AVATAR

I choose the poison for avatar in Romeo and Juliet.
I think that it represents the things that you can do for love, represents all you can sacrificate for what do you feel about another person and represents all you can love another person even you can't live without it.

SHAKESPEARE

SHAKESPERARE'S LIFE
When was he born? (Shakespeare photo)
He was born the 26th of April in 1564.

Where was he born? (Map)
He was born in Statford-upon-avon, Warwickshire, England.

What was his family?
His father was a Merchant.

Who was his wife? (Photo)
His wife was Anne Hathaway.


Did he have children?
They had three children, Susanna and two twins, Hamnet and Judith.

How old was he when he died?
51 years.

SHAKESPEARE'S TIME
Who was the Queen and King during Shakespeare's life? (Photo)
The Queen was Elisabeth I.

What country was a great rival of England during this time?
Spain.

What happened with the Spanish Armada?
Spanish armada was repulsed when attempted to invade England.

Why was the Elisabethan era described as golden?
Because it was a time of intense economic and cultural development.

SHAKESPEARE CAREER
How many plays did he write?
He wrote 38 plays.

How many poems did he write?
He wrote two long narrative poems, and several other poems

Find the title in English and Catalan/Spanish of one comedy, one tragedy and one poem.
Comedy: The Two Gentlemen of Verona // Los dos hidalgos de Verona.
Tragedy: Hamlet // Hamlet
Poem: Venus and Adonis // Venus y Adonis

What is the Globe? (Photo)
The globe is a theater associated with William Shakespeare.


Where is the Globe? (In the map, with red)
It is in London, in Maiden Lane, Southwark.


What plays are performed in the Globe this month?
Hamlet, Othello, King Laer, Richard III and Romeo and Juliet.

When was the Globe first built?
In 1599.

How long did Shakespeare work there in the Globe?


What was the name of his theatre company?
Lord Chamberlain's Men.

What happened to the Globe in 1644?
It was pulled down by the Puritans.

Who built the Globe again and when?
An american actor and director named Sam Wanamaker. It opened in 1997.

SHAKESPEARE'S FAME
His words are used today around the world. How many words did he supposedly invent in the English language?


In which play did he say "To be or not to be. That is the question"?
In Hamlet.

Look for another famous word/quotation invented by Shakespeare and translate it into Catalan/Spanish
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - Romeo and Juliet
"Una rosa amb qualsevol altre nom continua tinguent la mateixa olor dolça."

CURIOSITIES

Who died on the same day as Shakespeare?
Cervantes.

What was Shakespeare's nick?
Lord Chambelrain's Men

How many films have been adapted from his work?
Approximately 420.

MY EXPERIENCES

)POSITIVE

- I have met my boyfriend.

- I have been to London.

- I have been to Expoterraria.

- When my parents have given to me my reflex camera.

NEGATIVE

- I have seen the death of my dog.

THE BERLIN WALL

1. When was the wall built?
The wall was built in 1961, on the night between 12 and 13 of August.

2. Why was the wall built?
The wall was built wanting to separate the West Germany ("Federal Republic of Germany") of the East Germany ("German Democratic Republic"), the two parts what was divided Germany until the final of the Second World War.

3. How long was the wall?
The wall was builted along 45km inside Berlin, dividing it in two parts, and another 115km what separated the west side of the city of the territory of the GDR.


4. What do we celebrate on the 9th November 2009?
The fall of the Berlin wall.

5. What is the present situation of this wall?
Now, only a little part of the wall, divided in a lot of pieces, isn't destroyed. The most parts because it's a cultural symbol and for the tourism.

6. Can you think of another wall that separates people, physically or mentally?
The racism is a mentally wall.
The people who are racist discriminate, sometimes using the violence, the people who have a different skin colour, a different religion or belief or is of another sex.
It involve a social wall because the discriminate people (and racists too, but in another way) have problems with the integration in the society.
Probalby the most reference of the racism, in the actuality, is the Nazism. We always can remember the atrocities what the nazis have in the Second World War. The concentration camps for the Jewish people are the best symbol.
The nazis think that them was higher and thw Jewish had to disappear because it's the only way to have a "clean" Germany.
At right, a poster of the nazi Germany.


Note: All photos are with credits if you click on.

EMAIL TO TEACHER

Hello Sonia.

My name is Elvira Fina and I live in Castello.
I have some "hobbies": The most important is the photography. I always go with a little camera in my bag and I have a reflex cam in my house.
I practise sailing and I love it too.
My "strange" hobby, I think it for my age, is the coin collection. I start it when I was 11 and now I have more than 100 different coins.
Another things that I love are the snakes and the dogs.

I don't like English a lot but i don't like the same languages in the highschool but I think that it depends a lot of the teacher.
I go to english clases in Castello with a group and usually have grammar with a book but I think that i have an acceptable level of English for my age and i'm not unhappy of my knowledge.
The worst problem that I have with English (Well, in same subjects too), is that I hate to speak or do things in front of another people and I don't like to go to the blackboard, do teather representations etc.
But I love to do powerpoints or similar things in my house if I don't have to go to the front of class to presentating it.

After the 4th ESO I will study the scientific batxillerat and go to Barcelona to stud Genetics or Cheministry to the University.
Well, I want to have a lot of university studies like psicology, criminology... but I think it's not probably.
I think to work in a laboratory or be a teacher.

Well, the presentation is over.

Bye!

PD: Sorry my mistakes, I know that I do a lot.

ME IN A PICTURE

I love the snakes because they are very stylized, primitive but evolved, they are quiet and never call the attention.
The snakes are a beauty animals, and they are very interesting.
I'm like an snake because i'm shy and for me is difficult to create a relationship of friendship with the people, because I need to know a lot this person.
The snakes are understood, and, sometimes, I'm difficult to understand.
I think that everybody is special, me too, and the snakes are very special.