Communal table

Life Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension

Read the article and choose the correct 5 At La Rejunta, ...

option. a there’s drink but no food.
b there’s food and drink.
1 What is the article about? c there’s food but no drink.
a a special tradition
b a town in Mexico 6 Which sentence is true?
c farmers in Milpa Alta a Virginia and Fermin are majordomos
for the first time.
2 What is La Rejunta? b Virginia and Fermin got married 14
a a meal years ago.
b a person c Virginia and Fermin organise La
c a place Rejunta every year.

Read the article again and choose the 7 What do majordomos do?
correct option. a cook the tamales
b organise the meal
c pay for the food
3 Where is Milpa Alta
a in Mexico
8 Which sentence is true?
b in Mexico City
a Only men prepare the food.
c near Mexico
b Some of the food comes from shops.
c They cook the food on wood fires.
4 Which sentence is true?
a People eat for a week at La Rejunta.
9 Which sentence is true?
b Twenty thousand people go to El
Señor de Chalma. a Eating together is a tradition in Milpa
Alta.
c People take their own food to La
b Josefina García Jiménez says her
Rejunta.
family loves her cooking.
c Josefina García Jiménez’s family only
eats together at Christmas.