California Strawberry Festival

California Strawberry Festival

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Pre-Reading Questions

What is a festival?

What kinds of festivals do you have in your home town?

How did such traditions start, and why do they continue?

Can you guess where the “Strawberry Capital of California” is? (What city?)

What do you think people do at the Strawberry Festival?

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Tasks

1. Summarize the activities you saw in the video. Your tutor will listen and correct your grammar and pronunciation.

2. Read the following vocabulary words out loud.

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cream

dessert

dip

harvest

jam

magician

puppet

revenue

sample

treat

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Speaking Exercise

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Read the following excerpt aloud. Your tutor will listen and correct your pronunciation.

Oxnard is in Southern and this part of the state takes its strawberries very seriously.

At the two-day California Strawberry Festival you can sample strawberries prepared in all sorts of ways.

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Source:  America’s Library

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