## Step 2 - Reading

Glastonbury Festival
You are going to read a text about a famous festival in England.
Je gaat een tekst lezen over een beroemd festival in Engeland.

- Lees eerst de tekst.
- Bestudeer de woordenlijst.
- Maak de oefeningen, assignment 1 en 2.

Read the text.

The Glastonbury Festival takes place on Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset in July. 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. 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, 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. Cash and Traffic management employ car parking staff. Staff are required to work a minimum of four 12-hour shifts. 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.

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

#### Assignment 2

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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