19/11/11

Well-done!!!!

Good Sunday evening dear you all,
here you are all your writings corrected
according to the Guide for correcting writing errors
(have a look at it in order to understand the abbreviations)




Hi! My nickname is Mike. I'm 16. I live in Barcelona with my family and I study at IES Barri Bèsos.
I spend my free-time reading books, drawing or listening to english C music (I like much RS)
There aren't much WC things which I don't like. But probably making the wash WC is the most I hate.
Finally I want to recommend a song: More than Words from Extreme
Good Weekend for you all!!!
****************************************************************
hello C, I am called manuel, I been WC 15 years old and I fulfill the -A 16 within two weeks. + study in WC the -A IES barri besòs of Barcelona, I am trainer of soccer 5
WC and I like music, the -A sports and to leave WC with the friends
****************************************************************
Hello P My name is Alex
I have WC 17 years I'm fron Equator but +W life WC in Barcelona with my mother end Sp my brother but +W have two brothers in Equator.
I'm studing Sp in WC the -A school IES Barri Besos WO.
I' ve must WC friends end Sp they are very entertainWC. My sport favourity WO Sp is the -A futbol Sp end Sp +W like listening to music end Sp too WO playing futbol in a equipo WC.
I've+W a rabbit. At school my favourity Sp subject are Historia end Economia Sp Sp Sp.
I like read WF bookS/P the WC filosofia Sp well I'm think MNC.
Well this in Sp the end.
****************************************************************
Hi! my C name's Gaby and I'm 16. I live in Barcelona with my parents and my brother (he's 20 and he's studying at University UPC WO).
I've got two pets, a cat (Mishu, I know that it's Sp name is not original) and a parrot (Lola).
I love the -A music, because I play the piano, the guitar (a little), + accordion,... etc. drummer WC and all WC percusion Sp too but, the piano is par exellence the more sublime of the instruments and it's fantastic. In my free-time I play the piano or other WC instrument, I spend a lot of time in WC the instruments but I'm not WC realize SP of - this. I think that this Art is very important :)
Bye!!
****************************************************************
hey C !my C name's Javi. I have WC 17 years IS, Im Sp from
equator C but +W lifeWF whith Sp my family in spain C since 2000. this C years S/P i C study Batxiller (trying to :)) in the most betterWF school of barcelona IES Barri Besos,
I love playing the guitar..yeahh, snowboard,playing basketball and reading ( I recommend the Dan
Brown book's Sp angels & demons C)
My favourite music is salsa, hip hop , rock, and more:)
see C +W later
****************************************************************
Hi!
My name is Natàlia.I'm 17 and I live in Barcelona,
i C like my city but there is too much contamination WC.
I study first of Batxillerat in the school
; P I.E.S Barri Besos WO.
I live with my parents
; P Montse and Ramon, and my older sister; P Raquel, and sometimes +W my grandmother.
I love
to -W the -A animals, in my floorWC 6 cats and one dog live WO, all were gathered of WC the street or +W the camping.
I adore
to go WF to the camping, there go to the party MNC and I dance, +W is a festival WC of WC Saturday night.Also I like WO the -A theater, I am +A actrees of the group the theater of the school WO.

30/9/11

Podcasting 0

  Thanks to Sònia's blog

25/6/11

OJALÁ 2011: Investigación en Cádiz

OJALÁ 2011: Investigación en Cádiz: "En Cádiz, Manolo propone una actividad de investigación-integración con la cultura de Cádiz a través de lo que se pueda averiguar en los p..."

2/9/10

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?


Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Joan Baez on Grooveshark

Where have all the .......... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the .......... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the .......... gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the ................... gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the ................... gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the .............. gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the .............. gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the .............. gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the .................... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the .................... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the .................... gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?


FALSE FRIENDS

A few Spanish/English False Friends


library - n - librería
a place where you borrow books / a place where you buy books
to divert - v - divertir
to change the direction of something / to have a good time
sympathetic - adj - simpático
understanding / nice, friendly
argument - n - argumento
a verbal fight / the plot of a book, film or play

to prove - v - probar
to make certain that something is true / to try something new, to try some clothes on
topic - n - tópico
a subject/theme / cliché
eventually -adv - eventualmente
in the end/finally / possibly
informal - adj - informal
casual, not formal / irresponsible
crime - n - crimen

something illegal / a murder, serious crime
to realise - v - realizar
to be fully conscious of something / to carry something out
sensible - adj - sensible
to have good sense / sensitive
actually - adv - actualmente
in fact / nowadays
educated - adj - educado
a person who has received a good education / polite
conductor - n - conductor
a person who leads an orchestra / the driver of a vehicle
particular - adj - particular
special / private
content - adj - contento
satisfied / happy
success - n - suceso
someone/thing that turns out well / an event
parent - n - pariente
mother or father / family member
direction - n - dirección
move to something/where / address

Note: sometimes the two words do correspond more or less. 
The false friend concerns a different meaning of the same word.

Little Boxes

Little Boxes by Pete Seeger on Grooveshark

Little Boxes by Walk OffLittle Boxes by Pete Seeger on Grooveshark the Earth on Grooveshark




1. Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

2. And the people in the houses
All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.






3. And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

4. And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

ticky-tacky:......?






The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It refers to suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky", and which "all look just the same." "Ticky-tacky" is a reference to the shoddy material used in the construction of housing of that time.

7/3/10

WOMEN





International Women's Day



International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:
1909
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.
1910
The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.
1911
As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.
1913-1914
As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.
1917
With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.


The Role of the United Nations

Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.
Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.