CURSO DEL 63

(by Margarita Barrera and Lorena Moreno, 4ºA)


Neither piercings nor long hair nor shorts… even their tangas are prohibited in San Severo. A modernity that during the 60s didn’t exist. Like the panties of tall neck .These are the rules.
Ten boys and ten girls are put into test. In this school it’s always innocent who pay. If some rule isn’t respected they are punished by cleaning the floor or doing the bed.

MARIO CASAS

(by María Valle López and Rocío Valle Bascón, 3ºA)


Mario was born on the 12th of June in A Coruña. His first steps as an actor were in the world of the adversiting. He wanted to devote to finish the studies in the school of interpretation Cristina Brocken.
His first experience in the small screen was in “Obsesión” a soap opera of proper production of television that would make known his name, and in the teen series “SMS”, issued in La Sexta.
To his time, he had his first experience in the cinema by the hand of Antonio Banderas, that gave him the opportunity to take part in the film “El camino de los ingleses”.
It was in 2007 when Mario arrived to the series that would give him all the fame in this country. “Los hombres de Paco”, an Antena 3´s production gave him the chance of performing the so called beginner police Aitor.
His last production has been “Mentiras y gordas” where he shares starring with many young interpreters that whose path is being opened in the world of the celluloid.
He loves football and is a supporter of Deportivo de la Coruña.When he was a child he wanted to be a policeman or a firefighter.

NENA DACONTE

(by Sandra López Casado and Miriam Ruiz García, 4º Diver)


Nena Daconte is a Spanish music duo composed of two components: a vocalist and a birth musician, Mai Meneses from Madrid and Kim Fanlo from Barcelona.
Their music is classic pop and talks of concerns as is love, loneliness and the pursuit of ideals.
Thanks to the Internet this musical duo has followers even abroad and is planning a musical tour through Latin America.
One of their best known songs is "En qué estrella estará" and here we offer a bit of his verse translated into English:



Which star will be,
to care for him.
I go through life without sleeping
that star is my sweet heart
because it steals the life of reason.
Tell me who's coming to take his place,
why my dreams are broken at once.

MICHAEL JACKSON

(by Lucía Román Montegordo, Mónica Crespo Balbuena, M. Victoria Valle Martín and Adrián Ocaña Campos, 3ºA)


Michael Jackson was and will be the king of the pop. He was born on 29th August 1958 and he died 25th June 2009. When he was young, he was singing with his brothers. Then he became very famous. He used to be singer and dancer, but he was composer,producer, choreographer, actor, arranger and writer too. His most successful album was “Thriller” and his song was “Billie Jean”.
He lived in Neverland. It was a very big house. He had two sons. Now the sons are with their grandmother and they are very rich. He left a lot of money to some NGOs too.

HANGOVER IN LAS VEGAS

(by Rosario Toro Hidalgo, Cristina Ruiz Esquivel, Noelia Sánchez Lara and Matilde Vargas Alonso, 4º Diver)


Two days before his wedding Doug and his three friends travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor´s farewell that they will never forget.
But when they wake up in the morning in the room of the hotel they do not remember any thing of the previous night, and the boyfriend has disappeared without track. The trio must try to find out if something was wrong with the hope to find Doug and to return to Los Angeles in time for the wedding.
More than discovering they are realising the seriousness of the situation.

VALENTINO ROSSI

(by Ana Joaquina Galbarro, Laura Gaspar, Manuel Jiménez and Jesús Pulido, 4ºB and 4º Diver)


Valentino Rossi is an Italian Moto GP driver. He was born in Urbino in 1979.
He has won 9 times the world championship: 6 times in Moto GP, 1 time in 250cc, 1 time in 125cc and one in 500cc, and is the only driver to accomplish this.
He is known as "The Doctor" and wears the number 46. He is considered by many as the best pilot in the history of motorcycling. He is a striking driver, and designs his own helmets and motorcycles.

FERNANDO ALONSO

(by Adrian Ruiz de la Cruz, Victor M. Román Martín, Alejandro Pérez Martínez y Antonio M. Bravo del Valle, 3ºA and 3º Diver,)


Fernando Alonso Díaz was born on July 29th 1981.
His father is Jose Luis Alonso and his mother Ana Díaz.
He also has an elder sister called Lorena. After a long career disputing races of go-cart he raises to Formula 1.
In 2005 and 2006 he obtains his first and second Championship of the World. He changes of motor-racing team and nowadays after going two years in Renault he is to sign up for Ferrari.

GHOST WHISPERER

by Miriam Bocanegra Mulero and Rubén Flores Cornejo (4º Div.)


"Ghost Whisperer" is a series of American television on a woman who can communicate with the spirits of the persons who have died, and somehow remain linked to the terrestrial life. If they are not very satisfied with his/her gift, with her husband and their best friend, they treat to help them, to accept them.
It is starred by Jennifer Love Hewitt and David Conrad. The series is based on James Van Praagh's book. "Ghost Whisperer" began to be emitted on September 23rd, 2005, in the American and Canadian channels, finishing the first season on May 5th, 2006... On March 5th, 2009, the CBS renewed the series to emit a fifth season.
This series has five seasons which are very interesting.

