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State and County Fairs

Episode of the series Awesome Stuff

CEFR : A1

In this episode

Illustrated slideshow (34 images)
Glossary (16 words)
Comprehension quiz (17 questions)
24 cultural notes

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The episode

What happens at an American fair? Two friends find out about kids who show their own animals, a cow made of butter, and food you eat on a stick.

Episode worksheets (2)

Student sheet In your teacher account
Teacher sheet In your teacher account

Teaching guide

Objective & content

This is a documentary podcast about American state and county fairs. One friend explains and the other reacts: at a fair, people bring their best things and a judge gives the winner a blue ribbon. A county fair is small and a state fair is huge, and there are more than three thousand fairs a year in North America. Kids look after their own animal for months, then wash it, brush it and walk it into the show ring. The episode also visits a life-size cow made of six hundred pounds of butter, food on a stick, fried cola and a giant talking cowboy. The grammar focus is present simple, with questions (Doesn't it melt?) and can for ability. Learners listen for the numbers and the fair vocabulary, for example "You can walk and eat at the same time."

Materials & prerequisites

Student sheet and teacher sheet, each as HTML and PDF (in the episode's printables folder).
Prerequisites: present simple, basic animal and food vocabulary, and numbers.

Curriculum alignment

Tagged c3-child-and-wider-environment, so it fits cycle 3 (6e). The episode targets CEFR A1+.

Possible adaptations

Lower levels: Offer segmented listening and additional visual aids.
Advanced levels: Encourage an oral summary and a debate in English on the theme.
Large groups: Organise group work with differentiated roles.

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