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 Leyenda: AMELIORER votre anglais - MEJORAR su inglés - Ihr Englisch VERBESSERN

Listen to interesting English and improve your English !  In this video I take you on a short visit to four diffrerent carnivals.  Keep watching till the end for some beautiful carnival photos in Venice !

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- listen and watch all the video
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- if you want to, write new words (not more than 10)
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“I want to… understand English, listen to English I can understand, learn English vocabulary, learn English without grammar, have a conversation in English… improve my English!”

Is that you?

Perfect!  I think you are in the right place… because I want to help you to learn English, to acquire English… I want you to listen to English spoken naturally… and to understand English spoken naturally… to listen to English spoken in lots of different contexts!  I want you to enjoy English!

I want you to practice listening to English, but to listen to interesting English.  

English conversation is often an exchange of stories in English.  To have a conversation in English with someone when you travel in English, you need to master “English small talk”.  For example, you might need to :
- talk about yourself in English
- talk about family in English
- talk about food in English
- talk about weather in English
- talk about holidays in English
- talk about interests in English
- talk about sport in English

So, I am building my smileEnglishstories YouTube channel, to give you one opportunity to listen to English spoken naturally in lots of different contexts.  After all, in England we say, “Variety is the spice of life!”

And I tell you stories in English, because if you listen to interesting stories to learn English, you will be more motivated to listen to English and you will naturally improve your listening comprehension.

I try to use simple English when I make my smileEnglishstories YouTube videos.  Simple, but rich in content!  That means accessible English for beginners (good beginners), but still interesting English for elementary level and interesting English for intermediate levels.


In the comments section, do say what you enjoyed, ask questions or tell me what sort of videos you would like to see!  Then I can make videos you will want to watch!



MUSIC and SOUND effects
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Youtube Audio Library (Public Domain) :
Carnival De Brazil - Doug Maxwell
Mysterious Carnival - Sir Cubworth



