END OF YEAR EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH CLASS

In my opinion I like this kind of English as the teacher knew him already, although some colleagues do not, I fast friedship with them.
Books are not in very good conditio but the important thing is the content, so the class of more fine.
All my opinions are good except one, I think the teacher sends too much work for the blog.

A walk downtown Málaga

TASK #11:
Instruction: A sculpture to be found downtown will be assigned to every pair of students. The students are to find information about it and share it with their classmates when we do the walk. They can carry some notes to do so.

Later, they are to make a little project containing the photos and the information gathered during the walk and upload it on their blogs for the teacher to see and value.

The statues chosen are the following:

Fuente de Genova. Pedro de Mena. Acteón y las ninfas. La ninfa de la caracola. Bernardo Ferrándiz. Cánovas del Castillo.  Marques de Larios. Ben Gabirol. Monolito Plaza de la Merced. Graffiti in Soho.

Acteón y las ninfas

Acteón Was, in Greek mythology, a famous hunter initiated in this art by the centaur Chiron, also a teacher of Achilles. Son of Aristeo and Autonoe in Boeotia , suffered the wrath of Artemis. The story also is told by Hyginus , Pausanias , Euripides , Calímaco and Aeschylus , among other classic authors.

Another version of the legend , Acteón boasted of being better hunter than Artemisa , so it transformed him into a deer that was devoured by his own hounds. There are parallels between the story of Actaeon and blindness of Tiresias , who lost his sight as punishment for seeing naked Athena.

Artemis , devoted to chastity, was bathing naked in the fields near the city of Orcómeno beocia woods

 when Actaeon found casually. He stopped and stared at her , fascinated by her beauty transferor . As punishment ,

 Artemis turned him into a stag by the desecration 

of seeing her nakedness and her virginal mysteries , and sent the hounds of Actaeon , 

fifty themselves to be killed . These did pieces and ate their flesh , then look for

 his master by the forest , sobbing. Then , they found the centaur Chiron , who , to comfort ,

 built a statue of her late owner. According to Ovid in The Metamorphosis .

the goddess was accompanied by his entourage of nymphs.

1. LA NINFA DE LA CARACOLA.

La Ninfa de la Caracola also known as ''la muñeca'' becuase it was located close to a building with this name. 

A nymph in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful.
The shell that the nymph is holding represent the sea, something that is very important in Malaga.
The statue was created in 1877.

 

2. BERNARDO FERRÁNDIZ.

It's a tribute to Bernardo, it represents him. It's a real person, he was born in Valencia in 1835 and died in Malaga in 1885. He was one of the most important painters in Valencia. He painted the ceilling of the Cervantes' Theatre.

Bernardo is related to Malaga because he lived 17 years here and he also is considered one of the members of Malaga school of painting. 

The statue done by Vallmitjana Agapito was inaugurated in 1913 and it is located in the park of Malaga on a pedestal made by Diego Garcia Carrera.

3. PEDRO DE MENA.

This statue is called Pedro de Mena, it represents him, a sculpter of baroque.

He born in Granada in 1628 and died in 1688 in Malaga.

His sculptures more importants are: Niño en la luna, Dolorosa, La soledad and Virguen de la sangre.

His parents were: Alonso de Mena and Juana de Medrano.

He did his sculptures in a workshop in granada.

 

4. GRAFFITI IN SOHO.

  
It's an initiative which was thought by the cityzens to renovate this place. This place was a middle-class residential zone, where has been degraded its comercial and urban part and people has created a Cultural District which is called 'Soho'. It is dynamic and modern, and it offer to the local and foreigner people a place to spend their time, know about the culture and business.

The Art Contemporary Centre is a part of this new Soho and it's one of the most popular places althought, the most important characteristic is that the art is exposed in the street and you don't have to go to a museum to see it. Some years ago, many of the bests graffiti artists started to paint on many walls and buildings. It has done this place more personality. Some of this artists are Dadi Dreucol, Faith 47, Dal East, ROA, Boa Mistura, D*Face and Obey.

 

5. Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.

This statue is an honoring to Cánovas del Castillo who born in Málaga in February, 8th of August in 1828 and died in Mondragón in 1897. 

He was a politician and Spanish historian, president of the Cabinet during most of the last quarter of the 19th century. It was one of the most influential figures of Spanish politics. 

He was a member of the Liberal Union. In 1854 he was elected deputy by Málaga for the Constituent ones and, to the fall of O'Donnell, governing civilian of Cádiz. He was the secretary of Government in 1864 and of Overseas in 1865 during the reign of Isabel II before the First Spanish Republic be proclaming. After the Revolution of 1868 and end of the Bourbon monarchy it took charge preparing the return of the one that would be Alfonso XII, Isabel II's son.

