ANDALUCIA The day in which we celebrate that we belong to Andalucía must be considered as an event that provides us the opportunity of going back to our roots in order to remenber our identity as Andalucians. In this special day we celebrate our brotherhood as Andalusians stating our differences as well as our common aspects. In our institute IES Sierra Almijara we have paid special attention to this event dealing with different aspects. For example, the students of First of ESO have worked the relevant characteristics of each province of Andalucia stating the common and different features of each one. There has been also a special event in our institute in which some groups have attended a lecture by an important writer who was born in Nerja and who has written an important book about this beautiful village. And in the break time there was a traditional Andalusian breakfast for all the students with bread and oil, traditonal here in the Axarquia and in Andalucíain general. In this blog we have also paid special attention to this event and some of the teachers have worked with their groups using different links to seach information related to the topic.

20 mars - Journée Internationale de la Francophonie

L'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie regroupe 56 États et gouvernements et 19 observateurs répartis sur les cinq continents, rassemblés autour du partage d'une langue commune : le français. 

Le 20 mars, les francophones du monde entier fêtent la Journée internationale de la Francophonie. Le thème choisi en 2013 est "Le français est une chance".  

Pour en savoir plus sur la francophonie cliquez ici.

Jeu: Combien de pays pourrez-vous placer sur la carte en une minute?

8th March: International Women's Day. 8 mars

8 mars - Journée Internationale des Femmes

La Journée Internationale des Femmes trouve son origine dans les luttes des ouvrières et suffragettes du début du XXe siècle, pour de meilleures conditions de travail et le droit de vote. 

Clara Zetkin

 La création d'une Journée Internationale est proposée pour la première fois en 1910, lors de la conférence internationale des femmes socialistes, par Clara Zetkin. Mais la date n'est pas encore fixée. 

Au début de la révolution russe, le 8 mars 1917, les femmes manifestent pour réclamer du pain, le retour de leurs maris partis au front, la paix et la République. La tradition du 8 mars se met en place.

Les Nations Unies reconnaît officiellement la Journée Internationale des femmes en 1977. C'est une journée de manifestations à travers le monde: l'occasion de faire un bilan sur la situation des femmes.

Faites ce mini-quizz pour tester vos connaissances sur cette Journée. 

Regardez ces images, qu'est-ce que vous en pensez?

8th March: International Women´s Day. 
In this website we are going to work several webquests such as: 
 -Origins of this celebration.
 -Famous women in different fields of knowledge: Clara Campoamor, Madame Courie, Emelina Pankurst, Susan B. Anthony, Rachel Carson, Victoria Kent, María Zambrano, Mary Shelley, Emily Brönte, 
Hillary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Rigoberta Menchú.
 - Famous Women Artists: Beyoncé, Frida Kalo,etc. 
 - The feminist movement: Georgia O´Keeffe, Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinen, Emilia Pardo Bazán,etc.
 -Women in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. 

Saint Valentine´s Day

       

 

                        

                      

 

 Saint Valentine´s Day.

                   Saint Valentine´s Day is the most romantic day of the year all over the world. For our students it is a very important day where they can give way to their emotions. When we celebrate this event we usually use several activities such as reading and writing love poems, listening to love songs and even writing friendship cards or even love cards. Also there is a tradition amogst the teachers of English to pay attention to popular love sayings as these ones: 

 

I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
- Ogden Nash.

 

Love me and the world is mine.
- David Reed.

 

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Saint-Exupery.

 

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
- St. Augustine.

 

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.    

 Some of the songs we have used with our students this special day are:

WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL by RONAN KEATY. 
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ANGEL OF MINE by ETERNITY
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GREATEST LOVE by W.H.
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Homage to Robert Capa in his centenary

  

Find out as much as you can about Robert Capa´s Life and Work.

 

ROBERT CAPA  TRUE OR FALSE?

1.-Robert Capa was Hungarian

2.-His real name was Gerda Taro

3.-He took photos of Leon Trotsky

4.-He came to Spain in the Spanish Civil War

5.-In 1941 He started working for Hello magazine

6.-His most famous photograph was when Gerda Taro died in a car accident

7.-He also took photos of the war between China and USA

8.-After the 2^nd World War he joined  other photographers to set up Magnum, an icecream company.

9.-He was killed in an accident

10.-He visited many different countries in his lifetime.

INFORMATION QUESTIONS:

1.    WHAT WAS ROBERT CAPA´S REAL NAME?
2.  WHEN DID HE GO TO COPENHAGEN AND WHAT DID HE DO THERE?
3.  WHO WAS GERDA TARO AND WHEN DID HE MEET HER?
4. WHAT DID HE DO IN 1936?
5. WHY DID HE COME BACK TO SPAIN IN 1939?
6. WHAT DID HE PHOTOGRAPH  IN  ENGLAND?
7. WHERE DID HE GO WITH GERALD PATON´S SOLDIERS?
8. WHO WERE ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND JOHN STEINBECK?
9. WHAT WAS MAGNUM?
10. HOW OLD WAS HE AND WHEN DID HE DIE?

            MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

            1.- Robert Capa took part in the

            a) Boer war  b) Spanish Civil War c) Independence war

            2.- Cartier Bresson´s  job was

a)      A jeweler  b) a horseman  c) a photographer

3.-Robert Capa´s most famous picture was

a) the farewell kiss b) the naked man c) the republican militiaman killed in battle

4.- Robert Capa lived in

a) three countries  b) four countries c) more than five

5.-Rober Capa was

a) a Jew    b) a Muslim c) a Christian

6.-His nationality was

a) Hungarian b) Romanian c) Albanian

7.-While in Spain Robert Capa met

a) an Irish novelist  b) an English novelist  c) an American novelist

8.-His life was

a) Boring   b) Tragic  c) Comic

9.-He died at the age of

a) Under fifty years old  b)Over fifty years old c) Exactly fifty years old

10.-Robert Capa studied in

a) Mexico b) Austria  c) Germany.