Dublin zoo

The 1/12/12 we went to the Dublin Zoo. We had a great time there, and we enjoyed a lot. We learned a lot about animals, and we see strange animals, that aren't usual in our country, like: giraffes, tapirs, penguins, elephants, etc...
We had to complete a wordsheet with questions about animals, that also had a wordsearch.
 We ate our packed lunches sitting on benches listening to the latest hits.
We saw a show of sea lions. It was awesome, we saw how sea lions can jump and how they were
fed. We also saw how the zookeeper took care of the penguins.

It was a great day, a little cold but sunny and dry. We had a great time. We are looking forward to the next excursion.

By Toya and Mercedes.
 

BROOK HOUSE FOOTBALL CUP

This year  the brookhouse football tournament began on the 26th of november, the teams were Deportivo, Celta de vigo, At. madrid, Real madrid, Valencia and  Barcelona. The first match was At. madrid against Real madrid and the result was 0-1 for Real madrid. Then the derby between Celta de vigo and Deportivo took place and they drew 2-2.
 The next day was Valencia against At. madrid and they result 4-0 for At.madrid and then Celta de vigo against Barcelona, barcelona lost one of the best players and they lost 4-1. The last day of the groups were Real madrid against Valencia and the Real madrid won 2-0 an at 3:00 oclock was Barcelona against Deportivo an depor won 5-1 with the great goal of guille.

The semifinals were Deportivo-At.madrid and Real madrid-Celta de vigo the first semifinal took place and Celta was better than Real madrid and at the end of the match the result was Celta 2 and Real madrid 0. The second semifinal was Deportivo vs At.madrid and they drew 1-1 but in the penalties the great goalkepper Ivan didn't save any penalty and Aaron saved two penalties and At. went to the great final. the 3rd and 4th position was Deportivo vs Real madrid drew 1-1 and in the penalties deportivo won 3-1. The final was postponed because of our bad behaviour.

by Jorge Borreguero and Rogelio Diz.

Visit to the national gallery

 Every saturday we do different excursions. The first saturday we went to the National Gallery in Dublin and then to the Stephen green's shopping centre.
In the national gallery there were a lot of paintings of different artists, there were two rooms one of irish painters and the other of international painters.
After the visit, we went to a park to have our lunch and then we went to the shopping centre. In it there were a lot of peolpe and it was decorated with Christmas ornaments.
We enjoyed the day and we learnd different things about famous artists and the paintings. We had lot of fun, it was a complet day.

By Sofia Dominguez

SUBJECTS IN BROOKHOUSE SCHOOL

When you come to Ireland, you only think about eating  Whams, but  there are also many other interesting things to do. The most popular subject is SPORTS, where you can enjoy playing football, baseball and also basketball. Another subject that people usually like is Newspaper, where you can write about the school news. You can design the cover, you can interview people, write film reviews, write about the excursions etc. Another subjects are DISCOVER IRELAND  and IRISH CULTURE. In these subjects we can learn about the culture and history of  Ireland.

By Guillermo Carrera

LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES 2012

The XXX Olympic Games took place in the city of London, United Kingdom. It was a sport event that was carried out from July 27 until August 12, 2012 

The selection

The Olympian International Committee (COI) chose between nine candidacies that would go on to a final voting to decide the headquarters of the games, by means of a report of March 12, 2004 that was provided by a group of experts. There classified to the above mentioned final phase those that were obtaining a minimum of 6 points in the scale of evaluation from 0 to 10. The nine candidates and the obtained punctuation were:

Paris (France): 8,5 p

Madrid (Spain): 8,3 p

London (UK): 7,6 p

New York (The USA): 7,5 p

Moscow (Russia): 6,5 p

Leipzig (Germany) 6,0 p

Río de Janeiro (Brasil): 5,1 p

Estambul (Turquía): 4,8 p

La Habana (Cuba): 3,7 p

London was the winning city of the candidacy to celebrate the Olympic games of 2012 after spending four rounds of voting

Cars

The Aventador J (pronounced Yoh-tah) is the star of the Italian brand in the 81st edition of the Geneva Motor Show, which from day 8, will open to the public until March 18.

This unique model is the most extreme car ever made ​​by Lamborghini , created in its Style Centre as a "manifesto" in design and technology.
This convertible Aventador is conceived as a "barchetta" and instead of the classic front windshield, two small wind deflectors, making it the lowest car made ​​by Lamborghini.

These deflectors make the driver must bring the car with a specially designed helmet, made ​​of carbon fiber, as most of the vehicle to travel at speeds exceeding 300 km / h

In some areas of the car new material has been used , a flexible carbon fiber developed by Lamborghini and patented under the name "CarbonSkin". Car seats, in particular, are covered with this material.

The Lamborghini fanned J is powered by a 6.5-liter twelve-cylinder of 700 horsepower and all-wheel drive.

the price is of to 2  millions.

