The Age of Discovery

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Cristobal Colón

"COMPARISONS"

Comparative and Superlative games

Here you have some games to practice your english. 
Do not forget to tell me your score!
GAME 1  FOOTBALL GAME
                    

  





IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES



            

YET ALREADY AND JUST

Rewrite the sentences adding (Already / Just / Yet) 

1. I have eaten sushi before. (already) 
__________________________________________________ 
2. She hasn’t visited Eurodisney. (yet) 
__________________________________________________ 
3. They have seen this movie. (already) __________________________________________________

4. We have met your teacher. (just) She is nice.
__________________________________________________

5. My brother hasn’t started school. (yet) He is 2 years old
_________________________________________________

English test review

Activity 1. Complete with for o since.
1. We’ve been running  in the playground………. two hours.

2. I’ve been working in this office ………. a month.

3. They’ve been living in San  Agustin ………. 2010.

4. He has been in another school ………. a year.

5. I’ve known that teacher ………. a long time.

6. That man has been standing there ………. six o’clock.

7. She has driven the same car ………. 1975.

8. The kettle has been boiling ………. a quarter of an hour
.
9. Things have changed ………. I was a girl.

10. The central heating has been on ………. October.

Social Sciences Review

Hi babies!

Are you sure do you know all these dates?

What happened????

 476 A.D.      507  A. D     589  A. D

711  A. D    722 A. D      929 A. D  

1085           1212        1492

Here you have some ideas:

START OF THE MIDDLE AGES

START OF THE VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM

BATTLE OF GUADALETE...  NAVAS DE TOLOSA...

TOLEDO WAS CONQUERED

KING RECAREDO CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM

CHRISTIANS CONQUERED GRANADA....

FERNANDO BOTERO

BIOGRAFÍA

QUICK FACTS

NAME

Fernando Botero

OCCUPATION

Painter, Sculptor

BIRTH DATE

April 19, 1932 (age 83)

PLACE OF BIRTH

Medellin, Colombia

FULL NAME

Fernando Botero Angulo

ZODIAC SIGN

Aries

Fernando Botero, pintor y escultor, es uno de los artistas vivos más importantes de nuestra época. Botero nació en Medellín, Colombia, en 1932. Su padre  era vendedor de mercancías y recorría las montañas de su tierra llevando sus productos de pueblo en pueblo a lomo de mula.

Cuando Fernando y sus hermanos eran sólo unos niños, su padre falleció, por lo que su madre tuvo muchas dificultades económicas para darles educación

                                                  .

Fernando comenzó a dibujar desde muy joven y sus primeros temas fueron las corridas de toros, a las que asistía con un tío. El pintaba acuarelas de temas taurinos y las vendía en las puertas de la plaza de toros.

Mientras era estudiante de secundaria, escribió un artículo en un

periódico local llamado: “Picasso y el no conformismo en el arte”.  A

causa de las ideas que expuso y de las ilustraciones que acompañaban el

artículo, fue expulsado del colegio.

A los 16 años se vinculó con el mismo periódico como ilustrador y con

el dinero que recibía, pudo pagar su educación. Dos años más

tarde realizó su primera exposición con otros pintores de la ciudad.

A los 19 años presentó su obra en Bogotá y gracias a la venta de

algunos cuadros se fue a Europa a estudiar. Vivió en España, Francia y

finalmente en Italia, donde además de sus estudios se dedicó a visitar

museos y a aprender de los grandes maestros.

A los 24 años se casó y se fue a vivir a México, allí comenzó a pintar
sus primeras formas redondeadas que son la característica principal
tanto de su pintura como de su escultura.

                                                             

Durante varios años la crítica fue muy dura con su obra, su situación económica era difícil y sus cuadros no se vendían bien.

Antes de cumplir los 30 años, el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Nueva

York, le compró una obra llamada: “Monalisa a la edad de 12 años”.

 Esta compra le dio el respaldo que necesitaba y desde ese momento comenzó a exhibir en los principales museos del mundo.

Características de su obra:
No sólo las personas, sino también los animales, las flores, las frutas
y los objetos son de formas redondeadas y desproporcionadas.

