Pancake Day 3D

Mmm ... did someone say pancakes?! Read about Pancake Day and answer the questions below. Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. It is celebrated in English-speaking countries like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada. In France, the USA and other countries, it is called 'Mardi Gras' or 'Fat Tuesday'. In others like Spain, Italy or Brazil, Shrove Tuesday is at the end of Carnival. On this day many people eat pancakes: thin, flat cakes made in a pan.Pancake Day is always on a Tuesday in February or March. It is the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days before Easter when people often give up or stop eating things that are bad for them like chocolate or fast food. At the end of Lent is Easter. Easter takes place on a different date each year because it depends on the moon. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. Traditionally, during Lent, people didn’t eat rich foods like butter and eggs, so to use them up they made pancakes from these ingredients on Shrove Tuesday.Another tradition on Pancake Day in the UK is pancake racing. People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times. In some pancake races people dress up in fancy dress costumes. The most famous pancake race takes place in a town called Olney, in the middle of England. People say that Olney has been celebrating pancake races since 1445! Acitivity 1 Match the vocabulary with its definition.Relaciona el vocabulari amb la seva definició. a race a running competition to see who is the fastest a pan a metal container for cooking food in a fancy dress costume funny clothes that you wear to a party Pancake Day is celebrated in .. The UK and Ireland only. Many countries around the world. English-speaking countries only. Another name for Pancake Day is ... Mardi Gras Lent Easter Sunday Traditionally, Lent is a period of 40 days when people ... eat a lot of pancakes. eat rich foods like butter and eggs. don't eat rich food or food that is bad for you. In a pancake race everyone ... throws and catches a pancake in a pan. wear a fancy dress costume. eats pancakes before the race.