English B1-B2

B2-5th Year Students


ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPER IN ANDALUCÍA

-       ANDALUSIA STAR NEWS.
It’s a website where you can find Andalusian information among others.
-       THE ALMERÍA MESSENGER
Almería. The Almeria Messenger newspaper is English language newspaper in Spain. It is covering news on politics, headines, flash flash news, educational news, kids news, national related news, international related news, tourism news, news on science, editorials, health & beauty news, news on crime, Top stories, events, Travel news, study news.
-       COSTA ALMERÍA NEWS
Almería. Newspaper. Over 40 years serving the english-speaking community in Spain. Weekly. Founded in 2005. It cost 1,50 €.
-        COSTA DEL SOL NEWS
Costa del Sol. Newspaper. Over 40 years serving the english-speaking community in Spain. Weekly. Founded in 2005. It cost 1,50 €.
-       COSTA DAILY NEWS
Costa del Sol. It´s a website where you can find information about Pilar de la Horadada, Orihuela, Torrevieja, Guardamar, Rojales and San Fulgencio. In each location you can read about news, sport, things to do, life and business.
-       DE WEEK
Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol. The weekly english more reading of Spain.
-       EURO WEEKLY NEWS
Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Costa de Almería y Mallorca. Spain´s largest free local newspaper in English. Read by over half a million every week. We are one of the most successful, respected and long-standing media companies in Europe, with six different editions and a circulation of 580,667 copies every month to over 4,000 distribution points every week on mainland Spain and the island of Mallorca.
The publication is read by over 500,000 people every week throughout the south coast of Spain, we have a database of over 3000 businesses that advertise with us and we are justifiably proud of our product and the service we provide to companies and individuals alike.
With a head office in Benalmadena, Malaga region, the EWN Media Group started life in 1999 with just 10 employees. Since then, it has gone from strength to strength and now employs around 83 people across 8 regional offices. The Group is wholly owned and operated by Michel Euesden, Director
General and Steven Euesden, Sales Director. “It is our continuing aim to provide a quality resource to the general public incorporating interesting and stimulating editorial coupled with a wide range of companies being represented through advertising.” Michel Euesden
To the readers, we offer all the local and main European News of interest to the expat population. A satellite TV guide plus financial information including stocks, share listings, exchange rates and investment opportunities, feature articles, celebrity interviews, award winning columnists, competitions, film and TV reviews and a whole lot more.
-       THE LEADER
Southerm Costa Blanca, Costa Cálida.
-       THE NEWS
Málaga, Gibraltar. Spanish on-line newspaper in English. You have to log in.
-       THE OLIVE PRESS
Granada, Andalucía, Gibraltar. Spain´s best English daily news website.
-       THE READER
Almería. You can read local business & finance and spain news stories. You can find it on the website, Facebook and twitter.
-       THE RESIDENT
Andalucía. The Resident is a monthly newspaper serving the western Costa del Sol from Estepona down to Gibraltar and serving both the English and Spanish speaking population.
The Resident was first published back in 2006, and has appeared monthly, around the middle of the month, ever since and has been bilingual – Spanish and English – since September, 2008.
Aimed primarily, as the name would suggest, at residents of the area, The Resident provides local news, sport, information and interesting articles, of relevance to its readers.
-       RONDA TODAY
Ronda. Ronda Today is the largest English language portal in the Serranía de Ronda covering tourism, art and culture, information of specific interest to foreign residents, and news from the Serranía. The website is a huge ongoing work in progress, and is updated almost every day.
We take our responsibility to produce the most accurate information seriously. We employ writers with graduate level English writing skills, and sales people who are fluent or native Spanish speakers. Respect for our readers and advertisers is a high priority.
RondaToday.com is a website written by people who live and work in Ronda and the Serranía, and is aimed at tourists planning a visit to Ronda, the Pueblos Blancos, and the Natural Parks surrounding the district. We provide detailed information on the history and culture of the area, and plan to offer a series of ideas for tourists who want to know what they can do while they travel through the Serranía de Ronda.
-       SKANDINEWS
Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca.
-       THE SOL TIMES NEWSPAPER GROUP
Almería, part of Murcia, Granada  provinces. The best weekly newspaper in the world-probably! Says. With a readership of 72.500 and over 600 weekly distribution points throughtout Cost Almeria, Roquetas & Almerimar, Costa Calida and Costa Blanca. Established in Spain since 2005
-       SUR IN ENGLISH
Southern Spain (Costa del Sol-Málaga, Andalucía, Gibraltar). A weekly newspaper in southern of Spain. You can find it print or website version both for free. If you prefer you can download the print version in pdf for free too.
-       THE TIMES OF EARTH
Málaga. The Times of Earth ( TOE) founded in 1999, is a multilingual newspaper that is printed and circulated in many countries including some parts of the United States and Canada. It is considered as the largest trusted & respected international multimedia news/financial information source of the world.
The TOE is based in New York with professional correspondents - offices in Washington, Ottawa, Madrid, Málaga, Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong, Canberra, Tokyo, New Delhi, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Abuja, Rabat and Jerusalem.
-       TOWN CRIER NEWSPAPER
Málaga. “The Town Crier” is a weekly publication preferred by the English-speaking residents of the Costa del Sol.
25,000 Copies are published, in English, every Monday and distributed each week along the Costa del Sol with an estimated readership of some 50,000 people.
The Town Crier is distributed from Nerja to the area just before Gibraltar, including the inland areas with foreign residents and tourists.


