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A.
Go to the website: www.scotland.com/culture/tartans
Find ’Tartans’ on the bar and click.
Find ’Select a tartan’ and click at ’Mac’.
1. How does the MacDonald of the Isle Clan Tartan look like?
2. Look for more on your own at www.macdonald.com
B. Text work.
Go back to www.scotland.com/culture/tartans
And print the text: History of the Tartan ( _ns)
1. What is the origin of the word ’tartan’?
2. What is the word for tartan in gaelic?
3. When is the oldest known tartan from?
4. What happened to tartans in 1746?
5. Why was it forbidden women to wear tartans?
6. When did the concept ’clan’ tartans begin?
7. What are the arguments against using clan tartans?
8. What did the clans use for identification in The Battle of Culloden?
9. What does the text say about King George IV’s visit in 1822?
C. Text writing.
Write a text on these questions
1. Where does the word ’tartan’ come from. What does it mean?
2. What happened in 1746? - Why was it forbidden to wear tartans?
3. Do/did you have to wear a certain type of tartan when your name is/was MacGregor?
4. In 1822 Sir Walter Scott persuaded the British king to wear tartan when visiting Scotland. Why?
5. Tartans are popular today. Why do you think |
