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The life of Ana Frank

She was born on 12 of June in 1929. Together with his family, had to move to Amsterdam, fleeing the Nazis. There she was given a diary at the age of thirteen. They lived there during the German occupation, from July 9 of 1942 until August 4 of 1944.

The diary of Ana Frank

Anne Frank wrote in her diary when she had to do household chores to help not to be caught. At first, she described her family, but eventually decided to help with her experiences and try to publish in a journal.

The house of Ana Frank

The family lived hidden for two years thanks to friends who supplied them with clothes and food, risking their own lives. In August 1944 the Gestapo, alerted by a neighbour, discovered the hideout of the Frank and the family would be moved to the provisional camp Westerbook in Deutschtland

Death of Ana Frank

Anne Frank died of typhus on 12 March 1945, just days before the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsenéste was released. In 1947, just two years after the war, Otto (his father) published the newspaper under the title "La casa de atrás".

VOCABULARY:

1.Check in: Passar les maletes per un control.
2.Departures: Sortir, especialment en algun viatge.
3.Flight: Acció de volar.
4.Arrivals: Entrar en algun lloc.
5.Gate: Porta.
6.Crew: Grup de persones que especialment viatgen a algun lloc.
7.Delay: Que va fora de temps.

NEW WORDS:
1.Ticket agent: Persona encarregada de recollir els tickets.
2.Pilot:Persona que pilota i dirigeix un avió.
3.Flight attendant: Persona que ajuda al pilot.
4.Boarding time: Hora d’embarcar a l’avió.
5.It’s Hailing: Està granissant, que granissa.

In Amsterdam there were many famous people, such as Cornelia Arents, who was a Protestant, Anne Frank, who was a Jewish girl famous for her diary explaining about the Nazis in Germany and its coexistence, also an engineer Simon Stevin Diseny, famous for many of the windmills in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is a country with many famous museums, such as NEMO, and cruise ships as the peculiar "PIZZACRUISE", or also go on a trip to Amsterdam in a "bottle boat"of beer sponsored by Heineken.
Stayokay Amsterdam Vondelpark is one of many luxurious hotels.
Amsterdam, besides has more than seven million bicycles, is one of the countries with more bridges, 20000 bridges across the country.

1. Whose is Holland’s most famous diary? This diary played the role of an imaginary friend. What was her name? How old was the person who wrote it? What is written in the diary? How many people were living in the “hiding place"?. Explore the author’s “Hiding Place” and name 10 objects you can see in Peter’s room.

From the Anna Frank. Her name was Kitty. 13 years. There is writing the life of Anna Frank while she was hiding during the Nazi occupation in Holland. There were 8 people. The family of Anna Frank and Van Daan. A bicicle, a lot of books, a bed, a chair, a light, a medal, photographs, a shoes, a carpet and clothes.

2. Who was Beguine Cornelia Arents? What’s her story? How did the pious women live at the Begijnhof?

It was a woman, whose family came to be Protestant, and his will he asked to be buried in a hole in the street, not the church. On 2 May 1654 buried in the church, but the next day no one knows how his body came near the hole where I wanted to be buried.

3. What is a Pizza Cruise? When and where from does it depart?
Is a cruise to the canals of Amsterdam. The cruise leaves the unloaded Canal Bus, Rijksmueum the front and back at the same meeting point. The cruise leaves at 19:00 and is worth from 35 €

4. What is NEMO? What does nemo mean?
Is a science museum and in Amsterdam.

5. Where can we experience the Bottle Ride? What does it consist of?
You can also go on a Bottle Ride. Seated on a moving platform, you follow the production route of a bottle of beer.

6. When was the diamond trade introduced in Amsterdam? Why did the city stop being one of the most important diamond centers?
In the later 16th century. Because cities compete with each other manufactured diamonds and prices are becoming more competitive.

7. How much does it cost to send a card to my relatives?
Worth € 6.50.

8. What is a polder? Why are they so important in The Netherlands? system is low to dry land. the engineer Simon Stevin was perfect and the screw of Archimedes designed a special mill that allowed use of the wind, an almost inexhaustible resource for coastal regions of the Netherlands

9. How many bridges are there in Amsterdam? How many boathouses? How many bikes?
About 2000 bridges are located in Amsterdam. Approximately 2.400 boathouses and 700 000 bikes.

10. Find five traditional icons that one can use to represent Holland in a poster. You must include a flower, something to eat, a means of transport, some footwear and a Spanish invention run by wind and useful to produce flour.

This is the tipical flower in Holland, the tulipand.

This is a tipical food in Holland. Ice cream of cinnamon and cream.
The tipical tansport in Holland is the bicicle.
One of tipical footwear are clogs.

