donkeys to carry their food, blankets, cooking pots and tents (1)___ .OTHERS had made their way on foot through the mountains for days to attend this remarkable event. Paragraph subject: _______

G They would take THEM and BURY THEM in the mountain. what people were doing in the open markets.

Not far away in another open market, people were buying tiny houses, cars or small pictures showing a baby or a wedding. Marco explained that these represented something the pilgrims desired. (4) _______ This, they believed, would ensure that what they wished for would come out in the year ahead. Paragraph subject: ______

where the writer was going

THE WORLD'S HIGHEST FESTIVAL? It felt as if we had been climbing for hours. I stopped to catch my breath as a wave of dizziness swept over me in the thin mountain air. I stood to one side of the path to let the mass of travellers with us pass. I was trekking with Marco, my guide to experience the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i which takes place at 4,300 metres in the southern Andes of Peru. A festival which few foreign tourists see. Paragraph subject: __________

E Others, MEANWHILE, were OFFERING GOODS for purchase such as warm clothes, food, torches and trinkets by spreading them on blankets on the ground. what happened when the writer arrived.

We chose a spot between two icy streams to put up our tent. While thus occupied, one of the many women dressed in the traditional costume of a wide-brimmed hat, woolly jacket, skirt and stockings came to sell us some very welcome hot soup and fish (3) ____ Paragraph subject: _____

C It was clear, HOWEVER, from the sound of DRUMS and singing rising from this improvised camp that the WEATHER was NOT going to DAMPEN the festival spirit. where the festival happens.

We continued our upward ascent for another hour and a half before reaching the Sinakara valley. There we looked down on a flat plain of open grassland crossed with streams from the glaciers and overlooked by snow-topped mountain peaks. Right across this flat piece of ground people were putting up shelters and tents of blue plastic to protect themselves from THE FREEZING MIST AND RAIN. (2) ___. THE AIR OF EXCITEMENT, even from our vantage point more than a mile away, was palpable. Paragraph subject: __________