OUR ENGLISH MAG 2

SPECIAL EDITION:"A BLUE DAY"

June 2022

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A magazine in English Emilia Pardo Bazán School

Our mag

Thalassophobia - Ximena 5C

A SEA OF PHOBIAS

Octopuses - Ariadna 5C

A SEA OF INTELLIGENCE

The Carpathia - Yara 5C

A SEA OF HOPE

Volswagen schwimmwagen- Álvaro R 5C

A SEA OF WAR

Mosasaur - Iago C 5B

A SEA OF FEAR

When the sea is not blue - Carlota 5A

A SEA OF CONFUSSION

SECTIONS AND REPORTERS

CONTENTS

Wonderful fishes - Erika 5C

A SEA OF COLOURS

Ocean animals - Vega G 5B

A SEA OF VARIETY

The garden of the sea - Joel B 5B

A SEA OF FLOWERS

Seals - Ana 5B

A SEA OF FUN

Megalodon - Martín 5B

A SEA OF FRIGHT

The Bermuda Triangle - Icía 5C

A SEA OF MYSTERIES

Sea animals - Emma V 5A

A SEA OF SURPRISES

The Yeti crab - Álvaro N 5C

A SEA OF SECRETS

Sunfish - Pablo R 5B

A SEA OF WONDERS

Dolphins - Sara 5A

A SEA OF AMUSEMENT

Galician style octopus - Carla 5B

A SEA OF FLAVOURS

Paddle surf - Paula 5A

A SEA OF SPORTS

EDITOR´S WORD

The second edition of "OUR ENGLISH MAG" is in your hands (and in your eyes and ears). A group of 18 journalists and reporters in year 5 at Emilia Pardo Bazán School have created an exclusive article each but, this time, all of them are related to THE SEA, which is the topic of our PDI this year. Therefore this is a special edition. Under the title "A BLUE DAY", we invite you to spend a day (or more) enjoying the benefits of the BLUE. Blue instils peace, tranquility, calmness and serenity, thorugh the constant presence of blue in our lives: the ocean and the sky. Let´s discover the different types of sea: a sea of calm, of hope, of wonder, of surprise, of fun, of flavour, of colours... but also of mystery, of confussion, of fear, of war...Are you ready for a "blue experience"?

Stand up, leave your chair and go outside in search of the BLUE: it is a lovely sunny day. You don´t need anything special, just YOURSELF! Now walk down the street, cross the road and get into the nearby beach. You are almost there: take a deep breath, look at the blue horizon and sit comfortably by the sea, feeling the sand in our fingers, listening to the waves and smelling the salty water … You can also go and touch the sea and even taste it. Your “blue day” is about to begin. ..Meet me where the sky touches the sea…

by Erika 5C

In the sea there are many fish with different colours. It depends on thewater they live.

WONDERFUL FISHES

SECTION 1: OUR FISHThe fishes that swim in our waters (Atlantic Ocean) have dark colours with blue and silver tones.

3: GOODBYE!The fishes and their colours change according to the waters where they live. In the colder waters, the colours are dark and in the warm waters, the colours are brighter. Bye!

2: PACIFIC AND INDIAN ZONESIn these zones the fishes have bright colours unlike the ones in the Atlantic Ocean. For example: bright yellow, bright red, blue...

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by Paula 5A

Paddle Surf

This is a sport that is done in the water .It´s like surfing but with a paddle and waves are not needed. You also need a life jacket so that when you fall into the water, you don´t sink. It´s a very beautiful sport.

GALICIAN-STYLE OCTOPUS by Carla 5B Galician-style octopus is a traditional Galician dish and basic in its gastronomy, although its consumption has become widespread throughout Spain. It is a festive dish made with whole cooked octopus that is present at festivals, fairs and pilgrimages in Galicia. Just cut the octopus into slices and add olive oil and paprika. Yummy!!!

Regarding their habitat, we must know that dolphins are found in all the existing oceans in the world.

Dolphins are the best known marine animals in the world. Dolphins are known for their playful behavior and agility. They can live more than 30 years in captivity.

DOLPHINS by Sara 5A

In the wild, these beautiful and graceful swimmers can reach speeds of over 30 kilometres per hour. Dolphins also have a spiracle on their heads, a hole they use for breathing.

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by Pablo R 5B

The appearance of the body of the sunfish resembles a large head with fins. It is flat, oval and quite large since it can measure up to 3.3 m in length. In general the weight ranges between 247 and 2,000 kilos . Its color varies in shades of gray, brown and silvery gray.

Ocean waters are rich in beautiful, interesting, known, unknown and rare species. One of those that present this last characteristic for the vast majority of human beings is the sunfish, the heaviest bony fish in the world and whose physique is quite curious.

