ily, visit a lot of sites of the country and learn about its culture and traditions.

But Comenius project isn’t always fun, in each meeting we have to work together about different topics, such as racism.

If you want to know more about this project, or to see our meetings and activities, visit the website:

http://www.llp-sevenwonders.eu/seven-wonders-of-culture.html or ask the students of 1º BACH-A.

We want to share our ex-perience with all of you!

By: Juan David Clares

As you know, some for-eign people visited our High School some weeks ago. That’s because our High School is participating in an international project with other countries.

This project is called Comenius, and the main objective is to promote ex-changes and collaboration between countries. Fur-thermore, it’s a different form to learn about differ-ent cultures and it helps us to be good European citi-zens.

In our Comenius Project,

there are 5 different coun-tries ( Spain, Czech Repub-lic, France, Turkey and Finland) joined by one com-mon language: English.

The name of our Comen-ius project is “Seven Won-ders of Culture”, because we’re going to deal with 7 different branches of culture as well as 7 different topics of human rights or Euro-pean matters.

Each country receives financial support in order to pay the meetings or travels’ expenses. In each meeting, 4 people from each delega-tion live with a native fam-

COMENIUS PROJECT? WHAT’S THAT?

Students participate in a language and cultural exchange program

IES S IERRA NEVADA ’S ANNUAL EDITION OF THE BILINGUAL SECTION

MAY 2011 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1

THE SNOW HILL FANZINE

BE SURE TO CHECK

OUT. . .

• Comenius Project

• Trips to France and Italy

• Exchange Students in Fiñana

• Holiday Celebrations throughout the year

• Bilingual Class Up-dates

• San Sebastián Cele-bration

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

COMENIUS TURKEY AND FRANCE

2

COMENIUS SPAIN 3

COMENIUS SPAIN CONTINUED . . .

4

COMENIUS SPAIN : CABO DE GATA AND UBEIRE

5

THANKGIVING AND HALLOWEEN

6

MORE HOLIDAYS 7

BILINGUAL CLASS UPDATES

8

By Tamara Hernandez, Mar del Mar Aparicio and Silvia Patricia Alonso

The first trip we did was to Turkey. At the beginning everything was strange for us because they have different traditions like the religion or the food. We stayed there for one week. Our families were very nice, they treated us as their own children.

The welcome day, the stu-dents did traditional dance performances and they sang

the anthem of Turkey. Dur-ing the week, we visited very interesting places like beaches, Greek theatres...

From our point of view, this experience has been very useful for the future because it helped us to be more toler-ant. There were several dif-ferences between the cultures but actually we are very simi-lar. We made a lot of friends from different countries and we hope to see them again!

TRIP TO TURKEY

COMENIUS TRIP TO FRANCE By Javi Torres and Josemi Lao

It all began on the 29th of March in the French town of Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu.

The first day they made an opening ceremony of the 2nd meeting. Later we visited the city of Nantes.

The next day, we visited a sheltered workshop for people with disabilities, in the after-noon we made a workshop about the situation of disabled people in the partner countries. Another day, we made a whole day trip to Mont Saint-Michel, it's very beautiful.

On the last day, we per-formed a theatre play: “A Mid-summer Night’s Dream”, by William Shakespeare, which we had been rehearsing all week. And then there was a closing ceremony. We spent the week-end with families.

And finally we come back to Spain on Sunday. We were sad to say goodbye to our French families.

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Mont Saint-Michelle

Class in Turkey

By Juan M. Cobos

On the first day, the 25th of April, we visited many monu-ments in Fiñana, and we did the opening ceremony of the 2nd meeting.

In the first place, we visited the town hall and the mayor explained the way the town hall works. After that, we visited the church of Fiñana. Then, we visited the museum and the ancient cistern.

Later, we visited the view-point. The viewpoint in my opinion has good views be-cause it’s located in a good place.

Finally we met Nieves Chillón. She is a young writer from Orce. In the afternoon, we were with ours partners and we did many activities in ours towns. In my opinion, it was a nice day because we met all the students from different countries.

DAY 1 : ARRIVAL

DAY 2: GRANADA

and gardens of Alhambra. The visit was very beautiful. At first we visited the in-side of the Alhambra, the place most preserved of the Alhambra. The people of the Comen-ius liked it there and took a lot of photos. meanwhile, we didn't stop chatting with our Comenius partners.

