EXPERIENCES MY EXPERIENCE IN I.E.S. ZURBARÁN´S BILINGUAL SECTION I have always learned English and for this reason, I decided to be in The Bilingual Programme. At the beginning, I did not want to be separated from my friends from childhood, although it is very good as you can meet new people. In fact, my new colleagues are very friendly and I have a good relationship with them. I also enjoy the class with a native person from The United States or The United Kingdom, I learn a lot of English and specially the pronunciation. In the first days of school, I thought that I was feeling bad in my highschool, because I.E.S. Zurbarán is bigger than my primary school and because of the news subjects and timetables. I thought that learning the subjects in English( maths, technology and physical education) was very difficult, but I am sure that the subjects are not as difficult as I thought. The subject that I find more difficult is English, because of the higher level than in my former school. The tests are very difficult (specially the oral and the listening tests, because in my school I did not practice that a lot) we also have to do different projects and compositions and in this class we have to speak in English most of the time. Likewise, I think that it is becoming easier and easier for me and I am learning a lot with this programme. Besides, I hope to increase my knowledge every year, as I want to be in this programme for two more years. I am happy because I know that if I study in this programme I will learn a lot of English and I will have more opportunities for my future. English is very important for us, and we must study hard to be the best in the future.
Marcos Arias González 3ºESO1
MUSIC
THE HANGING TREE by Pablo Moreno, Daniel Moreno and Alejandro Matías 1ºESO1
The Hanging Tree: summary This song tells us the story of a man; this man was strung up unjustly, “They” (the people who strung up a man) says “this man was strung up because he had murdered three men”, but in the next paragraphs the song tells us that the man, before dying says to her love that he wants to run and be free. In their country there is a dictatorship, and if you say you want to be free they execute you. At the start of the paragraph the song says “are you coming to the tree?”, the singer is the dead man and he tells it to her love. In the last paragraph he says “are you
coming to the tree with a necklace of rope side by side with me?”.
The Hanging Tree: video review. As the song is set in a country with a dictatorship, the video shows us, the difference of life between rich people and poor people, at the start of the video we can see people hunting and living in shanties. Then, we can see the life of the rich people (the president and another important people), they do not hunt to eat and live in huge mansions. At the end of the video we can see the war, the poor people fight for their rights.
Opinions: Pablo Moreno: ” In my opinion the song is a sad song, with a mixture of rock and “dark” music. The meaning is very worrying and strange. I love this song: the music is fantastic and the story is even better.” Daniel Moreno: ” I love this song, because it appears in The Hanger Games: Mockingjay, my favorite film.” Alejandro Matías: ” I don´t like this song very much because in the song they kill people without reason”.
CANCIONES by Maria Tapia 2ºESO1 Canción popular: Titulo de la canción: Break free Intérprete: Ariana Grande Compositor: Ariana Grande Instrumentos:Guitarra, piano y mesa de mezclas Forma: A, B, A, B, Interludio musical A, B
Canción tradicional: Titulo de la canción:Que llueva, que llueva Intérprete:Los niños del barrio Compositor:Desconocido Instrumentos:Voz Forma:A,B,B,A
Canción culta: Titulo de la canción:El fantasma de la Opera Intérprete:Royas Albert Mal Compositor:Andrew Loyd Webber Instrumentos:Piano, trompeta Forma:A,A,A,A,A,A,A,A,A...
MALALA MALALA YOUSAFZAI Malala was born in Mingara, Pakistan, the 12 th of July, 1997. She's an activist for education for women and she's the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize ever. She lives in the UK and her parents are Ziauddin and Toorpekai Yousafzai. She started activism when she was 11-12 years old, writing a blog with a nick name. She wrote about her life under Taliban occupation. People had tried to kill her several times. On the afternoon of 9 th October 2012, one man shot her and she was unconscious and in critical condition. The assassination attempt became news all over the world and Malala became very famous. On 12th July 2013, she gave a speech at the headquarters of the United Nations. On 16th October 2013, the government of Canada conferred the Honorary Canadian Citizenship to Malala. In February 2014, she was nominated for the World´s Children's Prize. When she was 17, she won the Nobel for Peace. She shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi (a children's right activist). She's the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize. The journalist Christina Lamb wrote Yousafzai's biography called: I am Malala: The story of the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban. SARA BRIZ 3ºESO1
My opinion about Malala’s speech. Malala tells all what happened in her life, but not only her story but the story of all the girls that can’t study, just because they are girls. She talks for all the girls that are abducted for wanting to study to have a good life. She thanked her parents for supporting her in everything she had done. I agree with her in all she tells and she does, because I wish I could not have the strength to fight for the rights of all those girls who are forbidden to study. I have the luck of being able to study and have those rights that many girls in those countries do not have and hopefully, more and more girls will speak out for all the girls in the world to have the same rights.
Esther Pastrana Roncero 3ÂşESO1
MALALA´S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SPEECH Malala is a young girl from Pakistan that fights for female education in her country. She was in a school bus when Taliban got on the bus and attacked her and her friends. After the attack she was very bad, but later she got better. Since then, she is fighting for equality. That’s why she is famous, and she received the Nobel Peace Prize, on the 10th December 2014. In her Nobel Peace Prize speech she talked about the girls in her country, and how war directly affects the girls’ life.
