This month at the cinema we have some new flims, and we are going to talk about some of them.
Fuga de Cerebros
Emilio studies in a humble High School, he is a shy boy and he has got an average of 5 in all school results. He has been in love with Natalia since he was five. Natalia is a beautiful and intelligent girl of the class. He decides to talk her to declare his love to Nataliathe last day of the school year. Natalia obtains a grant to study medicine at Oxford. It all seems lost, but his friends are crazy and decide to change their school results to go to study to Oxford. When they are in Oxford they do a lot of crazy things in Oxford to have the love of Natalia. Finally Natalia falls in love with Emilio.
Angels and Demons
Angels & Demons is a 2009Americanfilm adaptation of Dan Brown‘s eponymous novel. It is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, another Brown film adaptation, even though the novel Angels & Demons was published first and takes place before the novel The Da Vinci Code. The filming took place in Rome, Italy, and in the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon again, while the director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman also return.
“Kobetasonik” is a Heavy Metal & Rock music festival, which is celebrated on the 19th and 20th of June every years in Kobetamendi, not a very high mountain in Bilbao. Every year the best groups of this kind of music go to this festival. This year Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, Dream Theater, Trivium & InFlames are the most pupular groups in the festival. Here we can see the poster:
The Process of Bologna is the name of the process initiated by the Declaration of Bologna. It was signed in 1999 by the ministers of Education of the European Union in the Italian city of Bologna. This declaretation was the begining of a process to facilitate the graduates’ exchange and adapt the contents of university studies to social demands. The declaration of Bologna has created the European Space of High Education. Even countries which do not belong to the European Union will use this Bologna agreement for the educational reforms that they must initiate in the first years of the 21st century.
However, there are some people in the university world who do not agree with the contents of this process of Bologna:
Nowadays, teenagers listen to different kinds of music, the most popular are Pop-Rock, Rock, Flamenco, Heavy Metal, R&B, Hip-Hop and Pop.
Pop-Rock: The most popular groups in Spain are “El canto del loco”, “Pignoise”…
El Canto Del Loco
ECDL is a Spanish pop rock band, although its members recognise that some of their songs are more in the style ofpower pop. The group was created in 1994 by Dani Martín and Ivan Ganchegui (who left the group in 2002) although the final five members would not come together until years later.
Pignoise
Pignoise is a Spanish band comprising three members: Álvaro on guitar and voice, Polo on drums, and Pablo on bass.
Rock: The most popular groups in Spain are “Extremoduro”, “Baron Rojo”…
Extremoduro
Extremoduro is a Spanishrock band from Plasencia, Extremadura. The band is led by Roberto Iniesta, also known as “Robe”, or even “El rey de Extremadura”.The band was created in 1987 and is considered one of the most influential bands of Spanish hard rock scene, besides being a complete symbol for their region.
Baron Rojo
Barón Rojo are a Spanishband who reached their peak in the 80’s, though they are still active today. It has been led by the De Castro brothers since they left the band Coz in 1981. Brothers Carlos and Armando de Castro were in Coz, another musical group, until 1980.
Flamenco: The most famous groups of flamenco in Spain are “Fondo Flamenco”, “La Hungara”…
Fondo Flamenco
Fondo Flamenco is a Spanish flamenco group, formed by 3 sevillians; Alejandro Astola, Antonio M.Ríos and Rafael Ruda. In 2006 they did their frist disc “A contracorriente”.
La Hungara
La Hungara is a Spanish flamenco singer . She was born the 21st of January in Écija (Sevilla). Her real name is Sonia Priego.
She has a lot of CDs which are:
1st: “A Camaron”
2nd: “Es un bandolero”
3rd: “Corazón flamenco”
4th: “Amandote”
5th: “Dibujando esperanzas”
6th: “Mi mejor navidad”
7th: “Ahora me toca ami”
8th: “Me mata”
9th: “Mi sueño”
Heavy metal: The most popular groups in Spain are “In Flames” & “Slipknot”.
In Flames
In Flames is a Swedish group who perfoms melodic death metal, they have several CD’s but the most popular one is Come Clarity (2007). The lead singer Anders Friden is one of the composers of this group.
Pain
Pain is also a Swedish group who performos Thrash metal , they also have several CD’s and one of the most pupular is Cynic Paradise (2008). The creator of this group’s name is Peter Tägtgren, the lead singer, but he also plays all the instruments …
R&B: The most popular R&B singers are Beyonce, Ne-Yo …
Beyonce
Beyoncé is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools, and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the girl group Destiny’s Child. Knowles has sold more than 50 million records worldwide with the group.
Ne-Yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1982), better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, and occasional rapper.
Hip-Hop: In Spain Black Eyed Peas is very famous.
Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas, also known as BEP, is an Americanhip hop group from Los Angeles. As of 2009, the group is composed of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie. Since its breakout album Elephunk in 2003, the group’s pop/dance-oriented style of hip hop music has sold an estimated 27 million albums and singles worldwide.
Pop: In Spain Rihanna and PCD are very famous singers of pop music.
Rihanna
Rihanna is a Barbadiansinger, model, and beauty queen. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna relocated in the United States at the age of sixteen to pursue a recording career, under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers.
Pcd
The Pussycat Dolls (sometimes abbreviated as PCD) are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble founded by choreographer Robin Antin. The group originated in 1995 as a burlesque troupe based in Los Angeles, California.
The last tuesday(12 of may) was on TV the fifth season of “El Internado”. This serie it was the most seen on TV this night for 3,2 million (17,6%) of spectators.
“Operacion Triunfo” is another program that is put on TV this month. This program is about people who sing well that they want to win the contest to launch onto the market.
This monday “Quien quiere ser millonario” started again on Antena 3 channel. They are going to emite for Monday to Friday at 20:15. The contest is presented by Antonio Garrido.
Today it is 14th of May and yesterday The King’s Cup was celebrated. A lot of people from Bilbao went to Valencia to support the Athletic, but Athletic could not beat Barça. Barça beat Athletic with the score of 1-4.
In San Mames very big screens were placed for the supporters, and in the towns around Bilbao they placed screens too for the people who couldn’t go to Valencia. In the Arenal (Bilbao) a famous singer of Spain, Melendi, sang free for the people in Bizkaia.
The football match started at ten o’clock and after 8 minutes Toquero scored the first goal of the match, the only goal of Athletic. Barça scored 4 goals, the first was by Touré Yaya, the second was by Messi, the third was by Bojan and the forth was by Xabi.
The King’s Cup Final is going to be celebrated on the 13th of May in Mestalla (Valencia). The football teams that are going to play are Athletic Club Bilbao VS Barcelona F.C.
People don’t know who is going to win, because Barça is the first on the Spanish league with 86 points, and Athletic on the Semifinal of the King’s Cup beat the third team on league called Sevilla, they won 3-0 in San Mames (Bilbao).
Our opinion is that Athletic can win The Final, because if it beat to Sevilla, It can beat to Barça.
Hello! We’re Maitane, Ane & Alvaro. We’re high school students of High School Urbi. We are going to update this blog every weeks. In our blog we are going to talk about different topics like:
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