                                     

Telepathy vs body language

Telepathy vs body language

Many people believe in telepathy, but we just think that people know what the others are thinking because of the body language.But nobody can know certainly if it exists.It's impossible to know what another person is doing, thinking or feeling in that moment if he is in a different place. Maybe in the future we will be able to learn how to speak with other people without speaking.

The body language is the group of gestures that someone does without knowing it. Many people learn to read body language, so other people think that they have telepathy.

By pedro López, Mar Fraile an Teresa Matamoro.

The beginnig of the school

We have started the school in Los Sauces Vigo.  It was a bad summer because it rained a lot, but we had alot of  fun. But now we are in the school, unfortunately, hehehe. It's normal that we don't want to study, nobody likes studying.
There are some news in the school, we have interviewed  Natalia Martinez about the news of the school:
-Natalia, Do you like the new trousers in the school?
-No, I don't like them. I preferred the old ones.
-And, Are you going to buy the trousers? Because this year the girls can buy trousers and go to school with them.
-No, I won't buy them because I prefer the skirt.
-What do you think about the new classmates?
-I think they are very nice and they are good classmates because they pay attention.
-Well Natalia, and.... Do you like the food this year?
-It's the same food as last year
-But, do you like it?
-Well, it could be better.
- Thank you Natalia, sorry for stealing your time.
-Your welcome, it was interesting.

                                                                                                  By:
      
                                                                                                       P.A.N productions ☺

The best brands of the world:
1.pull and bear

2.jack & jones

3.quiksilver

4.giorgi armani

5.vazva

6. DC
 
7.vans

8.h&m

9.dolce & gabanna

10.nike

The oppinions are selected by Javi Juani and Marki.

 

Madness in formula 1

In 2013,  Hamilton will run whith Mercedes whereas Sergio Pérez, is going to the place Hamilton left in Mclaren.
This means, Michael Schumacher will left Mercedes. Mercedes will have two very good pilots, Rosberg and Hamilton, but Mclaren has one of the pilots with more future in the formula 1, Sergio Pérez that with Button will conform a great team for Mclaren.

Luca Montezemolo said taht"Alonso is the best pilot that ferrari had it"

Alguersuari can return to Formula 1  to Sauber with Kamui Kobayashi

And thats all

Gonzalo , Jesus and Pedro.

European stereotypes

In the world we find a wide variety of countries, each with different languages, cultures ... and also differ in terms of the stereotypes of people in each country.

How do Spanish citizens see the rest of the world?

• American people as the British have various common things. They eat fast food, they are so patriotic, they are very sportive and Americans are more talkative than British.
• Italian people are more like Spanish people, they are very fashionable and they like too much the party, also the two of them are so hard-working.
• Portuguese and Brazilians are very similar, they are a bit rude and dirty (not all of them) but they have the fame of cooking Bacalhao (PT) and Picanha (BZ) very well.
•  French people hate Spanish people; and the rest of the world see them very rude and dirty.
• Germans are so punctual and serious but they are impolite and unfriendly with the rest of nationalities.
• Irish are friendly and kind.

THIS IS IT!!!!!!

By Carmen,  Eva and Daniela

KNOCK-OFFS

Knock-offs are imitations of brand products, also called counterfeit products.
In our opinion, on the one hand they are good because people who haven't got enough money to buy brands, and they like that kind of clothes, can buy them.

On the other hand,  they are bad because not only are they illegal, but also people buy knock-offs instead of brands to save money.
Today, knock-offs are practically the same as brands so it's so difficult to tell the difference between the original and the copy.



By Claudia Álvaro, Irina Martínez and Clara Montalvo

Formula 1 safety

FORMULA 1



Drivers' safety is the most important point in in F1 because the drivers reach high speeds and in an accident they can die or be seriously damaged.

In the picture you can see probably the most shocking accident in the formula, Ayrton Senna, probably the best formula 1 driver in history had a terrible accident and he died

Eric Sidney Watkins, commonly known as Professor Sid served twenty-six years as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, and first responder in case of a crash. He helped to save the lives of many drivers including Mika Häkkinen and Rubens Barrichello

He invented many security accesories like the HANS which protects the neck in case of crash and he forced the FIA to have a helicopter in the circuit.

THE NEW SINGERS 2012

THE NEW SINGERS 2012  

ADELE 

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins ( Tottenham,  May 5, 1988), known simply as Adele is a British songwriter of soul, blues, pop, and jazz, winner of eight Prizes Grammy and three Brit Awards.

On 19th March 2008, Adele signed her first recording agreement with Columbia Recordrs and XL Recordings 

Some of her famous songs are "Rolling in the deep", " Someone like you" and " Set fire to the rain".
She has had a baby recently, but she continues with her job.

