A  VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN LONDON (2nd of December 2012)
ENJOY OUR HALLELUJAH!!!

ORLANDAI ENGLISH TEAM

Christmas time!!!!

This is the link to a web called North Pole.com with loads of stories, games and activities to do. I am sure you will love it!!!!

CLICK HERE!!

What is this tree doing next to the English class??

 We have got loads of Christmas Calendars. Do you want to see them????
This is the Orenetes' one.

Amazing!!
The Gira-sols' one is really artistic!!!

And the Picots' one. It's lovely don't you think??

Finally we have thePlanetes' Calendar...

Oh! but there is one missing!!!! Have you seen the Llúdrigues Christmas Calendar???

It's Christmas time!!!!

 

 

A Christmas game!!! Enjoy it!

 

 

 

Click here

 

OK! LET'S HAVE A BIT OF FUN!
IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!!

CLICK HERE!!

 





Hello I am Júlia (Marsupilamis). I like these songs.The singer is a friend of my friend Hillary. They live in Brooklyn, New York. Enjoy them!!!!

Do you want to hear some music??

 

 

 

And....

 

 

Do you want to know him?????

DAN ZANES
There are two thins you should know about him. First, he is making homemade family music and encouraging his friends and neighbors to do the same. Second, he is the guy who is always interested in singing along with people everywhere, which brings us to his mission, if you can call it a mission: Zanes is introducing his musical friends to his neighborhood friends and then showing everybody not just that they can play together but that they can also feel pretty good while doing so. In this sense, Zanes is a twenty-first century version of the guy, who in the old days, used to conduct the town band from the gazebo though in lieu of a gazebo he’s playing places like Carnegie Hall and the Melbourne International Arts Festival where no matter how you say it, good music is good. He is a ringmaster, introducing new songs and reconnecting people to songs that have always been there, and still are—it’s just that people forgot about them

HALLOWEEN!!

IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME!!!!!!!!
31st October 2012
If you want to carve a Jack-O-Lantern you have to follow these steps:
First- Take your umbrellas and go to the market to buy 4 pumpkins.

Second- Divide the class in four groups and cover the table with newspaper.
Third- Measure a circle with about a 2-inch (5cm) radius from the stem. You'll cut around this circle to make the lid.

Fourth- Remove the filling from the pumpkin. Use a large spoon or your hands to pull all of the filling and seeds from the inside of your pumpkin.

Fifth- Draw your design on the pumpkin. For traditional, silhouette and pith carving, use a permanent marker or dry-erase marker to outline your design on the pumpkin.

Sixth- For pumpkin carving, use a serrated bread knife.

Seventh- Uou!!! Amazing!! Well done Suricates!!

CONGRATULATIONS SURICATES AND THANKS FOR YOUR HELP CARME!

30th October 2012
The Suricates' class went to the other classes dessed-up as Halloween monsters. We were vampires, zombies, dead girls..... We walked the school saying: We are the Suricates class and we want to tell you that tomorrow is Halloween. We are dressed-up as:
Irene: I am a witch. Pau: I am a psico.  Deepak: I am a skeleton.  Emma: I am a vampire witch.   Fiona: I am a dead girl.    Nicole: I am a dead girl.   Adria G: I am a skeleton.
   Nil: I am a killer.   Alex G: I am a vampire.   Jan: I am a two faced monster.  Andrea: I am a witch.    Simon: I am a skeleton.   Maria: I am a vampire.   Alexia: I am a witch.   Ariadna: I am the Frankenstein's girlfriend.  Silvia: I am a witch.    Bruno: I am a dead man.    Alex R: I am a wolf man.   Lluc: I am a dead vampire. Adria S: I am the death. Victor: I am a wolf man.   Lucas: I am a zombie.   Damaris:  I am a vampire.    Melkamu: I am a vampire.   Carla: I am a vampire. 
We hope you will have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!
 And now a Very scary picture!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

Frankenweenie (2012) Trailer - Tim Burton 

THIS IS HALLOWEEN BY TIM BURTON!!!

How to make a jack-o-lantern

Can you dress up a monster?

CLICK HERE
Do you want to hear a Halloween story?

 

A SONG!!! JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAAJA!!!!!

 

 

AND ANOTHER SONG!

I love this picture!!!!

I know you love this game!!!!!!

CLICK HERE
Do you want to play a game???
SPOOKY BLOCK-OUT
In this game, you control a paddle that is used to hit a ball into breakable blocks. You can even pick up special bonus items to help you complete each level. This is a spooky Halloween twist on a classic game.

CLICK HERE!

Do you want to play more games?
HALLOWEEN MATCHING!!
This is a memory matching game with a bit of Halloween style. Memorize the images on the cards before they flip over and then try and find all of the matching pairs of cards before time runs out.