A Spanish invention is widely used in Holland windmill.

11. Where does Holland most famous pottery come from?
Delft porcelain originated in the seventeenth century. imitated the Dutch pottery decoration, although different reasons typically Dutch ambient plasma.

12. You will be staying at the Stayokay Amsterdam Vondelpark hotel. Where is it? What does it look like? Do you have to bring your own towels?
The hotel Stayokay Amsterdam Vondelpark is the Carer Zandpad number 5 in Amsterdam.
Does the house look like a holiday camp. Bring your towels, small ones that give you there are not very good looking or c

Naaldwijk is a town of Holland, there are 15.000 habitants. In this town we meet Dutch people in a exchange. The places of interest near Naaldwijk are the Kinderboekenmuseum (museum) in The Hague & Scheveningen, Kijkduin. The houses in Naaldwijk are very big.
It is a town very flat, there are no mountains, and the biggest mountain mesure 300 metres. In Naaldwijk there aren’t change of hour.
In Naaldwijk is predominantly Dutch national football team.

Caldes de Montbui is a town in Vallès Oriental, Catalunya. Caldes has approximately 17.000 inhabitants. In caldes there are famous monuments like the thermal baths. Caldes is popular too because Picasso and Manolo Hugué, both great artists cured their illness with thatthermal water.
The festival is held from 8 October until 18 October. The first week activities are held in the tent, and last week in the district Remei. Here, they sell food, and other decorative objects. They dance bastoners, giants and big heads. Also held at towers of castles Lion Square- A rather interesting Caldes de Montbui. In the afternoon there are activities for children and evening for the young people and elderly.

Hello! My name is Xènia Garcia Riera, I’m fourteen years old, my birthday is 4 of February in 1997, my eyes are like the honey. I practice futsal (indoor football) in Caldes de Montbui, my town. I wear glasses, are black. My favourite number is 8. When I pissed, pissed me seriously. I like rap, house, and pop music. Nach is my favourite singer.
In my town there are Romanic places like the terms and the source of hot water. I live in centre of Caldes, I study in IES Manolo Hugué, I go to school on car or on foot. I don’t have any brothers or sisters. My mother is hairdresser, I look like her a lot, and we have curly, blonde hair. My dad works in a Textile manufactures, is quiet but says things clear. I have two cats, one is Siamese, is brown with green eyes, and the other is a mix, is like a cow (black and white) with blue eyes. I have a parakeet and a tortoise too. I live with them and with the mum and dad.
My house has 5 floors. I like spaghettis and croquettes. I have brown curly hair, but sometimes I smooth my hair. I have a greatgrandmother, aged 96. I would like to travel to New York. My best friends are Maria Leal, three friends whose name is Claudia, Anna, Laia , Brenda, Aida, Andrea, Laura, Janet and Belén. I like going to party with them. I love football, my favorite team is Futbol Club Barcelona, Messi is the best football player in the world! My favorite film is A 3 METROS SOBRE EL CIELO, is a film very very very beautiful, when I saw it, I cried a lot.
And this is all me, a pleasure, Dutch people! 

Hi! I am Anna Morales I’m from Caldes de Montbui.
I’m fourteen years old; my birthday is 18/06/1997. I’m studying at IES Manolo Hugué. I practise one sport, Tennis. I like house music and Rap.
My hair is wavy blond hair half. My eyes are green; I have freckles on the nose and another in the lower lip.
I usually wear a tank top and jeans.
I live in a urbanization, “La Font dels Enamorats”, my house is very big, I have three floors and a big garden.
I have two dogs, a Husky mix with Pastor Belga, and Labrador.
My mum has blond hair and wears glasses, my dad, have black hair and glasses.
I have a brother, Christopher, is 24 years old, my brother have two children.
I’m a outgoing girl.
My favorite food is spaghettis with tomato and meatballs.
My best friends are Xènia Garcia, Aida Martí and Laia Muñoz.
My favorite film is SAW III and tres metros sobre el cielo, and my favorite series is El BARCO. My favorite actor is Mario Casas, and my favorite acress is Ana de Armas. I like so much the films of terror and drama.
I think the F.C Barcelona is the best team of the world.
I’m very happy to go Holland because I like meet new people.

In this credit we meet other people of Holland, -Naaldwijk- a little town like Caldes de Montbui with the same number of inhabitants and the same size. It ‘s between The Hague and Delft. In this credit we will travel by plane, for about two hours. Naaldwijk is one hour from Amsterdam.

I chose this credit because is a way to learn English and meet other cultures, and meet new people from other countries. We chose it for the curiosity of travelling with friends.

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