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Subject and Object Questions

EXERCISES

I'M MAKING A LIST

I’m making a list of the things I must say

For politeness,

And goodness and kindness and gentleness,

Sweetness and rightness:

Hello

Pardon me

How are you?

Excuse me

Bless you

May I?

Thank you

Goodbye

If you know some that I’ve forgot,

Please stick them in your eye!

WHO by Shel Silverstein

Who can kick a football

From here out to Afghanistan?

I Can!

Who fought tigers in the street

While all the policemen ran and hid?

I did!

Who will fly and have X-ray eyes—

And be known as the man no bullet can kill?

I will!

Who can sit and tell lies all night?

I might!

AGATHA CHRISTIE VANISHED JUST LIKE ONE OF HER CHARACTERS. What do you think it really happened?

On a cold night in 1926, Agatha Christie vanished without a trace.

She was the reigning queen of detective fiction’s Golden Age – but Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mystery remains her unsolved disappearance in 1926.

On a chilly December evening, the 36-year-old Christie vanished from her English estate in Sunningdale, Berkshire. While the famed author reportedly left a note that claimed she had gone on vacation, the discovery of her car suggested otherwise.

The vehicle was found at the edge of a quarry not far from her home, abandoned with its hood up and lights on. Inside sat Christie’s fur coat, her old driver’s license, and a bag of clothes. There was no sign of the woman herself.

Authorities suspected murder.

News of Christie’s disappearance spread quickly, and a massive manhunt commenced. Over a thousand officers and 15,000 volunteers combed the countryside while dredge teams scoured the surrounding lakes and streams. A fleet of biplanes searched from the skies – the first in England’s history for a missing person case.

Even fellow mystery writers joined in on the hunt. Dorothy L. Sayers visited the crime scene, later using her observations as inspiration for UNNATURAL DEATH. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presented one of Christie’s gloves to a medium in hopes of ENLISTING SPIRITS TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY.

By the end of the week, Christie’s disappearance had become a national obsession.

Just who could have murdered the Queen of Crime? Many suspected Christie’s husband, Colonel Archie Christie.

 The old Colonel had struck up an affair with a younger woman named Nancy Neele, and made no attempt to hide his fling from his wife. On the day of Christie’s disappearance, the couple reportedly quarreled after Archie announced that he planned to spend the weekend with his mistress.

Agatha Christie remained missing for 11 days. Then, on December 14th, she was finally found – not in a shallow grave but hiding out at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, England. A local musician spotted her, having recognized her face. Oddly, Agatha had signed in to the spa as Theresa Neele from Cape Town, borrowing the last name of her husband’s lover.

The twist ending shocked the public. Some angrily dismissed her disappearance as a publicity stunt for her latest novel, THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. Others surmised an upset Christie merely sought to teach her cheating husband a lesson. Others still suggested darker motives – suicidal depression, a clever scheme to frame Archie and his mistress for murder.

Christie herself said very little about the disappearance. She rarely discussed the matter in interviews and the bizarre episode does not appear in her autobiography. In the days after her return, the author blamed her vanishing on a mysterious dream state, in which she took on an entirely new identity:

“For 24 hours I wandered in a dream, and then found myself in Harrogate as a well-contented and perfectly happy woman who believed she had just come from South Africa.”

Guadalquivir River

Guadalquivir river: This river flows through southern Spain to the Atlantic Ocean. It goes through Jaén, Córdoba, Seville and Cádiz. It has a lot of old names like Baetis or Percis The Guadalquivir had a lot of animals, but today,exotic fish are more tan the fish who lives there always. This river is the most important river in Andalucía for its length. Because of that a lot of writers wrote about it like Alfonso X el Sabio, Fray Luis de León or Juan de la Cueva. 

P.R.L. 

The Guadalquivir River es a Spanish peninsular river which rise in the cañada de las Fuentes (Sierra Cazorla), in the municipality of Quesada (Jaen) .

Its river basin includes territories of Jaen, Cordoba , Almeria, Granada, Malaga, Seville, Huelva and Cadiz and Murcia, Albacete, Ciuda Real and Badajoz It hows into the Atlantic ocean between Almonte and Sanlucar de Barrameda, in a broad estuary between the provice of Cadiz and Huelva. Marshes of the Guadalquivir which is part of the Doñana National Park. Between Seville and the estuary a vast wetland is situated. It is the fifth river length of the Iberia Peninsula.

 In his tour of Andalusia from east tour west, through towns like Andujar, Cordoba and Seville. From pre-Roman times it was called by the ARABS Wadal-Kibir from the eleventh century.

The first name was adopted by the Guadalquivir Baetis or Baitis.

Around the vil century Bc Greek sailors began to arrive that will be called Tharsis river, in reference to the Kingdom of Tartessos.

Carmen A.

MODERN MASTERS

The students of the 4th year of ESO have been reading about three very important artists. Now it's time to see that gossip in motion.

We finished reading about Van Gogh quite a long ago, so maybe you'll be happy to watch this beautiful movie about his relationship with Gaugin and the time they lived together. Enjoy it!

Vincent and Theo is an older film, but it is also fine and it's got subtitles in Spanish.

Here you can watch an interesting documentary on Picasso's work and controversial life in Spanish.

And finally, a film based on Andy Warhol's project about the combination of the industry of cinema and parties. It's  a modern movie, but it includes original photograms from Warhol's real documentaries. The quality of the video is not good, but it's got subtitles in Spanish and it is really worth seeing.

SEVILLE AND THE CHISEL

Last month we had the chance to see many of the most valued religious scultures of our town. Many of us have got a taste for this type of art, since we are used to seeing it. However, sometimes we are not able to describe or give information of the work of art itself or the author who created it. Furthermore, it is frequent that we don't pay attention to more modern sculptures on other issues.

Since art is part of our most valued patrimony, I invite you to describe a work you like, and provide some information about its author.