saint george

SAINT GEORGE

Saint George feast is celebrated on the 23^rd April. The most famous activity is to give a book to your boyfriend or husband and a rose to your girlfriend or wife.

This traditional day has a legend:

“Once upon a time there was a kingdom with a king, a queen and a princess. One day, a dragon arrived and ate all the sheep and the fruits of the kingdom. It also ate people, but one day he kidnapped the princess. When the dragon went to eat her, a knight arrived and killed the dragon and rescued the princess. From the blood of the dragon grew a beautiful rose”.

By: Cristina Balsells & Teresa Company

The Castanyada

Alba Inglés and Gonzalo Roig

The Castanyada

“Castanyada” is a traditional celebration of Catalonia. It’s celebrated the 1st of November. In this traditional day, the girl and boys wear costumes and all the people eat chestnuts and “panellets”. “Panellets” are a special food, are like a little cookies very sweet, this day also, the families meet and eat all together. The students sell chestnuts to win money, normally for the school trip. Chestnuts are dried fruits and are very typical in France, chestnuts are delicious. Also the negative of ”Castanyada” is that chestnuts are more expensive because all the people buy them.   

LA CASTANYADA

The celebration that we want to talk is traditional here in my country: “Castanyada”. The origin of this celebration is from the mountains of Catalonia because the trees of this fruit, the “castanya”, are there. But we also plant these trees where we want for example: in one street of a city. When it’s time for this celebration we eat “castanyes” and “panellets”. But this and last year, the people has celebrate Halloween and for this reason the “Castanyada” is losing people. This is our writing about the “Castanyada” a very traditional celebration of our country

The Patum de Berga

The Patum de Berga is a popular and traditional festival that is celebrated each year in the Catalan city of Berga during Corpus Christi. It consists of a series of "dances" by townspeople dressed as mystical and symbolical figures, and accompanied either by the rhythm of a drum or band music. The dances are marked by their solemnity and their ample use of fire and pyrotechnics.

It was declared a Traditional Festival of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1983, and as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

When she was 6, her father hits his mother and she was very sad. Her parents wanted her to dance but she wanted to sing. When she was fifteen she went out her house and she worked hard to earn money to study a career.

She went to a lot of castings for being a singer. Now she is a singer very famous around the World. She did her first album when she was 17.

She did a song to her mother (“Oh mother”).

Her best friend is Britney Spears.

Her most famous songs are “Moulin Rouge”, “Beautiful”, “Moves like Jagger”, “Oh mother”, “I’m OK”.

She did a lot of CDs: “1·Chritina Aguilera”, “2· Mi reflejo·”, “3·srtipped”, “4· Back to Basics”, “5· Keeps getting Better: A decade of hits”, “6· Bionic”.

We like her because she did pop music and songs good to dance. 

David Guetta

 

Our favourite singer is David Guetta. We like it because the music is very modern and the songs can be danced. The singer lives in California, but most days of the year has a fair around the world. He plays techno music. We don’t know the numbers of CDS   but the most important songs are: “Ho’s that chick “, “Sexy beach “, “Little bad girl”, “When them girls at “and a lot of.

He is the best Dj of the world he’s very famous. Our favourite song of David Guetta is“Ho’s that chick “. He participates with Rihanna, Tayo Cruz, Florida and Jason Derulo.   Touch   in   Ibiza   and Barcelona.

By: Andrea Roca and Elena Villacampa.

HALLOWEEN :D !!!

Hall   ween

This tradition they celebrate 31 of October, the people wearing a horrible costume. Is the night of witches and ghost. The children go to house of the  neighbour to take  sweet and the people don’t give, the boys throw eggs out the house. This tradition invent the English people. In Catalonia a small part of the people celebrate this tradition, celebrate “Castanyada”.  

ALEX MOLINA AND ALBERT COLOMBO 

Bongo Botrako

My favorite group is Bongo Botrako. This band is Catalan. This is a very famous group. The group sings ska music. The members of the Bongo Botrako are: the singer is Ruben Sierra, the trumpeter is Alex Magnani, Romain Renard is the accordionist, Adrià Salas is the vocalist, Sergi López the drummer and Ferran Ibañez is the bass guitarist. My favourite song is “Todos los días sale el sol”. The most popular CD is “Todos los días sale el sol” and their most popular songs are “Llegará la primavera” and “Libre”.

One of my favorite group is “We are the scientists”, they play pop music but sometimes, they did rock music. I like very much their pop music. I don’t have any CDs of this group, I only listen to their songs in my computer. They come from California, in the United States. The singer and guitarist is Scott Lamb, the drummer is Keith Murray and the bass guitarist player is Chris Cain. My favorite song of this group is “Rules don’t stop me”. This is my favorite group because their songs and the lyrics are very good, and I like so much the rhythm.

RIHANNA

My favorite singer is Rihanna. She is a young woman that sings pop music and dance music. She is the only person of the group. I like her because she sings so good and her songs are very nice, but there are some songs that are terrible and repetitive, like “Don’t stop the music” and “”Under my umbrella”. I don’t any CDs of Rihanna, but I often listen to her songs in my MP4. She’s from Saint Michael and she was born on February 20^th of 1988.  Her CDs are: “A girl like me”, “SOS”, “Good Girls Gone Bad” and “Umbrella”. She is very beautiful and she usually changes her look.