GOOODBYE !

We are very thankful for this opportunity that the English research project gave us. We've learned many things about different cultures and traditions of different countries and we've improved our English. It was a great and unforgettable experience. Especially when we had the exchange with you, our Polish friends. We would like to thank you for welcoming us in your home and for sharing us your cultures and traditions. It was fun and we've really learned many things.

Now is the last day of our class and this is also the last day of our research project so we would like to thank all the bloggers for all the things you've done and for participating. And to our Polish friends, we hope to see you again soon. Bye! :)

By: Razel, Andrea and Edgar

We are Laura Jiménez, Mireia López, Coral Martí and Laura Vera.

We want to say to everybody who participated on the blog that we will miss you.

It is our last year in ESO, and some will leave the school, others will try Post-Compulsory Secondary Educaction

Maybe we will split up, and the next year we won’t have the possibility of participating on this blog.

We remember the experience that we lived with our Polish friends, every project that we uploaded on the blog, and all the things, the history and the culture of English Speaking Countries that we learnt during the year.

Goodbye dear virtual and real friends!

GOOD BYE BLOGGERS! by Jessica. Laura and Nathalia

Good bye bloggers

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Farewell post

farewell by Xavi and Iván

GOOD BYE !

This experience is one of the most beautiful of my life. I met a lot of new people. I couldn't go to Poland because I had bad marks. I think it would have a nice experience. And next year I want to take this subject again will work better. Verònica Torres

Bye bye

We had a great time with you on this blog, we learned a lot and we shared many things. We are saddened by this parting, but the blog's finished. We hope to be in contact with the Polish people and to meet them again. Farewell to you all and have a happy summer.

Adri Muñoz & Jordi Pomares

THE END

Next Thursday is our last day in this Research project. Three years ago we started to work on the blog. During these years we have met different people from Poland, England… The next year we haven’t got the option to participate in the exchange although we want to follow participating and meeting other people from other countries and go on improving our English. Maybe in a few years’ time we’ll take a plane and go to Poland and we hope to stay with all of you again ! We have enjoyed a lot with you, especially with Magda, Natalia, Kasia and Zuza. Thank you for this year, for staying always with us and make us feel one more in your families. Thank you again and we hope to see you next summer or as soon as possible.

GOODBYE

First of all, we want to say thank you to all the people that made this nice experience true . We are very grateful, because you, all the persons that write in this blog, are very especial for us, you came into our hearts and now, we don't want to lose you. Thank you again for helping us to learn more English and teach us how to speak, the typical expressions and traditions; and the last thing, please never change, be as you are because in our hearts, you're the best people that we could ever meet. Bye, but we hope to see you again :). We will never forget you.

Sara Riera, Alejandro Borrego and Pau Fernandez

The mortal Instruments by Laia, Judit and Andrea

Spanish Revolution

Spanish revolution

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OUR FAVOURITE TV SERIES

Rivalry Barça vs Madrid BY: Ivan Torrubia and Xavier López

Sign and braille languages

Hooligans

Hooliganss

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By: Edgar Lopez Sanchez

Photoshop Tutorial

How to make "gazpacho"

SURVEY: by Sara, Ainoa and Sonia

Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia and jimmy wales

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My ideal trip

The Royal Wedding

The Royal Wedding on Prezi

By: Coral, Laura.V, Mireia and Laura.J

1x1 connection

Power point

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our trip to poland 2 day

Thursday and Friday

Our trip to Poland

The Battle of Trafalgar

Trafalgar

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By: Laura.J,Mireia,Coral,Laura.V

St. George

Sant jordi

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Something called DANCE

On 20th of May Sara Ortiz and Sonia Garcés will dance Jazz and Ballet and we are very nervous!!!!!!!!!!!! We will dance in Guinaueta's park within the framework of "Cruces de Mayo", a flamenco festival held in our neighbourhood. Every year there are shows of Ballet, Jazz and Flamenco. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=zCFGo54GBuI&vq=large On the minut 3.35 is Sonia dancing. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=702zvtymJLY&vq=large The first dance is Sara dancing. Good byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! ;*

Stutthof concentration camp

Stutthof on Prezi

By: Sergio, Laia and Marc

the Stonehenge

Stonehenge

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The Full Monty by: Ainoa, Sonia and Sara

Norman Foster

Norman foster

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In love : Shakespeare by: Sonia, Ainoa and Sara

MALTA

Maltaaaaaaaaaaaa

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THE MOBILE PHONE - BY ANDREA PERDIGUERO, LAURA HIDALGO & PAU FERNÀNDEZ

Presentacio mobile phone

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TV Information

TV Project

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Is fashion important for young people?

Is fashion important four young people

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Could you live without a computer?