AGREEMENT I agree with Malala on that all the girls in her country, and also in other countries like India, need an education and should have the same rights as boys. I agree with the right to live in peace in every place in the world. I agree with: -
The right to be treated with dignity, being a woman or a man, boy or girl, black or white…
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The right to equality and opportunities, it doesn’t matter if you are a boy or a girl.
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The right to education of every girl or boy. All the children in the world need to be safe, healthy and go to a school to learn, independently of where they live.
I agree with her on that world leaders must protect women and children's rights. It’s very important to get freedom. I agree governments must fight against terrorism and violence to protect their citizens and, specially, their children. But the point I agree the most with is that everybody around the world must be brave and raise their voice and speak up for their rights. This is called “freedom of expression”. I admire Malala because she doesn’t want personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group.
DISAGREEMENT I disagree with the case of a thirteen-year-old boy in her country that fought in war, and died. I think that children, and even adults, must not fight in wars, instead of learning at school. I think everybody needs to listen to Malala and change the world together.
"One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world."
By Iván Correas Rincón 3º ESO-1
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Malala Yousafzai (born July 12, 1997) is a Pakistani student and education activist. She is known for her activism for girls' and women's rights, especially for being allowed to go to school. Yousafzai is originally from the town of Mingora in the Swat District. She was a victim of a gunshot attack in October 2012. Yousafzai is the youngest person to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. She won the prize in October 2014. She was 17. I like very much this sentence “The terrorists tried to stop us; neither their ideas nor their bullets could win. We survived. And since that day, our voices have grown louder and louder” she said.
I think Malala does very well in protesting for the rights of women in developing countries, she explains it well in the speech by saying "That women are independent and fight for them. It's time to fight. We call on world leaders to change their strategies". One of her main points in her speech is the education of children, leaving us important sentences like "It is for those who want forgotten children education. It is for those who want peace for frightened children". I think the sentece that features this speech is when she refers to herself and her friends as: "We had two choices, be silent and die or talk and die, and decided to talk."
SAMUEL MATEO VĂ ZQUEZ
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WOMEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Betty Williams Betty Williams is a north-Irish pacifist. She was born on May 22 , 1943 in Belfast , capital of Nothern Ireland. She was born into a family with great religious mixture because her grandfather was a Jewish, her grandmother was a Catholic , and her paternal grandparents and her father were protestants. She was a member of the Irish Republic Army in 1972, but after having to watch the death of a British soldier, she decided to drop out war. Williams and Mairead Corrigan founded the Women’s movement for Peace in 1976 , later , together with Ciara Mckeown , they called it “Movement for peace in Nothern Ireland. “ In 1976 Betty Williams and Maried Maguine were awarded with the Nobel Prize for their peaceful struggle in the peace process on Nothern Ireland , by founding the “ Movement for Peace in Nothern Ireland “
Paloma Pérez Martín 3º ESO 1
Rosalyn Yallow
She was born in Manhattan the 19th of July 1921. She was the daughter of Clara and Simon Sussman. She attended Walton High School and she graduated from Hunter College in January 1941. She married fellow student Aaron Yalow, the son of a rabbi, in June 1943. They had two children and kept a kosher home. Yalow earned her Ph.D in 1945. Until the time of her death she continued to reside in the same house in Riverdale that she and her husband purchased after she began working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center in the 1940s. Her husband, Dr. Aaron Yalow, died in 1992. Rosalyn Yalow died the 30th of May 2011, aged 89, in The Bronx from undisclosed causes. In mid-February of 1941 she received an offer of a teaching assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the primary reason being that World War II commenced and many men went off to war and the university decided to offer scholarships for women rather than shutting down. That summer she took two tuition-free physics courses under government auspices at New York University. At the University of Illinois, she was the only woman among the department's 400 members, and the first since 1917. After graduating, Yalow joined the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center to help set up its radioisotope service. There she collaborated with Solomon Berson to develop radioimmunoassay (RIA). In 1975 Yalow and Berson were awarded the AMA Scientific Achievement Award. The following year she became the first female recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
In 1977 she received the Nobel Prize, together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally for her role in devising the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique that by measuring substances in the human body, that made possible screening the blood of donors for such diseases as hepatitis among other uses. In 1977, Yalow received the Nobel prize for the invention she and Berson created. Radioimmunoassay (RIA) can be used to measure a multitude of substances found in tiny quantities in fluids within and outside of organisms (such as viruses, drugs and hormones). The list of current possible uses is endless, but specifically, RIA allows blood-donations to be screened for various types of hepatitis. The technique can also be used to identify hormone-related health problems. Further, RIA can be used to detect in the blood many foreign substances including some cancers. Finally, the technique can be used to measure the effectiveness of dose levels of antibiotics and drugs. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978. Yalow received the National Medal of Science in 1988.
Esther Pastrana Roncero 3ºESO1
Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock was an American scientist, she got the Nobel prize in 1983 in Physology on Medicine. McClintock was the third daughter of Doctor Thomas McClintock. Besides, she followed her studies of secondary in Madrid. In 1927, McClintock studied medicine in Cornell university. During the 1940s and 1950s, she explained the theories of genetic information and it is very famous. In 1958 she made an extensive study of cytogenetics in South America and she wrote a book about that. Then, in 1970 McClintock and other scientist confirmed the mechanism of genetic change and they earned a lot of money with that. She died in New York when she was 90 years old, but she is very well known because she is one of the best scientists in the world.
