Another Olympics in Sochi – level 1

13-07-2016 15:00

This news is from Sochi. Thousands of people come to the Olympics of choral music. The Olympics started in 2000. This is the 16th year.

283 choirs take part. There are 12,000 singers from 36 countries. There are 29 categories of performance. People can also see synchronised dancing or solo singers.

Difficult words: choral (a group of many singers), take part (do something), performance (something which you do in front of people like singing or dancing).

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