Put the correct words from this table into the article.

1. (a) favorite (b) favored (c) favoring (d) favor
2. (a) much (b) most (c) many (d) more
3. (a) religion (b) religious (c) religiously (d) religions
4. (a) speed (b) quick (c) fast (d) hurry
5. (a) wasting (b) wasted (c) waste of (d) wastes
6. (a) topping (b) tops (c) top dog (d) topped
7. (a) known (b) knower (c) knowing (d) knows
8. (a) similarity (b) simile (c) simulation (d) similar
9. (a) running (b) run (c) runner (d) ran
10. (a) follow (b) cross (c) cook (d) eat
11. (a) go (b) do (c) ho (d) so
12. (a) after (b) ahead (c) next (d) then


SPELLING

Spell the jumbled words (from the text) correctly.

Paragraph 1

1. a favorite of echlnrdi
2. all smothered with purys
3. only the simsplet of food
4. Instead of antgwis food
5. people pdepot their pancakes
6. Few people awasoynd fast

Paragraph 2

7. not so well okwnn
8. more failirma
9. different evsten
10. a pancake that is still aticnt
11. grfiyn pan
12. the next to get riedarm


PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER

Number these lines in the correct order.

( ) Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day are not so well known in the United States. Americans are more familiar
( ) race with a frying pan and toss the pancakes as they run. The winner is the first person to cross the finishing
( ) be thrown away. Instead of wasting food, people traditionally used these ingredients to make pancakes. It became a
( 1 ) Pancake Day is a favorite of children in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It is on this day they get
( ) the 40 days of Lent, people used to fast and eat only the simplest of food. Things like eggs, milk and sugar had to
( ) with Mardi Gras, which is also on the day before Ash Wednesday and is a very similar celebration. Different countries
( ) eat for another 40 days. Few people nowadays fast for 40 days.
( ) the coin will be rich and the person who finds the ring will be the next to get married.
( ) their kitchens. In Newfoundland, Canada, the cook puts a ring or a coin in the pancakes. The person who finds
( ) sauce. It is also called Shrove Tuesday. This is a religious holiday on the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. During
( ) line with a pancake that is still intact. Children like to have a go at tossing the hot pancakes out of the frying pan in
( ) to eat as many pancakes as they want – all smothered with syrup, or lemon and sugar, or strawberry
( ) mini celebration and people topped their pancakes with delicious things they could not
( ) hold different events for Pancake Day. In England, some towns have pancake races. People must run a


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