TUPAC SHAKUR

Born in New York City, Tupac grew up primarily in Harlem. In 1984, his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he became good friends with Jada Pinkett Smith. His family moved again in 1988 to Oakland, California. His first breakthrough in music came in 1991 as a member of the group Digital Underground. In the same year he received individual recognition for his album "2Pacalypse Now," but this album was also the beginning of his notoriety as a leading figure of the gangsta permutation of hip-hop, with references to cop killing and sexual violence. His solo movie career also began in this year with Juice (1992), and in 1992 he co-starred with Janet Jackson in Justicia poética (1993).

But law confrontations were soon to come: a 15-day jail term in 1994 for assault and battery and, in 1995, a conviction for sexual assault of a female fan. He was released after serving eight months pending an appeal, but following the Tyson vs Seldon fight in Las Vegas, Nevada, he was hit by four bullets while riding in a car driven by Death Row Records chief executive Marion 'Suge' Knight. His right lung was removed in emergency surgery and, after six days in a medical coma, he died.

  Author: Ignacio Jiménez 3ºB

SKATE OR DIE

Skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board, rather, it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time. These first skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. The boxes turned into planks, and eventually companies were producing decks of pressed layers of wood -- similar to the skateboard decks of today. During this time, skateboarding was seen as something to do for fun besides surfing, and was therefore often referred to as "Sidewalk Surfing".

 

  IT'S NOT THE WAY YOU GO, IT'S HOW YOU GET THERE!

 Author: Alexander Viar 3ºB

VICTORIO & LUCCHINO

Victorio & Lucchino is a Spanish fashion, which takes its name from its creators, Victorio, Jose Victor Rodriguez Caro and Lucchino, José Luis Medina del Corral. Began his career in the fashion world at the end of the 1970s, in the city of Seville. Both professional meeting took place in Seville Disart company design department. In the wake of this employment relationship, they decided to independence and open a store in the Andalusian capital where released his first designs. In 1985 they designed his first collection, presented in a parade in New York. From then, and with the creation of the Pasarela Cibeles, began to submit two ready-to-wear collections each year. In 1984, to observe the huge demand for their wedding dresses, they decided to create his first collection and present it in a parade in Barcelona. At that moment they revealed as pioneers in a sector that more later join many ready-to-wear designers. In 1992, in order to diversify its business, launched his first fragrance for women, Carmen, and recently have started in jewelry design. His love of art and culture has led them to collaborate in productions theatrical and cinematographic works "Yerma" or La Celestina and film 'The bodyguard', where Whitney Houston wearing a dress designed by them. They were the authors of the interior of the fifth floor of the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid (Spain), a collective work of international design and architecture opened in 2005. His creations are known not only in Spain, but it extends around the world in countries such as Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands or United States. Besides professional partner, José Víctor Rodríguez and José Luis Medina are girlfriend, whom he married in March 2007.  Author: Selena Sánchez  3ºC

WILL / BE GOING TO

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TROUBLE-COLDPLAY

Have you ever seen a person lose his head? I´m sorry, I did wrong, and now, here, I regret all the stupid things that one day I said. Although I just want to ask you for something: forgive me, for all the bad things they did. And today I say goodbye to you forever.  

Affectionately anonymous.

 Author: Elena Fernández 3ºC

SURFING

In summer I do surfing  in the beach with my friends, it is great because it is fun and you can show to your friends and to other people on the beach your abilities.
In surf there are a variety of styles, the most common are:
 

-Surf: you can do this style with a surf board and big waves.

                   

-Windsurf: you also need a surf board, but in this photo there is also a sail.

-Kite surf: this surf style uses a small board and a small sail to be fast and the board has a light kite.
             

-Skim: you only need a short board, you do this in the shore using the water that comes from any wave. (I do this style because it is easy and cheap, but it is more dangerous.)
              

Author: Alejandro Ruiz 3ºB

ALESHA ANJANETTE DIXON (OCTOBER 7, 1978)

Alesha's career began in 1999 when she met Sabrina Washington, which formed part of the Dance Attic [a popular dance school in West London], and together they formed a duo and recorded a demo entitled "Inspiration", which never came to light. During an audition, they met with Su-Elise Nash, and then formed a trio. They were soon hired by the UK label Telstar Records, with the addition of fourth member, Zena McNally, and became the popular girl group R & B / Garage called "Mis-Teeq. In 2000 they released their debut single "Why?", The first and last track sung by Zena McNally, because they decided to leave the group to continue her solo career. The band decided to continue as a trio. 
 