Laura Muñoz 3ºESO1
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Burma in June 19 th, 1945 and, she is still alive. She is Aung San´s (the general that signed the country independence from Britain)´ and Ma Khin Kyi (the ex-ambassador of Burma in India)´s daughter. She studied in Oxford. When she finished her degree, she went to New York for working at the UN. Some years later, in 1988 she came back to Myanmar (former Burma) to take care of her sick mother, that died that year. This year the general dictator Ne Whin resignation provoked serious protests and thousands of people were killed by the nation´s armed forces. Because of it, the “National League for the Democracy” (NLD) was formed, with Suu as one of the main directors. One year later, Suu was condemned to house arrest for a protest, so she could not participate in the elections of 1990, but the NLD won with 82% of the votes, but the military party did never reveal the results of the elections to the people. The Nobel Prize Committee decided to give the Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi, but her little son Kim went to Oslo to receive the prize in the name of his mother, that was under house arrest. She got out of her house arrest in 1994, but if she went out of Myanmar, she could not come back, so she stayed in the country. In 1995, she was again put under domiciliary arrest for “national security”. Under this arrest, her husband died from a prostatic cancer in 1999, but he could not visit his wife since she was under house arrest. She was released from the arrest in 2002, but the next year she got under house arrest again for “National Security”. She was released in 2010. Her political party could not participate in the elections of that year because the rules were very unjust, but those rules changed in 2012 and the NLD won 44 of the 45 possible seats in the parliament. The NLD has a very high chance of getting the most important positions in the parliament in the 2015 elections.
SHE HAS BEEN AWARDED WITH THESE PRIZES: Peace Nobel Prize(1991) Honoris Causa doctorate for the Oxford University 1993 Thorolf Rafto Memorial Conscience for realizing the dream 1990 Companions of the order of Australia Eleanor Roosevelt prize for human rights Simon Bolivar Prize 1992 Olof Pale Prize 2005 Václav Havel Prize for the creative dissent of the Human Rights Foundation 2011 SHE HAS WRITTEN MANY BOOKS, LIKE: - Letters from Burma (1998) - The Voice of Hope (1998) - Freedom from Fear and Other Writings (1995) - Der Weg zur Freiheit (1999) - Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (1996) - Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity (1994) - Aung San of Burma: A Biographical Portrait by His Daughter (1991) - Aung San (Leaders of Asia Series) (1990) - Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism (1990) - Bhutan (Let's Visit Series) (1986) - Nepal (Let's Visit Series) (1985) - Burma (Let's Visit Series) (1985) PRESENT WORK: Suu is actually working for her political party to try to win the electioons that will be celebrated next year.
DANIEL MATEOS BRAVO 3ºESO1
NADINE GORDIMER Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized -in the words of Alfred Nobel- as a woman who had been of very great benefit to humanity through her magnificent epic writing.
Her parents were Jewish middle class immigrants. Her father was a watchmaker from Lithuania, from a location near the Latvian border, and her mother came from London. She began writing stories at the age of nine and when she was fifteen she published the first one in Forum magazine. At the age of twenty-five she moved to Johannesburg, where she set her final residence. She never stood out as a student and although he joined the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand, she did not finish her studies. Gordimer left three children. She died on July 13, 2014, at her residence in Johannesburg. Initially, she began writing short stories. In 1949 she published her first book entitled Face to Face. In1953 she wrote her first novel, The Lying Days. In the 1980S She published some of her most important works: A Soldier's Embrace
(1980), July’s People (1981), Something Out There (1984), A Sport of Nature (1987), My Son’s Story (1990). In 1991 she got the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1991, the year in which she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literatures, she published Jump and Other Stories, continuing with her characteristic formal perfection. In her later years, Gordimer did activism in the fight against HIV / AIDS, raising funds for Treatment Action Campaign, a group that seeks to help South African patients get free from drugs to save their lives. She also criticized the South African President, Jacob Zuma, opposing a bill that limited the publication of information deemed sensitive for the Government.
Samuel mateo Vázquez 3ºESO1
TONI MORRISON Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) is a Nobel Prize winning American writer. She was born on 18th, February, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Today she is 83. Her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved.
Toni Morrison was the second oldest of four children. She took Latin at school. She graduated from Lorain High School in 1949. At Howard University, Morrison continued to be interested in literature. After graduating from Howard in 1953, Morrison continued her education at Cornell University and completed her master's degree in 1955. She, then, moved to Texas to teach English at Texas Southern University. In 1957, Morrison returned to Howard University to teach English, where she met Harold Morrison and got married in 1958. Morrison decided to leave Howard in 1963. She moved back home to live in Ohio in 1964. The following year, she moved to Syracuse, New York, where she worked for a textbook publisher as an editor.
Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. Her next novel, Sula was published in 1973; this novel was nominated for the American Book Award. Song of Solomon was published in 1977. Then, in 1981, Tar Baby was published. Beloved was published in 1987; for this work, Morrison won a lot of awards, including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years later, in 1998, Oprah Winfrey made a film on the book. Morrison became a professor at Princeton University in 1989 and continued writing. She received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (she was the first African-American woman to be selected for the award). The following year, she published the novel Jazz. Her next novel, Paradise, was published in 1998. In 1999, Morrison worked with her son Slade on The Big Box, The Book of Mean People (2002) and The Ant or the Grasshopper?" (2003). She has also written the play Dreaming Emmett in the 1980s. Her next novel, Love was published in 2003. In 2006, Toni Morrison retired from her post at Princeton. That year, The New York Times said that the novel Beloved was the best novel of the past 25 years. She published her latest novel, Home, in 2012. While she was writing the novel, her son died in December 2010.
