Bacon 23 by carmen gonzalez

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Bacon & Eggs

This annual magazine

is produced by the English Department of the IES Infante D. Juan Manuel, Murcia.

EDITION AND LAYOUT Yolanda López Escar

Editor’s View

CONTENTS English Department................3 Posters by 2nd ESO students...4-5

Projects by 4th ESO Students..6-7 Spanglish............................8 Urban legends...................9-11 King Krimson....................12-13 Chinese Poem...................14-15 Comic............................17-19 A person I admire..................20 My high-school experience......21 News............................22-23 About my grandmother..........24 Marcon.............................24 Our last school trip...............25 Dr Zhivago.........................26 British deaf students visit.......27

Hello everybody! We are here again to show you and enlighten the excellence of our students work. Unfortunately, and for the first time in two decades! this issue is not printed because of a lack of financial matters. Fortunately, we are living the new technologies age and therefore we can read and enjoy Bacon 23 on the school web-page hoping that the “damned crisis” will allow us recover the printed edition again. Remember we are always looking forward to your collaboration. Come and join us!

english department A farewell to a teacher Isabel Rubio PĂŠrez, one of the teachers of the English department retires. Isabel was born in Cartagena and she got a degree in Spanish and later in English. She has worked as a teacher for more than 30 years, in Murcia most of the time, but also in England where she worked as a teacher and as a teacher advisor for six years. Everybody that knows Isabel would say that she is a brave woman, who is always there to fight for and, promote her honest values and convictions. That is why, we all know that she retires from teaching but she will never stop doing the things she believes in.

Good luck with your brand new exciting life! Our best wishes for you and your fantastic partner in life, Manolo

Students of 2º ESO A-B were asked to prepare posters about different places of the world. Each student had to choose a city or area and answer questions on their placement, number of inhabitants, languages and tourist attractions. The task took three sessions. In the first one, students were taught how to answer to the questions mentioned above. Later on, they had to look for information at home and bring it to class for the second session, when they wrote the texts for the posters. In the last session students finished their work and presented it to their classmates.

Among the places chosen, there was only one European city, London. Ángela and Melany wrote about it. “London is the capital of the United Kingdom. It has 7,556,900 inhabitants. People in London speak English. Tourist in London should go to Westminster Abbey, Buckhingham Palace, London Eye and Big Ben, and use the typical double-decker buses”. Melany

Sydney was the only Oceanian place chosen. Gabriel looked for information about it, and explained that “Sydney is in the SouthEast of Australia. It is the biggest city in the country and it has 4,340,000 inhabitants. People in Sydney speak English and tourists in there should visit King Cross, Oxford Street, Darling Harbour and the Opera House”.

Walter

Gabriel

The rest of the places chosen were American. Let us start mentioning the South-American ones. Walter and Marcos wrote about Mar La Plata, “a small city in the SouthEast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has 186,527 inhabitants and Spanish, Quechua and Guarani are the languages spoken in there. People who visit Mar La Plata should go to the football stadium”

Posters created by the students can be seen in Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4AA4XFptag

María wrote about Buenos Aires, “the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest city in South America, after Sao Paulo. Buenos Aires has 12,129,819 people residing in the city and thirtyone surrounding districts; the official language is Spanish. The city is regarded as the ‘Paris of South America’ and it offers elegant architecture, exquisite cuisine, and a legendary nightlife”.

María

Camila talked about Rio de Janeiro: “It is a big city in the South-East of Brazil. It has 6,281,670 inhabitants and its official language is Portuguese. Tourists in Rio de Janeiro should go to the Carnival, the football stadium and the beach of Ipanema”.

Daniel

The rest of the places chosen by the students belong to the United States of America. Daniel wrote on the state of Texas. “It is the second-largest US state, situated in the South-Central part of the country. Houston, the biggest city in Texas, has 2,257,926 inhabitants, and people in there speak in English and Spanish. Some tourist attractions in Texas are its beautiful beaches, barbecues and rodeos.