Could you live without a computer

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School trip to Rome

Students in 4th of ESO visited Rome last week. If you want to see a complete gallery of pictures, click on the photo. Sure you'll enjoy them.

Saint Patrick's Day

By: Laura.V, Mireia, Coral, Laura.J

Why is Facebook so popular ?

Presentation of Facebook

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Life isn't beautiful

Languages of the United Kingdom

Australia's biggest problems (Laura J., Laura V., Coral and Mireia)

A severe storm in the city of Perth left a lot of people without home. The power cables were collapsed, the hospitals were flooded and some schools remained closed.

A part of the terminal of Perth airport was collapsed and it affected the flights.

The flooding in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia in January was one of the country’s worst natural disasters.

Scientists say that the disasters are not caused by the climate change but a lot of people think that the flooding is provoked by the effects of climate change.

In Australia, particurally in Sydney, there was a hurricane called Yasi in the north seaside of Australia, with winds of up to 300 Kilometers/hour.

The hurricane uprooted trees and electrical wires and in the sea big wales started. In this place there are a lot of tourists all year long, and it was dangerous for them.

A lot of people during the hurricane were in shelters, and a lot of tourists stayed all the night in a big store, an improvise shelter.

This hurrican was up to category five in the Saffir-Simpson steep, and it’s the same level that had the hurricane Katrina in 2005.

cant w8 to see you all spanish people again !!! you're so amazing !

greetings from PANDA ; ))

Our impressions of exchange by Sara, Andrea, Jessica and Alejandro

Polish People Impressions, Iván & Jordi

Our impressions on the exchange by Xavi, Adri and Pau

Robin Hood by Sonia Ainoa Sara and Ari

Jack the Ripper

Jack the ripper

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The British Museum

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The British Museum

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Estopa

Estopa

The name of the band is Estopa. Estopa hasn’t a special meaning.
They are from Spain and play pop-rock and a little bit of rumba. The band was formed in 1999.It was formed in the district of San Ildefonso in Cornellà, de Llobregat, 2 years after we are born. The band was formed with the brothers David and Jose Muñoz Calvo. Their parents had come from Zarza Capilla (Badajoz).
There are only two members in the band, David and Jose Muñoz Calvo. They play music with the guitar and the drums. Jose Muñoz is 32 years old, and David Muñoz is 35 years old.
David is short, he has a beard and sideburns, his short hair is black, his personality is nice. Jose is taller than his brother, he hasn’t a big beard and he also has a sideburn, his hair is brown, his personality is nice. 

Their image is not important,  they haven’t a special hairstyle and don’t wear special clothes. Jose is taller than David, David is the most attractive, Jose is the most intelligent,  Jose and David are nice, David is the friendliest.

We have all their CD’s because we dowload their albums. Our favourite album is “Allenrock” and our favourite song is “pesadilla”, because it is from the latest album. The band was launched in 1999. The lyrics are very important in the songs,  because the lyrics are interesting, entertaining, funny, ironic and clever. The rhythm and the melody are as important as the lyrics, because otherwise it would not be a song.

They appear on TV, when they do a concert, they go on tours. We haven’t gone to any  concerts. We haven’t got an autograph. We haven’t got posters in our rooms. They have launched a lot of albums. They are going to release a new album.

Polish-Catalan friends

EL MODERNISME

LA PEDRERA

La Pedrera, was designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and built between 1906 and 1910 in modernist art style. Gaudí had the colaboration of his assistants Domènec Sugrañes and Josep Canaleta, and the builder Josep Font i Bayo, who worked with Gaudí at Casa Batlló.

The building, so innovative, is a typical Gaudi's work. The facade is made of lime stone from Villafranca, except the top which is covered with white tiles. The combination evokes a snow mountain.

On the roof there are chimneys covered with fragments of pottery, with the appearance of heads of warriors protected by helmets. It has a total of five floors, plus a storage room made entirely transparent under a arched roof , as well as two large courtyards, one circular and one oval. In the facade cyclopean archentrance, there are carved rosebuds with inscriptions of the Ave Maria in Latin (“Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum”).

The Casa Mila was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument of National Character in 1969 and in 1984 UNESCO it was included within the World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí".

FOSSAR DE LES MORERES

The “Fossar de les Moreres” is a memorial square in the city, adjacent to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar.It prominently features a memorial to the fallen Catalans during the war of 1714. The site was built over a cemetery where defenders of the city were buried following the Siege of Barcelona at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. In the XIX century they built cementeries for the church in site the les Moreres. Actually, every 11 of September the people go to commemorate the National Party of Catalonia, in honor of the defenders who died and were buried in this place. STORY OF THE ORIGINS The origin of the Fossar de les Moreres was in the XII century, when the priest of the Santa María del Mar, needed a place to bury their believers, so he asked a bourgeois called Bernard Marcus who donated the land near the church (which is now the site). Marcus handed the ground, but on condition that someone should be buried there in a week, if no one was buried, he would claim the land again. The week passed and no one was buried, so Marcus came to claim his land, but on the road full of mulberry,He died of a heart attack, and he was the first to inaugurate his own cemetery.