After that, we walked around the wonderful gardens of the Alhambra. In my opinion this trip was very nice because we saw many places and we could visit the best place of Gra-nada: the Alhambra. We came back to Fiñana at half past four.

By Maria José Vargas and Miriam Valdivia On Tuesday, the 26th of April, the class of 1º ba-chillerato A went to Granada with our Comenius partners. First, we visited the town, we walked around the Al-bayzin, Paseo de los Tristes, teashops and Cathedral. T hen, we went to the Palace

PAGE 3 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 Comenius Spain : Special Report

Ancient cistern

The complete name

of Alhambra is

"Qal'at al-Hambra",

which means "The

Red Fortress".

Saint Nicolás viewer

By Nino Reyes & Alberto Sierra

Wednesday morning, we had to get up very early to be in Fiñana at 7 o´clock to take the bus to Cor-doba, the city that was once the capital of Al-Andalus.

At eleven o´clock (more or less) we entered the Mosque of Cordoba, or in ecclesiastical terms, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, that was originally a pagan temple.

Later, it became a Visigoth Christian church, be-fore the Umayyad Moors at first converted the building into a mosque and then built a new mosque on the site. The history of Al- Andalus, the history

of Spain, and a little bit of the world´s history is embodied in the mosque of Cordoba and in the millenarian city of Medinat Al-Zahra, where it was the most important city of the Iberian Penin-sula during the 80 years that it was the capital.

At 5 o´clock, we returned to Fiñana, we were very tired, but really satisfied for all that we had learned on the beautiful day that we had spent in Cordoba.

We had a nice return trip, with lots of us thinking in the next day, with the trip to Cabo de Gata and the beach, or in the Champion’s match between Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona.

DAY 3: CÓRDOBA

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Madinat Al-Zhara Palace

Comenius Spain : Special Report

DAY 4: CABO DE GATA

By Raluca Bob & Alba Oliva

We are going to tell you about our trip.

On Thrusday, we visited the National Park of Cabo de Gata, there was a shop, and we bought some presents.

Then, we went to visit the park, and a guide told us something about the park. We ate by the beach, it was very hot!

Furthermore, many students swam in the ocean, and other students sunbathed. We had fun with our partners and they enjoyed the beach, the sun and other things in Cabo de Gata.

We visited the Castle of the Escullos and we took a lot of pictures.

By Vanessa Garcia

Last Friday, the 29th of April, all the students: Fin-nish, Spanish, French, Czech and Turkish went to Ubeire to eat with the families and teachers.

Ubeire is a place located in the mountains and it's very nice. That day was very fun because we did everything to have a nice day with our part-ners of Comenius Project.

In our opinion, it was a good way to show different traditions of Spain.

DAY 5: UBEIRE

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Finally, we went to Rodalquilar and we visited the botanic park and then we came back home. In our opinion this trip was very interesting and funny.

Alcazaba. Fiñana.

Comenius Spain : Special Report

By Jose Manuel Bretones Martinez.

Thanksgiving Day is a celebra-tion in the United States and Can-ada.

At this event, everyone in the family come together in a house to eat traditional dishes such as roast dishes.

This turkey is stuffed with corn, bread and sage, and also carries a blueberry sauce.

Also vegetable dishes are usually served, like green beans, sweet

potatoes and mashed potatoes with gravy, a gravy made from turkey.

For dessert, they serve pump-kin and pecan pie and apple.

In my school on the Thanks-giving Day, we talk about this party and its traditions.

We also did some posters with colored cards with pic-tures of things more tradi-tional about Thanksgiving Day and paste on card boards and stick them on the wall.

1. What is the origin of Halloween?

A. A South American holiday honoring the day of the dead.

B. A Chinese holiday honoring ancestors.

C. A Celtic holiday celebrating the new year.

2. How did the American tradition of trick-or-treating on Halloween begin?

A. During Halloween festivities, families would go door to door to beg for food from their

neighbors.

B. The sound of ringing bells chases away the spirits.

C. Children would go from house to house to announce the start of the festival and neighbors

THANKSGIVING

HALLOWEEN TRIVIA

HALLOWEEN The word Halloween is first used in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.

In the class we went to the conference room and we played games about Hallow-een in the computer. Later we drew posters and talked about Halloween.

By Alex Olaru 3º A

Halloween is an annual holi-day observed on October 31st.

