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domingo, 10 de abril de 2016

Aliénor d'Aquitaine

Leonor est neé dans la ville de Poitiers, en 1122. C'était la plus grande des trois regetons du mariage entre Guillermo X, duc d'Aquitaine et Leonor de Châtellerault. En 1130 son frère est mort Guillermo, et elle sont devenus héritièrs de leur père. Le 9 avril 1137, son père est mort et Leonor a pris le possession du duché d'Aquitaine.

Leonor avec 15 ans s'est mariée avec Louis VII de France le futur roi de France, et ils ont eu deux enfants.

Durant son séjour à Atioche, la relasion de la reine avec son oncle Raimundo de Poitiers, a donné le lieu pour les médisances, qui ont provoqué l'eloigement entre les rois. En 1152 ils ont obtenu l'annulation de son mariage.

Le 18 mars 1152 elle s'est mariée avec le futur Enrique II d'Angleterre.
Ils ont eu cinq fils et trois filles.

L'existence d'une maîtresse d'Enrique II a provoqué l'anffrontement entre les rois, et à partir de 1173 Leonor a promu la révolte de ses trois fils contre son père. Le roi a emprisonné Leonor et elle est restée jusqu'à la mort du roi Enrique en 1189.

Leonor s'est retirée a l'abbaye de Fontevrault. La mort de Ricardo a fait qu'elle abandonnaet sa retraite jusqu'à obtenir le couronnement d'autre fils, Juan.
En 1200, avec presque 80 ans, a voyagé à Castille, pour choisir entre ses petites-filles, les infantes de Castille à laquelle elle se deviendra épouse du fils Philippe II Auguste, le futur Louis VIII.
Elle est morte le 1 avril 1204 dans l'abbaye de Fontevrault, avec 82 ans, étant enterré avec son époux Enrique et son fils Ricardo.

domingo, 13 de marzo de 2016

A formal letter

                                                   29, Unión Mercantil   
                                                                                            Malaga  
                                                                                            29004  
                                                                                            6th September 2016  
The Community Fund
Alfonso XII Street
Madrid
28004


      Dear Sir or Madam,

I'm writing to enquire about lottery founds for a community project in our town.

Malaga is a good and a beautiful city of Spain,
There are a lot of interesting places in and around the city and a lot of shopping centers... but in my neighborhood there aren't any homes for street animals. For that reason I'm writing to you. We would like to build a home for street animals.

Here, we see a lot of them and it's very sad.

We would like that these animals could have a home, a place where they might be protected and fed, like wise, the people could also adopt animals.
I would be grateful if you could send me information about lottery grants.
If you have any questions about our project, please do not hesitate to contact me.

     Your faithfully,


           Irene Caballero

Irene Caballero
Chairperson
Malaga
Centre Committee

Anne Frank

She was born on 12th June 1929 (Frankfurt). Of a jewish: her parents Otto Frank and Edith and her sister Margot, three years older than Anne.
Anne became worldwide famous, thanks to the diary which she wrote during the time that she was hidden.

Anne had the bad luck of being born when the economic crisis and the increasing anti-semitic felling began and when Hitler appeared. That put an end to the calm life of the family; so her parents decided to leave Germany and go to Amsterdam. There, Anne and Margot went to school, Otto set up a business where he worked hard and his wife took charge of the house.

However, the threat of war in Europe increased. On 1st september 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This was the beginning of the Second World War.

On 10th May 1940, the German troops invaded the country. Five days later, the Netherlands surrended themselves and the country was occupied by the Germans. After this, the Germans imposed anti-Jewish regulatons: Jewish presence, was prohibited in some places, Anne and Margot had to go to a school only for Jews and Otto wasn't allowed to manage his company (he did it, in secret); and they decided to hide in the back-room of Otto's bussines together with other four people where they were helped by some of Otto's employees.

They provided food, clothes, books and contact with the exterior of the world to them.

After hiding, Anne got a diary for her birthday where she wrote about her life while  they were hidden, and to which, she showed her fellings and deeper thoughts as if it was her best friend.While she wrote it, she was thinking to turn it into a novel.


On 4th August, 1944, the hiddens were arrested and later deported to Auschwitz. There they separated the families, men of women. 

Edith died and later, both daughters, Anne and Margot, in the concentrationn camp of Bergen-Belsen, because there were a lot of illnesses and a bad hygiene.

Otto Frank is the only one of the eight hiddens that survived. 

