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Wales has a population of about three million. English is the main language and only twenty per cent speak both Welsh and English. Every year (1)............... August there is a Welsh-speaking festival. It takes place in different towns each year so everyone has the chance for it to be near them. Local people (2)............... years making plans for when the festival will be in their town. Each festival is attended by about 160,000 people. They travel not only from nearby towns and villages (3)............... also from the rest of the British Isles and even from abroad. There are concerts, plays and (4)............... to find the best singers, poets, writers, and so on. The festival provides a chance for Welsh-speaking people to be together for a whole week, with (5)............... Welsh language all around them.