Pinta escenas de su país y de las experiencias que vivió durante su infancia. En sus
cuadros se pueden ver los pueblos, la arquitectura colonial y los paisajes y frutas de su tierra natal.

Representa con humor los símbolos de poder de la sociedad: presidentes, soldados, sacerdotes y obispos.

Sus colores son fuertes y brillantes.

En muchos de sus cuadros él recrea las obras de grandes artistas de la historia del arte universal.

Sus esculturas, tanto en bronce como en piedra, son redondeadas y suaves, algunas de ellas, de más de 2 metros de altura. Ellas han sido exhibidas en avenidas y plazas en las principales ciudades de cada continente.

En los últimos años Botero ha utilizado su arte para denunciar actos de guerra, terrorismo y torturas en diferentes lugares del mundo.

Estas obras las ha llevado a muchos países y no las ha querido vender. Las ha donado, para que ellas queden como testimonio para las generaciones futuras.

Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world.

Synopsis

Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left matador school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration.

                                  

Botero's work in  his early years was inspired by pre-Colombian and Spanish colonial art and the political murals of Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Also influential were the works of his artistic idols at the time, Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez. By the early 1950s, Botero had begun studying painting in Madrid, where he made his living copying paintings hanging in the Prado and selling the copies to tourists.

The Maturing Artist

Throughout the 1950s, Botero experimented with proportion and size, and he began developing his trademark style—round, bloated humans and animals—after he moved to New York City in 1960. The inflated proportions of his figures, including those in Presidential Family (1967), suggest an element of political satire, and are depicted using flat, bright color and prominently outlined forms—a nod to Latin-American folk art. And while his work includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero has typically concentrated on his emblematic situational portraiture.

JINETE MUSEO DE  JERUSALÉN, ISRAEL

After reaching an international audience with his art, in 1973, Botero moved to Paris, where he began creating sculptures. These works extended the foundational themes of his painting, as he again focused on his bloated subjects. As his sculpture developed, by the 1990s, outdoor exhibitions of huge bronze figures were staged around the world to great success. 

Recent Works

ESCULTURA DE LA MANO, EN EL PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA

In 2004, Botero turned to the overtly political, exhibiting a series of drawings and paintings focusing on the violence in Colombia stemming from drug cartel activities. In 2005, he unveiled his "Abu Ghraib" series, based on reports of American military forces abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War. The series took him more than 14 months to complete, and received considerable attention when it was first exhibited in Europe.

Personal Life

Fernando Botero has been married three times, having wed current wife, Greek artist Sophia Vari, in the mid-1970s. He has several children as well, with one son having died as a child during a car accident. Botero continues to exhibit his works around the world.

HAVE FUN!

GAMES, STORIES, MATCHING VOCABULARY.. A BIT OF MANY THINGS.

VOCABULARY FLASHCARDS

MATCHING GAME

CONCENTRATION GAME

KIDS CASTLE

"LET´S FIND OUT"

Find out about " AVERROES"

1. WHEN AND WHERE WAS HE BORN?
2. WHAT SUBJECTS DID HE WRITE ABOUT?
3. WHY  WAS HE IMPORTANTANT?
4. WHEN DID HE DIE?

HIS LIFE

"Let´s learn Social Sciences"

                       DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?

1. WHEN AND WHERE WAS HE BORN? 
2. WHAT COUNCILS DID HE FORM A PART OF?
3. WHAT  DID HE WRITE?
4. WHAT LANGUAGES DID HE KNOW?
5. WHAT SUBJECTS DID HE INCLUDE IN HIS ENCICLOPEDIA?
6.  WHAT WERE THE MOS IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS OF HIS LIFE?