Anne's diary was kept by the family friend, Miep Gies, who gave it to Otto when he returned to Holland. When Anne was still alive she had expressed interest in having her diary published as a record of her experience. After her death, her father edited it and it was first published in 1947.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is an exceptionally popular an well-known piece of writing. It has been translated into 67 languages and is especially popular with young people.

sábado, 12 de marzo de 2016

Living with a disability

My name is Abie and I've been a lame person since I had an accident.
I was crossing the zebra crossing when a car ran over me.
I was very lucky because I survived.
Now I'm studying a degree on criminology.

Life is very different for me (now). I had to learn to walk and run with a prosthesis.
Before the accident, I danced but now, without one leg, I can't. I was very sad at first, but then, I learned to swim with my disability. I love it.
I always have to be careful but I like it.
 
I only need a prothesis but sometimes I'm exhausted, so I have to take a weelchair. It is usually painful and therefore I have to take some medicines.

There are some things which annoy me. For example, when I see people dancing and I know that I can't, or when people look at me strangely but I don't care a lot, and usually people want to help me, even when I don't nees help!



Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, London, on 22th January (1882).
She eaa an englisn writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Woolf was an important figure in London literary society, and she was one of the members of Bloonsbury Group.
In her novels, she perfected the interior monologue with which she tried to represent the thoughts of a character, as they appear in her mind.
Woolf was also a pioneer in the reflection on the conditiin of women, the feminine identity and the relarions of women with art and literature, which is developed in some her essays; like "an own room" (1932) or "Orlando" (1928) in this, she blurs the differences between the masculine and the feminine condition personified in the protagonist, an aristocrat provided with the faculty to tranform himself in to a woman.
Her first novel "End of trip" was published in 1915 like in "Night and day" the writer already proved to be ready to break the narrative schemes, but they didn't have consideration  on the part of the critique.
Only after the publication of "Lady Dalloway" and "To the lighthouse", the critics began to praise her literary originality. Critics also began to attract their attention to the technical mastery and the experimental zeal of the author, who introduced in the prose novel a style and a few images which till then, had been mainly used in poetry.
After completing her last manuscript (novel), Virginia Woolf fell into a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. World War II, that destructed her London home and the cool reception given to her biograhy of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her condition until she was uneable to work.
On 28 March 1941, Woolf drowned herself by filling her overcoast pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse Woo.
Woolf's body wasn't found until 18 April 1941.







sábado, 5 de marzo de 2016

Lettre à l'Office du Tourisme de Bretagne

 Irene Caballero                                                              Destinataire: Bretagne
  29004, Malaga               Malaga, le 1 février 2016
  Espagne

>Demande de renseignements.

             Madame Monsieur,
  Bonjour, je m'appelle Irene. Je suis une élève du lycée I.E.S. Fernando de los Rios,à Malaga (Espagne).
Nous allons faire un projet sur les régions de France et j'aimerais que vous m'aidiez avec l'information, s'il vous plaît.

  Je voudrais savoir les endroits plus populaires et beaux qui existent dans cette région pour pouvoir visiter; aussi, je voudrais conna
ître et découvrir le fromage et la gastronomie typiquement français.
Il y a quelque personne célèbre en Bretagne? et pourquoi il ou elle est célèbre?

  S'il y a pas de problèmes, je voudrais que vous m'envoyiez cette information en papier, s'il vous pla
ît.
   
  Merci pour votre attention, j'attends votre réponse.  

         Cordialement, Irene. 



RÉPONSE DE L'OFFICE DU TOURISM



Chère Mademoiselle,
Nous vous remercions pour l'intérêt que vous portez à notre destination. Nous vous adressons la documentation souhaitée par courrier dans les meilleurs délais. Merci de nous faire connaître votre adresse postale complète.
Vous pouvez retrouver des informations sur l'histoire de la Bretagne, ses personnages importants en allant sur le site du Comité Régional du Tourisme de Bretagnewww.tourismebretagne.comAnne de Bretagne, Duchesse de Bretagne, mariée deux fois avec notamment le roi de France est sans nul doute une reine qui a marqué l'histoire de la Bretagne Autre personnage, Bertrand Duguesclin.
Dans l'attente de vous accueillir, Rennes, la capitale de la Bretagne vous souhaite, par avance,  un excellent séjour. 
Bien cordialement,
Dominique - Conseillère en séjours - Espace Accueil
Pensez à l'environnement. N'imprimez ce courriel que si vous en avez vraimentbesoin.

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