David also talked about a US state, Hawaii, placed in the Pacific Ocean. “In 2007, Hawaii had 1,283,388 inhabitants and its official language is English. Tourists in Hawaii should go to the beaches”. Two American cities were mentioned. In first place, Marina wrote about Miami, which “is located in the South-East of the United States, in the state of David Florida. It has 5,4 million of inhabitants, who mainly speak in English and Spanish. Tourists in Miami should visit museums and performing arts centres, like the Adrianne Arsht Center”. Finally, Ana, Antonio and Paco talked about the Big Apple. “New York is the most populated city in New York State, in the North-East of the United States. It is has 8,175,133 inhabitants, and the most spoken language in there is English. Tourist in New York should visit the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Central Park, The Guggenheim, the Statue of Liberty and many other places”.

Marina

LAST YEAR COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS (4º A 4º E ESO) During the third term fourth year students presented their projects on Global Issues. Students had to choose the global issue they were most concerned about, from the ones they had previously worked in the class-room. After making their decision, they searched for information in English, wrote the main ideas on the topic in their own words and added some pictures, maps, key words and data to help them explain it in front of their classmates. Finally, they had to present it in front of the other students so that everybody could learn about the topic.

Here you can see some of the students’ PPT presentations. If you want to see and learn about different global issues click on the one you want to see

by Oliver Gutridge , Belén Escavy and Sergio Rabadán

HARRASSMENT

Rocío Palazón y Paula Martinez 4ºE

ENDANGERED MARINE ANIMALS 7 ANA MARÍA GUTIÉRREZ LÓPEZ 4ºA Nº 14

MIGUEL BALLESTEROS HERRAIZ, 4ºA

T H E K OA L A

PR OJ E C T DONE B Y : M AR I A H E R N ANDE Z L U E N G O PA QUI H I DAL G O C AÑI Z AR E S

RESEARCH PROGRAMME STUDENTS Students from First Year Baccalaureate did some excellent pieces of research within the Research Programme. Here you can read about their work and you can click on to know more about their outstanding works. Spanglish by Joaquín Cárceles Abstract (link) Spanglish is a linguistic reality of rampant importance in the US which causes great controversy among linguists from all over the United States and Spanish speaking countries. In this work will carry out a research on its history, range of vocabulary, literature, presence on the mass media and on the different reactions that Spanglish causes among its supporters and detractors. We intend to establish whether this lingo from the Latin community in the US is a rightful language or not. After this piece of research we come to the conclusion that even if it has an enormous importance in the US society, it cannot be considered a language yet but “an incipient language”. 8

Here are some examples of spanglish that appear in Joaquín´s work Español

Inglés

Termino en spanglish

Ejemplo de uso

Alfombra

Carpet

Carpeta

Tengo una carpeta muy cool en casa.

Cocinar

To cook

Cuquear1

Esta noche cuqueare yo.

Saltarse, faltar

To skip

Esquipear2

Me voy a esquipear una lesson

Empezar

To start

Estartear/ Startear3

María starteó el coche

To park

Parkear

No pude parkear el carro donde quería.

To sign

Signear

El boss no me signeo el check

Estacionar (Aparcar en castellano) Firmar

URBAN LEGENDS An Urban Legend is a short tale that is told and retold as true, although it usually has little or no basis in reality or can’t be confirmed one way or another. All of the following are legends which are assumed to be false except when otherwise noted.

The Hitchhiker by Clara Siminiani León It was midnight. That day I’d left work later than always, because I’d argued with my boss. By the time I got into the car, I realized that it was later than I thought. On top of that, it was raining. That’s why I was in a hurry, and I was driving home quickly. However, I suddenly saw a girl of about ten years standing in a bend of the black road, and I stopped sharply. She was wearing a white and faded dress; her hair was matted and she was terribly pale. I think she was singing, because her lips were moving slowly. I felt surprised, but I’m not such a coward person, so I quickly offered to give her a lift. She didn’t tell me anything but got into my car slowly and silently, like a ghost. Furthermore, I noticed that she wasn’t even wearing shoes. I tried to set a small-talk with her –what was her name, her age–, but she looked mute: she didn’t talk me at all the way. As soon as we arrived to her doorway, she disappeared. I got very nervous and felt frightened: what, exactly, was that girl? Was she a ghost, like I’d thought? Was it possible? I was so scared that I went home; for a few months, I went on with my life, always avoiding the bend of the road. After a long time, I decided to talk with the house owners. In fact, that is how I realized that the young girl had died two years ago in that road; particularly, in the bend where I’d seen her. Since that moment, the hitchhiker is seen by some drivers who, at night, offer their kindness to take her home.