In 2001 they released their debut album 'Lickin' On Both Sides, "including the singles" All I Want "," One Night Stand "," B With Me "and the double-A-single" Roll On / This Is How We Do It. " 
 
In 2002, Alesha presented along with rapper LL Cool J MOBO Awards, and in 2003, became the faces of JD Sports stores. 
 
In 2003, Mis-Teeq released the second album, "Eye Candy", including the hits "Scandalous", "Can not Get It Back" and "Style." In 2004, Mis-Teeq toured the United States and presented his debut single there, being "Scandalous" the theme for the American edition of the album by Mis-Teeq, combining themes of "Lickin 'On Both Sides" and "Eye Candy." In addition, published "One Night Stand" before returning to the UK to begin recording new songs for their third album. But UK Telstar Records gave the band broke and was dismissed without further opportunity to publish a Greatest Hits Compilation, under exclusive license from Universal Recording Company UK. 
 
Alesha appeared in the video of the rap group N * E * R * D "She Wants To Move" single from their second album "Fly Or Die." The last track he recorded with the group was "Shoo Shoo Baby", the theme for the Dreamworks film "Valiant." In March 2005, released the Greatest Hits and announced they were separating to pursue solo careers.

Author: Nerea Pérez 3ºA

CRISTIANO RONALDO

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, born 5 February 1985),commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo is the most expensive player in football history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer deal worth £80 million (€94m, US$132m). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is to be paid £11 million per year over the following six years, makes him the highest-paid football player in the world. Ronaldo holds the distinction of being the first player to win the FIFA Puskás Award, an honour handed by FIFA to the best goal of the year. He scored that goal from 40 yards out, against Porto in a UEFA Champions League quarter-final match, while still playing for Manchester United.

Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, then moved to Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting CP. Ronaldo's precocious talent caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and he signed the 18-year-old for £12.24 million in 2003. The following season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA Cup, and reached the Euro 2004 final with Portugal, in which tournament he scored his first international goal.

In 2008, Ronaldo won the Champions League with United, and was named player of the tournament. He was named the FIFPro World Player of the Year and the FIFA World Player of the Year, in addition to becoming Manchester United's first Ballon d'Or winner in 40 years. Three-time Ballon d'Or winner Johan Cruyff said in an interview on 2 April 2008, "Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United."

Author: Jesús Salazar 3ºA

THE BLACK EYES PEAS

The Black Eyed Peas are an American hip pop group, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1995. The group is composed of rapper and multi-instrumentalist will.i.am, rappers apl.de.ap and Taboo, and singer-rapper Fergie. Since the release of their third album, Elephunk, in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 27 million albums worldwide, 20 million singles and 47 million copies with both sales combined. The group scored their first worldwide hit with "Where Is the Love?" in 2003, which topped over ten charts worldwide. Another single was the European hit "Shut Up". Their next album, Monkey Business was also a worldwide hit, certified 4× Platinum in the U.S., and spawning two hit singles, "My Humps" and "Don't Phunk with My Heart".

In 2009, the group became one of only 11 artists to have ever simultaneously held the #1 and #2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, with their singles "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling", with the next single "Meet Me Halfway" achieving similar success, from the album The E.N.D. Combined, these three singles also topped the chart for an unprecedented 30 consecutive weeks in 2009. The album later produced a third Hot 100 number-one placement with "Imma Be", making the group one of few to ever place three number one singles on the chart from the same album before being followed with "Rock That Body" which managed to peak in the Top 10 of Hot 100. "I Gotta Feeling" has become the first single to sell more than 1 million downloads in the United Kingdom.[1]

Before becoming part of the Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am and apl.de.ap were in a group called Atban Klann, signed to Eazy E's Ruthless Records. The Black Eyed Peas were ranked 12th at the Billboard's Decade-End Chart Artist of the Decade, and 7th in the Hot 100 Artists of the Decade. The group has been nominated for "Most Popular International Artist" in the ARIA Music Awards. In February 2011, the group performed at the Super Bowl XLV .

Author: Venus Mendieta 3ºA

LOVE POEMS

I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME 

I carry your heart with me( I carry it in
my heart)I am never without it(anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) I want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you.