INFORMATION

"Social Sciences"

Spain in the Middle Ages                                       Unidad 5

(España en la Edad Media)

Lista de vocabulario

achievements = logros

al-Andalus = al-Ándalus

Allah = Alá

Arabian Peninsula = Península Arábiga

Arabic = idioma árabe

army = ejército

authority = autoridad

badge = emblema

Battle of Covadonga = Batalla de Covadonga

Battle of Guadalete = Batalla de Guadalete

Battle of Navas de Tolosa = Batalla de las Navas de Tolosa

belief = convicción, creencia

bishop = obispo

Black Death = la Peste Bubónica (o Negra)

blacksmith = herrero

border = frontera

caliph = califa

caliphate = califato

cathedral = catedral

Catholicism = catolicismo

Christian = cristiano

clay = arcilla

clergy = clero

conquest = conquista

Córdoba Caliphate = el Califato de Córdoba

council = consejo

Council of Toledo = El Concilio de Toledo

customs = tradiciones o costumbres

decrease = disminuir

defeat = derrotar, vencer

emir = emir

emirate = emirate

equal = igual

expand = extenderse

follower = seguidor, fiel

fortress = fortaleza

Germanic tribe = tribu germánica

governor = gobernador

Great mosque = mezquita mayor

irrigated farming = agricultura de regadío

Islam = el Islám

Jewish = judío

King Recaredo = el rey Recaredo

Koran = El Corán

laws = leyes, legislación

leather goods = objetos de piel

legend = leyenda, gesta

lord = señor (feudal)

merchant = mercader, comerciante

miller = molinero

Mozarab = mozárabe

Muslim = musulmán

Ostrogoths = ostrogodos

pattern = filigrana

pilgrimage = peregrinación

pottery = cerámica

prophet = profeta

raise = criar

reconquer = reconquistar

rights = derechos

Roman laws = derecho romano

route = itinerario, ruta

rule = gobernar

running water = agua corriente

sacred = sagrado

souk = el zoco

Taifa kingdoms = Reinos de Taifas

taxes = impuestos

teachings = enseñanzas, doctrina

territory = territorios

thinker = pensador

treasure = tesoro

Visigoths = los visigodos

weapon = arma

wheat = trigo

History time line

"Middle Ages"

La edad media en Europa y en España
                   
 
 



MIDDLE AGES IN 3 MINUTES

Introduction to Social Sciences

" Time detectives"
Hi everybody!
We are about to start a new unit of Social Sciences, in particular about History.

Let´s  prepare ourselves to understand the long and special period called " Middle ages" and most of the events that happened at that time.

I do hope you like the video and  you can guess some of the civilisations, places, costumes... you will see.

 Pay atttention and enjoy!

"ANIMANDO LA HISTORIA"
                           
VIDEO

WE ARE SCIENTISTS!

                         

                                      
Teacher Estibaliz brought some snails for us to grow.
We are really excited!
They took them home and now we will see  how thwy take care of them.
Thank you Teacher Estibaliz!

They are very happy!

This is for me!

HEEEEELP!

Great activity!

Now is our turn!

CONSEJOS PARA CUIDAR TU CARACOL! SOME ADVICE TO TAKECAREOF YOUR SNAILS!

" HALLOWEEN DAY"

The  day before Halloween we decided to make a mask vampire. 
This is what we did:review the parts of the face and its description. 
Then the children had to create their own vampire, writing at least 5 sentences about him.

THEY HELP EACH OTHER!

 

WORKING HARD

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? JEJE

SHE IS AN ARTIST!

"STORY TELLING" DONT LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS!

                        STORY TELLING
Here you see our children doing an activity. We studied the punctuaction marks and we decided to use a story to reinforce this content, using them.
They were listening to the story and they hadto complete a worksheet with 3 sentences, they had to choose with 3 different punctuation marks.

 

 

"HALLOWEEN"

HALLOWEEN STORY

Thriller by MICHAEL JACKSON

STORY TELLING

Story

Story with words

Let´s investigate!

We decided to study the main organs from our bodies, using a matching game.
Then why not  to study a bit more and find out about :
-its function
-its location in a human bodie 
-the system it belong to 
-examples of other living things that have this organs
 ( including pictures)
These are some of the posters they have  made.

"Let´s study Sciences"

These are some of the posters  the children have written to learn the organisation of living things: plants and animals.

BEAUTIFUL!

GREAT JOB!

         

EXCELLENT DANIEL!

 

CARLOTA´S WORK! Amazing!

FANTASTIC JOB!