Highlands Fair Play!

Get ready

1

Read the questions: "What do you know about Scotland? And the Scottish Games?". Pick out a country, a nationality and a noun that became a proper noun.

2

Which countries do you associate these games with?

3

Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.

4

Class the words in two categories: the words connected to Scotland and the words connected to Ireland.

5

Check with this table what you already know.

Observe and listen

1

Match the vocabulary to the definition. Use the image to help you.

a

b

c

d

2

Now, label the items on the image.

Bagpipes

Kilts

Highland fling

Tartan scarf

3

Listen to the audio guide and fill in the blanks with the missing words.


This image is a poster from

designed by

. It shows the Highland Games. In the background, we can see a

; this is the “high land”. In the

, we can see two men dressed in a type of

, called a “kilt”. They are dancing; it seems to be a show or a 

.

4

Your friend is going to Scotland. Give him suggestions for his trip.

Let’s have fun

1

Pick out words starting with the /h/ sound.
💡 Tip: To pronounce the /h/ sound, push the air out, as if you were very tired. Imagine you just climbed a Highland Hill...

Evelyn A. McMaster, “The Highland Games”

The hills echo with bagpipe tunes,
The ‘gathering’ is, in full swing,
Tartaned dancers are on stage,
Performing, the ‘Highland Fling’.

2

Now practice saying this riddle: “Hungry Hamish and his horse ate a hundred haggises. If the horse had half, how many haggises did Hamish have?”