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

PARAGRAPH ONE:

1.	a "pay-to-join"	a.	long tomato fight
2.	charging	b.	free tickets
3.	the hour-	c.	tomato juice
4.	residents will get	d.	event
5.	130 tons of tomatoes used	e.	tourists $13
6.	flooded with	f.	in the street battles

PARAGRAPH TWO:

1.	from all	a.	to control
2.	for financial and	b.	over the world
3.	there was a problem	c.	at each other
4.	it was difficult	d.	with safety
5.	a fight	e.	security reasons
6.	throwing tomatoes	f.	between teenagers

LISTEN AND FILL IN THE GAPS

Spain's famous tomato-throwing festival is now (1) ___________________. This is because of the country's (2) ___________________. The town of Bunol is charging tourists $13 for its Tomatina festival. Regardless, all 15,000 tickets (3) ___________________ tomato fight have been sold. Town residents will (4) ___________________. The Tomatina costs 150,000 euros to organise. It (5) ___________________ 130 tons of tomatoes used in the street battles. The town is (6) ___________________ tomato juice.

Tourists from (7) ___________________ visit the Tomatina. Bunol's mayor said the charge was for financial (8) ___________________. He said there was a problem with safety (9) ___________________ years because he never knew how many people would come. He said it was difficult to control. The festival began (10) ___________________ WWII. Some people say it was because (11) ___________________ teenagers near a vegetable market. It (12) ___________________ 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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