Thursday, 27 November 2014
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Monday, 24 November 2014
Mirabal sisters
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the homonymous province, see Hermanas Mirabal Province.
The Mirabal Sisters (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈmanas miɾaˈβal], Hermanas Mirabal) are the four Dominican sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, three of whom were Assassinated on November 25, 1960. Their assassination turned them into "symbols of both popular and feminist resistance".
In 1999, the sisters received recognition by the United Nations General Assembly, who designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in their honor.
Continue reading HERE
25th November - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - Songs
I’m Okay – Christina Aguilera
In this powerful and beautiful ballad, global Pop superstar Christina Aguilera sings about surviving her childhood with her abusive father. Parts of this song may be triggering for some survivors of domestic violence.
Sia sings about freedom and strength to listen to your heart and obey it. This song is about an abusive relationship and deciding to leave it.
Katy’s song represents overcoming the complex struggles of an abusive relationship and championing herself. She is fighting to take her life back from her abuser and has had enough of the abuse and realises she deserves so much more
Suzanne Vega tells the story of a woman who tirelessly works to cover up the abuse she is experiencing. “Luka”, the narrator, shares her story in a form of conversation.
Dessa "Alibi"
Artful and poetic as she always writes, Dessa tells the story of an individual in an abusive and controlling situation without ever explicitly discussing violence. She tells the story from the perspective of a friend and place of support for the individual.
Tracy Chapman, “Behind The Wall”
After the first three songs of Tracy Chapman’s self-titled debut album, listeners had good reason to expect that all her material would be powered by acoustic guitar, but “Behind The Wall” is delivered with no instrumentation whatsoever, to chilling effect. “Last night I heard the screaming,” Chapman begins, launching into a tale of an apartment-dweller who awakens to the sounds of a husband beating his wife on the other side of the wall. Calling the police does nothing, she quickly discovers, as “they always come late, if they come at all,” and even when they show up, “they say they can’t interfere with domestic affairs between a man and his wife.” The song ends sadly, with the screaming ending, the wife being taken away in an ambulance, and a policeman telling all the bystanders to go home, adding, “I think we all could use some sleep.”
Monday, 17 November 2014
NB - Akinator The Web Genius
Take your time and play this game. akinator is a real Genius. Think of a person and he will guess who your are thinking of. Give it a try and Enjoy!!!
AKINATOR, THE WEB GENIUS
AKINATOR, THE WEB GENIUS
1NB - Saxon Genitive and possesives- Explanation and games
SAXON GENITIVE- Explanation and game
http://www.engames.eu/possessive-case-explanation/
http://www.engames.eu/possessive%20case/possessive_case_quiz%20%28Web%29/index.html
POSSESIVES - Explanation and game
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-possessive-pronouns.php#.VGojuX_1bXR
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games/possessives
And... Try this game. the options are under A, B or C
1NB - Shopping, daily rotine and HAVE GOT
Go here:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/have-got
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/have-got
Thursday, 13 November 2014
NI - Breaking News - New Technogies
You have a lot of exercises on this topic on this website together with some really interesting information.
Give it a try!!
www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1408/140809-sleeping.html
Give it a try!!
www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1408/140809-sleeping.html
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Monday, 10 November 2014
NI - Books to read in Original Version, Unabridged
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Empty World – John Christopher
Saturday, 8 November 2014
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Monday, 3 November 2014
Sunday, 26 October 2014
1NB - How do you feel?
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/your-turn/how-are-you-feeling-today
Monday, 20 October 2014
Sunday, 19 October 2014
1NB - Colours - Donovan and Joan Baez
Here is a wellknown song to learn the colours and some other important words such as Freedom and mellow.
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Saturday, 4 October 2014
Monday, 29 September 2014
Monday, 14 July 2014
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
23rd April - Happy Books Day!!
Happy Books Day!!, . What about you looking for a real quotation you like from a book in English? Try typing "quotation", or "love quotation" or "peace quotation" in Google and see what you find!!
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Tiny Texts - Mess Makes You More Creative – Read, listen and learn a little English!
