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As a part of the bilingual project, our High School has a new member: Matthew Hinton, our Language Assistant. On his first weeks in Fiñana some of our students interviewed him to know a bit more about himself. - How long have you been living here? - I have been living in Granada for two months so far. -Do you speak Spanish better after this time? -Yes, I speak much better -Have you ever been to Spain before? -Yes, I know Santander

Susana & Moisés 2º Bach. A

- Do you prefer America or Spain? -I prefer America because it is my home and I’ve got there my family, my friends but I love Spain! -Why are you here in this High School? What is your job here? -Here I help the teachers, and I am a “teacher of the teachers”. I know Spain and have an experience in international works. - What do you think about the teachers? -I think the teaches are very dedicated -What did you study? -Political Sciences

INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW

A DIFFERENT XMAS. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

During his Xmas trip, Matthew stayed in The Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany. On Christmas Eve he had dinner in a friend's house in The Netherlands. The friend's

name was Alvaro and he was from Mexico. They he had a big party! On new Year's Eve, he stayed in Paris and celebrated the New Year there. He visited Notre Dame, Pompadour Centre. He said it was fantastic, beautiful and different, especially the Sacre Coeur, the church. He visited the Eiffel Tower where he

celebrated the New Year. He didn’t stay with other people from Spain, because his friends were from America. He says that considering all the places he has visited, he prefers The Netherlands because the life there is very calm and he says it’s fantastic, although his favourite place will always be SPAIN!!!

Matthew in

Belgium

Matthew, our linguistic assistant, tells us about his experience travelling to the north of Europe

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A classic among the classics in Spanish tables, here is a way to help “guiris” and locals enjoy a healthy and wonderful recipe. The tortilla is a way of life in Spain. Here is a simple recipe to cook a wonderful Spanish omelette. For 4 to 6 persons: 1 cup of olive oil, 4 large potatoes (peel and cut in circle about 2 mm thick) salt to taste, one large onion, thinly sliced, four large eggs.

Some people add thin slices of red peper together with the onion. Heat the oil in 9-inch skillet, add potatoes, one slice at a time so that they don't stick. Alternate layers of potato and onion. Cook slowly, medium flame. Do not burn. Turn occasionally until potatoes are tender, but not brown. They must be loose, not caked together. Beat eggs in a large bowl with a fork, salt to taste. Drain potatoes. Add potatoes to beaten eggs, pressing them so that eggs cover them completely. Let it sit for a few minutes. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in large skillet. Add potatoes-eggs mixture, spreading quickly. Lower the heat to medium. Shake pan to prevet sticking. When eggs start to brown, put a plate over the skillet, turn it over, adding another tablespoon of oil. Brown on the other side. Can flip three or tour times for better cooking.

Susana & Moisés & Matthew . English as 2nd Language 2º Bach & Matthew Hinton, Language Assistant .

TORTILLA DE PATATAS

AMERICAN BREAKFAST

A bite of America in your breakfast! Do you want to impress your parents and friend with a something different? Our favourite “guiri” gives us some hints for an easy way to start any day.

Ingredients:

Bacon, butter, eggs, oranges, sugar. Bread and marmalade. 1. Fry the bacon in the frying pan. The

bacon has to be crunchy. 2. Beat the eggs, with the sugar and the

milk in a bowl, and put slices of bread in the bowl, and put the bread in the frying pan. That's an American toast.

3. Make an orange juice with fresh o anges.

4. Eat the bacon, and put the marmalade on the American toasts, and drink the juice

5. You can also eat the bacon with fried

or scrambled eggs.

Ingredients: sugar, milk, eggs, oil, marmalade and flour.

1. Beat the eggs, and pour milk, the flour

and yeast. You make a very soft mass.

2. Put the fying pan on the fire, take the

mixture, and make in the fying pan little flat cakes.

TORTITAS

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C: Camarero M: Moisés S: Susana

IN THE RESTAURANT

DIALOGUES Eating is a daily routine, and eating out is something you will do for sure whenever we travel. Here you have a sample of a conversation which may be of some help anytime you are facing that experience. Important set phrases are in bold. M: Hello, Have you got a table for two? C: Yes, it is the table next to the window. S: Ok, but… Could you give us a table away from the toilets. C: Yes, of course. M: Ok thanks. At the table. M: Waiter! S: Could I have the menu? C: Yes, of course. M: Could I have the wine list, please? C: Yes, but I recommend the wine cellar M: Ok S: But I don't like this wine and I prefer a larger glass of wine please C: Perfect, and what would you like?

