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The Tomatina festival

what: a Spanish festival

where: in Bunol, a small town near Valencia

when: every on the last Wednesday in August

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Articles

You use a/an:

• With a singular noun when it is one of many things/people:

  Bunol is a small town. (There are many towns in Spain)

• when you mention something for the first time.

  It’s a festival in Spain.

You use the:

• When you talk about a specific thing that everybody knows.

  People go to the main square (=a specific place)

• when you mention something for the second time.

  It’s a festival in Spain. The festival happens every August.

There’s no article:

• when you talk about something in general.

  Do you like tomatoes? I hate cheese.

• With the days of the week or months, names of places or countries.

  In Bunol in August

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Britain’s Food and Drink Festivals

Do you know we make over 700 types of cheese? If you like cheese, come to the Nantwich International Cheese Show, considered the ‘number 1 cheese show on earth’.

Britain is, of course, an island, so we have some of the best seafood in the world. The tasty oysters of Whitstable- celebrated by the Romans, too! - are the protagonists of the world-famous Whitstable Oyster Festival.

Pembrokeshire Fish Week in Wales is also a fishy feast not to miss with an entire week devoted to the crab and other fish, typical of the area.

Don’t forget the Ludlow Food Festival, a must if you are a fan of food festivals. It hosts 130 independent food and drink producers and events include cookery competitions, tutorials and contests judging the best sausages, pork, pies and sandwiches.

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1. Which festival would you like to go to? Why?

   I want to go to see the Ludlow Food Festival because there are cookery competitions.

2. Do you know any food festivals which take place where you live?

   There is the ‘Sagra del Toro’ in Corgnolo, in Porpetto, a small village in the North-East of Italy.