Elena Martín San José 3ºESO1
SHIRIN EBADĂ?
Shirin Ebadi (Hamadan, Iran, June 21, 1947) is an Iranian lawyer who is campaigning for human rights and democracy. It was the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (October 10, 2003). Training and access to the Judiciary Her father Mohammad Ali Ebadi, one of the first professors of Business Law in Iran, was a notary public and author of several books. Her mother was devoted to the education of her three daughters and her. Shirin´s year of birth, the family moved to Tehran. Ebadi graduated as a lawyer at the University of Tehran in 1968 and in 1969 became one of the first female judges in his country. At the same time, she continued studying and in 1971 she got an MA with honors in Private Law. In 1975 he was the first Iranian woman becoming president of a court. Advocacy after the revolution After the Islamic revolution of 1979, the exercise of the function of judge for women is banned, so all Iranian judges were removed from the office and intended for administrative work. Ebadi was appointed as secretary of the same court she previously presided. She protested about that and got a promotion as a counselor at the Ministry of Justice. Dissatisfied, she requested permission for early retirement which was granted. Due to the closure for years of the Bar of Iran by the revolutionary authorities, Ebadi could not obtain a license to engage in law until 1992, when she could open her own office, and meanwhile she wrote several books and published numerous Iranian articles in various publications.
After several years as an attorney at murder trials and divorce, she began to also assume the defense in cases with political implications at national level, working as a lawyer in the murder of marriage Foruhar, or student Ezzatollah Ebrahimneyad, killed in the assault of the Basiji to the dorm at the University of Tehran in 1999. During this last record militias, Ebadi was accused of attacking President Khatami, so she was imprisoned and spent three weeks in jail in 2000, but her sentence to five years in prison and the withdrawal of her license were revoked. Ebadi is co-founder of two NGOs: the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Child in 1995, and the Center for Defenders of Human Rights, established in . On October 10, 2003, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded to Shirin Ebadi the Nobel Peace Prize, because of "her efforts for democracy and human rights", recognizing her particular attention to the "struggle for rights for women and children”. The Committee acknowledged her "professional wisdom" and "courage" saying that Ebadi "has not ever paid attention to threats to her own safety". The decision to award a surprise Ebadi good obervadores number, betting on the award to John Paul II, at an advanced age. Supporters of the Polish pope criticized the political nature of the choice of Ebadi, comparing to prizes awarded to Lech Walesa and Mikhail Gorbachev, and objecting that none of the previous activities of Ebadi was consistent with the criteria for the award by Afred Nobel: "The person who has done more or better for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the organization and promotion of peace congresses." Awards and honors Official Spectator Award of Human Rights Watch in 1996. Prize Rafto for human rights of Norway, in 2001. Nobel Peace Prize, 2003. UCI Citizen Peacebuilding Award, 2005. Legion of Honor, 2006. Doctor honoris causa by many universities.
IVÁN GIBELLO 3ºESO1
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
RAÚL FRUCTOS 3ºESO1 Elfriede Jeliek was born in Austria on 20th October 1946, she is a writer, playwright and Austrian feminist activist. Now, she is 68 years old, but she continues writing, because she loves writing for other people. Elfriede was the daughter of a Czech-Jewish man and of a Viennese woman, they were her parents. She grew up in Vienna, the birthplace of her mother, and she went to ballet lessons, and she received a big musical education. In 1960 she began to go to piano lessons in Vienna’s conservatory. After she ended her secondary education she enrolled in Vienna’s university and she studied Theatre and Art History. Her beginnings in the field of opera were in 1967 with the collection of poems “Shades of Lisa”. She wrote for literary journals before the publication of her first book We are Claims, Baby,in 1970. Author of a great production of narrative and plays, she won international recognition after her novel The Pianist was filmed (1983), clearly autobiographical and inspiring the movie of the same title by , Michael Haneke. In 1979 her first play was released: What Happened after Nora left her Husband or the Pillars ofSociety, followed by other premiere theatrical texts. Her concerns include social criticism, analysis of the status of women and the development of their own language, she often turned real protagonist of her works. Feminist and advocate of the ideas of the left, suffers in her country attacks from rightwing parties and , upon arrival at the government of Prime Minister Jorg Haider, her works were banned in Austrian public theatres. Along with poetry, novel and drama, Jelinek has also entered the cinema and radio field and translation to German of American authors. Winner in 1998 of the Georg Buchner, the highest distinction of the German language, among her many novels awarded are The Lovers, The Excluded and Thirst. She has won many other prizes.
Carol Greider
Carol Greider was born in San Diego (US) in 1961.She is a molecular biologist, famous for discovering the telomerase.Carol Greider was the winner of nobel prize for medicine in 2009 with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Stostak. Her father was a physicist and her mother was a doctor. She has one brother. Her mother died when she was six years old, which affected her childhood. She married and she had two children .She was a biology student in Santa Barbara, California in 1983. When she wanted to extend her education in other universities, she had good recommendations, but they did not help because she could not get good grades in the GRE, which was an examination that tested the verbal and quantitative reasoning among others. The reason was that she was dyslexic. Now, Carol with is a teacher of biology at the Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences. She received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2009, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2006 , the Louisa Gross Horwitz in 2007and PaulEhrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize Award in 2007.