MORE URBAN LEGENDS

Death of a cat by Elena Fernandez Jornet (1º Bach.Inves.) This legend is about what a woman can do to get rid of her cat that has just died. A woman’s cat died one day, so she wrapped it in a package and took it with her to dispose of it. She tried to put it in her building’s incinerator, but her landlady was there, and pets weren’t allowed in the building in the first place. On her way to work she tried to leave it on the bus, and sat next to a passenger who was handsome. He was surprised to see her, with that box .And asked her: - Sorry, out of curiosity. What has been in that box? And with frightened face she replied: 10 -Ohm nothing ...!!!! She tried to leave it in a restaurant after eating but the waitress chased her down. Even on the subway, there was always a Samaritan waiting for a chance to help her keep her property. Finally when she got home she decided to take a last look at kitty, and in its place was a leg of lamb. How was it possible?

The drunk man

by Eduardo Veas Iniesta (1º Bach.Inves.)

A drunk man was driving his car at night when he was stopped by a bald policeman. While the policeman was testing the drunkenness of the man, there was a car crash not very far away from them. The policeman went over to the scene of the accident and told the drunk man to wait for him exactly where he was standing. After a few minutes, the man decided to go home, rather than waiting for the policeman (so he didn’t obey him). The following day, the policeman went round to the man’s house and knocked on the door. He asked the man what he was doing the previous night. The man said that he had stayed in all night. Then, the policeman asked him to open his garage door and there they found a police car. The night before, the man didn’t drive his own car home, but the policeman’s!!!!

THE BABY SITTER AND THE MAN UPSTAIRS by Ana Peñalver Abellán (1º Bach.Inves.)

A young wise girl was working as a babysitter in an ancient house of a little village. It was so late and the child was sleeping in the upstairs` bedroom. She was in the dining room, downstairs, watching TV and trying to stay awake for the parents` return. Suddenly the telephone rang, after she answered an unknown voice said: “you have to go upstairs to check on the child”. She ignored the call because she thought it was a prank and continued watching the television; but the phone rang again and again, three and four times more… always the strange voice said that she had to go upstairs to check on the baby. Anxiously and afraid she decided to phone 911 to find out where the call came from. As soon as the police arrived the telephone rang again and they started tracing the phone call. Finally, after 10 minutes, they stopped and communicated to the baby sitter that the call had been traced from the upstairs bedroom. The baby sitter fled from the house as fast as she could, then the police went upstairs to solve the mystery. When they opened the door they found the child killed, he had been cut to little pieces and the man had gone. All this time, the man of the strange voice 11 had been trying to make the girl go up stairs so he could claim his next victim.

THE HARE DRIER

by Clara Martínez Álvarez de Toledo (1º Bach.Inves.) A boy told his parents that their dog had behaved badly: he had seen it with a dead hare in its mouth. The parents knew that their neighbours had one in a cage at his garden so they sneaked in there, and they checked that the cage was empty. They anxiously washed and brushed the dead hare to improve its aspect. Then they entered again the neighbours’ garden and put it in its cage, to make everybody think that it had had a natural death: they didn’t want problems because of her dog. But later, they saw a police car at the house next door. They went to ask what was happening, and the police answered that they were looking for a mad man, who had washed the neighbour’s buried hare and put it again in his cage as if it was alive. In the end, their dog hadn’t killed the hare. It was already dead and buried, the dog had only dug it out.