According to Kathleen Vohs, a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota, working in a messy space canboost creativity. In an experiment, she put 48 people into messy or tidy rooms, and asked them think of new uses for Ping-Pong balls. The people in both rooms came up with about the same number of ideas, but, the messy room subjects came up with more highly creative ideas; five times more to be precise. So, do you need to make your workplace messier? Maybe not! When interviewed by Inc. Vohs agreed that a messy room may be best for brainstorming, but an orderly setting might be better for a fast meeting where a quick decision is required.
Watch a video and listen to the text HERE
http://tinytexts.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/mess-makes-you-more-creative-read-listen-and-learn-a-little-english/
Sunday, 23 March 2014
OUR WOMEN II
Valerie Jane Morris Goodall
She was born on 3rd April in 1934 in London. She grew in the South of England in a middle class family. She has loved animals since she was a little girl and she lived among animals. When she was a girl her favourite books were The Book of the jungle and Tarzan. She got married with Hugo Van Lawick in 1964, he was a photograph of National Geographic and they had a son but ten years after they divorced. She got married again with Derek Bryceson in 1975; he was a member of the British Parliament but he died five years later. She always dreamt of travelling to Africa, to live between wild animals and to write her books. She is a naturalistic, an activist and a British primatologist. She has studied the behavior of chimpanzees all her life. For the first time in 1958 she travelled to Tanzania to study the wild chimpanzees, with only her mother, a cook and a tent. She was observing the chimpanzees for fifty years and, one day, she discovered that the chimpanzees were able to use tools to feed themselves. She has been award-winning with more than 100 international awards like Prince of Asturias, Lady del British Empire, Hubbard Medal, Gold Medal of Unesco,… Nowadays, she has more 100 investigation centres all over the world with more 8.000 voluntaries. She is a famous woman with more 26 books, a lot of scientific articles and 20 videos. She has published knowledge about chimpanzees and besides that, we look after nature. Today her dairy routine can be speaking to a group of students, meeting with government, sitting in front of television cameras, doing/giving interviews,…
Mª José Sánchez 2ºA
JANE AUSTIN
Jane Austen was a famous novelist. She was born in Steventon in 1775.
She published six books and wrote much more. Her most famous book is Pride and Prejudice (1813). Her books can be recognized for the ironic description of the rural life in England. Also, the critics emphasize her help to women´s education. She died in Winchester in 1817.
Anabel Rodríguez 2ºA
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Clara Campoamor was born in Madrid in 1888 to a working-class family. Her father was an accounting in a newspaper, and her mother was a seamstress.
When her father died, Clara had to begin working as a seamstress at age 13, but continued to study to pass the test that would guarantee her entry into law school.
After entering the University of Madrid School of Law, Campoamor began to write political commentary and joined women’s organizations. When Clara graduated in 1924 at the age 36, she started participating in debating and intelectual societies in Madrid.
Campoamor bécame the first woman to address the constituent assembly of Spain in October of 1931, when a new Constitution was written. Her strong defence for women’s rights was opposed not only by political conservatives but also by men on the left an even one of the only two women in the assembly, Victoria Kent. When her own party decided to oppose women’s suffrage, she left it and continued to advócate for suffrage as an indepent member of the assembly.
In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began, she escaped from the country in fear for her life. Settling in Lausanne, Switzerland an as an exile, she continued to write about feminism.
Clara Campoamor died in exile in 1972. Her ashes were repatriated and buried in San Sebastián.
Pilar Andrades 2ºA
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. She was a British novelist, essayist, editor and tales writer, and she’s considered as one of the leading figures of literary modernism of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. The Bloomsbury group was composed of Virginia Woolf, her husband, Leonard Sidney Woolf, the philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell, the economist John Maynard Keynes, the sinologist Arthur Waley, the writer Gerald Brenan biographer Lytton Strachey, the literary critic Desmond MacCarthy, the novelist and essayist Edward Morgan Forster, the writer Katherine Mansfield and the painters Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
Their works were deeply influenced by literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.
Virginia Woolf's most famous works are the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando: A Biography (1928) and The Waves (1931), and her long essay A Room (1929), with its famous dictum: "A woman must have money and own room if you are writing fiction." This essay was rediscovered in the 1970s, thanks to this dictum, one of the most cited in the feminist movement, which exposes the difficulties of women to work as writers in a world dominated by men texts.
