Discussion about bulls helps to learn Spanish

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 16, 2010 -- Valencia. Only recently bullfighting has been forbidden in Catalonia, just as at the Canary Islands a century ago and in Italy hundred years ago. This prohibition caused a new spate of discussions in Spain, including students of a spanish language school in Valencia.

Last week the Spanish language school Costa de Valencia offered their students a report about bulls in their extracurricular activity program. Main issues were a general explanation of the term bullfighting, its elements and contents, as well as the valencian way of bull-running. To enable a discussion afterwards, all facts and data given about this typical Spanish tradition were as objective as possible.
As expected the opinions of the language students were as different as those of the spanish people. There are at least as many pros as cons and this made it hard to position oneself. Whether it is cruelty to animals or not, whether you do already harm to them when consuming meat or not, these are even more arguments for pro and con.

“It is really difficult for a Spanish teacher who is teaching non-native speaker, to make the students speak free and to make them use the knowledge they have just learn in practice”, stated Sandra, instructor and the person responsible for extracurricular activities.”For this special reason this topic is perfect. Only a view people cannot make up their own mind for this discussion.”
This activity of the Spanish language school was not only for getting to know the Spanish culture better and practicing the language, but to improve the spanish language skills. Relating to bullfighting there are also a lot of different typical expressions that need explanation, such as “to cut ears”, or “to enter the big entrance door “.

A video about the different contents of the bullfighting rounded off the theoretical part of the report. Afterwards the spanish language students visited Valencias museum of bullfighting which is the oldest in Spain. Then there was the possibility to visit the bullfighting arena and to see such an institution at first hand.
This activity has been a great success for the spanish language students: they got to know a part of the very typical culture and could mix business with pleasure. They practiced and even improved their spanish language skills.

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