GREECE

Hi! My name's Rebeca Carnerero and my talk is going to be about Greece.

First of all Greece is the official Hellenic Republic and is a country in southeast Europe .

As part of the European Union(EU). It's capital is Athens.

Greece this localated at the south of the Balkan Peninsula on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Secondly heiress of ancient Greece, Greece has a long history and extended over three continents.

The first European civilizations, Cretan civilization and the Mycenaean appeared in Greece.

The medieval Greek empire is one the history's largest Empires.

During World War II, Greece was occupied by Germany. In 1952, Greece joined in NATO and in 1981, The European Union(EU). Today, Greece is a democratic parliamentary Republic.

The area of Greece is 132.562 Km2 including inland basin of the Aegean Islands and islets, this country's population is 11.244.118 habitants.

There are three climates in Greece: the Mediterranean climate , the Alpine climate and Temperate climate.

Agriculture in Greece represent a very important role in the economy of Greece. It's also important fishing and forestry.

Most common language is modern Greek. Other languages spoken in Greece are the Albanian, Avarita language and language eslavomacedonio.

The major cities in Greece are Athens the capital, Thessaloniki, Sparta and Patras.

Finally the euro is the currency. Greek coins are the only ones that use a different Latin alphabet. The Euro called Lept

In my opinion Greece is the more beautiful country in the Europe after Spain of course =).

Homework: Connectors.

I have found this great activity about connectors in English. It is published in El Tinglado, a blog in which you can find lots of interesting activities to learn not only English, but other subjects too, designed by Spanish teachers from different secondary schools. The activity I want you to do is this one: Linking Words. Have a nice weekend! See you on Monday!

Parque de Lisboa News 10

Parque de Lisboa News 10

Welcome to our tenth weekly program. Today we will talk about Pope John Paul II, Badalona FC and their anthem, and we bring you our question, only to be answered by football fanatics this time. But first,

JOHN PAUL II
Karol Wojtyla was born in Wadowice (Poland) on 18th March 1920 and died on 2nd April  2005 in Vatican City. His 26-years pontificate (1978-2005) was the third longest of the Catholic Church History, after Saint Peter's and Pius' IX popedoms. His beatification, to be concluded on October 2010, started three months after his death, without waiting for the five years specified by the rules of the Church. It is, actually, the agile rhythm of "the God's Athlete". In his papacy the most important highlights are: innovation of the pastoral practise (e.g: the worldwide christian youth meetings), his influence on the liberation of Poland and his four visits to Spain. After his death, a French woman who had Parkinson was miraculously cured. John Paul II changed the world history only with the strengh of the spirit, becoming a reference for all the people, catholics or non catholics. (By David Cirbián).

BADALONA FC
Last month a football club of Barcelona called Badalona FC decided to give up playing their own anthem because the company SGAE wants to be paid 140€ every time that the club plays the song in their stadium. It seems that the club asked for a new anthem in 2003 because of the centenary of the club. It was composed by two authors and one of them wants to take more money for doing it, and he acussed them to the SGAE. The team says that they can't pay for it because they have many teams in all categories and they would have to pay more than 1000€ every weekend, so they decided to pay for all the weekends that they have been playing the anthem up to now and not play it any more. (By Álvaro Muñoz).

To finish our program, we must give you the answer for last week's question. It was "What's the capital of the United Kingdom?" and the answer is... "London". Our new weekly question is: "Where will next world football championship be celebrated?" Leave your answer as a comment to this post. Thank you very much for your kind attention, we will meet again next week.

CYPRUS

Cyprus.
The capital is Nicosia. The language is Greek and Turkish.
The cities means is Nicosia, Lamarca, Famagusta, Paphos and Limassol.
The economic is prosperous and has diversified is recent years. Its per capita GDP (Adjusted for Purchasing Power) is at $28,381, just above the average of the European Union.

The products in Cyprus is most import fuels, most raw materials, heavy machinery and transportation equipment.
Cyprus make light chemicals, metal products, wood, paper and stone.
Community in a possession of agricultural produced cereal crops, green fodder and all of the tobacco.
The money is Euro (€).
The weather is Mediterranean and variety.
The history:
Cyprus has been colonized by various cultures thoughout its history. The Mycenacen civilization would come from about 1600 BC, and subsequently settled Phoenician and Greek colonies.
Pharaon Thotmose III of Egipt put the island in 1500BC and forced to pay tribute, which was maintained until the Egyptian rule was replaced by the Hittites in the 13th Century. After the invasion of the sea peoples, the Achaeans-Greeks settled on the island, acting decisively in shaping cultural identity the Hebrews called Kittim island. The Assyrians invaded the island in 800 BC, until the Pharaon Amasis recaptured the island in 600BC, before being replaced by the Perisians after the conquest of Egipt by them. Salamis, the most powerful of the various City- Kingdom of Cyprus at the time rebelled against Persian rule in 499 BC, under king Ovisilos, both rebellion and the subsequent attempts for free Greek. Cyprus had failed, induding evagore king of Samalis in 345AD. however, in 331BC Cyprus Alexander the Great conquered the Persian re-included in the Hellenil world. The Roman Empire finally seized the island in the year 57BC.

Listen a Minute: Holidays

Thank you very much, because you, my dear students, are doing a great job with this blog. So, for you not to forget me or your English subject, here is your homework for next Thursday, March 11th. Visit Listen a Minute and prepare your speaking activity as usual, in this case about holidays. Bring me your pendrives with at least three recordings. Have a nice weekend, anyway...!