My summer holidays 2008

My summer holidays 2008 were very funny. I had just finished school  when I went to Morocco with my brother Mohamed.

First, we went to Tanger, I went to see my cousin. Actually, those days were super with her. We went to the most famous beach in Tanger “beach chica”. In the evening we had a party and my brother and I stayed there. Then, my cousin and some friends came and there were many people attending.

The next day we decided to go to Meknes which is the city where I grew up. On the road we found a restaurant where I like to eat cus-cus. We ate there and then we went go to Meknes. When we reached my house my family was there, my brother and me were very happy. We were very tired, that day we had traveled for six hours! I slept all night and in the morning we had breakfast and we went shopping. We bought many typical things from Morocco: jelaba, tagine, tea pots, etc. There were very nice people who helped you with everything you needed without any problem.

I saw a gold neck lace and I thought if I had 500 euros I would buy it because it was beautiful. After I bought a scarf for my mother and my brother decided to buy something for my father not to be jealous of my mother :).

My friends invited me to have dinner at their house which was beautiful and there were many ornaments. I ate all and had a great time with them. We danced belly dance and we drank tea. At that moment I thought if my best friend had been with me, it would have been better.

After dinner my brother came to pick me up because my family was waiting for me to go to Nador, my hometown. I packed up and we went to together. In the way we met our old school friends we said hello, chatted a bit and we went away.

 

After we headed back to Nador, the trip was unforgettable because I was with people I love: with my grandmother, my uncles and aunts and my brother. We went to many beaches, we visited many places, we did many things and I had a great time.

After a week we returned to Spain. I was very sad because I wanted to stay a few more days.

To conclude I can only say that I want to go there again.

Najima El Hassnaoui

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A group of students of third year Secondary School from Siglo XXI High School speak about their favourite music, their summer holidays, computers and TV habits, Ecuador and China.

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Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal is a musical style that was born in the 60's in the UK. The Origins of Heavy Metal are Blues, Hard Rock and Classical Music.

Heavy Metal was very popular in the 70's in the UK and the USA, but the universal expansion was in the 80's.

The features of Heavy Metal are powerful and aggressive rhythms and the most used instruments to play on drums, electric bass and electric guitar.

The Heavy Metal subgenres are almost infinite, from traditional Heavy Metal to Metal Opera through the Thrash Metal, Black Metal, Power Metal...

The Origins Of Heavy Metal

The expression ''Heavy Metal'' is how a critic defined the music of Jimmy Hendrix as ''Heavy Metal fallen from the sky'' in 1967.

In1968, it appears for first time the meaning ''Heavy Metal'' in the song ''Born To Be Wild'' of Steppenwolf. The first Heavy Metal song is ''Helter Selkter'' of The Beatles.

The first band were Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, later, Judas Priest would be the base for everything before and after.

At this stage it appeared the so called ''New Wave Of Brithish Heavy Metal'' or NWOBHM.

Heavy Metal in the 80's

The second wave of Heavy Metal would be the most important for the expansion with bands as Iron Maiden, Venom, Def Lepard and Motorhead. And people began to wear typical clothing metal bands and metalheads. And it was the time of the bests guitarrists, for example, Eddie Van Hallen, Yngwie Malmsteen or Randy Rhoads.

It also began to be very popular the German Heavy Metal with Accept, Warlock, Scorpions...

The band Manowar gave a philosophical meaning to Heavy Metal and pride of the metalhead.

Underground Metal

From the 80's up to 2000, the evolution of Heavy Metal created much subgenres of Heavy Metal.

HeavyMetal is a historical synonymous of Metal music. The Metal piling to different genres.

Thrash Metal

It was born in the early from NWOBHM and American Hardcore Punk. It was created by The Big Four Of Thrash Metal : Metallica, Megadeth,
Anthrax and Slayer.

And four German bands for the expansion in Europe : Kreator,Sodom,Tankard and Destruction.

In the 90's bands as Exhorder or Pantera maintened the level.

Power Metal

Born in the 80's from the Speed Metal and sounds from the Death Metal and Black Metal.

It is more upbeat music, epic melodies and themes from to the sense of valor and beauty of the listener. It is pure speed and energy with refined techiques. As Nightwish, Angra, Blind Guardian and Rhapsody Of Fire.

Folk Metal

Its peculiarity is the influence of folk elements on an usual metal. The topics vary depending on the style of band. The most usual is the Viking tradition, Slavic and Celtic, Prehispanic, but it is also usual speaking of the pride of the region from where the band comes.

The most used instruments to play are bagpipes, flutes and violins together with a guitar, drum and bass. Bands of Folk Metal : Amon Amarth, Runic, Heidevolk and Corvux Corax.

David Torres

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A group of students of first year Secondary School from Siglo XXI High School speak about unemployment, Lepanto Primary School, footbal, videogames and their favourite singers.

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A group of students of third year Secondary School from Siglo XXI High School speak about holidays, sports, films and they also bring us the recipe of an easy chocolate cake.

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A group of students of 3rd year Secondary School from IES Siglo XXI High School bring us their opinion about the tobacco law, Sinde's law and equality.

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Some students of English Extension 1 from Siglo XXI High School run "Let’s educommunicate!" in English. They speak about their high school, sports, they present their own top 5 and finally they comment this radio experience.

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Let's educommunicate!

Paola from Siglo XXI High School visits the Community Radio of Leganés to experience her first time on a radio station in Spanish. She reads "Amor eterno", she speaks about her high school and she tell us about a music activity developed by her class and Pancho Varona.

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A group of students of 1st year Secondary School describe themselves in English, they speak about music, videogames, a soap opera and they also bring the recipe of sambusa from Somalia.

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My favourite band

Hi friends!

I´m sending you a photo of my favourite band, 4Minute. It´s a k-pop girl group. The group has got five members, JiYoon, GaYoon, SoHyun, Hyun Ah and JiHyun. I think they´re really good. In the group all sing and dance.

JiYoon is on the left in the photo. She´s wearing a grey dress- I love her fair hair. She not only sings, but she also raps. She´s twenty years old and her hobbies are cooking and songwriting.

GaYoon is next to JiYoon in the photo. She´s wearing a white dress and brown boots. She´s twenty and her hobby is watching movies.
SoHyun is in the middle. She´s wearing a white dress. She´s sixteen and
her hobby is swimming.

Hyun Ah is next to SoHyun. She raps too. She´s wearing a grey dress.
She´s eighteen and her hobbies are cooking and watching movies.

JiHyun is on the right. She is the leader of the band. She´s wearing a white dress and a white boots. She´s twenty and her hobby is dancing.

When they release a new album, they usually change their style.

Send me a picture of your favourite band!

Love,

Heba.

Pyramid of hate and discrimination

Have you ever heard a joke about muslims, women, latins, gypsies, black people or homosexuals? Are these jokes funny?

Look, this pyramid shows how far these jokes can reach:

Can you identify the different steps on the pyramid in the following video?

Gender roles

Do you agree with these roles?



Do education, art and media have something to do about our way of seeing ourselves?

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A group of students of 4th year Secondary School from IES Siglo XXI High School bring us their opinion about taxes increase, the earthquake in Japan and their high school.

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Our students on radio ECO Leganés.

This time some students of English Extension 1 from Siglo XXI High School run "Let's educommunicate!" in English. They speak about their high school, the music they like, their favourite football teams, shocking experiences, etc.

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