The holiday commonly in-cludes activities such as trick-or-treating and attending costume parties. As well as carving jack-o'-lanterns, going to bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, and telling scary stories.

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Did you know??

Every Halloween

Americans eat

20 million pounds

of Candy Corn??

By Alba García Cañabate

Christmas Day is always celebrated on the 25th of De-cember.

At school, we made efforts to decorate the classroom and school. Then we played volleyball, football, ping-pong and many more games in the yard .

All the stu-dents participate in the activi-ties and the teachers gave us candy. At the end, we went back to our homes.

ing the Irish cuisine. This includes cabbage and Irish drink, and attending pa-rades.

At our school we cele-brated St. Patrick’s Day by doing some activities in Eng-lish, drawing a few chips, knowing the history of this day, and pinch hitting at students who were not wearing green.

By Tamara

St. Patricks Day is cele-brated on March 17th to commemorate the death of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland.

It is a national holiday in Ireland. The celebration theme is usually all that is green and the Irish usually dress in green while enjoy-

CHRISTMAS

ST . PATRICKS DAY

VALENTINES DAY It is held on the 14th of February. As the celebra-tion approaches , lovers embark on the search for the perfect gift.

Another of the customs that take place on Valen-tine's Day is to invite your partner to a romantic din-ner and champagne toast with champagne to an ev-erlasting love.

At present, it takes place through the exchange of love notes called "valentines", with symbols as the symbolic form of heart and Cupid.

In our High School roses and flowers are given as well as stuffed animals, candy lollipops and love poems

By Azahara López Pérez

Valentine's Day is a tradi-tional celebration of Anglo-Saxon countries which has been implemented in other countries throughout the twentieth century.

It focuses mainly on lovers, boyfriends or husbands and the expression of their love and affection for their signifi-cant other.

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1º ESO A

1º ESO A

By Sandra Ayala

At first, the Bilingual Classes weren´t comfortable for me, because I didn´t understand what Catlain said.

Then I understood a lot of sentences. Nowadays I can write and understand a lot of words with her help.

So, I can translate the texts although I sometimes have some mistakes.

In the classroom, we learn English at the same time as we enjoy playing games and drawing pictures.

cotton. Next, wash the gravel and sand and cut up the half of the bottle. To finish, put toilet paper on the sand. Second step, water and ground mix in the glass. Third step, we take a lit-tle water mixed in the filter, out and clean it. This is how is filter it the water.

By Sebastián García Materials: 1 empty bottle, ½ gravel bottle, ½ sand bot-tle, toilet paper, cotton and 2 glasses. Process: First step, pre-pare the filter, in the empty bottle, make a hole. Then, we cover the bottle with

B ILINGUAL CLASSES : AN INSIDE LOOK

BILINGUAL SCIENCE : WATER F ILTRATION

B ILINGUAL MATH

By Antonio Milán

Problems and ap-plications (Metric system conver-sions)

This point is very important because you need it if you travel on holidays or if you are working with the dif-ferent form of expres-sion on a project.

You should know that you need to make a change in the expres-sion of the weight, temperature, etc… to change this expression for another that you

know.

Some of these forms only need a change in the slope but the oth-ers need multiply or the result of an equa-tion.

For example if you go to the USA and find the temperature in Fahrenheit, if you would like to change this expression to Cel-sius you need made the equation:

C .

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3º ESO A

Fortune cookies have been summarized as being "introduced by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately they are consumed by Americans. A day our Englishman's teacher brought cookies of the luck, since days before we had studied the Chinese food.

By

A fortune cookie is a crisp cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside.

Fortune cookies are often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants in the United States and some other coun-tries, but are absent in China.

The exact provenance of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century, basing their recipe on a traditional Japanese cracker.

FORTUNE COOKIES

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SAN SEBASTIAN ’S DAY

By: Mª Jesús López Salmerón

This day is special to all the people from Fiñana. It is celebrated on the 20th of January because it is the day of their patron saint.

In the morning every-body from Fiñana goes to church with their families, and in the evening they follow the parade of San Sebas and San Antón.

They do bonfires where San Sebas go and throw fire-works when it leaves. the

We sing a song to our patron saint and to San Antón.

All the people from Fi-ñana eat and drink in this parade.

In this party many people come from abroad and peo-ple also come other autonomous regions of Spain.

I hope everybody who reads this text come to this party so funny and interest-ing.