Culture in a box

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Culture in a box

• A Spring Day Project

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Your flag?

• This is Spains flag. It has got two colours red
  and yellow.
• The Spanish flag symbolizes the nation. It is the
  sign of sovereignty and independence and the
  symbol of the mother country.

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A symbol of your country

• Flamenco is a genuine Spanish art, and to be more
  exact on genuine Southern Spanish art.
• It exists in three forms cante the song,
  baile the dance and guitarra guitar playing.
  Flamenco dance arrived to its climax, being the
  major attraction for the public of cafés
  cantantes.
• Current flamenco frequently shows influences of
  other kinds of music, as jazz, salsa, bossanova
• We have chosen the Sevillanas dance because
  everybody knows Spain for this famous dance.

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Where are you?

• We are in the south west of Europe. Our country
  is Spain and we live in a town near Barcelona.
• In the next page there is the map of Europe and
  a map of our country.

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Where are you?
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Hows the climate?

• Spains climate is continental, except in the
  Mediterranean with warm winter softness caused by
  the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean, and with
  scarce rain in autumn and winter.
• In the summer the weather is warm/hot. The
  temperature is between 30º and 35ºC. In autumn
  the temperature is between 12º and 17º C. In
  winter the temperature is between 6º and 10º C.
  In spring the temperature is between 23º and 26º
  C. It is warm.
• In the following page there are some photos
• Autumn in this season the leaves fall.
• Winter in this season the people go skiing. In
  winter it often snows.
• Spring in this season the trees bloom and there
  are a lot of flowers.
• Summer in this season people go to the swimming
  pool because it is hot.

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Hows the climate?
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Capital / population

• The capital of our country is Madrid.
• In Spain, the population in 1991 was of
  38.872.268 inhabitants in 2002 the population
  was 40.077.100 inhabitants and in 2003 it was of
  50.573.000.
• In Madrid, the capital of our country, the
  population is 3.800.052 inhabitants.

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Greetings in your language

• Good morning Buenos días
• Good afternoon Buenas tardes
• Good night Buenas noches
• How are you? Cómo estás?

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A landscape that you love

• This is La fageda den Jordà, a beautiful
  forest situated in La Garrotxa (Girona). This is
  a volcanic zone but the volcanos are inactive.

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A favourite poem of yours

• This is a Spanish poem. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
  wrote this poem and it talks about love.
• Volverán las oscuras golondrinas
• en tu balcón sus nidos a colgar,
• y otra vez con el ala a tus cristales
• jugando llamarán.
• Pero aquellas que el vuelo refrenaban
• tu hermosura y mi dicho el contemplar
• aquellas que aprendieron nuestros nombres,
• ésas. No volverán!
• Volverán las tupidas madreselvas
• de tu jardín las tapias a escalar,
• y otra vez a la tarde aún más hermosas
• sus flores se aliviarán
• Volverán del amor en tus oídos
• las palabras ardientes a sonar.
• Tu corazón de un profundo sueño
• Tal vez despertará.

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A product of your country

• Cava is similar to champagne. It is good for
  special celebrations. In the region of Penedés
  (Catalonia) there are plenty of cava factories.

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A recipe from your country

• PAELLA
• Sauté onion, parsley and garlic in olive oil
  until the onion begins to become transparent. Add
  saffron, chicken bullion, chicken, peppers and
  sauté until chicken has become white. Add tomato
  sauce, sugar, food colouring. Stir. Add rice and
  water and bring to boil. Salt to taste. Boil 5
  minutes, stirring occasionally. Add shrimps and
  scallops, boil and additional 5 minutes, stirring
  occasionally, Simmer 10 minutes covered, stirring
  occasionally. If the rice appears to be getting
  too dry during the last 10 minutes, add more
  water. If the rice is too wet at the end of the
  10 minutes, uncover and evaporate unwanted
  liquid.
• Enjoy!!

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A proverb that you like

• En abril, lluvias mil.
• It means that in April it rains a lot because the
  weather is changing.

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A famous person

• His majesty the king was born on 5th January 1938
  in Rome where the Royal Family was living, having
  had to leave Spain when the Republic was
  proclaimed in 1931. His parents were Juan de
  Borbón y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and Head
  of the Spanish Royal Household since his father,
  king Alfonso XIII, relinquished his status, and
  Maria de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleans.
• At the express wish of his father, he was
  educated in Spain as from the age of ten, after a
  period as a boarder at the Marianist school in
  the Swiss town of Freeburg. His parents,
  meanwhile, had been living since 1946 in the
  coastal town of Estoril, in Portugal.