CLICK HERE!!

It's autumn and Sally Squirrel is collecting nuts for the winter. Can you help her collect nuts before it gets too cold?

CLICK HERE!!



IT'S AUTUMN OR FALL TIME!!!!
 Here you'll find a song about the 4 seasons.
I'm sure you'll enjoy it!!!

A lovely song by Miles Davis!!

Beautiful Autumn and Vivaldi

QUOTES FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

LONDON 2012

LONDON 2012

GAME 2: WHO WAS PIERRE DE COUBERTAIN?

ANSWERS GAME 1: LLUC: SWIMMING.

Alfréd Hajós, the first Olympic champion in swimming, is one of only two Olympians to have won medals in both sport and art competitions.

The swimming competition was held in the open sea. Nearly 20,000 spectators lined the Bay of Zea off the Piraeus coast to watch the events. The water in the bay was cold, and the competitors suffered during their races. There were three open events (men's 100 metre freestyle, men's 500 metre freestyle, and men's 1200 metre freestyle), in addition to a special event open only to Greek sailors, all of which were held on the same day (April 11).
For Alfréd Hajós of Hungary, being on the same day meant he could only compete in two of the events. He won the two events in which he swam, the 100 and 1200 meter freestyle. Hajós later became one of only two Olympians to win a medal in both the athletic and artistic competitions, when he won a silver medal for architecture in 1924. The 500 meter freestyle was won by Austrian swimmer Paul Neumann, who defeated his opponents by more than a minute and a half.  Source: Wikipedia
What are the Olympic games?tisportAmulA multisport a MU

A multisport international competition. Done every four years. Organized by the International Olympic Committee. They have worldwide audience.

THANK YOU POL CANOSA VIDAL!!! YOU DID A GREAT JOB!!!

A joke. Thanks Ester 

GAME 1: CAN YOU TELL ME THE OLYMPIC SPORTS?

ANSWERS:
LLUC:
ATHLETICS

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most commonly competed sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes performances for a team score, such as cross country.

Organised athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, and most modern events are conducted by the member clubs of the International Association of Athletics Federations. The athletics meeting forms the backbone of the modern Summer Olympics, and other leading international meetings include the IAAF World Championships and World Indoor Championships, and athletes with a physical disability compete at the Summer Paralympics and the IPC Athletics World Championships. Source: wikipedia.

The 100 metres sprint at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

                                                          

The International Association of Athletics Federations, the sport's governing body, defines athletics in five disciplines: track and field, road running, race walking, cross country running, and mountain running.All forms of athletics are individual sports with the exception of relay races. However, athletes' performances are often tallied together by country at international championships, and in the case of cross country the finishing times of the top athletes from each team or country are combined to declare a team victor.

Track and field:

 A typical track and field stadium with an oval running track and a grassy inner field

Official world championship track and field events

Track					Field		Combined events
Sprints	Middle-distance	Long-distance	Hurdles	Relays	Jumps	Throws
60 m 100 m 200 m 400 m	800 m 1500 m 3000 m	5000 m 10,000 m	60 m hurdles 100 m hurdles 110 m hurdles 400 m hurdles 3000 m steeplechase	4×100 m relay 4×400 m relay	Long jump Triple jump High jump Pole vault	Shot put Discus throw Hammer throw Javelin throw	Pentathlon Heptathlon Decathlon

• Note: Events in italics are competed at indoor world championships only

Road running:

Runners in the popular National Marathon race in Washington, D.C.

Cross country running:

Competitors mid-race at a boys high school event in the United States

Racewalking:

A track-side judge monitoring technique at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: ANTONI GAUDI

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet  25 June 1852–10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.
Much of Gaudí's work was marked by his four life passions: architecture, nature, religion and love for Catalonia. Gaudí studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts in which he was skilled: ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces.
After a few years under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, Gaudí became part of the Catalan Modernista movement which was reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work transcended mainstream Modernisme, culminating in an organic style inspired by nature. Gaudí rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale models and molding the details as he was conceiving them.
Gaudí’s work enjoys widespread international appeal and many studies are devoted to understanding his architecture. Today, his work finds admirers among architects and the general public alike. His masterpiece, the still-uncompleted Sagrada Família, is one of the most visited monuments in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005, seven of his works were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Gaudí’s Roman Catholic faith intensified during his life and religious images permeate his work. This earned him the nickname "God's Architect" and led to calls for his beatification.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: RAY CHARLES

Full Name: Ray Charles
Nationality: American | Activity: American musician
Born: 23-09-1930 | Died: 10-06-2004

