Housing Campers in Valencia Offer to Move Tents for 9 d'Octubre Festival
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People are camping in Valencia, Spain. They want better housing. Housing means homes for people to live in.
Valencia has a big festival on 9 October. It is called 9 d'Octubre. People celebrate with a loud firework show. This show is called a mascletà . A mascletà is a very loud firework show with no colors, only sound.
The campers do not want to stop the festival. They will move their tents to another place. A tent is a small house made of cloth.
But the campers want the mascletà moved too. They say they cannot move everything. There is not enough space for both the festival and the camp.
Workers who make the fireworks are also talking now. These workers are called pyrotechnicians. A pyrotechnician is a person who makes fireworks safely. They want the mascletà to happen as planned. They say it must not be stopped.
The city must now decide what to do. This is a difficult situation. A situation is what is happening now.
Vocabulary6 words
- camping
- living outside in a tent for a short time
- housing
- homes for people to live in
- mascletÃ
- a very loud firework show with no colors, only sound
- tents
- small houses made of cloth
- pyrotechnicians
- people who make fireworks safely
- situation
- what is happening now
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Answer key
1. Better housing 2. Move them to another place 3. The pyrotechnicians
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People are _____ in Valencia, Spain. They want better _____.
Valencia has a big festival on 9 October. People celebrate with a loud firework show called a _____.
The campers do not want to stop the festival. They will move their _____ to another place.
But the campers want the mascletà _____ too. They say they cannot move everything.
Workers who make the fireworks are called _____. They want the mascletà to happen as planned.
The city must now decide what to do. This is a difficult _____.
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