Carlos CaĂąo 3ÂşESO1
HERTA MÜLLER Herta Müller was born on 17 August 1953 (Romania). In 1973 she worked as a translator in a machine factory, at the same time that she studied Romanian and German literature, but she had to stop when the Romanian secret police wanted her as a spy. In 1979 she was approached by the Romanian secret police, but she refused to spy on her colleagues and foreign guests, and as a result she lost her job and could find an occasional employment. Herta Müller was a writer. Her first book was Niederungen (English title: Nardis), it was in 1982 when a censored version appeared in Romania. In 1984 she published a collection of short prose in Romania entitled Drückender Tango; that same year an uncensored but abridged edition of Niederungen came out in Germany, making her name as a writer overnight. Told from the perspective of a young girl with all her fantasies and her fears, the book depicts the confinement, corruption, intolerance and oppression of a Swabian village in the Banat. In 1987 she emmigrated to Germany. Müller has written short stories, novels, poems and essays, but all her work deals with the experience of oppression, of exile and of conforming to family and state. From 1989 to 2001 she worked as a guest lecturer at various universities in England, The USA, Germany and Switzerland. From 1995 she has been a member of the German Academy of Language and Poetry at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Above all, Herta Müller continued to keep writing, finding inspiration for her books in life under totalitarian dictatorship. Her works- and particularly The Hunger Angel and The Land of Green Plums – have been translated into 50 languages. Herta Müller lives in Berlin. Following numerous other awards, in 2009 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Herta Müller delivered her Nobel Lecture, 7 December 2009, at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. She was introduced by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. The lecture was delivered in German.
IVÁN CORREAS 3ºESO1
ALICE MUNRO INTRODUCTION: Alice Ann Munro, was born 10 July 1931. She is a Canadian author writing in English. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time.
PERSONAL FACTS: Munro married James Munro in 1951. Their daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born in 1953, 1955, and 1957 respectively; Catherine died 15 hours after birth. In 1963, the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munro's Books, a popular bookstore still in business. In 1966, their daughter Andrea was born. Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972.
PROFESSIONAL FACTS: Munro returned to Ontario to become writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1976 she received an honorary LLD from the institution. In 1976, she married Gerald Fremlin, a cartographer and geographer she had met in her university days. The couple moved to a farm outside Clinton, Ontario, and later to a house in Clinton, where Fremlin died on 17 April 2013, aged 88. Munro and Fremlin also owned a home in Comox, British Columbia. At a Toronto appearance in October 2009, Munro explained that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary-artery bypass surgery. In 2002, her daughter Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir, Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro.
AWARDS She has won many awards.
MICHEL Cﾃ，ERES DEL CERRO 3ﾂｺ E.S.O 1
MAY-BRITT MOSER May-Britt Moser is a scientific from Norway. She is famous because she got with her husband the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 2014. She was born 4th January of 1963. Now, May-Britt Moser lives with her husband and she is 51 years old. They are very well-known fby everybody and they live very well together. She has never had a son because she has a problem. May-Britt Moser studied Psychology at Oslo University together with her future husband, Eduard Moser. She has always been the favourite of the teachers, because she was the most intelligent of her class and she always collaborated with her teachers. May and Eduard became doctors in Neuropsychology in 1995. They were teachers of psychology and neuroscience. Moser and her husband were the first in the investigation of brain's mechanism to represent the space. In 6th October of 2014 May-Britt Moser won the Nobel Prize for medicine with Eduard and John O'Keefe. Now, she says that if she had more money, she would try to make a new important discovery. They got this Nobel prize for their discoveries of the cells that make a system in the brain. In 1971 they investigated with mice, they carried on and in 2005, they discovered the GPS of the Brain. This discovery helps us to understand the symptoms of Alzheimer. May-Britt Moser is the eleventh woman to get the Nobel Prize of medicine.
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FESTIVITIES THE DAY OF THE THREE WISE MEN (EPIPHANY) The name of the celebration is “The Day of the Three Wise Men ”. This festival is celebrated throughout Spain on the 5th and 6th of January. This festival is held to honour the Three Wise Men. It is a religious belief. In this festivity there isn’t a procession. In my city, in the evening, at about six or five o’clock, there is a party for the children. In this party they do a lot of games. Later, at about eight o’clock, first in the church and later around my city, there is a parade. In this parade “the three kings” throw sweets and it is very funny. They say that the kings come from Eastern countries and on camels,that is why in some big cities they con on camel back to the parade. The 6th is spent with the family. The typical food is prawns, soup, starters and meat with sauce. The children get up in the morning and find presents under the Christmas tree and enjoy the day with their gifts.
Clara Martín Rivera 3ºESO1
WHITE VIRGIN FESTIVAL The festivities to honor the White Virgin have been held in Vitoria since 1884. These holidays begin on August 4th in Virgin Blanca Square, in the heart of the city, where thousands of inhabitants of the city and visitors gather to kick off the celebration with the descent of Celedón, a doll representing an ancient villager of Alava, and crossing the square through a system of pulleys. Later, and arriving at the balcony of the Church of San Miguel, the traditional Aurresku is danced. Thus begin the festivities that last from 4th to 9th August, being the 5th the day of the White Virgin.
The Celedon. The protagonists of these holidays are gangs wearing blouses, groups of Vitorians dressed in typical costumes, organizers and protagonists of numerous activities.There are various shows, concerts and street parties for all tastes in various venues scattered throughout the city. There are also markets and barracks, fairground attractions...The people drink all day beer and wine and it’s very funny.