EL MODERNISME

CASA BATLLÓ

Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904–1906. It’s located in Passeig de Gràcia and it’s part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona.It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

The building looks like everything Gaudí designed, the ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.

First, in the main floor the Lumière photo store was established; a few years later, a film production, and finally the Gallery Syra, by the architect Pere Ricart Biot and decorated by Alexander Circ.

The Casa Batlló was declared Historic-Artistic Monument in 1969 and as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2005.

EL MODERNISME

LA CASA AMATLLER – THE AMATLLER HOUSE

Amatller House is the second great building of the modernist Paseig de Gracia, Barcelona, designed by the architect Josep Puig I Cadafalch between 1898 and 1900. Because of the proximity to the Casa Lleó Morera and Casa Batlló, people called them ‘Illa de la Discòrdia’ because, although all of them are modernist buildings, they are very different from each other. In 1898, the industrialist chocolatier Antonio Amatller I Costa, wanted to transform an old building of 1875, which he bought to live in. The industrialist commissioned works to Puig i Cadafalch, who opted to give it the appearance of an urban Gothic palace.

Puig created the Casa Ametller after a very personal reading of the Gothic. The most striking building is the stepped façade reminiscent of Nordic which also resembles a classic chocolate tablet. The main floor is one of the few that still maintain in Barcelona the rich ornamentation and giggled and opulent atmosphere of that bourgeoisie of the Eixample. Currently it houses the offices of the Institute of Hispanic Art Amatller.

Barcelona's Cathedral

The Barcelona's Cathedral

Barcelona's Cathedral This cathedral is dedicated to Santa Cruz and Santa Eulalia, patron saint of Barcelona. Work began on the Gothic cathedral in May 1298.

The present cathedral was built during the XIII to XV out of the old Romanesque cathedral, and out of a Visigoth church. Building consists of the church and the cloister perfectly united in the same style.

The cathedral is 90 meters long by 40 meters wide and the cloister garden is 25 square meters on each side by six gallery width of each of the four surrounding it.

In the cathedral, there are 5 doors

Principal door

Saint Ivo's door

Mercy door

Santa Llucia door

Santa Eulalia's door

The crypt is located under the presbytery and its construction is due to Jaime Fabre, early XIV century. It was completed in 1326, although the transfer of the remains of the saint, was not before 1339. You can enter the cloister through the outer doors of Mercy and St. Eulalia.The interior of the cathedral has in white marble columns and fine archivolts clearly a Gothic tympanum.

Boqueria market by: Adri, Xavi, Nathalia and Pau

La boqueria

The Boqueria Market is placed on Rambla street. There is a municipal market, the biggest of Catalonia.

The real name of this market is “Mercat de Sant Josep” but we call it Boqueria, because the ''boqueron'' is the best selling fish; this food market has more than 300 stalls distributed on 2583m². It was open for the first time in 1836 and its metallic roof was inaugurated on 1914. It has some entrances.

Boqueria Market it’s famous because has original food. The most visited stalls are: 

• Fruits Ibañez, it sells fruits.
• Fruits Costa, it sells fruit.
• Fish Marta, it sells fish.
• Avinova, it sells meat.
• Symposion, it sells fish.
• Bacallà Carmen Gomà, it sells fish.
• Butcher’s Antonio Casanovas, it sells meat.

Main Entrance 

          







                                                                                      Sweets stalls

DISTRICT OF LA RIBERA

The Ribera is a neighborhood in the district of Ciutat Vella (Barcelona). It's one of the most traditional neigborhood of the historic center of Barcelona. This neigborhood was the economic center of the city between the XIII and Xvth century. The merchants of the period built palaces, which are quite well preserved. The district's important places are : -The Gotic basilica of Santa Maria del Mar -The Market of the Born (“El mercat del Born”) -El fossar de les Moreres. -The Picasso Museum In the XVIth century the neighborhood lost its economic power,and after the defeat of 1714 the center of the neigborhood was destroyed. Years later, it became the present Ciutadella Park and the Born market.(1876)

EL MODERNISME

CASA LLEÓ MORERA:

The Casa Lleó Morera is a project of 1902,by the architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner, is situated in the Passeig de Gràcia, 35, of Barcelona. The house lleó Morera is a magnific modernist building work, that Lluis permanyer says: “it’s like the Palace of the Catalan Music but smaller”. The decoration, is the habitual of the period, a lot of artesans like Mariano Maragliano and Lluis Bru participated in the mosaics, Antoni Serra in the ceramics, Antoni Rigalt in the show case and Gaspar Homar in the indoor furniture.The frontage and ground floor were decorated with Art Nouveau ornaments large and varied. Perhaps most striking the were sculptures by Eusebi Arnau representing two pairs of female figures holding a flower. At the base of the grandstand on the first floor featuring a group of female heads.

