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The Notting Hill Carnival

INTRODUCTION
The Notting Hill Carnival, West London, started in the 1960s as a small festival mainly celebrated by immigrants from the West Indies
but has expanded into a popular, multicultural and massive celebration over the past 40 years. This interview with Carlene Etienne,
a steel-drum player, is a practical music lesson about the biggest carnival in Europe.
OBJECTIVES
Cultural: multi-ethnicity in the UK - music - the
Notting Hill Carnival
Grammar and Vocabulary: asking questions
simple past and present - vocabulary associated
with music and carnivals
Phonology: intonation in questions and difference
between and - weak forms: pronunciation of
arent / are
Skill Development: working in pairs - creating and
performing an interview in front of the other pupils
CEFR:
Listening A2+/B1-: understanding people talking
about their hobbies and family in a simple way
Spoken interaction A2/B1: performing an interview
in front of a class without reading ones notes
Writing A2/B1: preparing an interview about hobbies
and pastimes
Reading A2: reading for information; reading short
articles from the CBBC website

MATERIAL
A copy of the worksheet per pupil
New Standpoints Live, Track 26 and the script (p. 52)
OHP and pictures from the following website on a colour transparency: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:
Notting_Hill_Carnival (include the first one from 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5290000/newsid
_5293200/5293266.stm
Other sites of interest:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4190000/newsid
_4192900/4192910.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5290000/newsid
_5295400/5295466.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_2215000/22
15737.stm
FINAL PROJECT:
After listening to an interview with a musician from the Ebony
Steel Band, pupils will work in pairs in order to get ready for an
interview or a Show and Tell about their hobbies in front of the
class and without reading notes.

PROCEDURE
ACTIVITY 1: INTRODUCING THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL CLASS WORK
Write carnival on the board in a mind map. Expand it with all
the words pupils can think of: music, (drums), clothes, places,
time of year Then show the pictures of the Notting Hill carnival on the OHP. Show Notting Hill on a map of Greater
London.

ACTIVITY 2: READING FOR INFORMATION CULTURAL BACKGROUND

a. The purpose is to develop pupils ability to select important
information from an easy text. Each pupil erases the important information from their text and exchanges texts with their
partner. This will also train their memory. TASK 1.
b. Have the class discuss what they think is important and why.

ACTIVITY 3: LISTENING TO THE INTERVIEW

Weve divided the interview into three parts (see transcript).
Before listening make sure pupils can hear and produce the
difference between and . TASK 2A

TASK 2B

Then play Part 1. Pupils complete TASK 2C. During the correction have them ask and answer questions to recapitulate.

Part 3: The music lesson and reading the English notes constitute a pragmatic cross-curricular activity. TASK 2E

ACTIVITY 4: INTERVIEWING A FRIEND PAIR WORK

A. Mobile pair work. Split the class into two groups: A and B.
Hand out a table with 3 columns: Instrument?, Sport?,
Hobby? to pupils A. They stand up and go and interview
pupils B very quickly asking the same 3 questions to each
pupil. Do you play an instrument?, Do you do any sport?
(Beware: practise is a cognate faux ami meaning that
you are training for a special event) Do you have a hobby?
They fill in the table, then report the results to the class.
B. Make pairs to prepare an interview: preferably, two musicians playing a different instrument, or two pupils doing a different sport. They need to be neither too different nor too similar. They will then interview each other in front of the class.
Encourage pupils to use the Show and Tell technique as this
will incite them to be more pragmatic, and lead them to focus
less on the task and more on the content.

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Play the introduction to the interview twice and wait for pupils
reactions. Its a programme about the Notting Hill Carnival...

Part 2: Although the musical instruments are transparent

words, pupils will have difficulty making sense with them in the
context. TASK 2D will help them discriminate such weak
forms as are and arent, indispensable for understanding
the gist of whats being said.

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C. Listen to Part 1.

TASK 1 Pairwork

a. Individual reading. Read this story adapted from BBC

Newsround carefully. Select the words that give important
information and note them down on a separate sheet. White
these selected words out of the text.

1. Write what the journalist wants to know first:

_____________________________________________________
2. Tick the correct date and figure:
Carlene started playing drums in:

b. You and your partner exchange texts. Read your partners

text and fill in the missing words.

1983 1993, at the age of 13 30

c. Discuss with your partner in order to select the important

information. I think its useful... important... interesting to know...

a. My grandparents take me to the Notting Hill Carnival.

