IRELAND PROJECT

TRADITIONS

1-      ST. PATRICKS DAY: Celebrated on the 17th of March every year, everyone gets involved in this public holiday. This day is both a cultural and religious celebration of St. Patrick who was involved in converting Ireland’s inhabitants to Christianity. Parades and Festivals take place, with the main event happening in Dublin city, while local villages and towns also have their own events. Displays of music, art, and elements of humour provide a friendly welcoming atmosphere. Many businesses in Ireland close on this day.

2-      BLOOMSDAY: The Bloomsday is an annual event, which they celebrate in honor of Leopold Bloom, the main character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. It is celebrated all 16th of June, since 1954 and those who celebrate it try to eat and dine the same as the protagonists of the work, and hold meetings in Dublin to follow the exact itinerary of the action.

3-      SAMHAIN: It was the Celtic New Year. This festival began when the Celts in Ireland honored Saman or the Lord of the Dead. It is currently what is called Halloween celebrated in many other countries of the world. Children dress costumes and masks and carry lanterns lit from house to house to receive treats or play a trick. The flashlights they carry are often made of turnips with scary faces and candles inside.

TRADITIONAL FOOD AND DRINKS

1-      SODA BREAD: Every family in Ireland has its own recipe for soda bread. Some like it sweet with a spoonful of honey, sugar or dried fruits. Others prefer sprinkled-in seeds, bran and oats for a health boost, or treacle and Guinness for the opposite effect. However, the basic ingredients don’t change: are bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk form the raising agent, which is mixed in with flour, and spread liberally with butter.

2-      BOXTY: Is potato dumpling, The recipe calls for grated raw potato to be mixed with mashed potato and then either: mixed with flour and salt and boiled before being sliced and fried in butter .Try it alongside bacon and eggs or smoked salmon.

3-      CODDLE: Coddle: it is made with slices of pork sausage sliced ​​and wrapped in bacon. All mixed with sliced ​​potatoes and onions. Some traditional recipes include a small amount of Guinness.

4-      IRISH PUNCH: It is famous worldwide, its preparation is based on Irish whiskey, orange bitter, lemon and orange juice, pear, cinnamon, cinnamon syrup, nutmeg and ice.

5-      IRISH COFFEE: In Ireland, coffee is prepared with a particularly bitter taste, caramelized sugar and whiskey.

WELCOME TO 3rd ESO

WORK IDIOMS

SELF ASSESMENT 3rd TERM

What can I do that I couldn't do before?
Talk about an animal.
Can I understand information from LISTENINGS?
Yes, I can
Can I WRITE a brief paragraph ?
Yes, I can
Can I SPEAK using vocabulary and grammar learnt this term?
Yes, I can
Can I understand information from READINGS?
Yes, I can
What do I like most?
I like to work with proyects and in groups
What do I do well?
I do well exercises of class
What am I confused about?
I am moy confused about nothing
What do I need help with?
I don't need help with nothing
What do I do in English outside the class?
I go to an english academy
What do I need to improve?
I need to improve present perfect

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROYECT

WHAT IS AN ENDANGERED SPECIE?

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct in the near future. Endangered , as categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Red List, is the second most severe conservation status for wild populations in the IUCN's schema after Critically Endangered 

Many nations have laws that protect conservation-reliant species: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating protected areas. Population numbers, trends and species' conservation status can be found at the lists of organisms by population.

CHARACTERISTICS

koalas are mammals, and they have round, fuzzy ears and look cute and cuddly,like a teddy bear. Koalas look soft, but their fur feels like the coarse wool of a sheep. The koala eats  eucalyptus

Koalas live in Australia and Victoria in the eucalyptus forests and woodlands. They live in eucalyptus trees and spend most of their time wedged between forks in the tree's branches.

CAUSES OF ENDANGERMENT

A threatened species is any species susceptible to extinction in the near future.