(born Sept. 23, 1930, Albany, Ga., U.S.—died June 10, 2004, Beverly Hills, Calif.) U.S. pianist, singer, and songwriter. His family moved to Greenville, Fla., where he began his musical career at age 5 in a neighbourhood café. By age 7 he had completely lost his sight. He learned to write scores in Braille. Orphaned at 15, he left school to play professionally. He recorded “Mess Around” and “It Should've Been Me” in 1952–53, and his arrangement for Guitar Slim's “The Things That I Used to Do” became a million-seller. Combining blues and gospel music influences, a distinctive raspy voice, and liquid phrasing, Charles later had hits with “What'd I Say,” “Georgia on My Mind,” and “Hit the Road, Jack.” His Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962), marking unusual territory for a black performer, sold more than a million copies. He received 13 Grammy Awards, including a lifetime achievement award in 1987. Charles was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: GEORGES BIZET

Full Name: Georges Bizet
Nationality: French | Activity: French composer
Born: 25-10-1838 | Died: 03-06-1875

(born Oct. 25, 1838, Paris, France—died June 3, 1875, Bougival) French composer. Son of a music teacher, he gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire at age 9, and at age 17 he wrote the precocious Symphony in C Major (1855). Intent on success on the operatic stage, he produced The Pearl Fishers (1863), La Jolie Fille de Perth (1866), and Djamileh (1871). Disgusted with the frivolity of French light opera, he determined to reform the genre of opéra comique. In 1875 his masterpiece, Carmen, reached the stage. Though its harsh realism repelled many, Carmen quickly won international enthusiasm and was recognized as the supreme example of opéra comique. Bizet's death soon after its premiere cut short a remarkable career.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

CARMEN OPERA
Carmen is a French opera written in 1875 by Georges Bizet. The story is based on the story of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.

The story

Carmen is about a gypsy girl who works in a factory. She falls in love with a soldier called Don José, who loves her. However, he is already engaged to somebody else. Later, he leaves the girl he was engaged to and the army for Carmen. Running away together, they are happy for a while until Carmen decides she loves a bullfighter called Escamillo. She leaves Don José. One day when Carmen is watching a bullfight, Don José waits for her and then tries to make her come back. She refuses, so he stabs her to death. Horrified at what he has done, he goes to jail.

From the movie Carmen, with Julia Migenes-Johnson as Carmen, Placido Domingo as Don Jose, and Ruggero Raimondi as El Matador.

Maria Callas, sings G Bizet's Carmen, 1962

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: STAR WARS 'OPENS'

On this day in 1977, Memorial Day weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas' blockbuster ‘Star Wars’ movies hits American theatres.

Nineteen years after the formation of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived for years in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine. Obi-Wan begins Luke's Jedi training as Luke joins him on a daring mission to rescue the beautiful Rebel leader Princess Leia from the clutches of the evil Empire. Although Obi-Wan sacrifices himself in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader, his former apprentice, Luke proves that the Force is with him by destroying the Empire's dreaded Death Star.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: CHARLES LINDBERGH

Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop.

May 20, 1927
On May 20, Lindbergh took off in the Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field, near New York City, at 7:52 A.M. He landed at Le Bourget Field, near Paris, on May 21 at 10:21 P.M. Paris time (5:21 P.M. New York time). Thousands of cheering people had gathered to meet him. He had flown more than 3,600 miles (5,790 kilometers) in 33 1/2 hours.
Lindbergh's heroic flight thrilled people throughout the world. He was honored with awards, celebrations, and parades. President Calvin Coolidge gave Lindbergh the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: SAUL STEINBERG

Full Name: Saul Steinberg
Nationality: Romanian
Activity: American cartoonist
Born: 15-06-1914           
Died: 12-05-1999               
(born June 15, 1914, Râmnicu Sarat, Rom—died May 12, 1999, New York, N.Y., U.S.)
Romanian-born U.S. cartoonist and illustrator. He studied architecture in Milan, meanwhile publishing cartoons in Italian magazines. Settling in New York City in 1942, he worked as a freelance artist, illustrator, and cartoonist, mainly for The New Yorker. His extraordinarily original and instantly recognizable works are often surrealistic or whimsically nightmarish visions of contemporary America and frequently employ odd versions of pop-culture icons. His subject matter ranges from the whimsical (e.g., a wicker chair overtaken by its curlicues) to the satirical (sinister, overgrown gadgets) to the philosophical (a tiny figure perched on a giant question mark balanced at the edge of an abyss).

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

Do you want to see a video about his life and drawings?

Enjoy some images of Saul Steinberg's works

And finally the link to THE SAUL STEINBERG FOUNDATION.

Click here!!!