S: I would like, an asparagus soup, cannelloins and stewed fruit. M: And for me, pea soup, noodles and rice pudding. S: Sorry, waiter this soup is wrongly flavoured, is very tasteless and this spoon is dirty. C: Oh, sorry, excuse-me… M: You have forgotten to pour the wine. M: The bill please. C: Ok, Did you like it? S: No, the food was very bad. C: I'm sorry. It is, 68 €. M: Sorry? C: 68 €. S: But I thing there's a mistake. C: Why? M: We didn't have this. C: Oh, sorry, it is true, the bill is…. 40 €. M: Ok you keep the change.

S: No, actually don’t keep the change. Bye

Moisés & Susana

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WE LIKED THE ACTIVITY AND WE WANT TO DO IT AGAIN. WE LIKE HALLOWEEN!!!

IDIOMAS Y JUVENTUD 2007

GLASGOW!

Last summer the scholarship “IDIOMAS Y JUVENTUD" was given to me and I went away to Glasgow, Scotland, which is the place that was assigned to me.

I was alone because the scholarship wasn’t given to many people of my High School, but this wasn’t important. It’s true that everybody who went to Glasgow was from Germany and was already friends because almost all of them were from the same High School. Nonetheless, I met two girls with whom I spoke by an Internet forum. So I was with them from the beginning, but soon the friends'

circle was extended and we formed a good group.

Juan David Clarés 2º ESO

On the 31st of October, the students of the I.E.S. Sierra Nevada celebrated Halloween’s day. In English class, we learned the origin of this party. It was a Celtic tradition. They celebrated New Year’s party this day, and they made bonfires to banish the dead men. We made a pumpkin lantern, too. It was very entertaining! First, we removed the pips and cleaned the interior of the pumpkin. Later, we made the mouth, the eyes and the nose. Finally, we put a candle in the interior. We liked it very much! Some students made pumpkin lanterns. Very nice!

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We went out of the airport of Malaga and after three hours of travelling, we arrived to Edinburgh and from there went to Glasgow, to our residence. The routine there was always the same: in the morning there were classes, in the afternoon we did different activities (excursions, sport, swimming..) and at night, we sometimes went to disco (in our own residence, ha ha) or played different games.

Centring now on the place where I was, Glasgow is a nice city, the biggest of Scotland, placed in the valley of the river Clyde (which happened to be next to our residence). The city has many points of tourist interest like museums, art galleries and centres of art, some of which we visited. But also there is an infinite number of shops, restaurants, bars, etc.

Not only in Glasgow is it nice and charming, but in the whole of Scotland. Like I said before, we did some excursions, and in these we visited Edinburgh and Stirling going to several castles, because this zone is characterized by its castles, which have interesting histories… But, also, typical in Scotland are its lakes, and though we wanted to visit Loch Ness and to see his famous monster, we couldn’t. But we went to another, the Loch Lomond, striking too.

It’s without question and to finish, it was two

intense weeks, the time happened very

quickly and everybody finished the trip very

happy.

Miriam Ortiz

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TRIP TO LA ALHAMBRA

.....The fountain of lions.....

On the 22nd of February we went on a beautiful trip to La Alhambra. There, we saw the buildings and we knew her history thanks to our “guide” Mathew. We had a very good time and the travel is unforgettable.

TRIP TO LONDON 2007

Hello! Sebastián and Mª del Mar here, and we are going to tell you our experience about our London trip with “Idiomas y Juventud”. We went to Málaga by bus with many teenagers to take the plane. We spent two weeks in a college residence which was 20 minutes from the centre of the city. In this time we met many people from different countries around the world, like Italians, Chinese and Turkish... We visited different places: museums, Brighton, Cambridge, the Camden Town, Trafalgar square, the Royal Observatory,

Buckingham Palace... In short, we had fun and we recommend it. We suggest you bring an umbrella, a coat and some food in case you don’t like the food (But in my opinion it was good). Change euros to pounds in Spain because it will be more comfortable. We recommend you take around 250€ if you want to buy some presents for your family or any friends.

