Genital mutilation

25th November, "the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women"; a little bit long title, don't you think? We're not going to talk about this because it is a problem that we are aware of at least or we should have to know. We're going to focus on "Genital mutilation" because not everybody knows about that.

In some less developed countries in Africa, the Midlle East and some others, this practice carry on practicing. It is thouth that origin is in Egypt although it can be a religion tradition such as Islam.

Percentage aged 15–49 with FGM in the 29 countries in which it is concentrated (UNICEF 2014). (c)wikipedia.com

Genital mutilation can be male or female. We're not going to get into details but men can get castration or circuncision and women can get a female genital mutilation. Most of theme are traditions to go through infancy. 

We think that 25th November has to change that name and putting in place "the International Day against the violence" because there is violence everywhere inflicted either men, women, animals,..., and this is unbearable. 

Raúl Filigrana/Laura Franco

The famous of the month

The famous of the month of November and December is Jennifer Lawrence. Why is she the famous of the moth? As you should know the 20 of November(27 in Spain) its going to be in the cinemas, finally after a year waiting to the last film of The Hunger Games called Mockingjay (part 2), and she is one of the main characters by hand with Josh Hutcherson.

Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images

Jennifer Lawrence was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 15, 1990.

She was the typical American girl who enjoyed practising sports, she was a cheerleader, an smart girl who wanted to be a doctor when she grow up, and she also loved acting, she used to act in short plays at church.

When she was 14 in a vacation in New York with her family she was discovered by an actress agent, he told her that the next day there were some auditions for new actresses. In the auditions she did it really good so they hired her. She had to graduate from High School two years early(with a great mark) because she needed time for acting. She started with shorts roles in TV series like The Bill Engvall Show, people saw that she was an excellent actress so she became more famous and played in important films like X-Men: First Class and The Hunger Games. She has grown as an actress with out doing any professional acting classes during her life.

For us she is an important actress who is developing in the world of acting ,talking about her personality we think that she is an extrovert person with a great personality she is very natural and of course if you don't trust us here are some awards that she has won(She is the second youngest actress nominated to an Oscar,and she had won one)

Most of her awards and nominations(thousands of them) are for being the best actress in different kind of films, and TV shows.

                                                                                           MªMercedes Blanco and MªÁngeles Vaquez

DRAFT: SHAWN MENDES

Shawn Mendes is a great and incredibly talented singer and musician who is new on the industry.
He was born in Toronto, Canada and he is seventeen.
Before his successful, Shawn was a really shy boy who, at school, was bullied because of his body. People laughed at him because he had very skinny legs.
A few years later, Shawn and his group of friends called “Magcon Boys” posted lots of funny videos and parodias on “Vine” making them known in America.
Then, his succesful started to grow when he shared on internet covers of he singing, by famous singers, playing the guitar; his faithful companion.



Now, he is a teen pop artist who has broken lots of records with his first single “Life Of The Party” which it made him more known in North America, and was included on Shawn's first EP. Also, with his studio album “Handwritten” which is amazing and has powerful songs in it.
He has opened for the great Taylor Swift during her 1898 World Tour in North America. He was a very big fan of her so at first he was really nervous but during the tour both started to know about each other and now they are really good friends!
Also, he opened on tour for young artist Austin Mahone and for Vance Joy.
Recently, he and Camila Cabello from “Fifth Harmony” released a collaboration song called “I Know What You Did Last Summer” which hit really hard on charts worldwide.



Some facts about him are that his favourite food is chinese and chocolate chip muffins and he doesn't really like junk food. He loves sports like football or longboarding, he can speak three languages and thinks that British Columbia is the best place on Earth.



- MªÁngeles Merino and Mariola Cadaval.

Blue Jeans

BLUE JEANS

Picture by: ocio.levante-emv.com

His real name's Francisco de Paula Fernandez Gonzalez, he was born in Carmona, Sevilla on 7- November and he lived in Carmona for his adolescence, at present he live in Madrid and he studied to be a journalist.

He started as a writer, writing a blog that was very successful, and he published his first book "Canciones para Paula".

 

I didn't like Reading but when I read the first book by Blue Jeans: "Buenos días princesa" I got hooked on it. This triology is composed by 3 books.

 

• "Buenos días princesa"
• "No sonrías que me enamoro"
• "¿Puedo soñar contigo?"

 

 

Picture by: suenosdepapelynubesdetinta.blogspot.com

 

In his books he tells the story of teenegers friends, who go throught the typical problems of adolescence.

 

My favourite book was: "Buenos días princesa".

I felt quite identified in lot of moments with the main carácter Valeria.

 

His last book is named "Algo tan sencillo como tuitear te quiero" is worth reading.

At present he is making a tour firms for Spain and latin America.

 

Post by: Elena Vidal Nogales and Isabel Mª Zamora Sánchez





 

 







Christmas

CHRISTMAS

Christmas is a popular holiday all over the world, Christmas holiday start on 25th December and is a religios tradition.

On 24th December night, all the families have dinner together, in our family we usually eat salad, shellfish, chicken and some other delicious food, that we prepare in the morning with our mother and brothers.

25th morning is Santa Claus day, we like this day because in our house we get up early to eat fritter and later we go to the Christmas tree to open our presents.

The last day of the year, in my town, the teenagers, the chlindren and people of all ages wear costumes.

When there are only 12 seconds left to 12, we eat one grape for each bell stroke, but the most wanted day in Spain is the 6th of January, because is the Holy Kings day.

In the morning of the 6th there're present to everyone.

For we, this are the best holiday to stay with our families and to think about the future.

One of our favourite parts of Christmas are the Christmas movies and adverts.

 

Picture by: www.centerbici.com

Post by: Elena Vidal Nogales and Isabel Mª Zamora Sánchez

Taylor Swift

TAYLOR SWIFT

As we all know, Taylor Swift is a successful Singer.

She is quite good with her fans, sometimes she usually go to hospitals

to see patients with cáncer who can´t go to her concerts.

In our opinion , she makes many charities.

She has great songs almost everyone likes them, but since she is

with her famous boyfriend , Calvin Harris, her career has lost

some interest, although as in the life of all famous,

she has got a lot of discussions with others artists like Arianna Grande

or Miley Cyrus.

At present , she lives in The USA in a masion with Calvin.

Soon she is about to begin an international Tour with her new album

 "Shake it off"

Picture by: www.mundotkm.com

Post by: Elena Vidal Nogales and Isabel Mª Zamora Sánchez

Sunday, 13 December 2015

All Blacks

The All Blacks is a rugby national team know over the world. This team represents New Zealand.
They usually perform a dance called "The Haka" to intimidate his opponents and it's very scary!

Without going further, the All Blacks have come the Rugby World Cup final against Australia. They won the final and then, they won the Rugby World Cup. The All Blacks, is the best rugby national team in last years.

Now, we are going to talk about their tipical dance, "The Haka". It's a traditional maori dance. They always perform this dance before the matches in front of his opponents to intimidate them. 
All the team participate in the dance and it's quite difficult to do but the result is always amazing!

Photo from:
www.rugbynews.com.uy

Because of their cups and their dance, "The Haka", the All Blacks is considered the best rugby national team in the world.   

Alejandro García Segura and Diego Gutiérrez Valderas