Задание

Imagine you're preparing a project “Celebrations”. Your classmate has sent you four texts on the topic. Unfortunately, the file is corrupted and the headings have been mixed up. Match the texts to the headings.

If you’re in the tiny Spanish town of Buñol in Valencia, Spain during the last week of August, make sure you take a spare change of clothes because things get very, very messy! “La Tomatina” is a huge food fight that has been a strong tradition in Buñol since around 1945. No one really knows how it began, but everybody knows how it ends! The week of the fight includes a fireworks party, music, dancing, colourful street parades and even a huge paella cooking contest. Then, about 30,000 people throw around 100,000 kg of tomatoes at each other for one hour.

Have you ever wanted to be a pirate? If so, for ten days in November, Georgetown in the Cayman Islands transforms into a typical pirate town. The Pirates Week festival begins with a mock kidnap, complete with tall ships and rowing boats. Visitors have the chance to wear fancy dress costumes and experience life as a pirate. There are also street parties, treasure hunts and a huge fireworks display.

Every year on 6th October, the central market square of Brussels in Belgium becomes full of people made of straw … yes, scarecrows! This festival, which raises money for local charities, has been extremely popular since it first started in 2001. Past winners of the “Best Scarecrow Award” have included a medieval knight scarecrow and even a Che Guevara one! If you think you can do better, why not enter the competition yourself? All you need are some old clothes and a bright idea!

If you want to watch parades, see fireworks and open-air theatre performances and eat until you burst, then the Maslenitsa carnival (or “Blini Week”) in the heart of Moscow is the festival for you! This fun festival takes place around the end of February and celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring. For this reason, all the festival-goers eat blini (pancakes), which symbolise the sun (round, golden and warm). At the end of carnival week, there is a big bonfire to say a final goodbye to winter!

Experience Life as a Pirate in the Cayman Islands

A Celebration of the End of Winter

March of the Scarecrows

The World's Messiest Food Fight