The Pamplona bull run festival in Spain. Video plus newspaper article and correction exercise.
Every year, the Pamplona bull run takes place in Spain. Hundreds of young men risk their lives running with the bulls. Last year, one of them was killed. Watch the video, then do the English exercise based on the newspaper article from The Telegraph.
Two Britons injured in running of the bulls in Pamplona
Two Britons were among those injured in Pamplona’s running of the bulls fiesta on Friday morning as one bull separated itself from the pack and charged runners, tossing them into the air.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7881480/Two-Britons-injured-in-running-of-the-bulls-in-Pamplona.html
Fiona Govan in Madrid
Published: 5:07 pm, 09th July, 2010
A 20-year-old British man was gored in the leg and a 39-year old man from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was admitted to hospital for head injuries after falling and being trampled. Neither injury was considered life-threatening, said Dr Fernando Boneta at Navarra hospital where both were being treated.
The third run of the nine-day long fiesta was the most tense and adrenalin fuelled so far after light morning rain left the cobbled streets of the historic quarter slippery.
The six bulls – bred by the Fuente Ymbro ranch and weighing in at around 500 kgs (1,100 lbs) each – were accompanied by six young bulls as they charged through the 930 yard course to the city’s bullring skidding on the cobblestones alongside the several thousand runners.
Images broadcast over and over again on Spanish television showed the most dramatic moments with several people tossed into the air by the bulls as they stampeded through the city in northern Spain.
Friday’s run lasted 6 minutes and 20 seconds, more than twice the average length after one beast separated from the pack, became disorientated and repeatedly charged at runners and the herders who there to guide them.
At several points the bull charged wooden barriers terrifying onlookers.
The San Fermin festival which takes place between July 6th and 14th was made famous in Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year.
Participants dress all in white with red sashes and red neckerchiefs at the street party famed for its all night drinking. Each morning at eight o’clock several thousand of the most daredevil party-goers choose to risk their lives running ahead of the bulls.
In recent years there have been complaints that too many of those running are too drunk and therefore make it dangerous for other runners and police are supposed to remove those who look inebriated from the course.
Each year local Red Cross treats dozens of people for light injuries, mostly sustained after falling and being trampled by bulls and other runners. The two local hospitals are on standby for more serious injuries such as gorings.
Last year for the first time in 15 years a man was fatally gored during the run. The bulls that run each morning are killed in bullfights the same evening and their meat served in Pamplona restaurants.
Correct the false statements.
The statements are false, correct them. Use the information from the newspaper article for your answers. The first one is done for you.
No one was hurt during the bull run.
Two Britons were injured.
It was the fourth run of a ten day long fiesta.
There had been heavy rain in the afternoon.
There were only a few hundred runners.
Tourists avoid the festival.
The bulls are released at 12 noon.
Most of the young men risking their lives in the bull run do not drink alcohol before the vent.
After the festival, the bulls are kept in a field.
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