Cultural Background (1st bachillerato)
Let´s start Cultural Background for the 1st Year of Bachillerato
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El Caleta in English
This is the weblog of the English Department of I.E.S. La Caleta (La Caleta Secondary School) in Cádiz, Spain. Here you can read and discuss comments, essays, letters, etc. written by our students. We hope you enjoy it!
Monday, September 25, 2006
El Caleta in English
This is the weblog of the English Department of I.E.S. La Caleta (La Caleta Secondary School) in Cádiz, Spain. Here you can read and discuss comments, essays, letters, etc. written by our students. We hope you enjoy it!
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In I.E.S. La Caleta we think that writing in English is not just a matter of homework. We like to express authentic opinions, and discuss them with other people, either learners of English, like us, or native speakers. That is the reason why we put some of our school work here. It is real stuff. It is sincere. It expresses our eagerness to communicate with people all over the world. We mean it!
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5 Comments:
(p.4 TB: Ray Finnigan is a student at Saint Paul´s College in Cork)
CORK (Ireland)
County Cork is situated in the South-West of Ireland.
It is the largest of all the Irish counties and in many ways the most varied. Rich farmlands and river valleys contrast with the wild sandstone hills of the west, and above all there is the magnificent coastline scooped and fretted by the Atlantic into the great bays and secret coves, strewn with rocky headlands and long soft golden sands.
Ana Belén Toré Martín (1ºA Bachillerato, 2006/07)
(p.10 TB I recently visited the South Pacific island of Vanuatu)
VANUATU
Location: The Republic of Vanuatu is an island located in the South Pacific, some 1750 km east of Australia. It was named New Hebrides during its colonial period.
History: Many of the island of Vanuatu have been inhabited for thousands of years, the oldest archaelogical evidence found dating to 2000 BC.
In 1605, the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós became the first European to reach the islands. However, Europeans began settling the islands in the late 18th century, after the British explorer James Cook visited the islands on his second voyage, and gave them the name "New Hebrides".
In 1960 the people started to press for self-governance and later independence. Full sovereignty was finally granted on July 30, 1980.
Ismael Michinina Lainez (1ºA Bachillerato, 2006/07)
Wednesday, 25 October, 2006
(p.6 Listening: Drew Hatton was born in Newcastle)
NEWCASTLE (England)
Newcastle upon-Tyne is the administrative center of the metropolitan county of Tyne-and-Wear in the north-east of England.
It´s important for its industry and its maritime transport with Denmark and Norway.
(Eduardo Púa Iglesias, 1ºA, 2006/06)
(p.7, ex.3.4: My brother´s looking for a job in Devon)
DEVON (England)
Devon is a county in the south west of England,which borders Cornwall on the west and Dorset and Somerset on the east. Its capital is Exeter.
Devon was one of the first areas of England to be inhabited at the end of the ice age.
The county has its own, though no official, flag dedicated to Saint Petroc (or Petrock), a local Celtic saint who frequented this area.
Pablo Ponce López (1ºA Bachillerato 2006/07)
(A Midsummer Night´s Dream by William Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare: playwright, poet and English actor. He was born on April 23 of 1564 in Stratfordon Avon, where there is a Shakespearean museum. He died on April 23 of 1616. Third of eight children of the merchant John Shakespeare and of Mary Arden, studied in the school of his town. He had several jobs because of the difficult economic situation of his family. In 1582 he got married to Anna Hathaway: they had two children, Hamnet and Julia. Five years later he was in London working as an actor. This way he knew the practice of the scene before writing plays. The publication of two erotic poems according to the fashion of that time, Venus and Adonis (1593) and the Violation of Lucrecia (1594), and his sonnets (1609), many more plays gave him the reputation of the most brilliant Renaissance poet.
By: Pablo Ponce Lopez 1ºbachillerato A
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