THE DA VINCI CODE

Nicole said:

My favourite film is The Da Vinci Code. I like it because it is very interesting and funny. The actors are Audrey Tatou and Tom Hanks. I recommend you see it.

Do you agree?

multi-author SHORT STORY

Once upon a time... [go on, please]

HOME ALONE?

Home alone? Try to cook your own meals. Follow these recipes, written by Spanish students of 1º ESO.

Valentín Martín Sánchez: ITALIAN PASTA

INGREDIENTS

-200 g pasta
-200 cl water
-50 cl milk
-100 gr butter
-100 gr flour

COOKING

-Put everything in a recipient and remove
-Boil for 10 minutes


Anita and Fran: SHRIMP FRIES

INGREDIENTS

-Eggs
-Shrimps
-Onion
-Parsley
-Garlic
-Flour

COOKING

-Cut the onion, parsley and garlics.
-Beat eggs and the shrimps.
-Put in flour and fry.
-Put on the plate and eat.


Lidia Galán and Elizabeth Pérez: FRIED EGGS WITH CHIPS

INGREDIENTS

-Potatoes
-Eggs
-Oil
-Salt

COOKING

-Peel the potatoes
-Cut and slice the potatoes
-Add salt
-Put oil in a frying pan
-Fry the chips
-Fry the eggS


Javier Pecci Sánchez: CHICKEN

INGREDIENTS

-One chicken
-Oil
-Salt
-Garlic

COOKING

-Clean the chicken and prepare all the ingredients
-Put the chicken with the oil, the salt and garlic in the oven


TRY THESE RECIPES AND SEND US YOUR OPINION!

TITANIC (Isabel and Virginia's favourite)

Isabel Quiñones' favourite film:

My favorite film is Titanic with Leonardo Dicaprio. It's a romantic drama. I like it because it's exciting. I saw it with my friends at the cinema. It's the best film I've ever seen.

Virginia Vargas Girón agreed:

My favorite film is TITANIC. I like this film because it is very interesting and romantic. The protagonist is Leonardo Di Caprio with Kate Winslet. He is very good-looking. The film won an Oscar in 1997. I saw it with my friends at the cinema.

OTHER FAVOURITES

(In red, some of the teacher's corrections)

1. Desireé Payán Aragón said:

My favourite film is Crossroads with Britney Spears. It's romantic. I like it because... (?) I saw it with my friend Isa at the cinema city. It's the best film... (?)

2. Eugenio Marin said:

My favourite movie is Bruce Almighty (Spanish Como Dios). It is a comedy, its prominent figures are Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston. The movie is very funny. God gives Jim Carrey the power to see (?) such it it does because he was complaining very much for that not towards case (?). I like it for the tricks that the protagonist does, it is very good. I recommend it because I am sure that you will split of laugh.






























3. Ismael Michinina Laínez said:

My favourite film is Mr and Mrs Smith (Spanish Señor y Señora Smith). The protagonists are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the film is very interesting and entertaining, it is of action and a little comedy, it is the film I like most of these two actors. The movie is about a traditional marriage that lives in a house in an urbanization, but they do not know that the two are hiding something and the fact is that they are hired murderers for rival organizations and they send them in a mission that is that she kills him and he kills her.

4. Miguel Amador González said:

My favourite film is THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING". I like this film because it is very interesting, the plot is very long and full of dangers. THE LORD OF THE RINGS has got four Oscars. I like this film because it is a mythological story and has got mythical characters (?),etc. The film is about a ring with a dangerous power and a group of mythological characters go to destroy it. My favourite character is "Legolas" the "elf", because he is the best for me. I suggest you see the film because it is very interesting.

5. Irene Mompó Moreno said:

My favorite movie is Moulin Rouge. I like it a lot because it is a very romantic and dramatic movie, it also has a very beautiful music. The main character of the movie is Nicole Kidman. I saw it for the first time in the cinema with my friends and we liked it a lot.