During her life, Virginia suffered a mental disease that today it's known as bipolar disorder. The outbreak of the Second World War, the destruction of her house in London during the Blitz and the cold reception given to her biography of her friend Roger Fry got worse her health until she was unable to work
On 28 March 1941, Woolf committed suicide. She put on her coat, filled its pockets with stones and plunged into the River Ouse near her home and drowned.
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Clara Campoamor was a Spanish politician during the Second Republic in Spain. Clara was born in Madrid in 1888 and she was died in Laussana in 1972. Her father Manuel Campoamor was a book-keeper in a newspaper and her mother Maria Rodriguez was a seamstrees. She started by working as a designer when she was ten years old. Some years later she worked as typing teacher In 1923 she started her studies of Law and two years later she had finished her studies. She was then a lawyer when it was not usual for a woman to be one. While she worked as a lawyer, she began to meet some people who influenced her political ideals. In 1931 Clara Campoamor was elected a member of parliament of Spain. In These years one women could be elected but couldn’t be an elector. Clara fought for women to be allowed to vote.
Rafael Guerrero 2ºA
ANGELA MERKEL
THE MOST POWERFUL POLOITICIAN WOMAN NOWADAYS.
As all you know Ángela Merkes is the first female chancellor in Germany, and one of the most powerful politicians (including men and women) in the world. She was born in Hambourg, West Germany, on July 17th, 1954. Daughter of a Lutheran pastor and a teacher, her original name was Ángela Dorothea Kasner. She grew up in a rural area in the north of Berlin, she studied Physics at the University of Leipizg, and she worked as a Chemist for 12 years after earnig a doctorate in 1978. In 1990 she joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Soon after, she was appointed as a Minister for Women and Youth. She was named Secretary-General of the CDU in 1998, and she was chosen party leader in 2000 and 2 years after that she lost her first battle for chancellor in 2002 against Edmund Stoiber. Being the winner of the election in 2005 she was declared Germany's first female chancellor. Nowadays, she is still/continues being the chancellor of Germany and one of the most powerful politicians in the world, nobody can discuss a word with her in the European Union and perhaps in the entire world either. In Spain, she is like "a pain in the ass" for our presidents because she always said to them (Zapatero and Rajoy) what to do and how to do it, and because of this she had a very bad press in our country but it is one more way to show the world the power she has. Two days ago I've read an article which says that Angela Merkel could be the only person who can mediate in the Ukrainian crisis, between Russia and Ukraine because both countries have more respect for her than for all the war ships which Obama can send to intimidate the Russian leader, perhaps it is not true but for me is not difficult to believe.
Ángela Tilve 2ºA
THE MONA LISA
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTA
She is a religious woman, who was born in India in 1910. Her family was catholic, so, from 12 years old,
her great dream was to be a missionary. Being a girl, she joined the congregation Mariana de las Hijas de María where she started to help the poor. At the 18, she went to Berlin and she studied to become to a teacher in Bengala. After that, she founded the Charity Congregation MIssionaries . She also got the Kennedy Foundation Prize and she gave it to the much poorer people. She was visited by Juan Pablo II in La Nirmal Hidray. She died on 5th September in 1997.
Manuela Díaz 2ºA
ANGELA MERKEL
Angela Dorothea Kasner was born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. She is the oldest of Horts and Herlind Kasner’s three children and has a brother, Marcus, and a sister, Irene. She was raised in the small countryside town of Templin, in the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany). Her family lived quite well, because her father who was a Lutheran pastor, had a good relationship with the communist regime of GDR, so they had some rights denied to Christian pastors, such as easily crossing from West Germany to East Germany, and owning two cars. After studying in Templin, Merkel went to the University of Leipzig, where she studied Physics from 1973 to 1978. She then worked at the “Central Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin from 1978 to 1990. In 1977, Angela Kasner married physicist Ulrich Merkel, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Merkel remarried in 1998 to Joachim Sauer, a Chemistry professor from Berlin who she has been married to since. Merkel first entered the political world in 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today she is the first Chancellor of Germany, main industrial country of the European Union.