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart(I carry it in my heart)

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Author: 3ºC Javier Cabello

 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

VALENTINE'S DAY ACTIVITIES 

VOCABULARY EXERCISES
READING ABOUT VALENTINE'S DAY

MIXED UP VALENTINE'S DAY ACTIVITIES 

RIHANNA

Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988, in a county in Barbados called St. Michael. She lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top sixth form school, similar to grammar schools in the UK. Rihanna won a beauty pageant and performed Mariah Carey's "Hero" in a school talent show. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer from New York who was in Barbados for vacation with his wife, who is a native. Rodgers arranged for her to go to New York to meet Jay-Z, CEO of Def Jam Records. He heard her sing and knew she was going to be big and for more than just one song. She was 16 when she was signed to Def Jam. Rihnanna's debut album is out now. It's called "Music of the Sun".

 

Author: Chelsey Anne Correa 3ºB

ADJECTIVES -ED OR -ING

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ROGER FEDERER

Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks.Federer has won a male record 16 Grand Slam singles titles. He is one of seven male players to capture the career Grand Slam and one of three (with Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal) to do so on three different surfaces (clay, grass and hard courts). Many sports analysts, tennis critics, former and current players consider Federer to be the greatest tennis player of all time.

Federer has won a record 5 ATP World Tour Finals and 17 ATP Masters Series tournaments. He also won the Olympic Gold Medal in doubles with his compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. He has been year-end top 2 in the rankings, 8 years in a row (2003–2010).

Federer's versatility was summarised by Jimmy Connors: "In an era of specialists, you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist, or a hard court specialist...or you're Roger Federer."

Federer is an all-court, all-round player known for his fluid style of play and shot making. Federer mainly plays from the baseline but is also comfortable at the net being one of the best volleyers in the game today. He has a very effective smash and very effectively performs rare elements in today's tennis, such as backhand smash, half-volley and jump smash (slam dunk). David Foster Wallace described Federer's exceptional speed, fluidity and brute force of this forehand motion as "a great liquid whip," while John McEnroe has referred to Federer's forehand as "the greatest shot in our sport." Federer plays with a single-handed backhand which gives him great variety. He employs the slice, occasionally using it to lure the opponent to the net and pass him. Federer can also fire topspin winners and possesses a 'flick' backhand where he can generate pace with his wrist; this is usually used to pass the opponent at the net. His serve is difficult to read because he always uses a similar ball toss regardless of what type of serve he is going to hit and where he aims to hit it, and turns his back to his opponents during his motion. He is often able to produce big serves on key points during a match.


Author: Sergio Palacio 3ºA

Conrad (Potter) Aiken (1889-1978)

Meeting
Conrad AikenWhy do I look at you? Why do I touch you? What do I seek in you, woman,
That I should to meet you again?
Why must I sound once more your abysmal anothingnees,
And draw up only pain?
Hard, hard, I stare at you watery ayes; yet am not convinced, Now no more than ever before,
That they are only two mirrors reflecting the sky’s blank light,
That, and nothing more.
And I press my body against your body, as thoungh I hoped to break
Clean through to another sphere;
And I strive to speak to you with a speech beyond my speech,
In which all things are clear;
Till exhausted I drown once more in your abysmal nothingnees,
And the cold nothignees of me:
You, laughing and crying in this ridiculous room,
With your had upon my knee;
Crying because you think me perverse and unhappy; and laughing
To find our love so strange;
Our eyes fixed hard on each other in a last blind desperate hope
That the whole world might change.

ENCUENTRO

¿Por qué te contemplo? ¿Por qué te toco? ¿Qué busco en ti, mujer,
que he de apresurarme para estar contigo una vez más?
¿Por qué debo sondear nuevamente tu nada abisal
Y extraer nada más que dolor?
Fijamente, fijamente miro tus ojos acuosos; pero no quedo más convencido
Ahora que alguna otra vez
De que sólo son dos espejos que reflejan la luz del firmamento,
Eso y nada más.
Y aprieto tu cuerpo contra mi cuerpo como si esperara abrirme una brecha
Directamente a otra esfera;
Y me esfuerzo por hablar contigo con palabras más allá de mí palabra,
En las que todas las cosas son claras,
Hasta que exhausto me hundo una vez más en tu nada abisal
Y la fría nada de mí:
Tú, riendo y llorando en este cuarto ridículo
Con tu mano sobre mi rodilla;
Llorando porque me crees perverso y desdichado; y riendo
Por hallar nuestro amor tan extraño;
Con la vista mutuamente clavada en una última esperanza, ciega y desesperada,
De que el mundo entero cambie. "

Author: Leo Yeoman 3ºC