Belen autran y Andrea ayán

BMX

The BMX is the sport of riding a bike like a motocross, BMX is the acronim of bicycle motrocross.
The BMX started in the 1970s in Southern California nowadays there are 2 types of BMX competition, freestyle and race.
In a race competition the riders have to avoid some obstacles and the winner is the rider who gets first to the end.
In the freestyle competition the rider has to jump over the ramps and do some tricks, in this type of BMX the winner is selected by some judges.

This picture is of a BMX race competition
The video below is an example of BMX freesyle demostration

Global warming.

In this post, we are going to talk about global warming. First of all, Global warming is is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere.
The constant increase of the temperatures alters the delicate hydrological cycle which in turn generates a chaining of natural disasters: desertification, drought, thaw of the polar caps and glaciers, floods, hurricanes.

These alterations of the climate have devastating effects on the life in the planet. The crops are ruined. The natural habitats of the animals already cannot give them what they need to live. The animal and vegetable world is present impotent at the destruction of the planet.
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are the three best options to stop global warming.




By: Jaime Romero, Pablo Rial & Antón Bértolo. 4th E.S.O.B

UFO

UFOS AND ALIENS

UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. It's not very usual to see one, but  many people say that they have seen one like:

-Olivia Newton-John-Mick Jagger-Elvis Presley-John Lennon and they all believe in aliens after they've seen the UFO. 

These are some films were UFOS or alliens  are the protagonists like:

-E.T.

-The box

-The fourth kind

-The forgotten 

   

The UFOs

Over the years there have been many stories about the UFOS  told by people who believe they are real, but not everyone agrees. Stories such as "Varginha incident", " The colares flap" and "Goatsucker" called as well "Chupacabra" are very interesting.
This last one is a very outstanding UFO story that happened around April 2000 in Chile, the police found a weird triangular mark on the ground and at least 30 animals killed on a field in the same way, these were put down by the famous UFO the "Chupacabra", it isn't very clear if It's an alien which is surviving in Chile or a new breed of genetically mutated animal.



By: María, Carmen M. , Caye and Raúl.

UFOs Experience and films

UFO
Experience
Sunday, semptember 9
A man asked his wife for a cold glass of water with cookies.Suddenly he saw a strange object that was moving slowly and it was a very large circle over the area East area. After a few hours he was confused because he didn't believe in those things so he went with his wife and he told her what he had seen.

Films

Paul

Aliens vs Predator

Cowboys vs aliens

Eva Vazquez

Maria Chiara

Constanza Landeira

Carla Barreiro

The Roswell Incident

Maybe some of us don't believe in aliens but other people have had some terrible experiences. One of those experiences is the following.

In July 1947 a suspected UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico. Extra-terrestrial debris marked in alien hieroglyphics and even alien corpses were thought to be recovered. An autopsy was believed to be carried out on the corpse of an alien by U.S. doctors. However, since the 1970s huge controversy has surrounded the Roswell incident. The U.S. military took a firm stance that it was not an alien craft that crashed to Earth but an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named “Mogul” instead. A cover-up to detract the public’s attention of a genuine UFO and alien life in an effort to avoid mass hysteria? Or was it simply the truth that some people do not want to accept?

Do YOU think it's true?

...Or is it just another product of our imagination?

In movies they sometimes make aliens seem friendly and even funny, but other times they make them look like humans' enemies. Who knows who is right.

Lucia Anton Tascon
Marta Alvarez Sucasas

Do you recognise them?

A couple of years ago these girls won a prize for their beautiful dancing. Can you guess who they are?

Some of the still dance in the school group!

Interview to one of our dancers

We are going to talk with Agustina on of the dancers of Maria Ilarri's student. 


- Hello Agustina 
-Hello girls.
- Did you enjoy dancing with your friends? 
- Yes it was very amusing 
-Have you ever fallen down doing the dance?
-Yes a lot of times
-Was it difficult for you, to learn the coreography ?
- No it was easy.
-Do you like how Maria Ilarri dance?
-Yes I love it
-Do you think that when you grow up you 'll be a dancer?
- No I  don't think I only enjoy myself.
-Do you think that you'll dance the next year:?
-Yes of course!!!!
-That's all thank you Agus, you did it very well 
- Bye thanks girls!

                                                                                              by: Paula gradin, Ansur Silles & Agus de ttomaso 

Interview to one of our actors

We're going to interview one of the actress of our school, Colegio Los Sauces!

Switch it on: Good afternoon Malena, how are you? We´re going to talk about your actresses´s life. How did it begin everything?

Malena:  Good afternoon! Well, I'm fine, thank you. Everything began when I arrived in this school in 5th grade I started in theatre classes because  I wanted to try something new,  then I liked it so much and the following years I continued because I enjoyed it a lot.

Switch it on: Oh! very interesting... And, what did your parents think when you join in the theatre group?

