H. G. Wells: “History is a race between education and catastrophe”.
martes, 22 de diciembre de 2015
lunes, 21 de diciembre de 2015
Regalo de Navidad
Ya estaban las zapatillas colocadas en la chimenea. La ilusión de los más pequeños hizo que me olvidara unos instantes de la nieve que se colaba por la ventana. Mi padre encendió una cerilla y todos aplaudimos cuando les prendió fuego. Esa noche dormiríamos por fin con los pies calientes.
Margarita del Brezo, Regalo de Navidad.
viernes, 18 de diciembre de 2015
2º A.S. - BLOQUE 3
2º A.S. - BLOQUE 9
jueves, 17 de diciembre de 2015
lunes, 14 de diciembre de 2015
Una espina clavada
He tenido una vida larga y fructífera. Crecí con todo lo que se puede desear al alcance de mi mano, y la mayoría de las veces ni siquiera tuve necesidad de pedirlo.
Mi belleza ha sido la protagonista de las más ardientes fantasías. Me han vestido de perlas, me han escrito bellos poemas de amor y reconocidos artistas han erigido soberbias estatuas en mi honor.
Surcar los océanos, tocar las estrellas o dormir arrullada por el canto de las caracolas son sólo ejemplos de las aventuras fabulosas que he vivido en primera persona y que muchos ni siquiera se han atrevido a soñar.
Sin embargo, y a pesar de mi legendaria existencia, siempre me ha costado aceptar que las sirenas no podamos montar en bicicleta.
Margarita del Brezo, Una espina clavada.
lunes, 7 de diciembre de 2015
Celos
Nacer con cuarenta y tres años me aportó una inusitada madurez que hube de hacer valer nada más asomar por entre las piernas de mi madre. Yo, que ya había leído a Gil de Biedma, conocía las dimensiones de este teatro que es la vida y raudo, di las buenas tardes con timidez, afanándome por parecer educado.
Mi madre me aceptó sin reservas, mas mi padre, algo celoso, insistió en ver mi cartilla de la mili antes de otorgarme el apellido. Corrían tiempos de bonanza y, apenas nos acostumbramos a sostener el trabajoso triángulo escaleno de nuestra vida en común, mi madre anunció que tendría un hermanito. Así es que —aunque pensándolo bien, nunca se sabía— comencé a hacerme a la desagradable idea de dejar de ser el pequeñín de la casa.
Mikel Aboitiz, Celos.
viernes, 4 de diciembre de 2015
4º CC.SS. - TEMA 4 - Mines in Spain
Read the document and answer the questions:
The chief coal district is that of Oviedo, Palencia, Leon, and Santander. The coal-field of Oviedo, occupying an extent of 230 square miles, and including a large number of workable beds, is of excellent quality, but as yet little developed, owing to high railway tariffs, bad condition of ports, traditional prejudices, want of skill and capital, and of a local market for inferior qualities. These obstacles will probably soon be overcome, and the development of the associated iron ores afford an important field of enterprise.
Iron is mainly obtained from Biscay, Oviedo, Murcia, and Almeria, but is abundant in other provinces. Lead is worked chiefly in Murcia, Jaen, Almeria, Badajoz, and Ciudad Real; the presence of antimony or of a predominating admixture of blende is very common, but Spain is on the whole the most important lead-producing country in Europe. Copper is obtained mainly from the Rio Tinto mines and others in Huelva; also from Seville, Palencia, Almeria, and Santander; but many other districts contain veins yielding more or less of copper ore. Zinc has been chiefly procured from superficial pockets of calamine in Santander and the neighbouring districts; but in the form of blende it is widely distributed in association with lead. Silver ores are worked in Almeria and Guadalajara.
The fact that more than 12,000 concessions of mines already exist in Spain, while a large number of lapsed concessions may be found, affords a better idea of the mineral wealth of the country than the enumeration of the mines actually worked.
Wentworth WEBSTER, Spain, 1882
a) What minerals were there in Spain? Where were the mineral fields?
b) What minerals were there in Andalusia?
c) What obstacles did the coal-fields have?
d) How many concessions existed in Spain? What were lapsed concessions?
The chief coal district is that of Oviedo, Palencia, Leon, and Santander. The coal-field of Oviedo, occupying an extent of 230 square miles, and including a large number of workable beds, is of excellent quality, but as yet little developed, owing to high railway tariffs, bad condition of ports, traditional prejudices, want of skill and capital, and of a local market for inferior qualities. These obstacles will probably soon be overcome, and the development of the associated iron ores afford an important field of enterprise.
Iron is mainly obtained from Biscay, Oviedo, Murcia, and Almeria, but is abundant in other provinces. Lead is worked chiefly in Murcia, Jaen, Almeria, Badajoz, and Ciudad Real; the presence of antimony or of a predominating admixture of blende is very common, but Spain is on the whole the most important lead-producing country in Europe. Copper is obtained mainly from the Rio Tinto mines and others in Huelva; also from Seville, Palencia, Almeria, and Santander; but many other districts contain veins yielding more or less of copper ore. Zinc has been chiefly procured from superficial pockets of calamine in Santander and the neighbouring districts; but in the form of blende it is widely distributed in association with lead. Silver ores are worked in Almeria and Guadalajara.
The fact that more than 12,000 concessions of mines already exist in Spain, while a large number of lapsed concessions may be found, affords a better idea of the mineral wealth of the country than the enumeration of the mines actually worked.
Wentworth WEBSTER, Spain, 1882
a) What minerals were there in Spain? Where were the mineral fields?
b) What minerals were there in Andalusia?
c) What obstacles did the coal-fields have?
d) How many concessions existed in Spain? What were lapsed concessions?
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