The Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among European countries.

Each country presents a song performed live. Then Europeans vote for the other countries' songs to choose the most popular song in the competition. The Contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and is one of the longest-running TV programmes in the world. It is also one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world, with audience number of 100 - 600 million all over the world. It is not well-known that Eurovision is also broadcast to such places as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay in spite of the fact that these countries do not participate in the competition. Since 2000, the contest has also been broadcast on the Internet.

Here come photos of a few winners of the contest:

Lena Meyer-Landrut - Germany

Alexander Rybak - Norway

Katrina and The Waves - the UK

Dana International - Israel

Dictionary:

contest - konkurs

annual - coroczny

hold - organizować

live - na żywo

vote - głosować

choose - wybrać

broadcast - transmitować

inauguration - inauguracja

audience - widowania

number - liczba

well-known - ogólnie znane

in spite of - pomimo

participate - uczestniczyć

competition - konkurs