The gangs of blouses
this is great!!!! SAMUEL MATEO 3ºESO1
SAINT INNOCENTS' DAY The Day of the Holy Innocents is the commemoration of a hagiographic episode of Christianity: the killing of all children under two years old born in Bethlehem (Judea), ordered by King Herod in order to get rid of the newly born Jesus of Nazareth. Saint Innocents' Day is a Spanish festival. It's celebrated in all Spain on the 28th of December. In this festival,there isn't typical food or drink, costumes or music, but people do funny jokes, and there are always ''lies'' on the news. Sometimes the people are scared, but then, they laugh together.
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Fallas
RAÚL FRUCTOS ACEDO 3ºESO1
The fallas is a traditional festivity that is celebrated in Valencia, in the Eastern part of Spain. The word “fallas” has its origin in the Latin language and it meant torch. The festivity begins on 15th of March and it ends 4 days later on 19th March, in those four days there are lots of bonfires and fireworks in Valencia like in Bonfire Night. The festivity is in Spring, so many people go to Valencia for the good weather and for the celebrations. The fallas are celebrated in honour of the patron saint of the carpenters, Saint Joseph. It’s celebrated in honour of the carpenters because they have to do a very hard work, making “monuments” that later at night, are going to be burnt. In the fallas there are not processions, all the “monuments” are in the street, so people can see them. There is also a flower offering to the Virgin. People wear traditional clothes for the event. There is a lot of music in the four days, in the evening people go to the city hall and the music played is the traditional one from Valencia. The most famous tradition in this festivity is to make “monuments” that are going to be burnt later. There are “monuments” of everything, like the people in the government, footballers, basketball players, tennis players… but not only about people, the carpenters also make original “monuments”, because there is a prize for the best one, which is not burnt and goes to a museum. At night there are a lot of bonfires, burning of “monuments” and fireworks displays, but all day long there are firecrackers everywhere.
LA PATRONA La Patrona is a National celebration that is also celebrated in Almaraz. It is celebrated on the 12th October, the season is Autumn. It lasts one day, from the morning to the night. It is in honour of Virgin of Pilar. There is one procession and there aren´t any costumes. There are two types of music: religious at the church and all kinds of music at the dance. We eat potato omelette, ham, cheese...- and sweets all the afternoon, we drink coke and the adults drink beer or alcohol. It is the patron saint of the police force “Guardia Civil”, it is celebrated in their headquarters.
LYDIA CURIEL 3ºESO1
Father´s Day Father´s Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but in other countries it´s also celebrated on other days. In Spain, it is celebrated on the 19th of March because it is on St. Joseph´s day, and St. Joseph was Christ´s father. Father´s Day was created to complement Mother´s Day. People in the family gather together and have a special meal.
Raúl Retamosa Morales 3ºESO1
EL CRISTO The name of my celebration is “El Cristo”, we celebrate “El Cristo” in Peraleda de la Mata. It is celebrated every year from 13th of September to 19th of September in Autumn. This celebration is in honour of the Christ of Humility, there is a procession following the image of the Christ of Humility. In the afternoon, during the bullfighting shows the groups of friends dress in different printed overalls and T-shirts for each “peña”. In the evening, in the square, there are”verbenas”, balls where a group of singers sing many types of music. This festivity has not got any special food, only traditional sweets (rosetas…) and no special drinks. Some years ago, there was an auction and people paid a lot to carry the Christ into the church.
ROCIO DELGADO BORRALLO 3ºESO1
LOS ESCOBAZOS (Jarandilla de la Vera) Escobazos is a festivity in JARANDILLA DE LA VERA. It starts the 7th of December in Autumn. The festivity lasts for three days, from 7 th to 9th of December. This festivity is in honour of the Virgin Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the village. This celebration includes a very long procession on the 7 th at night. The 8th and 9th are party days and there are a lot of concerts (of modern music) and a lot of bullfighting. For example, this year (2013) the orchestra SYRA played on the 8th at night. The 10th of December is the end of this celebration. The typical food is “migas” or ham, and the typical drink is wine. The tradition in this celebration is giving smacks with a lot of brooms burning. People wear old clothes or overalls and the heads covered with hats or headscarves.
LAURA MIGUEL CARRACEDO
3ºESO1
NEW YEAR On the 31st of December we celebrate New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve celebrates that a new year starts. In this celebration people usually have a big dinner and at midnight, when the clock rings, everybody eats the twelve grapes at the same time as the clock rings. After eating the twelve grapes a New Year starts and people have a party. The first day of the year is called New Year’s Day and on this day people often have a big lunch with their family. There aren’t processions and there aren’t animals in the celebration, but there is special food and drink like paella, prawns, turkey, champagne, etc. People go to dances with all kinds of music and some people still sing Christmas Carols. On this special day women usually wear beautiful evening dresses or smarts skirts and blouses and men usually wear dinner jackets.
Elena Martín 3ºESO1
EASTER
Name and Place: Easter or Holy Week is a religious holiday of great tradition in our country and it is one of the most important celebrations in Spain. Easter is celebrated all over Spain but the most famous and biggest processions are held in Seville. Each one is organised by a 'cofradia', or 'brotherhood'. The Cofradias try to put on the biggest and best procession and there is a lot of competition among them. The main days are: Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Date, month and season: The Easter celebration happens at the end of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and it lasts forty days finishing on Easter Sunday, that is the next Sunday after the first whole moon in Spring. It can never be celebrated before the 22nd March or after 25th April. For instance, this year 2014, it will be celebrated on the latest possible date, that is on the 24th April.