Luis Sánchez 2º B
She was born on 3rd April in 1934 in London. She grew in the South of England in a middle class family. She has loved animals since she was a little girl and she lived among animals. When she was a girl her favourite books were The Book of the jungle and Tarzan. She got married with Hugo Van Lawick in 1964, he was a photograph of National Geographic and they had a son but ten years after they divorced. She got married again with Derek Bryceson in 1975; he was a member of the British Parliament but he died five years later. She always dreamt of travelling to Africa, to live between wild animals and to write her books. She is a naturalistic, an activist and a British primatologist. She has studied the behavior of chimpanzees all her life. For the first time in 1958 she travelled to Tanzania to study the wild chimpanzees, with only her mother, a cook and a tent. She was observing the chimpanzees for fifty years and, one day, she discovered that the chimpanzees were able to use tools to feed themselves. She has been award-winning with more than 100 international awards like Prince of Asturias, Lady del British Empire, Hubbard Medal, Gold Medal of Unesco,… Nowadays, she has more 100 investigation centres all over the world with more 8.000 voluntaries. She is a famous woman with more 26 books, a lot of scientific articles and 20 videos. She has published knowledge about chimpanzees and besides that, we look after nature. Today her dairy routine can be speaking to a group of students, meeting with government, sitting in front of television cameras, doing/giving interviews,…
Mª José Sánchez 2ºAJANE AUSTIN
Jane Austen was a famous novelist. She was born in Steventon in 1775.
She published six books and wrote much more. Her most famous book is Pride and Prejudice (1813). Her books can be recognized for the ironic description of the rural life in England. Also, the critics emphasize her help to women´s education. She died in Winchester in 1817.
Anabel Rodríguez 2ºA
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Pilar Andrades 2ºA
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. She was a British novelist, essayist, editor and tales writer, and she’s considered as one of the leading figures of literary modernism of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. The Bloomsbury group was composed of Virginia Woolf, her husband, Leonard Sidney Woolf, the philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell, the economist John Maynard Keynes, the sinologist Arthur Waley, the writer Gerald Brenan biographer Lytton Strachey, the literary critic Desmond MacCarthy, the novelist and essayist Edward Morgan Forster, the writer Katherine Mansfield and the painters Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Clara Campoamor was a Spanish politician during the Second Republic in Spain. Clara was born in Madrid in 1888 and she was died in Laussana in 1972. Her father Manuel Campoamor was a book-keeper in a newspaper and her mother Maria Rodriguez was a seamstrees. She started by working as a designer when she was ten years old. Some years later she worked as typing teacher In 1923 she started her studies of Law and two years later she had finished her studies. She was then a lawyer when it was not usual for a woman to be one. While she worked as a lawyer, she began to meet some people who influenced her political ideals. In 1931 Clara Campoamor was elected a member of parliament of Spain. In These years one women could be elected but couldn’t be an elector. Clara fought for women to be allowed to vote.
Rafael Guerrero 2ºA
ANGELA MERKEL
THE MOST POWERFUL POLOITICIAN WOMAN NOWADAYS.
As all you know Ángela Merkes is the first female chancellor in Germany, and one of the most powerful politicians (including men and women) in the world. She was born in Hambourg, West Germany, on July 17th, 1954. Daughter of a Lutheran pastor and a teacher, her original name was Ángela Dorothea Kasner. She grew up in a rural area in the north of Berlin, she studied Physics at the University of Leipizg, and she worked as a Chemist for 12 years after earnig a doctorate in 1978. In 1990 she joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Soon after, she was appointed as a Minister for Women and Youth. She was named Secretary-General of the CDU in 1998, and she was chosen party leader in 2000 and 2 years after that she lost her first battle for chancellor in 2002 against Edmund Stoiber. Being the winner of the election in 2005 she was declared Germany's first female chancellor. Nowadays, she is still/continues being the chancellor of Germany and one of the most powerful politicians in the world, nobody can discuss a word with her in the European Union and perhaps in the entire world either. In Spain, she is like "a pain in the ass" for our presidents because she always said to them (Zapatero and Rajoy) what to do and how to do it, and because of this she had a very bad press in our country but it is one more way to show the world the power she has. Two days ago I've read an article which says that Angela Merkel could be the only person who can mediate in the Ukrainian crisis, between Russia and Ukraine because both countries have more respect for her than for all the war ships which Obama can send to intimidate the Russian leader, perhaps it is not true but for me is not difficult to believe.