Cánovas died murdered on August 8th, in 1897 in "El Balneario of Santa Águeda".

In 1975, Málaga's town hall raised a monument in honoring to this politician of Málaga and in 2009 was installed a plate in his honor.

The monument was made by the sculptor Jesús Martínez Labrador, who is from Antequera. 
It's located in Cánovas del Castillo Avenue and it's and the entrance of Málaga's Park because he was one of the promoter of this construction.

It was open in 1975 such a tribute to him, but before this date, the monument stayed almost a year enclosed in a storehouse due to the newspaper said it wasn't the time to open a monument of someone that restored the monarchy, when a dictatorship was controlling the country. 

The monument has a strange face because the sculptor was inspired by a caricature.

advantages & disadvantages essay

TASK #10:
Instruction: Follow instructions in exercise 5 on page 99

Nowadays, everybody knows that the plane is one of the best inventions because you can go everywhere faster.

On the one hand, it's a good invention because without it, you would have to travel to another place separated of water by boat and it spend a lot of time.

On the other hand, the plane is the most expensive vehicle and it contaminates a lot because it spend a lot of oil.

In my opinion, I only use it to go to another country because it's confortable and you arrive earlier. 

Campaign leaflet

TASK #9:
Instruction: WRITE a campaign leaflet for one of the following issues: Disease/ Famine/ Global Warming/ Homelessness/Pollution/ Poverty

USE THE FOLLOWING WRITING GUIDE TO HELP YOU:

 
Paragraph 1:  The Problem

Paragraph 2: The Solution

Paragraph 3: Can you help?

You may find inspiration in the text on page 73 in the book.

FAMINE

 Famine is one of the worst problems in the world. A lot of people suffer this in many countries. The majority are in Africa, Asia and South America. These pople hasn't got anything to eat because they have not money to buy it. Each day die 6.400 children. Between 2011 and 2013 the famine has afected to 842 million of people in the world.

The solutions of the problem are to increase the production of the food and commercialize it. Another solution is to share the money of the richest countries to the poorest ones.

We could help them donating money or giving food to the ONGs for the children.
Besides we could organize charitables football matches or with another sports.

Writing an email

TASK #8:
Instruction: WRITE an email to a real person. FOLLOW the guide below:

Paragraph 1:  Greet and give news of yourself.

Paragraph 2: Give news about friends and family.

Paragraph 3: Ask about the other person's news and suggest a meeting.


Hi Pip,

How are things with you? Thanks for your email, it was good to hear some news from you. I have finished my exams so now I can just relax. I don't know what I am going to do this holidays, maybe I will look for a job or help my family at home, I will decide that these following days. But I think the job is going to be a good idea because I want to earn some money to buy a wonderful gift to my sister in her birthday.

Well, that's all. About my friends, do you remember Roberta? She isn't here at the moment, she has gone to Madrid with her family to spend all the holidays there. It's going to be boring without her, but as I told you I went to Tom's party last Saturday and I met some guys so I will go out with them these days.

And how did you start your holidays? I want to see you again, if you have time call me, we can go to a café or something. I have to tell you more interesting things but... better face to face. Say hi to your family and write to me soon. 
That's all for now.

Love,
Hiurma

A letter to the three kings

TASK #7:
Instruction:  PLEASE, finish writing the letter to the 3 Kings.
1. For a person very dear to me, please, bring, some happiness and strenght to fight with this new year. 
2. For my family (or a member of my family, please, bring, a lot of bravery because they need to support me another whole year.
3. For my country, please, bring, a little bit of success, because it needs it. 
4. For the world, bring, more humanity and respect. We are very lacking on that.

A christmas story

TASK #6:
Instruction: Read the story. Then ...

1. Write a 100 summary in your own words in English/Spanish.

This story talk about how a man knew that his father loved him when he heard him talking with her mother, saying to her that he didn't like to wake up his son every morning only because he needed some help in the farm. That happened some days before Christmas so the man decided to gave to his father the best present he will ever have. He will wake up by himself and he will do all the work in the Christmas' morning. He did it and it was the best gift for his father. So fifteen years after he will do it the same but with her wife, to say how much he loves her.
2. How much did you like the story? Explain in English/Spanish, please.

 This story talk about how a man knew that his father loved him when he heard him talking with her mother, saying to her that he didn't like to wake up his son every morning only because he needed some help in the farm. That happened some days before Christmas so the man decided to gave to his father the best present he will ever have. He will wake up by himself and he will do all the work in the Christmas' morning. He did it and it was the best gift for his father. So fifteen years after he will do it the same but with her wife, to say how much he loves her.