How many days? Holy Week starts on Palm Sunday, “Domingo de Ramos� in Spanish. Many people go to church for a special mass. Children are given a palm branch or olive branch by their godparents. This represents the olives branches lain on the ground to welcome Jesus into Jerusalen. And it finishes on Easter Sunday, so it lasts a whole week.
What in honour of? It is a festival in honour of Jesus. The Church commemorates the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ during Holy Week. Processions The Easter processions take place in many cities in Spain, starting on Palm Sunday and ending on Easter Sunday. The floats and the fraternities are in the processions that go through the different streets of our country. They can last four or five hours.
They are organised with large floats called “pasos” that make their way through crowded streets. They have religious figures on them. They are often very elaborated and always very heavy. The “pasos” are carried by groups of men called “costaleros”.They move very slowly. Good Friday is commemorated with very serious processions. They are usually silent or accompanied by slowly drumming. On Easter Saturday we remember Christ’s burial. On Easter Sunday processions are louder and more joyous celebrating that Jesus has resuscitated.
Costumes Penitents, that are people on the parades, are dressed in costumes with pointed hats, hoods and cloaks. Some of them are bare-footed and they usually carry a lighted candle on their hands. Music Processions also go with a music band following the “pasos”, except on Wednesday that it is usually silent or accompanied by slowly drumming. Some people sing a “saeta”, that it is a sad flamenco-like song with no music, only voice. The person who sings it does it with lot of feeling and devotion and sings it from a balcony.
IVÁN CORREAS 3ºESO1
Christmas Eve in Almaraz Christmas Eve is the 24th of December and it´s celebrated in honor of Christ and in Almaraz it is very fun. Here, there are many activities for children, like videogames. Many children go through all the streets singing Christmas Carols to get money that people give them. We decorate the town with Christmas figures and lights. We also decorate our houses. It is typical to eat sweets like “polvorones” and “mazapanes” in all the houses. Almaraz also does a nativity scene in front of the church and real people participate in it.
Alma Candeleda 3ºESO 1
SAN ROQUE Álvaro Cadenas 3ºESO1 San Roque is the festivity in my town (Almaraz). It is on the 15 th August and it lasts for five days. We celebrate this festivity to honour the patron saint of my town, which is San Roque. During these five days we do many things: In the morning of the patron’s day, there is a mass in honour of the patron saint and in the evening, there is an offering (people give presents like sweets, money, flowers… and people buy those to raise money for the church), and we wear smart clothes for this celebration. We also have some activities for the children, like inflatable castles, a route around the town on a train and the party of the bubbles. In the evening, there is an orchestra and a bingo and the last night there is a bull fighting show at 7:00 am and the next night we eat the meat of the bull.
SAINT MICHAEL The festivities are in honor of Saint Michael and they are held in Navalmoral. The Feast of San Miguel on September 29th, was formerly a cattle market held in our town that took place in what is now the Public School "Campo AraĂąuelo". Currently, during the weekend a number of activities take place, for example: National Competition of Builders and other competitions, crafts market, educational fair, sporting competitions and recreational activities. In 2013 was the first edition of the food fair, which continued with great success in 2014. In this fair there are tastings of cheese, wine and honey. Last year there were two new "Cooking Shows", where well-known chefs prepare and explain the development of dishes with products of Extremadura.
While the fair is held, there are also other activities related to gastronomy for students of the town. Three children's workshops are held in the five primary schools in Navalmoral. The workshops are: Manufacturing of bread, pastries, and cheese.
Other important activities include a bullfighting and the show end of the celebration with a spectacular fireworks display.
Alejandro Porras Torrecilla 2ÂşESO1
Los kintos The kintos is a popular celebration in the area of Ibores, in honour of Saint Antón. It is celebrated on 17 th January. They honour Saint Antón with three days of festivities. The first day, the males go around the village at night. During the second day, the men go to pick up firewood and in the afternoon sweets with coffee are distributed. At night and then a bonfire is lit up and then there is dancing. The last day there is a procession in honour of Saint Antón.
Marcos Díaz Montes 2ºESO1
TEXAS FALL IN TEXAS Texa’s men wear shorts, hoodies and flip- flops in fall. Adults celebrate football games doing homecoming game. In Texas people eat beef stew, corn bread, bbq and chili. The food that has Spanish origins is chili with meat. I would like to try bbq because I love meat. One of the festivals that they do is the German festival. It’s celebrated in Fredericksburg. The festival which I would like to visit is “Pumpkin patches” because I think it could be fun. I’m really surprised because in Texas there is death penalty.
Adriana Díaz Esteban 4ºESO1
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a celebration that lasts two weeks. It takes place in Houston, Texas and this year it starts on March 3rd and it ends on March 22nd. The first rodeo was held in 1931. This celebration starts with the Go Texan Day, which is a day when the people dress up with the typical Texan clothes, eat BBQ’s and chili, listen to country music, go to parties and celebrate the Rodeo Parade. Those typical clothes are cowboy hats, big belt buckles, cowboy boots, bandanas, button down shirts and jeans or skirts. There are concerts nights during all this festival long, and there are some thematic nights like African American Night, Tejano Night and Disney Night. Besides, there are rodeo dances parties, country to step, zydeco and line dances. This year, some of the artists that are going to give concerts during this festival are: Fall Out Boy, John Legend, Pitbull, Ariana Grande, Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson. In terms of food, during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo it takes place a cookoff, that is a contest that consists in that amateur and professional chefs prepare dishes, like BBQ’s and chili, to win prizes (money). During this festival, people usually eat BBQ’s, baked potatoes, funnel cakes, turkey legs, Mexican food, chili and other crazy foods like fried coke, fried Oreos, armadillo eggs, jalapeno, fried breakfast cereal, etc. Another important part of this festival is the rodeos. In the rodeos, people, professionals and amateurs, compete in different races like mutton racing, wagon races, cattle roundup, etc. During those two weeks, there’s also a carnival, exhibitions, other contests, markets, games for the children, museums, zoos, etc. In my opinion, it seems to be a wonderful festival, especially in terms of music and also in terms of the American countryside culture. I would like to go to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo concerts and dances because they seem to be amazing.
