Задание

Decide if the statesments are true or false. Mark only TRUE facts.

  • May Day is synonymous with International Workers Day or Labour Day in a number of countries.
  • English celebrations of May Day date back to the 18th century.
  • In the UK, dancers carrying ribbons sometimes dance around a "maypole" in a circle.
  • In the UK some dancers wear bells and carry handkerchiefs.
  • In Ireland, May Day is celebrated as the feast of Bealtaine or Mary’s Day.
  • From a seaside village in Cornwall, a ship is covered with flowers and sent into the sea.
  • In many English villages, boys run through the streets with cows.
  • In Scotland, late on the evening of 30 April, people run into the North Sea, sometimes naked.
  • In Rumania, a number of students wear their student caps.
  • In Scotland, the outside parts of most houses are decorated with flowers.
  • In Germany, people light bonfires.
  • In French history, King Charles was given the flower lily of the valley as a lucky charm. Now loved ones may be given small bouquets of this flower.