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Scottish Clans
Which of the pictures (A-E) shows: The Gaelic word "clan" means "children",
but it is also used to describe a large group
1 Castle Campbell in Scotland? of families, all related to the same ancestors.
2 an ancient Aborigine rock painting The Scottish clans began 800-1000
3 a Scotsman wearing a kilt? years ago in the hiighlands of northern
4 the tartan of the MacDonald clan? Scotland. Each clan might include several
5 an Aborigine elder today? thousand people, and was ruled by a chief.
All members of a clan were expected to be ' -j loyal to the chief and to each other. Fighting
between clans was common, and powerful (^N Listen and circle the correct words. clans such as the AAacDonalds or the
Campbells had wide areas of clan territory.
1 Scottish clans were ruled by a a|| members of a clan had the same chief/king. surname, and all wore the same tartan. This
2 Tartan is a clan surname/type of cloth. !s q type of woollen cloth with a pattern of
3 Aborigines hove lived in Australia coloured checks, and each clan had its own since 1788/for 40,000 years. design, in early Scotland, only hiighlanders
4 Aborigines believed it was important to wore kilts — Lowlanders, as Scots from the look after/fight for the clan's land. south ore called, saw them as barbaric. In
those days the kilt was just a long piece of -j thick tartan cloth wrapped around the body
and held in place with a belt, a) Read the texts and mark the Nowadays, kilts ore port of the national
sentences S (Scotland), A (Australia) ^^^^^ Scotland, and ore worn with pride or B (both), then use your dictionary ^^ Highlonders ond Lowlanders alike, to look up the words in bold.