By: Joana Patricia Fonseca Formigo 4ºESO1
MITZI This year our language assistant is Mitzi Wallace. She’s from Houston, in Texas, that is an USA state where there’s death penalty. Her birthday is on 13 th August. She has studied Communication at university. In Spain, she hasn’t got family or a big house, but in the USA, she has her family, 3 brothers and a big house. She loves all kinds of music and her favourite groups are The Script, NSYNC and The Neighbourhood. She also likes to read. Her favourite book is The Bible and her favourite author is Zora Neal Hurston. Her favourite film is “Steel Magnolias”, her favourite actor is Ryan Gosslieng and her favourite TV series is “The Big Bang Theory”. Her favourite sport is college football and her favourite soccer team is F.C. Barcelona. She likes travelling, going to parties and dancing with her friends and she also likes cooking. She spends her free time doing voluntary work, sleeping and going to and from Madrid. Her favourite food is Mexican food and her favourite Spanish dishes are “pisto”, “ensalada mixta”, “croquetas” and “empanada”. She likes Spain and her favourite places are Barcelona, to visit, and Madrid, to live. She also likes Navalmoral de la Mata and the I.E.S. “Zurbarán”. She likes being an English teacher and she loves children.
Her favourite thing in Spain is the weather because there are four seasons and in Texas there are only two, a hot season and a cold one. She prefers the city and the beach to the countryside. She thinks that Spanish people are kind, have a lot of holidays and work to live, not like American people, who live to work. She doesn’t admire famous people because she doesn’t think that they’re people who to admire. When she was a child she wanted to be a journalist in New York, without children and with a lot of pairs of shoes. When she wakes up, the 1st thing that she does is say “five minutes more, please”. Her biggest fear is not to please God and nowadays her future plan is to stay living in Spain. She has visited many countries. These countries are Canada France, Italy, Costa Rica, England, Bahamas and Spain. In Spain, she has visited Toledo, Cuenca, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia, Puenferrada, Cáceres and Navalmoral de la Mata. Finally, she would like to travel to Ireland, Seville, Malaga, South Africa and Brazil and if she could travel to four places tomorrow, she would go to New York, South Africa, Greece and Brazil. In my opinion Mitzi seems to be a great person and I think that it will be amazing to stay with her this year and it will be great to learn more about Texas and American traditions and culture with her.
By Joana Patricia Fonseca Formigo 4ºESO1
This year was a first in every sense: My first year back in Spain, my first year in La Extremadura and my first year working in a high school. Needless to say, I was very worried-- How would the students recieve me? What would the town be like? Would there be jamon serrano?--were all questions I had before I embarked on my new experience. Now that the term has come and gone, I can say without a doubt that coming to Navalmoral and working with the students at Zurbarรกn was one of the best decisions I have made so far. The treatment I have recieved and the things I have learned from both the students and my fellow staff have been wonderful. We have laughed, danced and made many memories that I will never forget. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity of sharing my langugage and culture with you all. I wish you all the best in your English language learning. Have a great summer! Keep Texas two-stepping! Congratulations graduating class (2ยบ bachillerato, I will miss you all). MITZI WALLACE- LANGUAGE ASSISTANT 2014-2015
HOLIDAYS MY HOLIDAYS Hi!! I’m Paula and I am going to talk about “my holidays”. In my holidays I always travel to Vigo with my family. We went to Vigo in July and August. However in September I went to Vigo with my cousin. This summer my cousin worked in Almaraz’s swimming pool and me and my sister were going with her. In August around one week in my town there is a festival called San Roque. In July and August my family and I went to Vigo and went to the beach. But when I went with my cousin, we took a bus at night and we arrived at Vigo. We went to the beach. The two days we went to the cinema. One day my cousins and I took a train and we went to The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Another day my cousins and I took a boat and we went to Cies Island. Another day my cousin and I went shopping in Gran Via and the last day my aunt, my uncle and we took a bus to Bayona, to eat some barnacles. The last day we took another bus at six o’clock to go to Salamanca, because my parents met us there. When I arrived home, the next day my family and I went shopping in Talavera to start high school.
PAULA MORENO VILA 4º ESO 1
MOBILE PHONES MY OPINION ABOUT THE VIDEO “LOOK UP” I think that this video is the true reality of our society. More and people go walking on the street and typing in their mobile phones missing out very beautiful moments of their life (I include myself). Little by little the mobile phones are taking over society. I think that this is becoming a disease. All the people have mobiles and when they go out they go out with the mobile. The video says that we should leave mobile phone at home and go out to meet new people, I totally agree with this. However nobody pays attention to this and we should do it.
Inés León Ríos 3°ESO1.