The koala are endangered due to sexually transmitted diseases and drought. . Its natural predators are the dingos, owls, eagles, strands, vultures and python snakes. Also the times of drought and the fires are dangerous. For decades its population has been declining due to urban sprawl, car accidents, and dog attacks. Other main causes of the extinction of the koalas is the hunting by its fur which is very soft, brown or grey Platinum makes its

sale like pieces of collection or to manufacture expensive coats. The Koala is in danger of extinction by hunting, to obtain from them its fur, since it is very soft brown or grey platinum. This Koala fur sells it as collectibles and to manufacture expensive coats.

HOW CAN WE HELP

To help the koalas we can:

-Protect the habitats where koalas live as people destroy them quite easily

-Don’t cut all the tres of a forest because Koalas live in trees and when forests are cut down, they lose their homes. It is not strange that the trees are cut with the animals still living in them. Apparently, in many aspects there is no respect for their lives. They are seen as an obstacle, rather than something that should be protected.

-Don’t cut the eucalyptus trees because it is the main food of the koalas and they will become extinct too if they don’t have nothing to eat.

-Don’t cause forest fires because these animals lose their home.

There are many experts who believe that the koala will become extinct in the next 30 years if measures are not taken urgently.

MUSIC PROYECT

WHAT IS HEAVY METAL

- Heavy metal, genre of rock music that includes a group of related styles that are intense, virtuosic, and powerful. Driven by the aggressive sounds of the distorted electric guitar, heavy  metal is arguably the most commercially successful genre of rock music.

- Although the origin of the term heavy metal is widely attributed to novelist William Burroughs, its use actually dates well back into the 19th century, when it referred to cannon or to power more generally.

INSTRUMENTS

- There are many instruments used in heavy metal. The most famous are the electric guitar, the electric bass and the drum kit

                   Electric guitar

                   The electric bass

                   The drums

　

SUBGENRES

- During the eighties many subgenres developed away from the commercial scene and since then there have been several attempts to classify this underground metal world, both by editors of Allmusic or Rolling Stone, as well as the critic Garry Sharpe-Young. According to Sharpe-Young this underground circuit is divided into five major categories; doom metal, thrash metal, death metal, power metal and black metal.

FASHIONED

- Clothing associated with heavy metal has its roots in rebel motorcycles and rocky subcultures of the era. Heavy metal clothing includes items such as leather jackets, denim jackets, patchwork vest, high basketball shoes , biker boots, workman's boots or military boots, blue or black jeans, cloth jackets or vests often adorned with badges, buttons and patches, studs are also used , jackets, pants and usually long hair. As with motorcyclists, there is a peculiar fascination with Germanic images, such as the Iron Cross.

SIMBOLS

- Pentagram: Meaning: Ancient magic sign / Union Earth-Sky / Star

Attributions in Metal: Reverse: Satanism, goat. In its most precise explanation, an inverse pentagram is the representation of the importance of the earthly over the spiritual, therefore, a distancing from the divine, to be clearly connected with what is inherent in this plane.

- Cruz Inverted: anticlericalism, anti Christianity, protest against the Catholic religious system. It does not implicitly manifest Satanism.

　

GROUPS

- The most importants groups of heavy metal are

Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.

THE WORLD CUP OF FOOTBALL IN 2010

The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa was the 19th edition of the Football World Cup. The competition was held in South Africa, between June 11 and July 11 of that year, the first time the tournament was held in Africa and the fifth time it was in the southern hemisphere, surpassing the host country in the election prior to Egypt and Morocco.

The championship was composed of two phases: in the first, eight groups of four teams were formed each, advancing to the next round the two best of each group. The sixteen qualifiers then met in elimination matches, until they reached the two teams that played the final at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.

Several selections returned to this World Cup after many years of absence. These teams were joined by Slovakia and Serbia , although selections of these last two nations had participated in previous World Cup events, but representing countries now disintegrated; Czechoslovakia in case of the first, and Yugoslavia and later Serbia and Montenegro in case of the second.

After the consecration of Spain to the Netherlands, this World Cup was the first played outside Europe in which a team from that continent was proclaimed champion, and it was the first time since 1998 that he won a team without previous world cups in his winners, as well as the first time since 1978 when two teams without world cups met in the final. As world champions, Spain participated in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013.