Ángela Tilve 2ºA
THE MONA LISA
The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci
The painting is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini. It's the most visited painting , and I think the woman is the best Known woman in the world.
Her enigmatic smile and not knowing for sure who is represented on the picture, has made this picture of this woman the most visited painting in the museum of Louvre.
Many people can recognize Madame Curie, or Mother Teresa de Calcuta , and even Angela Merkel in her, but I'm sure they all know who the Mona Lisa is.
Although sometimes it's much better to see the painting through TV or the Internet , and not at the museum, because the crowd makes it impossible for you to have a look at it carefully.
Tomás Quero 2ºB
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTA
She is a religious woman, who was born in India in 1910. Her family was catholic, so, from 12 years old,
her great dream was to be a missionary. Being a girl, she joined the congregation Mariana de las Hijas de María where she started to help the poor. At the 18, she went to Berlin and she studied to become to a teacher in Bengala. After that, she founded the Charity Congregation MIssionaries . She also got the Kennedy Foundation Prize and she gave it to the much poorer people. She was visited by Juan Pablo II in La Nirmal Hidray. She died on 5th September in 1997.
Manuela Díaz 2ºA
ANGELA MERKEL
Angela Dorothea Kasner was born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. She is the oldest of Horts and Herlind Kasner’s three children and has a brother, Marcus, and a sister, Irene. She was raised in the small countryside town of Templin, in the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany). Her family lived quite well, because her father who was a Lutheran pastor, had a good relationship with the communist regime of GDR, so they had some rights denied to Christian pastors, such as easily crossing from West Germany to East Germany, and owning two cars. After studying in Templin, Merkel went to the University of Leipzig, where she studied Physics from 1973 to 1978. She then worked at the “Central Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin from 1978 to 1990. In 1977, Angela Kasner married physicist Ulrich Merkel, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Merkel remarried in 1998 to Joachim Sauer, a Chemistry professor from Berlin who she has been married to since. Merkel first entered the political world in 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today she is the first Chancellor of Germany, main industrial country of the European Union.
Luis Sánchez 2º B
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Happy Saint Patrick's!! 17th march
Corned beef and cabbage is a traditional St. Patrick's Day dish. And there are shamrocks and leprechauns everywhere.
Here is a video on how to celebrate this day properly
And some Irish music
THE IRISH ROVER
On the Fourth of July, 1806
We set sail from the sweet Cobh of Cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the Grand City Hall in New York
'Twas a wonderful craft
She was rigged fore and aft
And oh, how the wild wind drove her
She stood several blasts
She had twenty seven masts
And they called her The Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of stones
We had three million sides of old blind horses hides'
We had four million barrels of bones
We had five million hogs
six million dogs
Seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million barrels of old nanny goate tails
In the hold of the Irish Rover
There was awl Mickey Coote
Who played hard on his flute
And the ladies lined up for a set
He would tootle with skill
For each sparkling quadrille
Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
With his smart witty talk
He was cock of the walk
As he rolled the dames under and over
They all knew at a glance
When he took up his stance
That he sailed in The Irish Rover
There was Barney McGee
From the banks of the Lee
There was Hogan from County Tyrone
There was Johnny McGurk
Who was scared stiff of work
And a man from Westmeath called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole
Who was drunk as a rule
And Fighting Bill Tracy from Dover
And your man, Mick McCann
From the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper of the Irish Rover
For a sailor its' always a bother in life
It's so lonesome by night and by day
That he longs for the shore
and a charming young whore
Who will melt all his troubles away
Oh, the noise and the rout
Swillin' poiteen and stout
For him soon the torment's over
Of the love of a maid he is never afraid
An old salt from the Irish Rover
We had sailed seven years
When the measles broke out
And the ship lost its way in the fog
And that whale of a crew
Was reduced down to two
Just myself and the Captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock
Oh Lord! what a shock
The bulkhead was turned right over
Turned nine times around
And the poor old dog was drowned (1,2,3!)
