## Step 2 - Reading

Glastonbury Festival
You are going to read a text about a famous festival in England.
This text is an example of texts you will be reading during your exam.

- First read the text.
- Study the vocabulary.
- Do the exercise.

Read the text.

The Glastonbury Festival takes place on Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset in July. The town that is linked to the Festival, Glastonbury, is actually the centre of many myths and legends. King Arthur and his wife are supposedly buried in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. Many of its High Street shops are ‘New Age’ type establishments, being given names such as ‘Gothic Image’. Last year bands like Coldplay, The Killers and The Editors performed at Glastonbury. Working at Glastonbury Festival. Paid employment. The Festival is regularly approached about the availability of different types of jobs. In fact, the numbers employed directly by the Festival are relatively small. If you want to work in event management, stage management, rigging and staging, sound, lighting, electrics, plumbing, event security, tent contractors and so on, the Festival cannot really help you. Many, if not all, of these specialists are employed by different event management companies that have established, experienced crew who return year on year – as do most of the organizers running performance fields. Cash and Traffic management employ car parking staff between the Sunday before the Festival until the Monday after the Festival – staff are required to work a minimum of four 12-hour shifts. Similarly DC Site Services employ staff to assist with running the campervan and caravan fields. They also supply checkers at vehicle gates and staff the onsite vehicle chaperone service. Market traders do require staff, but in the main they recruit people who live near them and whom they know. If you know traders who come to the Festival, get in touch with them early, as they have a limited number of passes for each stall. If you go to the Festival and find you are getting a bit short of cash, you might try and find traders of food stalls that are rushed off their feet; some of them will employ extra staff who are already on site. Bron: Examen 2009 GT tijdvak I tekst 9

You have read the text and studied the vocabulary, now do the exercise.

#### Exercise

Je wilt graag naar het Glastonbury Festival en je wilt daar ook iets bijverdienen.
Geef bij elke stelling aan of deze juist of onjuist is op grond van de tekst.

1. De meeste betaalde baantjes gaan naar de lokale bevolking.
2. Als je eenmaal binnen bent, vind je makkelijk een betaald baantje.
3. Je kunt er alleen via bepaalde uitzendbureaus aan komen.
4. Voor een groot deel van het werk worden professionals ingehuurd.

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