3 Imagine you are Scottish. Make notes under the headings below. Use your notes to tell your partner all about Burns Night.

Burns Night Notes (From a Scottish Perspective)

welcome

• Usually starts with a piper 'piping in' the guests.
• The host says a few words to welcome everyone.
• A reading of Burns' poem 'The Selkirk Grace' often begins the meal.

food

• The star dish is haggis, made from sheep's pluck (heart, liver, lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach.
• Served with 'tatties and neeps' (mashed potatoes and turnip).
• Traditional starter: Cock-a-leekie soup.
• Traditional dessert: Sherry trifle or oatcakes.

music

• A bagpiper often plays music to welcome guests.
• The evening ends with singing 'Auld Lang Syne'.

ending

• Everyone joins hands.
• They sing 'Auld Lang Syne'.
• The evening concludes with a toast to the poet Burns and a final toast to the lassies (women).