Sebastián

Maria del Mar

María Lázaro 4º ESO

Maria Del Mar Jurado y Sebastián Rodríguez

2º Bach

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ALHAMBRA’S VEGETATION

Geographically, the Alhambra is set on the flat summit of a very pronounced hill with exquisite vegetation which, although not native, enriches the landscape. The Alhambra, like a few other places in Andalusia, offers a unique opportunity to contemplate medieval Islamic gardens. These gardens, which still preserve some of the original designs, have witnessed many historical events. These moments from the past come alive when we consider that the gardens are living, forever changing, and what we see today is a result of what has been done through the centuries. However, we can still get an idea of how the Arabs combined architecture with landscaped gardens as a means of seducing the senses with courtyards and exquisite archways, water feature, flower beds, little orchards of fruit trees and dense, shady groves. This is the Muslim concept of garden, which is essentially an illusion outside of the world, nature in a dreamlike state, and above all, the desire to reproduce Paradise on Earth. This concept of the garden, reflected in the Koran, is also expressed in one of the verses carved into the frieze around the archway that leads into the north pavilion of the Water Channel Courtyard (Patio de la Acequia) in the Generalife: Believers shall enter into gardens through which clear streams flow (los creyentes serán introducidos en jardines por los cuales corren claros arroyos) In the Alhambra there are 300 species of plants distributed among its gardens. Nature

and heritage complement each other and became a very distinctive hallmark. What different styles of gardens are there? 1. Nasrid gardens:

A) Patio de los Arrayanes, (the present day myrtles which give their name to the courtyard). Arrayán is an Arabic word which is equivalent to English word myrtle, which is a sweet-smelling hedge or bush. B) Patio de los Leones. The courtyard is symbolic of the Islamic Paradise: a spring in the centre from which four channels depart. C) Patio de la Acequia. Herbs and fruit trees share the freshness of the water from the channels with cypress trees, rose bushes and other plants. 2. Renaissance gardens:

A) Jardín de los Adarves: This 17th century garden was created under the southern wall of the Alcazaba. B) Patio de Lindaraja: This old Nasrid garden was converted into a courtyard and features a classical Italian fountain in the centre. 3. Romantic garden:

A) Paseo de los Cipreses: This walk was created during the second half of the 19th century, when the cypress became a symbol of Granada. 4. Modern garden: A) Jardines del Partal. Garden from the first third of the 20th century designed by the architect Torras Balbás. B) Gardens in the lower part of the Generalife. This 20th century garden is composed of symmetrical areas of vegetation.

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ESPAÑOL

⇒ Arrayán o mirto ( Myrtus communis) ⇒ Naranjo amargo (Citrus aurantium) ⇒ Boj (Buxus sempervirens) ⇒ Laurel (Laurus nóbilis) ⇒ Pitosporo (Pitosporum tobira) ⇒ Castaño de Indias ( Aesculus hippocastanum) ⇒ Tilo (Tilia cordata) ⇒ Adelfa (Nerium oleander) ⇒ Arbol del amor (Cercis siliquastrum) ⇒ Glicinia ( Wisteria sinensis) ⇒ Celindo (Philadelphus virginalis) ⇒ Alhelí (Matthiola incana) ⇒ Pensamiento (Viola tricolor) ⇒ Romero (Rosmarinus officinalis) ⇒ Ebónimo (Evonymus japonicum) ⇒ Ciprés (Cupresus sempervirens)

INGLÉS

⇒ Myrtle ⇒ Orange tree ⇒ Box ⇒ Laurel. Culin.bayleaf ⇒ Pitosporo tree ⇒ Chesnut tree ⇒ Lime tree ⇒ Rosebay, oleander ⇒ love tree ⇒ Wisteria ⇒ Philadelpho ⇒ Wallflower, stock ⇒ Pansy ⇒ Rosemary ⇒ Evónymo ⇒ Cypress tree

Vocabulary Summit: cima, cumbre

Landscape: paisaje

Courtyard. pátio

Orchad: huerto

Archway: arcada

Hallmark: sello de identidad

Heritage: patrimonio

Groves: arboleda

Frieze: friso, cenefa

Carved: tallado, esculpido

Pavilion: pabellón

Shady: sombreado

Hedge: seto

By Victoria Moreno Garbayo Biology Teacher

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Mariano Zoyo

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Teachers:

Margarita Sánchez Cabezas

Carolina Román

Students:

Mariano Zoyo Vargas

Oana Madalina Bulín

José Antonio Martínez Eugenia Mª López

José Antonio Moreno Juana Mª García

Sebastián Rodríguez Raquel Salvador

Juan Antonio López Francisco López

Victoria Moreno Carmen García

Mª Del Mar Jurado Miriam Jurado

Francisco J. García Moisés Torres

María J. Cañizares María Lázaro

José María Torres Miriam Ortiz

Manuel J. Villegas Mariano Zoyo

Antonio Del Rosal Rocío Vargas

Nazaret Villegas Juan David Clarés

Lucía Hernández Laura García

Matthew Hinton Mélody Plaza

Alejandro Ortiz María Milán

Carolina Román Oana Bulín

Mª José Sierra Susana Hernández