Carnival attracts 500,000 people

As many as 500,000 people have been enjoying Europes
biggest street party, the Notting Hill Carnival.
It is an annual event which takes place on the streets of Notting
Hill, London, on the last weekend of August.
The Notting Hill Carnival was created in the early 1960s by
Caribbean immigrants. At the beginning, it was only a very small
carnival. It started with immigrants from the West Indies, particularly from Trinidad where the carnival tradition is strong.
People come to admire the colourful costumes and listen to various sorts of music. Last Sunday , floats, dancers and musicians
filled the streets in west London for the parades, having fun and
celebrating different cultures.
Professor Chris Mullard, in charge of the carnival said: Its going
very well, its fantastic. He added: Theres great carnival weather and the bands are wonderful. Theres an amazing multicultural atmosphere.
The carnival is also famous for its very loud music and the
amazing amount of food on offer. It is the second largest street
festival in the world after Rio!
Notting Hill, August 28

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3. Tick what Carlene says.

b. My grandparents used to take me to the Notting Hill
Carnival.
c. My grandparents are to take me to the Notting Hill
Carnival.
4. Complete.
Carlenes first impression about the Carnival:
_____________________________________________________
5. Instruments mentioned: _____________________________
6. Carlene mentions those instruments because: drums
are _____________________ from them.
D. Listen to Part 2.
1. Write the journalists question and Carlenes answer
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
2. Tick what Carlene says.
The notes arent like this on a piano; the notes are
like this on a piano.
E. Listen to Part 3
1. Here, C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C correspond to:
the alphabet musical notes.
2. Choose: The notes: are necessarily ordered; arent
necessarily ordered.
3. Look at this picture of a steel drum and associate the notes
to French music notes.

TASK 2 A. Focus on pronunciation:

1. Listen to your teacher and try to hear the difference

between HILL and HEEL ITCH and EACH STILL and STEEL,
and TWIN and (BE)TWEEN
2. Sort the following words into the grid:
feel bin sit bean fit feet fill grid
hill

greed

seat

heel

B. Listen to the introduction and select the correct answers.

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4. Now guess the meaning of: the notes are scattered.

2. The Ebony Steel Band is: the best drums group

the biggest drums group.

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5. What tune does Carlene play at the end?

3. Carlene is: a French tourist at the carnival a musician

from the band a music teacher.

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1. This is: a telephone conversation

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The Ebony Steel Band is the best steel drum group at the Notting Hill
Carnival.We talked to member Carlene Etienne, 28, about how she got
started.
Part 1 I started in 1993. I was 13 years old, and my grandparents used
to take me to the Notting Hill Carnival, and at the time I found the
music fascinating, it was different to any other instrument that I had
heard, like a piano or a guitar or a saxophone. And cause I was so
interested, they brought me to where they had rehearsals and then I
started to play, and I loved it so much, I play it up to this day, you
know and its been how many years? (laughs)
Part 2 Is it easy to learn?
No, not really. No, it was quite hard. Because youve got, the notes
arent like a piano, just like straight in a line, theyre positioned over
the place. So it is quite difficult, its different to another instrument.
Part 3 Do you want to just show us around a drum?
Okay, no problem. Well, if I start from C, you see you have the middle
C on the piano, and a high C. Theyre marked off to separate the notes
in between. Otherwise, if they were together, it would just be one
note, you wouldnt be able to differentiate the difference between the
two, so thats why you have the notes separating so you see a different one so from C, both octaves, D, E, F, G, A, B, back to C, so C
Major.

Great, and so to do that, each note is on a different you were alternating drums, each note was on a different drum from the note before
it.
Yeah, thats what I was saying before, the notes arent necessarily
positioned in an order, theyre just kind of scattered about the place,
thats why its kind of harder to learn. But yeah, the notes are apart,
but once you get the hang of it, its quite straightforward.
Can you give us a tiny little tune, so we can hear?
Okay Its little kids so itll be Frre Jacques?
Sure!

Solutions
Task 2 A.2. hill: bin, sit, fit, fill, grid heel: feel, bean, feet, greed, seat
B. 1. interview 2. the best drums group 3. a musician from the band
C.1. How she got started 2. 1993, 13 3. b 4. Carlene was fascinated,
excited 5. saxophone, piano, guitar 6. different
D.1. Is it easy to learn? No, not really. 2. arent
E.1. musical notes 2. arent. 3. A: la; B: si ; C: do; D: r; E: mi; F: fa; G:
sol 4. rparties / parpilles 5. Frre Jacques

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