by Ramón Romero Hernández 4th E King Crimson is not a rock band. It’s a musical institution. It’s a way of expression; King Crimson’s music is a unique way to see things different in musical industry. The “band”, has got over twenty musicians and thirteen albums, and not all the musicians contribute always in all albums. Usually there are four or five musicians that record a CD, and then other four or five musicians record other, and that’s how it goes. However, there’s one musician that appears in all CDs, and controls the band. This man is called Robert Fripp and he says that King Crimson is “a way of doing things”. Fripp met Greg Lake (bass, vocals), and Ian McDonald (saxophone, flute, mellotron) in 1969. Also Peter Sinfield (lyrics, synthesizer) joined them. They began to write songs all together and recorded their first album “In the Court of the Crimson King”, that year. The CD didn’t become very famous for that time, but now it is considered as the fist progressive album in history and also one of the best albums in general rock. They introduced a lot of new things in the world of rock: saxophones and flutes as the primordial instruments, also a very strange and extravagant guitar sound, jazzy drums and the bass was the support instrument of all songs. The album included such new songs as “21st Century Schizoid Man”, which is a mix of acid jazz and hard rock, and “Epitaph”, in which vocals and mellotron make a symphonic feeling to a normal ballad. You can see below some of the musicians

Playing live in 1974 (Cross, Wetton, Bruford and Fripp)

King Crimson’s music is usually called progressive rock, and in fact they are one of the most famous progressive bands, but they’ve also recorded other types of music, such as jazz, experimental music, pop, rock and roll, classical, new-wave, ballads, symphonic rock, and proto-heavy-metal tunes as well. It’s a very diverse band. Their music is complex, difficult and occasionally their songs have “movements”, inside them. Ok, these are all characteristics of progressive rock, but we said before that this is one of the most important bands of the genre. They write also in complicated time signatures, different rhythms in the same song, with a schizoid feeling and very different from normal rock. In fact they are considered the first progressive band. King Crimson is a band that never ended; they are always doing new things, and they sound fresh and stunning (always). Their music is like laboratory music, but they are good, especially in the progressive genre.

-Three of a Perfect Pair (1984) -THRAK (1995) -The ConstruKction of Light (2000) -The Power to Believe (2003)

DISCOGRAPHY: -The Court of the Crimson King (1969) -In the Wake of Poseidon (1970) -Lizard (1970) -Islands (1971) -Lark’s Tongues in Aspic (1973) -Starless and Bible Black (1974) -Red (1975) -Discipline (1981) -Beat (1982)

Chinese poem

On A Quiet Night LiBai I saw the moonlight before my couch, And wondered if it were not the frost on the ground. I raised my head and looked out on the mountain moon,

This beautiful poem was read by Yun Yun Chen on our Book day and was translated by Wen Lun Chen

Comic by Miguel Ballesteros Herrรกiz (4th A)

by Miguel Ballesteros

A person I admire by Guillermo Gómez Sola A person

I admire is Rafaél Nadal. He is very nice, inside and outside the court, being very honest and respectful with his opponents, fighting always for the victory and never giving up. Rafa is 25 years old, he is dark-haired and a little bit dark-skinned and he has such a big left arm, even being right –handed outside the court. I admire him because he is a winner. He never gives up the fight. He never misses a ball because he is not running. As I mentioned before, the respect he has with his opponents makes him a person who everybody should look at.

A person I admire by Lola Navarro

Paco, my grandfather, is the person who I admire most. He is dead. He died in 2006 when he was 83. My grandfather was a doctor. He wasn’t very tall. He was brown- eyed and he had white hair. In my opinion, he was the best person in the world-. My grandparents visited us everyday. I used to play a lot with him. He didn’t mind the game he liked to stay with us, my sister and me. Everybody says that my father was a good warm-hearted person. He worried about everybody. He listened to you. He understood you. He was an excellent friend, husband, father and grandfather. My grandfather was brave because he was very ill but he seemed he didn’t mind. He always smiled and he always had a good word for you. I think he retired very early. When he was only 53, because he was very ill. He had serious health problems. When he died in hospital all his family and friends were there. I know he is looking at us wherever he is. I’m sure he is in the highest place. Last March a square was inaugurated with my grandfather’s name, Plaza Practicante Francisco Manuel. I am very proud of him.

A person I admire by Leticia Carrilero Zaragoza

The person that I admire most is my mum. I can’t write her age, but she is nearly fifty years old. She’s tall and thin and she’s got long straight hair. She’s very beautiful. My mother is clever and very nervous and she helps me in anything she can. She loves my brother and our family. I admire her because she’s very patient and very optimistic. She is the best mother in the world!

