[10th CW] ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Another activity carried out in English for the X Cultural Week was to write biographies of famous actors or actresses. 
Here is the work handed in by students. Actors & actresses in alphabetical order.

- ANGELINA JOLIE by Amanda Trujillo (1ºBAC-A)

- BELÉN RUEDA by Laura Canosa (1ºBAC-A)

- CHLOE GRACE MORETZ by Jennifer Vaamonde (1ºBAC-A)

- CHRIS HEMSWORTH by Cristina Arcay & Antía Criado (4ºESO-C)

- EDUARDO  CASANOVA by Uxía Queijeiro (1ºBAC-B)

- JULIA ROBERTS by Zeltia Mira (1ºBAC-A)

- ROWAN ATKINSON & EMMA WATSON by Ana Pérez, Paula Iglesias, Marcos Castro, Carlos Galán, María Circureán & Adrián Mayán (1ºBAC-B & C)

- VIN DIESEL by Lucía Pérez (2ºESO-A)

"THE PIONEER FILES": A COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST AT SOMETHING [7th CW]

About to start tomorrow our 7th cultural week, here are the biographies handed in by the different students who have taken part in the making of our PIONEER FILES: a collection of biographies of people who have been the first at something, in alphabetical order below.
From tomorrow you'll have the 20 questions to answer in our challenge quiz.

1- Neil ARMSTRONG by Iulia Izabela Vaduva (1ºBAC-A)

2- Kathryn BIGELOW by Marta Souto (2ºESO-C)

3- Elizabeth BLACKWELL by Belén Blanco (1ºBAC-B)

4- Nadia COMANECI by Eva Menéndez (1ºBAC-C)

5- Johan CRUYFF by Rubén Sande (1ºBAC-A)

6- Marie CURIE by Laura Canosa, Fanny Gómez & Mauricio Rosa (2ºESO-C) & Paula Blanco & David Santiago (1ºBAC-A)

7- Charles DARWIN by Daniel Fdez Pavón (1ºBAC-B)

8- Emily DAVISON by Alba Diéguez (1ºBAC-C)

9- Michael JACKSON by Silvia Vijande (1ºBAC-B)

10- Billie Jean KING by Leticia Colina (1ºBAC-A)

11- Belva Ann LOCKWOOD by Lorena Martínez (1ºBAC-B)

12- The LUMIERE Brothers by Abel Pérez López (2ºESO-C)

13- Isaac NEWTON by Andrea Iglesias (1ºBAC-B)

14- Elisha OTIS by Rodrigo Folgueira (1ºBAC-A)

15- Rosa PARKS by Ana Amigo (1ºBAC-A)

16- Danica Sue PATRICK by Marta Mallo (1ºBAC-B)

17- Kathrine SWITZER by Noemi Zubieta (1ºBAC-B)

18- Valentina TERESHKOVA by Paula Rey (2ºESO-C) & Eva Vecilla (1ºBAC-B)

19- Simone WIEL by Alicia Maquieira (1ºBAC-C)

MARTIN LUTHER KING'S DAY

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This date is a United States federal holiday marking the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King's birthday, January 15. 

Here are some links to webpages about Martin Luther King:

- MARTIN LUTHER KING'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE.

- RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING.

- LUTHER KING'S NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE ORIGINAL HANDWRITING.

Video MARTIN LUTHER KING'S FREEDOM SPEECH "I HAVE A DREAM":

This year's Martin Luther King's Day was also the day of Barack Obama's second Presidency inauguration, whose speech you can listen to in this video:

 

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, THE BIOGRAPHY

Here is a sample answer to the writing exercise of Ernest Hemingway's biography:

Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 1899. He had a middle-class upbringing, as his father was a doctor. However all his life he rebelled against the morals of his parents and the conventions of life in Chicago. He graduated from High School in 1917, but, being impatient for a less sheltered environment, he didn't go to college. Instead, he went to Kansas City, where he was employed as a reporter for a leading newspaper, "The Star", and this gave him invaluable vocational training. He wanted to be soldier, but was rejected for military service because he had poor eyesight, so he became an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. He was injured in World War I, and also decorated for heroism. He was fascinated by war, working as a war correspondent in Spain, China and Europe, and many of his books were about war, For Whom the Bell Tolls, his most succesful book, was written in 1940, and is about a volunteer American soldier in the Spanish Civil War. This book dealt with the comradeship of war, while A Farewell to Arms is about the pointlessness of war. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954, but he suffered from depression towards the end of his life. He loved life, although he was obsessed with death, and he committed suicide in 1961.