This presentation was designed to teach the carnival traditions from all over the world (specifically the English and Spanish speaking Caribbean) to the students from the 1st of ESO at CPI O Feal. It is designed to practice the simple present verbs like wear, eat, dance and play, while also teaching general world culture, history and carnival related vocabulary. Some of the vocabulary highlighted includes: tradition, costumes, processions, masks, street party, masquerade ball, parade, satire, floats, kings and queens.

1. IT´S CARNIVAL ALL OVER THE
WORLD!

2. Carnivals
 Carnival is a festive season that happens
immediately before the Christian season of
Lent.The events occur all over the world in
February.
 It involves a public celebration like a parade
in which people wear masks and costumes,
and they have a street party.

3. Religious beginnings…
 Carnival is traditionally celebrated in
countries with a large Catholic tradition.
 During Lent (the six weeks before Easter), no
parties or celebrations were permitted.
People couldn´t eat meat, dairy, fats and
sugars.

4.  All of this food has to be thrown out.That is
why carnival is a big party where everyone is
allowed to indulge.
 That is why in Louisiana in the United States,
theTuesday before Mardi Gras is called Fat
Tuesday.

5. Carnival of Venice
 Some of the best known traditions including
the masquerade ball were first recorded in
medieval Italy.

6.  In 1797, Napoleon abolishes the Carnival of
Venice. But, in 1959, the tradition is revived.
 Carnival traditions spread from Italy to other
European Catholic nations like Spain,
Portugal, and France.

7. Carnivals in Spain
 In Andalusia, during the Carnival of Cádiz,
people wear costumes related to recent
news.This is called satire.
 The chirigotas sing about politics and satire.

8.  The Carnival in Santa Cruz deTenerife is one
of the most famous carnivals in Spain. It
attracts about one million people every year.
 In Catalonia, people dress in masks and
group costumes, and organize a weeklong
series of parties, pranks, and processions to
welcome Sa Majestat el Rei Carnestoltes
(King of the Carnival).

9. Carnival in the Caribbean
 The most famous carnival is celebrated in
Trinidad andTobago.
 It is an important tradition in the Dutch
Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao, St.Maarten, Saba,
Saint Eustatius, and Bonaire. But it is
celebrated in EVERY Caribbean country.
 It had been celebrated in Cuba since the 18th
century, but after the Cuban Revolution,
celebrations stopped.

10. Festivities include ¨jump up parades¨, floats, colourful
costumes, beauty contests and competitions.
All of them happen from midnight to sunrise, with the
conclusion being the burning of a straw man called King
Momo. It is supposed to rid the island of bad luck.

11. Puerto Rico: The Ponce
Carnival
 The Ponce Carnival is a one-week long
celebration that ends before AshWednesday.
 It is one of the oldest carnivals in theWestern
Hemisphere. It dates back to 1858. Some
people trace it even farther back to 250 years.
 It´s simultaneous with the carnivals in Rio de
Janeiro,Venice, and Mardi Gras.

12.  The celebration begins in 1858 with a mask
dance made by a Spaniard named José de la
Guardia.
 During carnival, the vejigantes appear.They
are colourful costumes and masks with horns
that represent evil.
 The vejigantes carry blown cow bladders with
which they make sounds and hit people
during the procession.

13.  King Momo also makes an appearance.The
carnival ends with the “Entierro de las
Sardinas” or Funeral of the Sardines.

14. And then we sing…
The Carnival is dead now
They are burying him
Throw just a little dirt in
So he can rise again.

15. Let´s talk!
 Which carnival is most interesting to you?
 What kind of costumes do you see in a
Galician carnival?
 What differences can you find between the
carnivals in the Caribbean and in Spain? Are
there similarities?