THE FAIR OF UTRERA

by Elisa Lobato (2nd Bachillerato C Night)


After the Fair of April, the Fair in Utrera gets closer. It will overcome other villages of Seville.
It starts at the beginning of September. It makes numerous utreranos fromm all over Spain return to their town in order to see the Virgin of Consolación, Mistress of Utrera.
In the Fair of Utrera the casetas are open for everybody, not just for utreranos.
The Fair lasts approximately 5 days but before the Fair, a lot of singers come to the town.
Though it changes a little bit year after year to modernize the Fair, it will never fully change. It will continue being the one that was many years ago. On September 8th, the Virgin will never remain alone, she will be surrounded by many utreranos.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes is a character from books written by Arthur Conan Doyle that appeared for the first time in 1887. His most famous story was "The Hound of Baskervilles". Many of the movies were made into movies and TV dramas. He is a detective famous for his skills and for solving mysteries. He has a sharp mind and is able to solve even the most hard and stange cases. Holmes plays the violin and smokes a pipe. Even though he is a fiction character, there is a monument in London dedicated to him.

Do you know the name of his inseparable companion?
Have you ever read one of Sherlock Holmes' books?

BEYONCE - IF I WERE A BOY

by Inmaculada Muñoz (2nd Bachillerato A Night)

Her name is Beyonce Giselle Knowles. She was born on 4th September 1981 in Houston, Texas. She celebrated her wedding anniversary on 4th April 2009 with her husband Jay Z. Beyonce won fame in the late 90s as the lead singer of the group "Destiny's Child". Her first album was "Dangerous in Love", released in June 2003. Her second album was "Live at Wembley" (2004) and her third album was "B' Day" (2006). Her last CD is "I am... Sasha Fierce". Here we can find the song "If I Were a Boy".



This song is about a girl in the body of a man. She talks about her experience with her husband. She sees life as a man with a woman's body. This song is for many girls that are in her situation.

Do you like this song? What do you think about this?

HOLY WEEK SWEETS

by Antonio J. Valle and J. Antonio Romero (2nd Bachillerato C Night)

In the Holy Week there are some typical sweets that are only elaborated in these dates. The majority of them are elaborated with the basic ingredients of any sweet: eggs, flour, lard and sugar.
In this country there are different traditional types of sweets, as "monas de Pascua", "torrijas", fried milk, "pestiños", rice with milk, "bollos de semana santa", "frangollo", "hornazos"... The majority of these sweets come from the medieval convents.
Two of the most popular sweets of the Spanish cuisine are:
"Torrijas" (original of Andalusia): They are slices of bread dipped in milk or in wine, which are fried in abundant oil, wet in well-trodden egg. Once fried they are dusted with sugar and cinnamon, or they can be bathed with honey.

"Pestiños" (proceeding from Castilla): They are elaborated by a mass of fried flour and it is sweetened with a lot of honey.

LOST

"Lost" is an American TV series that follows the lives of a plane crash survivors on a tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. The show was created by J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber. The first episode was the most expensive in the history of television. Each episode has a story from a character´s past or future.
"Lost" is formed of 6 seasons, 3 of them have been watched in Spain. Cuatro has bought the series and has started the episodes from the beginning and will continue up to the final chapter, that is planned to be shown in May 2010 all over the world at the same time.

This TV show has a lot of fans, are you one of them?
On of the creators is J.J. Abrams, who is going to premiere a film in some weeks' time. Do you know which?

SHOW YOUR TALENT AND TRAVEL TO LONDON

FNAC has started the second edition of a Microtales Contest. All you have to do is write a text with a maximum of 150 words. The text must be related to books. You have until the 26th of April to send your text. The prize is a journey to London and to Stratford-Upon-Avon, the village where William Shakespeare was born. You can look up the bases here.

If you decide to take part in the contest, let me know to vote you!!

By the way, if you want to know why we celebrate the Book Day on the 23rd of April, visit last year entry related to it. An comment on it!!

SUSAN BOYLE

She is a contestant in "You got Talent". She surprised everyone with her voice. Let's see if you understand something of what they say.

Watch the video

How old is she? Where is she from?
This contest is shown in Spain too. Do you know the name of the program in Spanish?

WATCHMEN

This is a film based on a popular series of comics and graphic novels that present superheroes as ordinary people that must face their own ethic conflicts and personal problems, and that except Doctor Manhattan, don't have any superpowers.

Have you read any of these comics? Have you watched the film?
Do you know the name of the creators of the comics?
And a difficult question: Do you know the name of the group that performs the song in the trailer?

THE PASSIVE (AND GOODBYE)

Well, as you can see, there's no participation in the blog in this Second Term. Every post I propose makes me spend a lot of time and some effort, so this is the last one by now. This is a great disappointement for me, I thought you would take advantage of this...

Exercises to practise the Passive voice. You have to turn the active sentences into passive:

The Passive

MARTA DEL CASTILLO

The only thing we can do from this blog is upload this poster and wish she appears as soon as possible.

