This document provides information about various festivals that take place in Spanish-speaking countries. It begins by asking the reader to name festivals in Spain or Latin America and look at photos to determine what happens. It then lists several festivals, providing 1-2 sentences describing each one. These include the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Haro Wine Festival in Spain involving wine competitions, El Colacho festival in Spain where a man dressed as the devil jumps over babies, human towers competition in Spain, radish sculptures in Mexico, bonfires and jumping in Spain to be cleansed of problems, Running of the Bulls in Spain, a nude run in Spain protesting bullfighting, Halloween/April Fools festival in Ecuador, and a

1. Controlled Assessment: Fiestas Hispánicas
OBJECTIVE: To think about different international cultural
events to research for your controlled assessment. HW =look
in more detail at some interesting festivals that happen in
Spain / Latin America

2. Can you name any of these festivals? Look at the photos
and try to work out with a partner what happens.

3. Festivals in Spanish Speaking Countries: There are many interesting
festivals that take place, the next few slides will introduce some of these –
your job is to choose a traditional celebration to 1=describe it.2
=compare it with similar celebrations in your country. 3= Analyse the
info and bring some insights after your research. 4= Also prepare a
description of an image from that celebration.
This is in preparation for it for your controlled assessment/and final
oral.
El día de los muertos - Mexico

4. La batalla del vino
Haro Wine Festival is a festival in the town of Haro in northern
Spain. It is held every year in the _______ and involves wine
drinking competitions and contests and a ‘Batalla de Vino ‘where
wines are poured at each other from buckets.
summer

5. El Colacho – Salto sobre bebes
2. The small Spanish town of Castrill de Murcia could be the
most ________ place for an infant to be on Sunday. In the local
El Colacho festival, a man dressed as the devil jumped over a
mat full of babies in order to cleanse them from evil spirits.
dangerous

6. Castells de Tarragona
3. Each September, men and women climb on top of each
other’s shoulders and reach for the sky as part of the
“Concurs de Castells,” _____ towers competition, in
Tarragona, Spain during the Santa Tecla Festival.
human

7. El Noche de Rábanos
4. Oaxaca, Mexico has celebrated the Night of Radishes
each December 23rd since 1897. This cultural food event
puts elaborate radish sculptures on ______ for thousands of
onlookers.
display

8. San Juan - Spain
5. June 24th has the shortest night of the year, and bonfires are
the theme. Men, women and children, all spend time to build these
bonfires. According to tradition, if people jump over a bonfire
three times on San Juan's night, they will be cleansed and purified,
and their _______ burned away.problems

9. El encierro deToros – Pamplona (Spain)
6. The Running of the Bulls is a practice that involves running in
front of a small group (typically a dozen) of bulls that have been
let loose, on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's
streets. The most ______ one being in Pamplona, Spain.famous

10. El cierro de desnudos
7. This festival was organised in 2002 to rally against the
cruelty bulls experience during the Running of the Bulls and
bullfighting in Pamplona. The run happens two days before the
actual Running of the Bulls with the slogan, “Out with the old,
in with the _____!”.NUDE

11. El día de los inocentes - Ecuador
8. 6th of January - This day is a mix between ________and
April Fool’s Day in the sense that you dress up like at
_______ but you play jokes like on April Fool’s Day. It is
meant to close the holiday season and unwind before exams.
Halloween
Halloween

12. 9. The Carnival of the Devil in Riosucio, Caldas, Colombia, is has
been given official status as part of the nation's cultural
heritage. At this unusual festival, a “______" devil is
worshipped and celebrated with song and dance.
Carnaval del Diablo - Riosucio - Colombia
good

13. La Tomatina: fiesta del tomate en España

16. Las reglas de la Tomatina
Para mantener el orden y evitar accidentes, se han
establecido algunas reglas que todos deben seguir. Son
fáciles de aprender:
• No está permitido ingresar con botellas de ningún tipo o
con objetos que puedan producir accidentes.
• No está permitido romper camisetas.
• Los tomates deben ser aplastados antes de ser lanzados
para que no dañen a nadie.
• Es muy importante estar atento al paso de los camiones.
• Al segundo disparo se debe dejar de lanzar tomates.