Learning activity 1
Evidence: Take a break
Select a celebration around the world and describe it according to the format.
Include images to illustrate your ideas. You can find and example in Introductory
material section 1. Describing celebrations and special occasions around the
world. You have to make your description in minimum 250 words.
Aspects Description Image
What it is
The Manizales Fair
celebrated.
Where and
It is celebrated in Manizales
when it is
Colombia. It takes place
celebrated.
between January 5 and 13.
During the parades, women
dress like Spanish Manolas,
wear black hat, red scarf on
What people
the neck, white blouse and
wear.
black pants. In horseback
riding and bullfighting
events, men and women wear
jeans, boots, ponchos, and
Aguadeños hats.
The most emblematic event
What people do. is the bullfighting season.
However, the central event is
the International Coffee
Reign. Parades are held with
queens from various
countries of the world. Sport
events such as cycling
circuits, billards tournament,
craft carts and soccer
tournament are held in
different parts of the city.
Craft fairs and Persian
markets are also held. At the
close of the fair there is a
great concert that many
people come to see their
favorite singers.
The Manizales Fair brings
together ancestral traditions
such as bullfighting, it is a
party born in January 1952. It
was the manager of Oscar
Hoyos Botero who,
observing the April Fair in
Seville (Spain), Wanted to
make a similar holiday in the
city, this proposal It was
accepted immediately as the
Manizaleños, since 1905,
appreciated Spanish culture
Why it is a due to religious
special communities, educators and
celebration. literature. The first version of
the International Coffee
Reign was held in 1957, the
year in which its first
sovereign, the Panamanian
Analida Alfaro, was crowned.
As an integral part of the
annual Manizales Fair, it was
scheduled from its origin, in
1955, the Season
Bullfighting, held in the Plaza
de Toros being considered
the bullfighting temple in
America.
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Criterios de evaluación
Describe celebraciones con la estructura y el vocabulario requeridos.