 

My christmas story

TASK #5: 
 Instruction: Below you'll find 4 stories that may well have happened during Christmas, any Christmas. They need to be finished. Please, read them and choose the one you like best. Finish it in English.

CHRISTMAS STORY 1

It`s the morning of Christmas Day. Mr. Bull, a lonely, rich, old man is looking at the big Christmas

tree in one of the corners of his huge dining room. There are no presents under the tree that one of the house servants has decorated. The old man sits down and dozes off: he dreams of other Christmas Days during his childhood, when he was poor but happy. He wakes up and begins to accept that once again he will spend Christmas Day all alone. The door bell rings: it`s a totally unexpected visit that cheers up his spirit and somehow changes him forever.

- Hello!

- Hi! How are you?

- Bad because I'm going to be alone  on Christmas.

- It's not a problem because we're going to be together because we were friends when we were young.

- Ok, but I haven't got any present for you.

- It doesn't matter but I have to give you my present!

(Dialogue between Mr Bull and The Visitor)

CHRISTMAS STORY 2

Ana and David are a middle­aged couple with two grown up children. They are sitting in their kitchen on Christmas Eve. They have just had another bitter argument. David has just told Ana that maybe they should separate since their relationship seems to be deteriorating so badly. Ana starts crying.

After a while she opens an envelope sent by her doctor. It says she is pregnant. Ana looks at David.

…... She doesnt know what to say.

(Dialogue between Ana and David)

CHRISTMAS STORY 3

Martín, an unemployed father of three children has been looking for a job for over a year with little

success. His situation is really desperate: he has no money to pay for his rent, or his children`s school books and clothes. If they don`t go hungry it`s thanks to some help from relatives.

One day, Martín goes to the toilet at the railway station. He then notices a briefcase propping against the wall. He picks it up and opens it. He can`t believe his eyes: the briefcase contains a lot of money. At first he thinks he is a lucky man. He thinks that all that money will solve his problems but after a few minutes he is not so sure about it all. There`s a big doubt in his head. Should he keep it?

(Dialogue between Martín and Martin´s wife)

CHRISTMAS STORY 4

Mario, a young drug addict, desperately needs money to pay fo his daily fix. He`s determined to rob a supermarket. When he goes into the shop a Christmas carol is playing on the loudspeakers. It`s a carol his mother used to sing to him when he was a child. He stops for a while and suddenly he can`t help starting to sob and feeling really bitter when the memories filled his mind. Rosa, one of the supermarket girls sees Mario and asks him if he is all

righ. Mario looks at Rosa. His right hand is in his pocket and he is still holding a knife.

(Dialogue between Mario and Rosa)

My lifestyle

TASK #4:
Instruction: WRITE a text about your own lifestyle. USE the text on page 37 in your book as a reference and USE the guide below to help you.

I have a normal diet, not a bad diet but it isn't the perfect one. I eat normal food trying to change it every day. I don't eat too much sweets and things which have much sugar but I drink fizzy drinks and maybe I eat too much cheese!

I don't play many sports because I am not a big fan of any of them but I have PE classes so I have to do some if I want a good mark. We usually play football, which I hate the most or basketball that it is quite interesting. In the summer I sometimes play volleyball at the beach with my friends and I would like to try skiing or some sport related with snow but it isn't easy to try it in my city because here there isn't too much snow!

During the week I go walking to school and also at weekends I often go for a ride bike with my family, something that I like a lot because it is a wonderful time with them and also very healthy.

My neighborhood

TASK #3:
Instructions: Please, use the visual information contained in the video of the link below to compare this area (El Palo) many years ago and now. How has it changed?
Use the form in exercise 4, page 27 in the book to help you.

I live in a neighborhood called El Palo which is very close to the centre of my city, Málaga. This area has changed a lot over the past fifty years.

   In the past the area was smaller than it is now. It was a rural area, the suburbs of the city and there used to be some houses but not too many in the present-day centre. Nowadays there are lots of block of flats and some housing states.

   Most of the people that were living in El Palo used to work like fishermen, because the area is next to the beach. In the present the minority of the people work in that, many of them commute to the centre of the city.

   There didn't use to be many transports that communicate El Palo with other places, the only transport that it used to be was a little tram. But now, most of people have cars and their own transport but also there is a bus service for the ones who don't have.

Our neighborhood has changed a lot but in my opinion is much better now

Muy own sacar y story

TASK #2:
Instruction: Go to youtube and find a scary story that you like. Put the link on your blog and write 5 comprehesion questions about the content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3PndGEXbU