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. 

World Peace Day

Click here to learn a song.

Le 30 janvier, anniversaire de la mort de Gandhi, est devenu journée internationale de la non-violence en 2007.

1. Écoutez et chantez!

2. Lisez ces citations sur le thème de la paix.

Christmas

TWO READING COMPREHENSIONS: 1 and 2.

Christmas time / Noël

Christmas Time  is one of the most international events all over the world. Every year families celebrate Christmas' Eve and New Year's Eve in the different continents according to their religion and tradition with some differences amongst the different countries.

In the IES Sierra Almijara we also celebrate this popular tradition with our students with different events. First, we celebrate an International Gastronomic Day in which our students bring desserts of different countries. Second, our students participate in a Christmas Cards Contest.

 

Noël

Le mot "Noël" viendrait de la contraction des mots latins ‘Natalis' et ‘Dies' qui signifient "jour de naissance". C'est la naissance de Jésus, son anniversaire, que l'on célèbre ce jour là.

Comme on ne sait pas exactement le jour précis de sa naissance, en 353, le pape Liberus a fixé la date de cet anniversaire au 25 décembre car c'est aussi le jour du solstice d'hiver. C'est le jour le plus court de l'année, celui qui annonce que les jours vont commencer à rallonger. (Source: www.momes.net)

Pour en savoir plus cliquez ici.

EXERCICES:
1. Testez vos connaisssances sur cette fête.
2. Révisez le vocabulaire de Noël.
3. Écoutez, lisez et répondez aux questions.  
4. Jouez au pendu!
5. Écoutez et complétez ces chants de Noël: Petit papa Noël, Mon beau sapin et Vive le vent.

Au lycée Sierra Almijara il y a plusiers activités sur la fête de Noël:

• une Journée Gastronomique Internationale, avec une dégustation de desserts de différents pays; 
• et un Concours de Cartes de Noël.   

Halloween

Halloween is an Anglo-american tradition that has spread quickly throughout the whole European continent. The night of halloween people usually do follow the trick or treat  tradition around the world. In the IES Sierra Almijar halloween is also very popular. The students in the different levels participate in different contests such as the caving of the jack-'o-lantern and the Halloween Stories Contest.

These are the winners of the different contests:

1. Contest of the Carving the Jack'o lantern:
- Alicia López Bueno.
- Ainhoa 

2. Halloween Stories Contest:

Quelle est l'origine de cette fête?

Halloween est une fête qui se célèbre le 31 octobre, veille de la Toussaint.  C'est une fête folklorique anglo-saxonne d'origine celtique.
La légende raconte que Jack ne peut pas entrer au paradis, car il est avare, ni en enfer, car il s'est moqué du diable. C'est pour cela qu'il erre en s'éclairant d'une lanterne. On a symbolisé cette histoire en creusant des citrouilles en tête de Jack et en mettant une bougie à l'intérieur pour en faire une lanterne.

Comment fête-t-on Halloween en France?

Les enfants se déguisent avec des costumes qui font peur (fantômes, sorcières, monstres, vampires..) pour aller de porte en porte en quête de bonbons, chocolat et autres sucreries. De quoi donner la chair de poule et faire une peur bleue à tout le voisinage!

Pour travailler Halloween en français cliquez ici.