IMAGES and CLIPART
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Stade de France :
Darthvadrouw, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ttulo: CARNIVAL – music, processions, colours, sweets – SHARING photos !
Descripcin: Just look at that view!
I'm on the top of the world.
I'm looking down over the home to the
biggest carnival in the world, Rio de Janeiro!
Carnival season has just finished in the world.
Would you like to come and see some photos?
Hello, I'm Rachel.
Welcome to smile English stories,&nbsp;
where you can listen to English&nbsp;
in lots of different contexts.
If I speak too quickly or too slowly,
you can change the speed in YouTube.
I have been to Brazil... just once.
I went to Brazil back in 1998, in June,
when I was working as an engineer.
I didn't go to Rio de Janeiro,
I went to Fortaleza by the sea,
but we flew back via Rio,
so I saw Rio from the air!
I would love to go to Rio...
...perhaps another time!
I remember Brazilians like to party...
...and when I was in Brazil&nbsp;
it was the World Cup hosted&nbsp;
by France that year in 1998.
Shhh! France actually won!
And in the canteen in the factory,
there was a big screen...
...and when Brazil was playing football,
everybody stopped working to watch the football!
It was a really great atmosphere.
But I think perhaps the biggest party,
or the biggest show in Brazil every year&nbsp;&nbsp;
is the Carnival in Rio.
Did you know that the first&nbsp;
Rio Carnival was in 1720?
That's quite a long time ago.
And now, every year, about two million people
celebrate Carnival in Brazil in Rio every year.
The Carnival lasts for five days before Lent
(we talked about Lent last week).
Lent is the name of the 40&nbsp;
days before Easter Sunday.
There are parties in the streets.
People sing and dance and&nbsp;
throw streamers and confetti,
and I think they have a really good time!
Did you know that we don't&nbsp;
have carnivals in England?
We just have Pancake Tuesday, the day before Lent.
So I only heard of carnivals&nbsp;
when I came to France,&nbsp;
when I came to live in France.
In France, school children&nbsp;
like to dress up for Carnival,
and there is usually a special&nbsp;
day in each school for Carnival.
My daughter dressed up as a princess,
or a Spanish girl, or an Indian girl.
She loved it!
And of course she loved putting makeup on.
And often the cities, or towns, or villages
have processions for Carnival in France.
I think the most well-known the most...&nbsp;
...no the biggest is possibly in&nbsp;
Nice in the South of France...
...and on Pancake Tuesday or "Mardi Gras",
people don't make pancakes,
they make beignets.
This is a photo of my friend's beignets this year.
They look pretty good!
Carnival is a tradition in a&nbsp;
lot of countries in the world&nbsp;
and in a lot of European countries.
And in Europe the Carnival season actually starts
on the "Day of the Three Kings"...
...on the 6th of January... "Epiphany".
I have friends in Germany
and one year I went to Germany,&nbsp;&nbsp;
to Düsseldorf, for Carnival.
Düsseldorf is in "Rhineland" in Germany,&nbsp;
on the River Rhine and Carnival&nbsp;
is very popular in Rhineland.
I think the most famous&nbsp;
carnival is probably in Cologne.
So in Düsseldorf we dressed up for Carnival too.
What do you think?
I thought my little queen looked rather sweet,
and she enjoyed trying to catch the "Gummy Bears"&nbsp;
that the people on the floats in the&nbsp;
processions were throwing to everybody.
When I was at school, I read a very romantic,&nbsp;
but a very tragic play I&nbsp;
am sure you have heard of.
"Juliet is like the sun...
Romeo, why are you Romeo?"
And the play took place (it&nbsp;
was set) in Italy, in Verona.
And in the play there was a&nbsp;
party where everybody wore masks.
And I thought it would be very romantic to&nbsp;
go to a party where everybody wore masks!
Of course the best place for&nbsp;
masks is in Venice in Italy.
I have never been to Venice.
I have only driven past Venice.
Although I did go to Venice&nbsp;
in Las Vegas two years ago (!)
But we are lucky, because one of my friends
went to Venice about three years ago,
and she has shared her Carnival photos with us.
Did you know that the first Carnival&nbsp;
in Venice was in the 13th century?
So it's older than the Rio Carnival.
In Venice at the Carnival everybody wears masks,
but perhaps not owl masks like this mask!
At the first Carnivals, the idea of the mask
was to be anonymous (so nobody knew who you were),
and the masks were made of leather,
or porcelain or glass.
But today, they are usually made of paper mache
and hand painted.
They're really very beautiful.
You will see in the photos.
There are a lot of different&nbsp;
types (different sorts,&nbsp;
different kinds) of costumes&nbsp;
at the Venice Carnival,
and perhaps the most traditional, the oldest,
is called the "Bauta"&nbsp;&nbsp;
(I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian).
The bauta costume is a very&nbsp;
plain (very ordinary) white mask,
but it's very practical because&nbsp;
you don't need to take it off&nbsp;
if you want to eat or to drink,
and you wear this white mask with a black cloak
and a hat with three sides... one two three!
and you wear this white mask with a black cloak
and a hat with three sides... one two three!
And another famous (another&nbsp;
well-known) style of mask&nbsp;
is the "Medico de la pesta".
"Pesta" is "the Plague" in English.
It was in 1630, a long time ago...
...when a lot of people died&nbsp;
in Venice because there was&nbsp;
an illness that spread very&nbsp;
very quickly around the city.
And the "Medico de la pesta" mask was supposed
to protect people, especially doctors,&nbsp;&nbsp;
from the Plague.
It had a long nose, and two tiny little holes
at the end of the mask.
But there are all sorts of&nbsp;
different masks and costumes.
I think my favorite photo is&nbsp;
this one, this lady in blue,&nbsp;
because blue is my favorite colour.
People wear very ornate (very&nbsp;
decorative) dresses and hats.
Sometimes they have feathers in their hats
or other decorations around their hats.
Some friends and families have&nbsp;
colour coordinated costumes.
But this one looks like it has no eyes...
...I think it looks very scary!
Anyway here are some more photos.
Write to me in the comments which ones you prefer!
So I hope you enjoyed this&nbsp;
little Carnival photo album.
If you did, perhaps you&nbsp;
could share it with a friend&nbsp;
who likes listening to English.
And if you like travelling, you could watch
one of my other videos in my "Travel playlist".
Take care of yourself, and I'll see you next time!
Bye for now!