The Gold Tower in Seville
The Gold Tower (Torre del Oro) in Seville is a watchtower located on the left bank of the Guadalquivir River in Seville. It´s one of the most characteristic works of art in the city of Seville  
It´s height is 36 meters. Possibly its name in Arabic was Bury al-dahab or Borg-al-Azajal, referring to its golden glow reflected on the river. During the restoration of 2005, it was shown that this glow, which until then was attributed to a tiling, was a mixture of lime mortar and pressed straw.

It is a tower formed by three bodies: the first body, dodecagonal, was built between 1220 and 1221 by order of the almohad governor of Seville, Abu al-Ula. The second body, also dodecagonal, was built by Peter the Cruel in XIV 8 century. Upper cylindrical body, it was built in 1760 by the military engineer Sebastián Van der Borcht.

It was declared a historic-artistic monument in 1931 and has been restored several times. In the contemporary age, it was restored in 1900, between 1991 and 1992, in 1995 and 2005. The Navy played an important role in preserving the Gold Tower. It is very well preserved,and it harbors the Naval Museum of Seville, very much visited by tourists.

 María Llamazares 4th year, B2.1

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Washington Irving in Andalusia

 Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819–20. He continued to publish regularly — and almost always successfully — throughout his life, and just eight months before his death (at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York), completed a five-volume biography of George Washington.

Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also admired by some European writers, including Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Francis Jeffrey, and Charles Dickens. As America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession, and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.

 Gloria Mª Rico Fernández. 3rd year, B1.A

Old English Homes at Cerro del Hierro
ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN CERRO DEL HIERRO, SIERRA NORTE OF SEVILLE
I would like to tell you about a particular place from the North Mountains of Sevilla, where I usually go with my family and friends to enjoy the nice nature and the beautiful landscape of the area.  It is called Cerro del Hierro by a small town called San Nicolás del Puerto, in the Northern Mountain range of Sevilla province. It is a characteristic mining village.
In XIX century English traded with iron that was inside of the mine. In 1895 William Braird Mining and Co Ltd, came from Scotland. Between 1895 and 1932 the production of mineral was 7, 63 million tons.
In 1946 the works of the mines were taken over by a Spanish company, Nueva Montaña Quijano and later by Cerro del Hierro, S.A.
Memories still remain such as the railway linking the main city with Cazalla de la Sierra, a town near Cerro del Hierro. This old railway was modified by the government to set a path called Vía Verde, where people can walk and practice cycling, horseback riding, skating…

Through this path we can see the famous houses where engineers and mine managers lived.
As well, there are archaeology remains of a church and a market where all the workers paid with a special coin.
Triana Bridge over The Guadalquivir and gates of the Royal Tobacco Factory of Sevilla (University today) were built with the iron from this mine. Iron was transported to the Port of Sevilla.
Nowadays the mines are abandoned. Since 2003 an area of 363 hectares were declared as natural monument.
At the end of Vía Verde, we appreciate more than 120 ways to climbing. Sometimes I go to practice this wonderful sport with my father. I love seeing from the top of the way the stunning contrast of green mountains and blue sky.
For these reasons we should keep it clean and well preserved, in order to enjoy adventure, fun and the knowledge of the natural environment offered this old town.
Luisa Carrasco Varea, 3rd year B1.A

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