English Film Project

Team Members:           Ernest

                                       Eric

                                       Carles

                                       Chimo

                                       Jonathan

Film:  Dexter

We shot the scenes of the movie Dexter, Dexter is a scientist who works in the police but after work is a madman who seeks to kill the criminals.

We had a problem for this reason, I don't appear in any scenes.
At first we were going to stay in my house but Ernest's arm was broken and we had to delay the project then my class go to Germany and  we had to delay the project again.
Finally we recorded in our school Escuela 2 

The Battle of  Almansa historical reenactment and news .

The Battle of Almansa, fought on 25 April 1707, was one of the most decisive engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession. At Almansa, the Franco–Spanish army under Berwick soundly defeated the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the United Provinces led by the Earl of Galway, reclaiming most of eastern Spain for the Bourbons.

The Bourbon army of about 25,000 soldiers(twenty-five thousand) was composed of Spanish and French troops in the same  proportion, as well as an Irish regiment, the other army is composed 15.000(fifteen thousand) soldiers of Netherland, Germans , Britihs, Portuguese and Spanish soldiers.


In the finaly the army of Felipe fifth win the battle of Almansa.


The reenactament

This year 400 people participated in the recreation.
There were two battles one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
It was a very important event and has become an international event.

photos of my reenactament group

 And this is me shooting a  Brown Bess arm.

News of the reenactment of the Battle of Pamplona

In October the people of Pamplona could contemplate shooting muskets and pistols during simulation of the siege of Pamplona.

The conquest of the Spanish soldiers pretended Pamplona freeing of French troops

In this battle participated the French, British and Spanish armies.

In the finally  the spanish army and the britihs army  conquest the city.

 French army with the imperial guard








                                                                                 Spanish army, regiment of Aragón









Flag of the britihs army

The historical recreation of the Battle of Girona

Last week me and some friends went to the historical reenactment of the Battle of Girona. In this battle participed 100 persons in the french and Spanish teams Because it was the historical reenactment of a battle in the War of Spanish Independence.

I participated on the French team with  the  Grenadier uniform of the 

Napoleonics wars in the french army.

I like the historical reenactaments because is history but in the real life.

Jules Verne

Jules Verne ( 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905)  was a French novelist and a poet, he wrote  adventure novels and the genre of science fiction.

Verne was trained as a lawyer but left his studies in the middle. He started writing over extraordinaire travels. Jules Verne wrote many books of different literary style. One of them is   Journey to the Center of the Earth, another one is Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Around the World in EightyDays. All of this books belonged to the science fiction novel and are very famous. My favorite one is Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. In this book he mentions the Spanish city of Vigo and the treasury of the Galleons of the strait of Rande 

Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Julio Verne

This book tells the story of Mr. Phileas Fog, an English gentleman who lived in London in 1872.  Mr. Fog was a very respectable gentleman. He belonged to a club which only accepted people of high social rank. In one of his visits to the club he made a bet of 20.000 pounds with another Englishman according to which he said he will be able to go around the world in only 80 days. This bet was made at the same time when the local newspaper was publishing news about the robbery of a bank in which some 20.000 pounds where robed.

Mr. Fog, went back home immediately to start his trip around the world as soon as possible. Upon arrival from the club, Mr Fog asked his servant, Passepartout, to prepare the luggage. His servant was a humble man recently arrived from France. Mr Fog and Passepartout started their journey passing through France, the Pyrenees, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, India, China and the United States.

In India, they met an Indian princess who was going to be burned as a ritual with the body of her dead husband and saved her from the fire. Since then, the Indian princess accompanied them for the rest of their long trip around the world.

At the same time, Mr Fog and his servant Passepartout were followed by a British policeman who believed that they were responsible for the bank robbery.

After crossing the Pacific sea, the crossed the United States, which was then the land of Indians and cowboys.

Finally, after many dangers and adventures, they cross also the Atlantic sea and they arrived in London on time wining the bet.

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Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Julio Verne

This book tells the story of Mr. Phileas Fog, an English gentleman who lived in London in 1872.  Mr. Fog was a very respectable gentleman. He belonged to a club which only accepted people of high social rank. In one of his visits to the club he made a bet of 20.000 pounds with another Englishman according to which he said he will be able to go around the world in only 80 days. This bet was made at the same time when the local newspaper was publishing news about the robbery of a bank in which some 20.000 pounds where robed.

Mr. Fog, went back home immediately to start his trip around the world as soon as possible. Upon arrival from the club, Mr Fog asked his servant, Passepartout, to prepare the luggage. His servant was a humble man recently arrived from France. Mr Fog and Passepartout started their journey passing through France, the Pyrenees, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, India, China and the United States.

In India, they met an Indian princess who was going to be burned as a ritual with the body of her dead husband and saved her from the fire. Since then, the Indian princess accompanied them for the rest of their long trip around the world.

At the same time, Mr Fog and his servant Passepartout were followed by a British policeman who believed that they were responsible for the bank robbery.

After crossing the Pacific sea, the crossed the United States, which was then the land of Indians and cowboys.

Finally, after many dangers and adventures, they cross also the Atlantic sea and they arrived in London on time wining the bet.

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