Kimpton May Festival

Kimpton, Hertfordshire, claims to hold "the biggest village festival in the country". Here you can listen to a short radio interview (2':54") to Emma Rice-Oxley, one of the top organizers of the 2022 festival, on Today, BBC Radio 4. And here you can find a lesson plan for B2 students.

The interview has no script, but with this list of interesting words as a guide, it can be suitable for B2 students and above: live events, to host [a village festival], to raise the flag to mark the start of the festivities, blessed [with the weather], brilliant, [quite] a claim, to proof your credentials, [a two-year] hiatus, the highlights, the procession, to parade, [up] the high street, moving, dressed up, floats, a Jubilee related [float], a cannon, to fire, rainbows and brownies dressed up as fireworks, a scout group, to bang pots and pans, theme, the UK Garrison, a charity group, Darth Vader, stormtroopers, Maypole dancing, a fun run, a hog roast, you name it.

You can check the full 2022 Kimpton May Festival programme here.

Below, you can watch a homemade video of the Procession of the 2019 edition of the festival:

And, finally, you can read a couple of local newspaper reports on past editions of the festival, one from The Herts Advertiser in 2019 and another one from the Welwyn Hatfield Times in 2018.

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