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Spanish festival charges for tomato throwing (30th August, 2013)

PARAGRAPH ONE:

1.	Spain's economic	a.	residents
2.	The cash-	b.	ammunition
3.	the hour-	c.	to organise
4.	local	d.	tomato juice
5.	free	e.	strapped town
6.	The Tomatina costs 150,000 euros	f.	problems
7.	tomatoes used as	g.	tickets
8.	flooded with	h.	long tomato fight

PARAGRAPH TWO:

1.	tourists from all	a.	security reasons
2.	the decision	b.	eight or 10 years
3.	financial and	c.	to charge
4.	limit the crowd	d.	about its origins
5.	the past	e.	over the world
6.	The festival began after	f.	at each other
7.	There are many reports	g.	the end of WWII
8.	throwing tomatoes	h.	for safety reasons

LISTEN AND FILL IN THE GAPS

Spain's economic problems (1) ___________________ most famous festivals is now a "pay-to-join" event. The (2) ___________________ of Bunol will start charging people to take part in its Tomatina tomato-throwing festival. Tourists (3) ___________________ 10 euros ($13) for the hour-long tomato fight. Regardless, all 15,000 tickets (4) ___________________. Local residents will get 5,000 free tickets. The Tomatina costs 150,000 euros to organise. A lot of (5) ___________________ paying for the 130 tons of tomatoes used (6) ___________________ the street battles. The streets are flooded with tomato juice at the end of the festival.

Tourists from all over the (7) ___________________ the Tomatina for decades. Bunol's mayor said the (8) ___________________ for the first time was for both financial and security reasons. He said: "We…need to limit the crowd (9) ___________________. We have had a problem for the past eight or 10 years. The Tomatina is not controlled. We don't know how many people are going to come." The festival began (10) ___________________ WWII. There are many reports (11) ___________________. Some people say a fight between teenagers near a vegetable market (12) ___________________ youths throwing tomatoes at each other.

FESTIVALS SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about festivals in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

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• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.

• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

WRITE QUESTIONS & ASK YOUR PARTNER(S)

Student A: Do not show these to your speaking partner(s).

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Student B: Do not show these to your speaking partner(s).

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FREE WRITING

Write about festivals for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner's paper.

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