Exercise 2. Read the text and answer the questions.

La Tomatina is a tomato fight festival in the town of Buñol (pronounced: Boon-Yol), near to Valencia in Spain. On the last Wednesday of August each year, thousands of people come from all corners of the world to fight in this “World’s Biggest Food Fight”.

At around 11 a.m, many trucks pull a large amount of tomatoes into the center of the town, Plaza del Pueblo. The tomatoes come from Extremadura, where they are less expensive. When the festival doesn’t start, one brave person has to climb to the top of a high wooden pole and try to get the ham at the top. In practice, this process takes a long time, amd the festival starts although no one reaches that prize. The signal for the beginning of the fight is the shooting of water cannons, and the chaos begins: they throw over-ripe tomatoes at each other.

The fighting ends after an hour, and people start cleaning. They use fire trucks to spray down the streets. The authorities seem more concerned with cleaning the town than cleaning the visitors, so some people find water at the Buñor River to wash themselves, although some kind residents will offer to help visitors clean themselves with their water hose.

1. Where and when does the tomato fight take place?

2. Why do they climb to the top of a high pole?

3. What do people do at the festival?

4. Do the authorities clean the visitors?

5. How do they clean the streets?