I'm the last of The Irish Rover
MOLLY MALONE
Sunday, 9 March 2014
International Day for Women
Why do we need an International Women's Day?
Four gender-equality campaigners share their views on feminism and the backlash against women's rights. What do you think?
Read article HEREOUR WOMEN
GLORIA FUERTES
She was born on July 28, 1917 in Madrid. Her family was modest, her mother was a dressmaker and her father was a caretaker. She went to school until she was 14 years old, then, she continued her studies as a secretary.
She liked reading a lot and she wanted to be a writer. Her first poem was published when she was 14.
She worked as a secretary from 1938 until 1958. She was an editor of a children's magazine, and she also wrote for women's magazine.
Gloria Fuertes died in 1998 and she is famous for her poems, stories and songs for children.Eva López 2ºA
HIPATIA DE ALEJANDRIA
Paula Bohorquez 2ºA
LYNN MARGULIS Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was an American biologist. She developped a theory of the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and contributed to the endosymbiotic theory. She showed that animals, plants and funghi came from protists She also took part in the Gaia hypothesis, based on an idea developed by the English environmental scientist James Lovelock. This theory proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on earth to form a self- regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet I studied Chemist thanks to Lynn Margulis because her theories are amazing. María Millo 2ºA
IRENA SENDLER
Irena Sendler was born in Otwock, Warsaw on February 15th, 1910. In 1939 Germany invaded the country, Irena was a nurse in the Department of Social Welfare of Warsaw, which worried about the soup kitchens in the city. In 1942 the Nazis created a ghetto in Warsaw. It was an internment center for Jews. The living conditions were unhealthy and had many contagious diseases. One of the tasks of Irena was fighting against contagious diseases. She managed to get passes to enter there. The Germans did not want a typhus epidemic to break out, so they let the Poles who were there to take over the premises. Irena managed to contact families who offered to take their children out of the ghetto, but she couldn’t offer guarantees of success. It was common that mothers and grandmothers refused to hand over their children, but when Irena returned to visit families, she found that they had been taken to train leading to concentration camps. Irena had managed to rescue over 2500 children through different paths. The ambulance pulled as victims of typhus, in bags, trash cans, tool box, coffins, bags of potatoes in any form were used to save them. Irena created a file which recorded the names, identities, personal stories and families of children rescued so they can recover their true identities. The Nazis soon discovered what Irena was doing and was arrested on October 20th, 1943. She was in Pawiak prison and was brutally tortured, but she didn’t say anything. In 1965 the organization Yad Vashem in Jerusalem granted the title of "Righteous Among the Nations " and was named an honorary citizen of Israel. Years later in 2003, Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic, delivered the highest Polish civil award "The Order of the White Eagle." She always said that the reason that saved the lives of many children was a result of her home in her childhood. She was educated in the belief that a person with needs, should be helped at heart, regardless of religion or nationality. In 2007 was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but she wasn’t chosen. This woman died at the age of 98 in Warsaw on May 12, 2008. His life has been brought to television by CBS in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.
Esperanza Pérez
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Clara was a Spanish politician who worked for women´s rights. She worked hard on Universal Suffrage. She got it in 1931 and women could vote for first time in 1933. She was born in Madrid. When the Second Republic was proclaimed, she was elected member of parliament. Women could be elected but could not vote. She was a member of Constitutional Commission which took responsibility of doing a new Republic Constitution project. She worked to get: – Not discriminating according to sex. – Equality between sons and daughters, in and out of marriage. – Divorce. – Universal suffrage. She got all these matters even the universal suffrage which was won in an intense debate against Victoria Kent, another recognized politician, who did not want women to vote. The left did not want women could vote because they thought women could be manipulated by the Church to vote at right parties. Clara won with votes from the left, right and the comunists. Nowadays Spanish women can vote thanks to her. When the Civil War started she went into exile, she lived in different countries. In 1955 she arrived in Laussana (Switcherland) where she lived until her death.
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Monday, 10 February 2014
2NB - Listening - Talking about yesterday
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
Questions:
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman: as intense in the flesh as on screen
When I met Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2011 I found a man profoundly honest about movies, self-loathing and his struggles with addiction
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-death-interview?CMP=fb_gu
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