6. Miguel Ángel Conde Cerón said:

My favourite film is Back to future. I like it because it has got a lot of intrigue and action. It has got three parts. First part is the best, although I like the three parts a lot. I saw it many times years ago. It's the best film I've ever seen.

7. Laura Dominguez Gomez said:

My favourite film is Pretty Woman with Julia Roberst and Richard Gere. It's a romantic film. I like it because it is exciting. I saw it with my friends at home last week. It's the best film I`ve ever seen.

8. Virginia Figueroa Carmona said:

My favourite film is Pirates of the Caribbean with Orlando Bloom and Johnny Deppt. It's an action film. I like it because it´s exciting and the actors are very goodlooking. I saw it with my family at home. It´s the best film I've ever seen.

9. Noelia Lagostena López said

My favorite movie is Bring It On (Spanish A por todas) because it is very enterteining. It is a comedy. I am charmed with seeing it with my friends in my house.

HARRY POTTER by J. M. Montero

Jesus Manuel Montero Lozano wrote this:

My favourite film is Harry Potter. I like it very much because it is interesting and funny. Its most important characters are: Harry Potter,Hermione, Ron and the teachers, and the bad is Draco Malfoi. This film has won eleven oscars. Its author has writen four books: Harry Potter and the Philosophal Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and the last Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Do you agree with Jesús? Which is your favourite Harry Potter movie?

Laura's and Nerea's cake

Laura Garcia and Nerea Mangano sent this recipe:

CAKE

Ingredients:

4 eggs
3 glasses of flour
2 glasses of sugar
1 glass of oil
1 youghurt
some yeast

Cooking:

1- Mix the eggs and youghurt in a bowl
2- Add the flour and mix
3- Add the oil and mix
4- Add the sugar and some yeast and mix all the ingredients
5- Put in the oven during 30 or 40 minutes to 180º
6- Take out of the oven and wait.

Ready for eating!

YOUR FAVOURITE FILM

What's your favourite film?

If you want to write about it, use the "comments" option of this post.

SPANISH COOKING

Can you cook?

Copy your recipe in the "comments" section.

OUR FORUMS (1): WHAT DO YOU NEED ENGLISH FOR?

Sometimes we don't quite know what we are learning English for. Just to keep teachers occupied! But ours is a world in which anybody (I mean it: anybody) may have the occasion or the need to use English with someone. Here are some testimonies.

- Some time ago, a taxi driver who was interviewed in Diario de Cádiz said that he used "the English he had learnt at I.E.S. La Caleta" to communicate with his foreign clients.

- Last year, a student of I.E.S. La Caleta told me he had met a beautiful Italian girl who didn't speak any Spanish. He tried to communicate with her in English, successfully! Two or three days later, he asked the help of a teacher to translate a love poem he had written for her. It said (more or less): Adam died because he ate the apple, and I die because I am in love with you. English the language of love? Yes.

TELL US YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE. HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO USE ENGLISH OUT OF SCHOOL? CAN YOU IMAGINE ANY OTHER SITUATIONS IN WHICH YOU COULD USE IT? Use the "Comments" section to let us know.

Would you marry a prince/princess?

I think and I would. First and most important, if I loved the prince and he loved me, I would marry, despite my life would have a lot of changes.

I couldn´t go out for a walk calmly any more. I would have very important responsabilities. I would have a lot of money, ... and to conclude, I would have to adjust to a new lifestyle.

In the same say, I think that my husband would distrust me because he would think that I marry him for the money and the fame.

Therefore, I would marry a prince: I would take risks.

Silvia Galán (1ºBac “B”)

AND YOU ?

DO MEN AND WOMEN ENJOY THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES?

I think that men and women must enjoy the same opportunities because it´s not fair that you have more opportunities just because you a man.

Women have to have the same opportunies. Now, women can work in the same positions as men and they can study in the university, although some years ago only men could work and study. But women have been fighting for their rights.
Anyway, women have to work not only out of the house, but also inside the house.

In conclusion, men and women must learn and work together, and they must learn how to live together.

Mª Elvira González (1ºBac “B”)

Do you agree? Comments are welcome.