My High- school Experience

by Juan M. Sánchez Arce

Once upon a time a group of brave students was entering high school. They were frightened, they were terrified about their future years at IES Infante D. Juan Manuel, but they were also proud of being there. I was one of those tiny boys. I came from a school far from Murcia (at least I considered it to be far when I was twelve) so I didn’t know anybody there. I could reproduce exactly my first day’s feelings and now I always laugh thinking about that piece of little man I was once. After six years having felt all kind of feeling, having met friends whom I could die for is what I value the most. Wonderful teachers helped me creating my wonderful world and they are a really important part of me. But not everything was fun and goodness. Deception came after awful exams and the feeling that substitutes it was agitation before the next one. I remember those evenings in my house, the sun shining, children playing in the park … and I feeling imprisoned in my bedroom, just with the company of my beloved books. In spite of these facts, I can only say good things about my experience here. At the moment I remember the knowledge I gained from my teachers. I remember a teacher who taught me to do my best, I remember the one who made me love English, I remember that who told me about Kairos, the Greek word that means being in the correct place at the correct time. If I had to summarize the time I spent at high school in a sentence I would say “it was the right place to be at the right time”.

Some news written by 4th ESO students THE MAGNETIC CHILD

by Elena Rubio Terol and

Mª Vicoria Botía(4º D)

Elena

With just six years Ivan Stoiljkovic has become the sensation of Belgrade. Knives, forks, pots, and other metal objects stick to the child like if he were a magnet. His parents are delighted with their little peculiar “gift” Mª Victoria which doctors can not find an explanation. 22

The Croatian version of Magneto, the X-Men character. Ivan whith his six years doesn’t feel like a superhero on the small town where he lives. He’s able to have objects up to 25 kilograms stick on his body, according to an article of ‘Daily Mail’. Pans, dumbbells, forks…stick to his body while people look funny. His family believes that Ivan has extraordinary abilities, for his great strength and because he can relieves pains with his hands. The local doctors in the city of Koprivnica, north of the country can’t explain why Ivan Works like a magnet. WOMAN SURVIVES BY EATING PIZZA by Elena García Maquilón 4º D

Susan is from Tennessee(United States) and she is a pizza delivery woman. She became a bit worried about Ms. Wilson, a client that for three years she asked for a pizza every day, but it was three days ago that the woman didn’t call. Susan visited her client because it seemed all very strange for her. When the delivery woman knocked on the door no one answered, so she asked a neighbour if he had seen her but he said no. Then, she called the police. The officers forced open the door and found Ms. Wilson lying on the floor. She had fallen on Saturday and couldn’t reach to a phone asking for help. The doctors said that their pizza’s diet saved her life. On Monday night, the doctor at the hospital where Ms.Wilson was hospitalized said that her life wasn’t in danger.

He had got a knife’s blade in his head.

by Carmen Tudela Ataz (4º D) This new is about a chinese man who went to the doctor because he had got severe headaches. After the medical examination, this man had to be urgently operated after doctors found 10 centimeters of a knife’s blade in his brain. This man was stabbed in 2006 during a robbery and the knife had remained ever since in his head. Although this man was treated for wounds, the doctors didn’t realize that the knife’s blade was in the man’s head. Incredibly, it was not until now, when Li Fu visited the hospital, when they found the object during a routine exam. Li and his family were so surprised for the results so that even asked for a second opinion. However, after a second review, the diagnostic has been the same. The man is now in a hospital where he is

A LITTLE GIRL DIDN’T DIE THANKS TO HER TOOTHBRUSH by Julia Moreno Guillén (4ºD)

Katie Lolley used a toothbrush with blinking lights so her mother saw a few strange reflections in the retina of her eye. The mother told the doctor what she had seen and the doctors discovered a strange carcinogenic tumour that might become bigger in only ten days. The doctor of the health centre where she was attended assure that they could save her because the tumour was detected rightly in time to be operated and treated.

ABOUT MY GRANDMOTHER By Ana Gloria Lizana Azor 1C Bach.

