Town mysteries - task # 2 The Spanish town mystery
COMENIUS MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIP
G.U.E.S.S.
SCHOOL AND TOWN MYSTERIES
Watch the videos recorded by the Spanish students and fill the gaps with the missing information.
1.Hi! My name is ................ I´m ..................... years old. I study at.................................................................... I am from …............... I live in Exfiliana.
2.Hi! My name is Manuel .This is my classroom, 1st A. There are ......................... students in my class. This is my friend Edi.
3.Hi! My name is Mirella. My favourite subject is................. but I don´t like .................. In the future, I want to be a ......................
4.Hi! My name is José María. Acci Secondary School is the ….................. school in Guadix. More than …........................... pupils study here.
5.This is the school front …........... There are some plants and tress here. This is the sculpture of Saint Juan Bosco. He was an Italian ................
6.This is the school …..................... You can see a sculpture of ….....................a famous Spanish painter.
7.This is the school …............... There are many books and films here. I like reading ...................... stories.
8.Guadix has got many beautiful monuments, 14 ….............., a Moorish fortress, an original cave quarter and a fantastic …...................... It is beautiful. It has got a tall bell …............ and Renaissance and Baroque styles.
9.In the city centre, there is a ............... cathedral. In front of the bell tower, there is a big roundabout with a fountain in the middle, surrounded by .....................
10. In the centre of Guadix, there is also a ................ Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Park.
11. Alarcón is the most famous …………..... born in Guadix. His best tale is The Three-Cornered Hat, El sombrero de tres picos.
12. In Medina Olmos Street there are lots of ................, some cafés and many banks. I like going shopping.
13. I am from Guadix. Guadix is a small town in the ….............. of Spain. In Andalusia.
14. This is Las Palomas ..............., which looks like a Castillian square. Palomas means “doves”.
15. We are in Calle Ancha or Wide Street. There are elegant old ........... and the old town market.
16. That is the town …............... It has got a lovely balcony.
17.This is the ................ of Santiago ( Saint Jack). The plateresque front is the work of Diego de Siloé. The blue and green tiled bell tower is very colourful.
18. This is the ............... of the Marquises of Peñaflor. It is the best example of the christian noblemen´s houses in the 16th century. Its balcony offers a beautiful view.
19.These are the remains of the Moorish …..........
20. El Conde Luque Square was the ….............. forum.
21.This is Santa Maria del Buen Aire Street. It is said the …..........beautiful street of Guadix.
22.These are the remains of the Roman theatre.
Many people live in caves in Guadix. The landscape of cave hills is original.
Did you like Guadix? I hope so. See you soon!!! Good-bye!!
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The French school mysteries:Guess names 1) There are French teachers in our school. Find their names : ________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Get rid of the Latin teacher. The other 2 teachers have 1 letter in common. ___________ 2) There are 3 mathematics teachers in our school. Find their names : ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ In their names, there is 1 common letter. __________________ The letter you have found is twice in our mysterious person’s first name. This letter is also once in the mysterious person’s family name. 3) There is 1 Spanish teacher and 1 Italian teacher in our school. Find their names : _______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ In their names, there is 1 common letter. The letter is repeated twice in the Italian teacher’s name. This letter is twice in the mysterious person’s first name and once in the mysterious person’s family name. 4) There are 2 ICT teachers in our school. Find their names. Get rid of the ICT teacher whose classroom is number 111. Find the name of our CPE ( she is the teacher working in the Vie Scolaire). What is the common letter ? ____________________ 5) There are 3 English teachers in our school. Find their names : ______________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Get rid of the teacher whose classroom is 207. The common letter is either the second or the third letter in their family names. _____________________ This letter is in the mysterious person’s family name. 6) There are 2 history teachers. Find their names :__________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Find the history teacher whose classroom is number 118. The first letter in her family name is the first letter of the mysterious person’s family name. 7) Find our principal’s first name : ______________________________________ What is the sixth letter in his first name:_______________________ You will use that letter to find our mysterious person’s first name. 8) There are 3 PE teachers. Find their names and find the common letter in the 3 family names. You will use that letter both for the first name and the family name of our mysterious person. 9) One cleaning woman is called Marie. Find her family name. You will need one letter in her family name. Nobody else in the list above has this letter in their family names. What is this letter ? ___________________________________________ Mystery invented by Salima, Chloé and Sonia in 4ème1 .....................
Second part : the right floor You have found the right building, you still need to find the right floor. The floor number you are looking for is in the answer to this enigma : - I am a whole number / integer number. - When you multiply me with myself, I am still myself. - When you add me to 5, multiply the result by 11, substract that result by 11 and then take off 5 to the number you have found, you will find 50. What am I ? Ask the map of the floor and the building you have been looking for to finish this enigma.
The Italian mysteries: The name of Livia’s (Emperor Augustus’ wife) villa which is near our school
