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Anna Frank or Anneliese Marie Frank, was born in Germany, 12 of June 1929 and she died in March 1945. In 1933, she moved to Amsterdam for escaped Nazis. She and her family hid a secret room at the back of the company of her father, Otto.

Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies i Bep Voskuijl knew thw secret room. Jan Gies, Miep’s husband, Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl and Bep’s father help them.

When she was 13, her fathers bought a diary and she liked writting in. The diary published after the war finished, in 1947.The diary are in many lenguages.

You can visit the museum everyday since 9h to 19h, and cost 9€ for adults and 4,50€ for childrens.

Catalan Traditions:

Ícar presenta el tema “Catalan Traditions”.

Mar presenta “festivities”.

Anna: (Sant Jordi) Is a festivity, on 23^rd of April; when we celebrate the day of the books. The men give a rose to women and the women give a book to men.

Ferran: (Sant Joan) We celebrate the shortest night of the year on 24^th of June. People throw fire crackers. Finally We make a bonfire and also eat Sant Joan coca.

Helena: (11 of September) On 11 of september the Catalan people commemorate a defeat during the war of sucesión. In 1980, the 11^th of September became the National day of Catalunya.

Ícar: (Castanyada) La castanyada it's a traditional festivity of Catalonia, when the people eats panellets, chesnuts and sweet potatoes. It celebrate in October, as Halloween.

Ícar presenta “traditional daces”.

Ferran: (Giants) Are some tall giants that people carry on their sholders and they are walking to the town with others smaller giants that have a very big head in a Town festival.

Helena: (Human Towers) Castellers are the people that build human towers in traditional festivals. At these festivals, several “colles castelleres” or teams often succeed in building and dismantling a tower.

Anna: (Sardanes) Are some traditional dances, which are danced by making a circle and people move their feets by the music.

Mar: (Diables) They are people who dress in devil costumes, and in some important days, they make runs through the streets throwing fireworks.

Helena presenta “Typical food”.

Anna: (Pa amb tomàquet) Pa amb tomàquet or bread with tomato in English, is a typical Catalan food. This dish is very easy to make it, only consists in spreading tomato on the bread.

Mar: (Panellets) Panellets are generally small cakes Catalan country, people used to eat for "Tots Sants", a traditional festival in October. But now they are eaten in the “castanyada”

Ícar: (Escudella) Is a traditional Catalan soup. Is a mixture of pasta, patatoe, meat, carrot, sausages.

Anna presenta “Important places”.

Ferran: (Port Aventura) Is the best funfair in Catalonia, situated in Salou. There are many amazing attractions and the people from Port Aventura do some shows.

Mar: (Cadaquès) Cadaqués is a village of Alt Empordà that is located next to costa brava´s beaches. It's famous for its beaches and for being a nice town and, many tourists visit it at summer holidays.

Helena: (Sagrada Família) Sagrada Família is a large catholic church. It is still incomplete but it’s very famous.

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-Check in: Facturar les maletes.

-Departures: Sortir de viatge.

-Flight: Vol.

-Arrivals: Arribar a algun lloc.

-Gate: Porta.

-Crew: Grup de persones que viatgen a algun lloc.

-Delay: Qua va amb retard, for a de temps.

------------------------------------New words---------------------------

-Ticket agent: persona encarregada de recollir els bitllets.

-flight attendant: ajudant del pilot.

-Pilot: persona que pilota l’avió.

-It’s halling: granizar.

-Boarding time: hora d’embarcar a l’avió.

There were 6,065,459 inhabitants in Netherlands at 2006. In the Netherlands there are four Dutch cities that form the Randstard, a conurbation with the largest cities of Holland, like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.

The important buildings and sites

In Holland there are many important buildings like “The White house”, an architectural landmark in Europe. The Queen of the Netherlands lives in a royal residence called Huis ten Bosch Palace, located in the north eastern part of the Dutch city Den Haag. There are too most important churches like the Dom tower of Utrecht, because it’s the tallest church with 112.5m in Holland; And one of the most beautiful churches in The Netherlands is the Hertogenbosch St John’s Cathedral built in Brabant’s Gothic style, an we can find it at Hertogenbosch city.

Cultural sites

The most important science center s nemo, nemo is the biggest science center in the Netherlands. In latin nemo means “nobody”. It’s also important the NAI in Rotterdam, it’s the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Natural features

Some important features are: The Vaalserberg (“Mount Vaals”) is a hill 322.7 metres (1,059 ft) high and the highest point in the European part of the Netherlands; the largest national park in Holland, De Biesbosch one of last freshwater tidal areas in Europe; and the polders, a polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes, that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through man operated devices.

Naaldwijk is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 10 km southwest of The Hague. In Naaldwijk there are 17.753 inhabitans (at 2009).

It has cold and wet weather.

Potatoes, vegetables (especially peas) and fresh fish are the main ingredients of Dutch Cook.Mount Vaals is the highest point in Holland is where I could see the union of three countries, on the border of Belgium and Germany.

Hello, my name is Mar and I’m thirteen years. I’m from Barcelona and my birthday is on 27^th of October. I live in Caldes and I’m studying at secondary school called Manolo Hugué.

I have brown eyes, brown long hair too and I’m thin. I’m a happy person but I’m shy. I have a younger brother, his name is Pol and he’s shy too. I do some extra school classes, like taekwondo, theatre and art class. I go to cau , it’s like a “esplai” and sometimes we go to camping.

I don’t like the orange and some vegetables, but I really like spaghettis and ice cream. In my spare time I usually go out with my friends and do different things, like go to the cinema, going to concerts, dance, etc.

Our town is Caldes de Montbui. It is in Vallés Oriental and 30 Km far from Barcelona. It was a Roman town. It has thermal water and It has three famous spas: "Broquetes", "Vila de Caldes" and "Termes Victoria".There are hotels and there is one interesing museum, "Thermalia".

The town festival's called "Festa Major" and It takes place in October. At "Festa Major" there is a funfair, concerts and more activities. These activities are "Sardanes": the typical dance of Catalonia, "Castellers": raised people on on one, and they form a kind of humans castle, and "Capgrossos" and "Gegants": disguised people, some with giant heads and others as giants.

Hello, my name is Ferran, I’m 14 years old, and I’m from Sabadell, but I’m living in “Caldes de Montbui”. My birthday is on 2^nd of May. I’m studying in a secondary school, “IES Manolo Hugué”.

I play tennis. I live with my mother and my grandparents. I have a black dog, his name’s Dark. I don’t have brothers or sisters.I’m allergic to cats and horses. My house is big and I have a garden.I’m tall, and I have brown straight hair and brown eyes.

My best friend is Anna Mª, but I have other friends. At the weekends I usually go out with my friends, going to the cinema…I like music, my favourite group is Linkin Park. I think that I will like travel to Holland to see the country and meet new people.

In this credit we are going to Holland, learn English and meet Dutch. We think that will be very fun. First we will meet our boy or girl exchange by internet . Before on the trip we're going to sleep at their houses, and after they're coming to our houses.

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