My grandmother was born in Granada, 6th February of 1935 , her family was small, she only had 2 brothers; when she was a child, she didn't go to school, but she had a private teacher who came to her house. When she was a teenager she started to work as a fruit picker and there she met my grandfather, when she was eighteen years old she got married. After that she stopped working and she stayed at home meanwhile my grandfather worked in a mine as a “barrenero”. She and my grandfather went to Asturias to find a better job, they stayed there for three years, and they had fifteen children. 24 One day my grandmother decided to participate in a quiz on radio programme, a week later she had won a house in Granada, and she and the rest of the family came back. There she lived the rest of her life, and she died a year ago.

Marcon

by David Pérez Caballo (2º E)

Marcon is in the planet Marconiano. In this city there are a lot of beaches. The most famous beach is Marmin. On this beach there are monsters but they aren’t very dangerours. In this city there aren’t any rivers. The most visited mountain is Montecursus . It is 10 km long. In this mountain the monsters are the most dangerous of this planet. You can’t visit this city or this planet because it is very dangerous.

OUR LAST SCHOOL TRIP By Carolina Yelo Gómez 2ºBach. C

Travelling is one of my passions, every time you travel you have an opportunity to think and see your own life with distance. It is difficult to understand life when you are inside it. When I travel I can make decisions about my daily life easily. But school trips are different, part of your life come with you. Now is the same life in a different situation, a fantastic experience. Our last school trip was to London, Oxford, Brussels, Bruges, Paris and Avignon. We had an incredible time there! London and Paris are incredible cosmopolitan cities with amazing museums; we had the opportunity to see fantastic pictures and sculptures that we have studied, it was very emotive to see the Caryatides and Panateneas’s frieze. O u r step on Brussels was the best day for me. Christmas spirit was more present than in other cities, we sung lots of carols around the Christmas tree at the Council’s Place. It was great! This trip is something that will be always in our minds.

Dr Zhivago

by Inés Amorós Fernández, 1ºF Bach

The title of the book have read is Dr Zhivago, written by Boris Pasternak. The publishing house is “Penguin reader”. This edition was published in 1998. “Penguin reader” has got six levels. This book is included in the fifth level; it is to say, in the upper intermediate.

THE PLOT:

Yuri Zhivago is a doctor and poet in the Russian Revolution times. He is married to Tonya, a woman who loves him and admires him. The situation becomes very difficult for them. After a few hard conditions, travelling by car along a railroad crowded of people, the family manages to move to his country house in Varikino, thinking of spending the hard period of the civil war there. When they arrived at the house they were informed that it had been confiscated by the revolutionary government and they had to live in a hut. They had a good time and Zhivago begins to write poetry and to visit the library. There he meets Lara whom he had known in difficult circumstances in Moscow, and during the First World war, when he was serving as military doctor and she was a nurse. The winter comes and Zhivago decides to disobey the confiscation and breaks the logs that were blocking the house, to shelter there. His relation with Lara transforms into a loving relation. All his movements and activities are monitored by the Soviet civil servants and in one of his trips to the village, Zhivago is recruited by a Soviet squad of cavalry, and he must follow them in his campaign. Zhivago, at that time, will live with his second wife, Marina, until one day he decides to leave the house. When he is in the train to leave that city, he sees Lara and decides to get off the train, but then he feels a strange pain in his heart, dying there. Lara visits his coffin and explains that she had lost his daughter, who was a daughter of Zhivago. In the search of her daughter, Lara disappears probably kidnapped, and nobody sees her again.

Visit of British deaf students As we reported on Bacon 22 (June 2010) our deaf students had visited England in October 2009. They visited the school Philips Morant, in Colchester, where they met some British deaf students and also they went on a trip to London enjoying every minute of it. Now, they have visited us and thus, they could enjoy being together again. The programme of the visit included a welcome speech by Mr.Pablo Reverte as education authority from CCAA and Mr JesĂşs OrtuĂąo, the headmaster of our school. They were followed by Ms Isabel Rubio, who presented the audience the most outstanding aspects of the Region of Murcia . Our teachers from the ABC programme did a great job translating to Spanish sign language to our students, whereas the British teachers translated it into the English sign language. Ms Alicia Delgado, our English for deaf students teacher, talked about the importance of teaching and learning English for Spanish deaf students as a way of spreading their knowledge and minds, In addition, she also vindicated the international sign language as the best way to communicate among the international deaf people community.

We are very proud of you all!