Topic Content:
- Text: New Oxford Secondary English Course for SS1
- Title: Argungu Cultural Festival pages 2, 3
- Questions and Answers
Class Activity:
The passage should be read carefully before the students attempt the questions on it.
Argungu Cultural Festival
Argungu village in Kebbi State is located on the northwestern border of Nigeria. An unexpected tumble in the village may land you in Niger Republic. Argungu is home to the popular Argungu Fishing Festival which starts from February and spills over into March. The fishing festival takes place on River Rima. Other events that make the Argungu Cultural Festival spectacular are the cultural displays, exhibition of handicrafts, archery, and camel or donkey racing.
But it is the fishing competition that is the icing on the cake. And it takes place on the very last day. Once the signal is given, all the participants make a dash for the river, armed with their fishing equipment a net scoop and a large gourd amidst cheering, singing, and dancing until one of them emerges from the river with a ‘catch’ bigger than that of anybody else. Once the angler emerges with a catch he feels is big enough to win the prize, the fish is taken to the scales, where it is weighed and the biggest is ascertained.
The lucky fisherman wins a prize. Then it is celebrations all through. No fishing is allowed at the festival spot until the grand show comes around the following year.
(Adapted from “Tell Magazine”, January 24, 2000).
Evaluation:
Answer questions 1 – 10 on page 3, use your dictionary while answering question 10.
Questions:
1. Where and when does the Argungu Cultural Festival take place?
2. What do the participants do before the signal is given to dash for the river?
3. Name two things that go on until one of the participants emerges with a catch.
4. How is the winner of the fishing competition chosen?
5. ‘An unexpected tumble in the village may land you in Niger Republic’. Why is this so?  Â
6. ‘where it is weighed’
i. What is the grammatical name given to this expression as it is used in the passage?
ii. What is its function?
7. For each of the following words or phrases, find another word or phrase which means the same and which can replace it as it is used in the passage.
a. tumble
b. starts
c. spectacular
d. emerges
e. allowed
Answers:
1. The Argungu Cultural Festival takes place in Argungu village in Kebbi State, Nigeria. The festival takes place between February and March.
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ARGUNGU FISHING FESTIVAL
1. The festival takes place in the River Rima in Argungu village, Kebbi State and it takes place between February and March.
2. The participants prepare themselves with their fishing nets and a large gourd.
3. Two things that go on are singing and dancing.
4. The winner with the biggest fish/catch is declared winner.
5. This is because Argungu village is very close to Niger Republic OR This is because Argungu village is a border town to Niger Republic.
6. Adjectival Clause.
b. It qualifies the noun phrase ‘the scales’.
7. tumble- fall, slide
ii. start- begin, commence
iii. emerges- comes up, arrives
iv. spectacular- unique, outstanding
v. allowed- permitted, granted
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