LOSE YOURSELF

This is the video from this song by Eminem, my favourite rap song. I'm sure you have listened to it a lot of times.

This song was composed as the main theme for a movie, do you know which?
How would you translate "Lose Yourself"?
Do you like Eminem?

CLIMATIC CHANGE

by Antonio Delgado, Elisa M. Lobato, Irene Martín and Miguel Ramírez (2nd Bachillerato C Night)

During the last meeting of the 25th Marcg 2008, organised by the directors of Greenpeace, the topic of the climatic change and its consequences was proposed again.
First, they spoke about the incease of temperature in the earth, of vehicles and industries, this causes an increase of the greenhouse effect, increasing the average temperature to 20 degrees instead of 15 (which is the perfect one).
Apart from the global warming, the climatic change has other effects such as the acid rain, the quantity of clouds and all the rest of elements of the atmospheric system.
The complexity of the problem causes that the only way of solving these changes is by means of the use of measures that try to arrange the physics of the atmosphere and of the oceans but that has a very limited precision due to the current ignorance of the atmosphere.
In conclusion, we must all act as much as possible to try yo change this, because it is starting to be a very difficult problem to solve, and surely with the help of all we will be able, and if it is not possible to solve, we will try to improve this situation for not destroying our planet. We all should act and try to put this to an end.

LOS DELINQÜENTES

by Tulio Calvo, Antonio J. Valle, J. Antonio Romero and Fco. Javier Arjona (2nd Bachillerato C Night)


Los Delinqüentes was created in 1998. Initially the group was formed by two school friends: Marcos del Ojo "el Canijo" and Miguel Ángel Benítez "el Migue". Later they met the guitarist Diego Pozo, who joined the group, together with a few friends from "La banda del ratón".
They recorded their first album in 2001, entitled "Los sentimientos garrapateros que nos traen las flores". The vital and sonorous influence of "Para Negra", "Veneno" or "Triana" was still present in their innovative style.
After the brilliant debut, they edited their second work "Arquitectura del aire de la calle" (2003) and in the tour of this work the problems of health of Miguel worsened and finally Miguel's star went out at the beginning of the summer of 2004. After the tremendous conclusion "el Canijo" and Diego Pozo decided to continue with the group and to record a new album in honor to his friend: "El verde rebelde vuelve" (2005), with the collaboration of different national artists.
After a spectacular tour along Spain and Mexico they decided to record a compiling album of their biggest successes that they entitled "Recuerdos garrapateros de la flama y el carril".

This is the video of one of their best known songs: "A la luz del lorenzo"

BARACK OBAMA

by Fco. Javier Ramírez and M. Carmen Begines (2nd Bachillerato C Night)


Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (Honolulu, 4th August, 1961) is an American politician. He is the elect president of the United States, after occupying the Senator's post for Illinois. In addition, he is the fifth African American legislator in the Senate of the United States, third from the age of Reconstruction. Also he was the first African American candidate of the Democratic Party and he will be the first one in exercising the President post.
He graduated in the University of Columbia and the prestigious Right Harvard Law School, where he was president of the magazine "Harvard Law Review". Later he worked as community organizer and started his career as attorney in Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, before being chosen and serving as Senator for Illinois from 1997 to 2004.

UTRERA, THE BEST TOWN IN SEVILLE

by Miriam Granados, Jennifer Granados and M. Carmen Sanz (2nd Bachillerato C Night)



Utrera is a town council from Seville. It has got 50.202 inhabitants.
You can visit famous monuments like Sanctuary of Consolación, where the Utrera's Lady is,. Yo can also visit the churches Santa María, Santiago and San Francisco.
If you come to Utrera you must eat the typical cakes like "bizcotelas", "lenguas de nata", the famous "mostachón" and the delicious "palos de nata".
Among its important people are: the dramatits brothers Álvarez Quintero, Enrique y Clemente de la Cuadra. Also, there are diverse flamenco singers like Enrique Montoya, Bambino, Fernanda y Bernarda and Perrate. They are famous in all Spain.

THE JONAS BROTHERS

by Alejandra López (1st Bachillerato A Night) This group is one of the most heard in our days. First they started with the name "Sons of Jonas" but to the end they took the name "Jonas Brothers". This group did several tours, and to the end of the year they participated in an antidrug campaign with ALY & AJ and The Cheetah Gils. In January it was announced that this group was out of Columbia Records. Then they suscribed to Hollywood Records and with them they recorded a new album. This album came out for sale on 7th August 2007. This month they showed us the singles "Hold on" and "S.O.S." Later, to continue the promotion of this album they started the "Look me in the Eyes Tour" that started in January 2008 in the Tucson Convection Center Music Hall in Arizona and finished on 22nd March 2008 in the Izod Center in New Jersey. The group is composed by Kevin Jonas (guitar, bass and second voice), Joe Jonas (singer, guitar, drums, piano, tambourine) and Nick Jonas (singer, piano, guitar, drums) Their albums are: "It's About Time" (2006), "Jonas Brothers" (2007) and "A Little Bit Longer" (2008).