There will be an annual summer fruit festival on June 7 where people can enter their pies in a pie-baking competition. The competition will have prizes for best overall pie and most unique flavor. Chef Denise Ling will host the event and judge the pies. In addition to the competition, there will be games and music to entertain children. For those seeking a more extreme activity, there will be a pie-eating contest where contestants can win by eating as many pies as possible.

1. A. Complete the text with the words from the box. ( 3 WORDS ARE NOT USED.)
check out entertain extreme host reserve competition entirely festival provide unique
Join us on June 7 for our annual summer fruit (1) _________________. Who makes the best pie? Bring your special pie
to our (2) _________________ and see who the winner is! Do you make a very unusual flavor? There is also a prize for
the most (3) _________________ flavor of pie. Chef Denise Ling will (4) _________________ the event and be the
judge. Bring the whole family. There will be games and music to (5) _________________ the children. In addition, if
you want a more (6) _________________ activity, there will be a pie-eating contest. If you can eat a lot of pie, you
might be a winner! We will (7) _________________ as many pies as you can eat!
B. Complete the sentences with the words from the box. (FOUR WORDS ARE NOT USED.)
check out entirely mud originally seek tourist
converted local occur prison theme tower
1. This Village Express was _________________ a train, but now it is a hotel.
2. The festival celebrates flowers. That is the _________________ of the event.
3. You must _________________ of the hotel before eleven o’clock in the morning.
4. If you go to the top of a _________________, you can see for miles around.
5. When it rains, the water often makes a lot of _________________ on the ground.
6. Many tourists _________________ unusual trips. They want adventure.
7. What are some interesting festivals that _________________ around the world?
8. A _________________ is a place where people who have committed a crime must stay.
C. Use the suffixes –ation, -ition, -ision, and –ion to make nouns from the verbs in the box. Then use the
new words to complete the text. (ONE WORD IS NOT USED.) Use plurals if necessary.
attract convert inform populate compete generate locate reserve
There are many (1) _________________ around the world that host interesting festivals. Some festivals involve a race
or another kind of (2) _________________, such as the wife-carrying contest in Finland. Others offer
(3)_________________ on a special topic, like the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico. Some festivals are just for
fun, like the tomato-throwing festival in Spain. Festivals like these are often an (4) _________________ for visitors.
Hotels are usually filled, and tourists need to make (5) _________________ far in advance. What about the local (6)
_________________? How do the local people feel about all the tourists? This depends. Some people don’t like it, but
others do. They enjoy the festivals with their families year after year, and they hope that future (7)
_________________ will enjoy them, too.
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2. Answer Key
A.
1. festival
2. competition
3. unique
4. host
5. entertain
6. extreme
7. provide
B.
1. originally
2. theme
3. check out
4. tower
5. mud
6. seek
7. occur
8. prison
C.
1. locations
2. competition
3. information
4. attraction
5. reservations
6. population
7. generations
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