The architect Oscar Tusquets in the mid 80s of the twentieth century, was responsible for the restoration of the rest of the building and restore the temple and the pinnacles of the cornice, which had suffered serious damage by fire from machine guns during Spanish Civil War of 1936

Santa Maria del Mar

Santa Maria del Mar is a church on the Ribera district of Barcelona. The church was built between 1329 and 1383. It’s an example of Catalan Gothic edification.

The architecs were Berenguer de Montagut and Ramón Despuig.The north-west tower was started in 1496, but it wasn’t finished until 1902.

This church has two belfries because Santa Maria del Pi, another important church in Barcelona, had the tallest belfry in Spain.

Between Santa Maria del Mar and Santa Maria del Pi there was a big rivalry. Santa Maria del Mar was exclusive for the people of the port and the Barceloneta because they were the people that built this church with their money or their work. However, Santa Maria del Pi was a church for the rich people.

The interior gives an impression of light an spaciouness.This site was originally occupied by a Roman necropolis (cemetery) that was in use from the 4th to 6th centuries. This was discovered during excavations under the church in the 1960s.

“La Catedral del Mar ” in English “The Cathedral of the Sea“ is a book by the Spanish writer Idelfonso Falcones and deals with the church of Santa Maria del Mar and the population of Barcelona during its construction in the XIV century.

Cadaqués

Cadaqués is a little town situated in the Alt Empordà in the province of Girona. Cadaqués has a special place in art history. There are 2.640 inhabitants. One of the most important persons in this town was Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 and died in 1989. He is known for his pictures and his own style to make pictures as you already know. Cadaqués is a little town with a lot of white houses. It is famous for the beaches and the seascape. Usually, the inhabitants are engaged in fishing, but its seascape and its beaches are so beautiful that it has become a tourist destination. Then many people are engaged in tourism. People in Cadaqués speak Catalan the same as all over Catalunya. The name of this village comes from ‘Cap de Quers’, Cape of stones, and it was an old castle. A legend tells about one pirate that wanted to retired but before that, he wanted to kill one thousand people. The most interesting places for visit are: · The old town: this place was kept by a wall but now it isn’t there. · Serinyana’s house: It is a modernist building created in 1910-1913. ·The Santa Maria’s church: It is the principal church of Cadaqués. Sara, Sonia and Ari

SAGRADA FAMILIA

The expiatori temple of the Sagrada Familia is a spectacular catholic church situated in Barcelona, Spain. It was design by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. He designed a lot of famous buildings in our city such as El Parc Güell, La Casa Batlló.. The people say that Sagrada Familia is the best building of Gaudi, and a very important construction of the Catalan modernism.

The Sagrada Familia was started in 1882, and now this church is being built until 2030, more or less. When Gaudí died, the workmen had only built one tower. Now, the project only conserve maps and a plaster model but the last one was damaged during the civil war. The Sagrada Familia is being built from donations.

When the construction started, it had a gothic style, but in 1883 the style changed. When the temple is finished, the Sagrada Familia will have 18 towers. The central tower is devoted to Jesus Christ and it is 170 m tall. It has 4 towers devoted to Evangelists and a second dome devoted to the Virgin. Into the Sagrada Familia there are columns too.

The Church was three façades: the Nativity façade in the East, the Passion façade in the West, and the Glory façade in the South. The Nativity façade was built before 1935. This façade is dedicated to the birth of Jesus. The Passion façade is especially for the suffering of Jesus during his crucifixion. These designs are the work of Josep Maria Subirachs. The Glory Façade began its construction in 2002, this was the largest and most monumental of the three and will represent the Glory of Jesus. The Sagrada Familia also includes elements like the Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Heavenly Virtues.

As everybody knows, the Pope Benedicto XVI came to Barcelona one month ago. He came here to do a mass in the Sagrada Familia and then, this temple was officially declared a basilica. In Barcelona there are a lot of catholic people that were delighted to see him, but other people displayed banners against the Pope’s visit.

INTERIOR:

Inside the Sagrada Familia, as in the outside, all things are dedicated to religious concepts. As you can see, the majority of columns have got a tree shape. Gaudí wanted that the inside of this church looked like a forest. The temple has a latin cross plant. The lateral naves have a place dedicated to the choir. The church has 36 columns of 20 m, more or less, and it has a lot of windows with different colours. The light is the protagonist.

Ainoa, Marc and Sara.