SIMBOLS

Some simbols of this world cup are the following:

            

One of the most important is the pet Zakumi, 

a green-haired leopard in the colors of the South African national team
                                                                                                                       

       

The official ball with which the championship was played is the Jabulani model, manufactured by the Adidas brand.

SOUNDTRACK

As in the last World Cup, a soundtrack was made to accompany the tournament. The official song of the tournament was popularized as "Waka Waka" being performed by the Colombian singer Shakira, who co-produced the song with the South African group Freshlyground. The song mixes different rhythms of African-American origin such as soca, South African guitars and the popular chorus of Zangalewa, a traditional Cameroonian song.

The official album, Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album was released and features a series of songs selected by a specialized FIFA committee from around the world, including a song with the voice of Nelson Mandela in addition to the official anthem "Sign of a Victory" from R. Kelly with a gospel group from Soweto and the official song by Zakumi, "Game on" by Pitbull.

For the launch of the sporting event, FIFA held a World Opening Concert on June 10 at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, where Shakira, K'naan, Juanes, The Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys and Angelique performed. Kidjo and other singers. Prior to the opening match the next day, Shakira played the official song again.

                    


SOME INFORMATION OF THE SINGER

Born: 2nd of February in 1977 (age 42)
From: Colombia
Residence: Barcelona, Spain
Bonds Cay, The Bahamas
Miami, Florida
Occupation: Singer songwriter dancer record producer businesswoman philanthropist actress model.
Partner: Gerard Piqué
Children: 2
Musical career
Genres: Latinpop

MUSIC SELF-ASSESMENT 2nd TERM

1- WHAT CAN I DO THAT I COULDN'T DO BEFORE?
I can play the drums.

2- WHAT DO I LIKE MOST?
I like most learn all the types of music.

3- WHAT DO I DO WELL?
I play well the recorder.

4- WHAT AM I CONFUSED ABOUT?
I'm confused about nothing.

5- WHAT DO I NEED HELP WITH?
I need help with the history0 of music.

6- WHAT DO I DO IN ENGLISH AND/OR MUSIC OUTSIDE THE CLASS?
I go to english classes.

7- WHAT DO I NEED TO IMPROVE?
I need to improve theory.

 8- WHAT DID I LEARN ABOUT CULTURE?
About the music in the middle ages.

MUSIC VOCABULARY 3rd TERM

Genre: género.               
Folk music: música folclórica.
World music: músicas del mundo.       
Popular music: música popular.
Vinyl record: disco de vinilo.
Sacred music: música sacra.
Dance music: música de danza.
Soundtrack: banda sonora.
Choreography: coreografía.
Ballet: ballet.
Stage: escenario.
Improvisation: improvisación.
Flamenco: flamenco.
Synthesizer: sintetizador.
Middle Ages: Edad Media.
Renaissance: Renacimiento.
Baroque: Barroco.
Classicism: Clasicismo.
Romanticism: Romanticismo.
Impressionism:Impresionismo.
Twentieth Century Music: Música del Siglo XX.
Triplet: tresillo.
Anacrusis note: nota anacrúsica.
Fret: traste.
Gregorian chant: canto gregoriano.
Opera: ópera.
Program music: música programática.
Gothic Rock: Rock Gótico.
New Wave: "nueva ola".
Symphony: sinfonía.
Mass: misa.
Consonance:consonancia.
Dissonance: disonancia.
Theme: tema musical (principal).
Stress: acento.
Reed: lengüeta.
Polyphony: polifonía.

WORK IDIOMS

TO BRING HOME THE BACON
TO BE FIRED
TO SWEAT BLOOD
A DEAD-END JOB
A GOLDEN HANDSHAKE
TO BE SNOWEED UNDER
A CASH COW

LIMERICKS

There was a girl from Villamayor 

who wanted to went to New York

she went to the airport 

but she lost her passport

and she ate a sandwich of porck.