4 b) Explain the words in bold.

The bold words are: annual (happening once a year); athletes (people who are good at sports); compete (to take part in a competition); marching bands (groups of musicians who play music while marching); traditional (following long-established customs); tug of war (a contest in which two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope); tossing the caber (a traditional Scottish sport involving tossing a large tree trunk upright); upright (straight up or vertical).