Malena: Well, my mum totally agreed, she thought it was a good idea to improve my ability to remember things and not to be so shy, but my dad didn't agree, his opinion about these classes was that it was a waste of time but a throughout the time he has realized that my mum was right and it is good for me.

Switch it on: So, do you think you will become a professional actress in the future? Or is it only a hobby?

Malena: No, just like a hobby because I want to go to University to study medicine and I want to be a surgeon.

Switch it on: OK! Good luck haha! Well, how do you think the performance worked out? And how do you feel before and during performances?

Malena: I think that it wasn't good at all, but it wasn't  too bad  because it was very difficult, the parts were very long! I felt really nervous haha

Switch it on: OK haha good luck! Bye


                                                                                                                                                                     

Our trip to Altamira and Picos de Europa

Our trip to Altamira was very interesting. We saw the cave and how the cave people lived in the past. It was  amazing. They told us about the pictures in the walls and we did an exercice of the weapons and tools that they used to prepare the food, clothes and drawings.
The next day, we went to Picos de Europa. It was like an adventure. We were divided into three groups with tour guides and they explained us the animals and plants that live in these mountains. Then, we saw the lakes of Covadonga. We had a lot of fun.

THE END!
                                                                                   Natalia Martínez & Paula Diz :)

Dance Festival

This Dance Festival was completely different because of new girls, from 1st of ESO.

The girls and also the boys are from 1st of ESO, 2nd of ESO and Baccalaureate, and other women danced  "Sevillanas" and Galician Dancing with Teacher Maria. 

The most famous dance was from the movie Annie.They were all orphans cleaning and dancing all the girls together.They weren't wearing beautiful clothes at all but they were nice and cute orphan girls.

   

 By : ♥Agustina & Astrid.☻

 

Theatre and dance week

From the 26th of April to the 4th of April, students of our school are performing in the "Centro Cultural de Valladares".

We have seen the performance of Madrid (La Moraleja) students' on Friday 27. It was a very long play, but we enjoyed it. We also went to see Secondary students' performance on Wednesday 2. It was a bit difficult to understand, but sometimes it was funny. Today was Pontevedra's turn, they acted very well, but it was too short .

Tomorrow, it will be the Dance Festival, where students from Secondary school will dance. We will have two  very good presenters (Raquel and Luis). We hope that the audience clap a lot because it will be a very good performance.

By Alba

Alvarella '12

Hi, we are 2 ESO. This year we are going to Alvarella on 28 of March and we are coming back on 30 of March. It's an activity of the department of science, we are going to see a power station "As Pontes", a castle, play some games, visit the town and going trekking. If it doesn't rain, we will go to the "Fragas do Eume" which is the biggest forest of the Atlantic.

We're going to sleep in this accommodation , it is a beautiful place with swimming pool for the summer and it is in the countryside.

By:Thaísa Alcantara  and Carmen Romero.            

The american civil war. Project

The students of 1º of ESO, are doing  a project about the American civil war. We're doing this project because we are reading a book that was written in the context of the American civil war. It's called Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

The book is about a family of four sisters and one mother. Their father is fighting at war. That's why we are doing a project about the American civil war.

By Pedro Rivas

Saint Patrick's day

                                  

St. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland, and today he is patron of Ireland, New York and Boston, as welll as a handful of other cities and countries. On his saint's day, New Yorkers, can be found wearing all manner of green garments. Even the white line in the centre of 5th Avenue goes green and most people head for the pub to dronk to the health of the saint. 

It is celebrated in Ireland, in some cities of England, Chicago, New York, Boston and some more cities in the United States of America.

Chicago:

In Chicago they  dye the river of the city and the parade is enormous.

 

New York:

The parade is one of the biggest parades if the world. The 5th avenue is closed to traffic. Everybody wears green or get pinched.

The Frankis

Our trip to Santiago de Compostela

Hello! Here we're talking about our trip to Santiago de Compostela like a complement of interdisciplinary project.
There, in Santiago, we visited the TVG (Galicia Television) facilities: we were in the controls, in some sets and we met a very famous galician comedian called Xosé Antonio Touriñán.
We saw and learnt a lot of things about televisions, like the cameras and the importance of the position of the lights.

Then, after the TVG, we went to La Ciudad de la Cultura.
It is placed in Santiago de Compostela it is known as a cultural pole of big importance, dedicated to the knowledge and the contemporary creativity, La Ciudad de la Cultura of Galicia was outlined from his origins as an instrument that, bringing together past and future, is allowed to Galicia to approach in an integral way a strategic area for its developement: the culture.

Then, as we were starving, we went to have luch to Área Central; a famous shopping centre in Santiago.
when we finished our lunch, we went shopping, and finally we went back home.


By the ice-creams!! hope you like it
Sabela, Andrea, Nacho & Lía.