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READING & WRITING

1 READING

a Read the text and highlight the phrasal verbs.

Different, yet Surprisingly Fun!

Hi, I’m Umay. I want to share a memory of mine. I travelled to some countries in Europe and I saw
some traditions and customs. I found out that traditions and customs show us much about history,
culture, philosophies, or lives of people, and especially how people have fun and relax. Sometimes
they can be boring or funny and sometimes they can be weird. Let’s see how we sometimes go wild.
Also let's learn the origins of the traditions and see some customs.
One year ago, I put on my jacket and fixed on Spain for my destination. The plane took off and
it was my first trip alone. I used to travel with my best friend up to that time. After a few days in
Spain I found out about the Tomato Fight and I joined. It was really a different and interesting day.
People took out their guns; tomatoes, and started to throw to each other everywhere. When I went
to the hotel, I researched on the history of this weird fight. The origin of the tomato fight in the
city of Buñol in Spain is not known well. But, the most popular one is that: one day there was a civil
disturbance in the city. When the police broke it down, people started to throw tomatoes towards
them. And they continue to do this activity on every last Wednesday of August in the city
of Buñol.

b Circle the contextual meaning of the phrasal d Answer the questions according to the text.
verbs according to the text above. 1. Can we understand culture from traditions?

a to put clothes or shoes onto
1 Put on your body. 2. Did Umay fly to Spain with her best friend?
b to add something.

a Suddenly start to be
successful. 3. When and where do people have Tomato
2 Take off
b When an aircraft leaves the Fight?
ground and begins to fly.

a to remove something from 4. Is the origin of the Tomato Fight clear?
somewhere
3 Take out
b to get money from a bank
account 5. Did the police break down the civil
disturbance?
c Find three more phrasal verbs from the
dictionary and use them in your own
sentences.
2 WRITING
Find an old, strange custom, or tradition of

your country and write about its origin and
other details in a paragraph between 150 and

200 words.

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