Sunfish

The sunfish is distributed in the temperate and tropical zones of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. In fact, it has a worldwide distribution. Its habitat corresponds to deep coral reefs and algae beds, in the open sea.

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by Álvaro N - 5C

The yeti crab is a crustacean of the family Kiwa hirsuta. A fisherman discovered it in the year 2006. The yeti crabs are very strange because they are in danger of extinction.

The yeti crab

They have got 6 legs and 2 pincers, along with 2 antennae with their eyes. Besides, they have got a lot of spikes in their body. The yeti crab is a very very ugly animal. They are 15 cm long and 10 cm wide.

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19th November 2002Oil tanker Prestige sinks with 66.000 tonnes of fuel. The oil slicks reaches 80.000km2. A lot of animals die by the oil. And it is the biggest ecological disaster in Galician history. Galicians shout today too ``Nunca Máis´´.

by Carlota 5A

The sea in Galicia is not always blue. Some ships with crude oil sank and they caused great ecological disaster.

WHEN THE SEA IS NOT BLUE...

5th May 1970The oil tanker ``Policommander'' gets shipwrecked opposite Cies Islands.

12th December 1992The ship Aegean Sea with 80.000 tonnes of crude oil is shipwrecked in the Tower of Hercules. The oil spill reaches 50km2.

19th May 1976The oil tanker Urquiola, suffers a fire in Coruña's coast, with 100.000 tonnes of crude oil.

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by Iago Canosa 5B

It looked like a shark but five times bigger. It could swallow a small plane just by opening its mouth, that was full of teeth as big as the knives a butcher uses. He was a true killing machine.

The mosasaur is one of the most dangerous predators of all time. It is fifteen meters long and as tall as a floor and a half of a building.It fed on Plesiosaurs and Ginsu sharks. It was very dangerous.

Mosasaur

It appears in many movies, but the most famous one is "Jurassic World",in which he is able to eat a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

by Álvaro R - 5C

Volswagen Schwimmwagen

They created this car for themselves in order to use it in the war to go by water to attack the other civilizations without they even noticed it. I don't really like this car because it was used by the nazis and we all know that they were not honest. Thank god they lost the war.

This car is not a normal car: the Nazis created this Volswagen for the army. It is one of the best-selling amphibious cars but it wasn't that succesful because they lost the World War 2.

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FAMOUS SEA ANIMALS

FANTASTIC SEA ANIMALS

Some sea animals appear in some films or series like H2O, The ugly duckling, Pinocchio, The little mermaid...

Some fantastic sea animals are mermaids, sea fairies, Medusa, Kazulu...

SOME SEA ANIMALS

Some sea animals areoctopuses, fish, sharks, whales, starfish, lobsters...

The blue whale is the biggest animal in the world, with 24m long and 1.2m tall.

by Emma V 5A

THE BIGGEST ANIMAL

SEA ANIMALS

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According to Google, the Bermuda Triangle is an enormous triangle with three vertices: the American city of Miami, in the state of Florida, and the islands of the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. It is the great cemetery of the Atlantic Ocean.

Hello, today I am going to talk about the Bermuda Triangle. It is said that in the Bermuda Triangle there were many shipwrecks and crashed planes at sea.

by Icía 5C

The Bermuda Triangle

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by Martín 5B

MEGALODON

Megalodon had big teeth. Its teeth are stronger than the Tyrannosaurus Rex´s. They ate mammals.

Megalodon is an extinct animal. Megalodon lived in the ocean. It was the biggest shark in the ocean and it became extinct 2 millions of years ago.

The Carpathia was sailing with total 700 passengers and crew members from New York to Rijeka, Croatia. The Titanic hit an iceberg and sent the distress signal shortly after midnight. Despite the presence of icebergs, the Carpathia travelled at top speed, arriving at 3:30 am. The Titanic had sunk more than an hour earlier, but the Carpathia rescued 705 people in lifeboats.The Carpathia with all its passengers and the ones from the Titanic returned to New York on April 18th. Finally, the Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in the Atlantic, on July 17th, 1918 during the First World War.

The Carpathia was a British passenger liner, famous for rescuing the survivors of the Titanic after it hit an iceberg in 1012.

by Yara 5C

The Carpathia

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Now, some curious facts about seals: Seals are carnivorous They evolved from land mammals. Seals breed on land. The largest is the southern elephant seal. They swim long distances. They can detect their prey with their whiskers. There are seals all over the world. This is all, bye!

Seals are very social and friendly animals. They live in the Antarctica until they are 43 years old. They like being with humans and playing with other seals. They live in very big groups.

SEALS by Ana 5B Hello everyone! Today we’re gonna talk about seals, a very cute animal that lives in the sea.

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by Ariadna 5C

OCTOPUSES

Octopuses live on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coast.In winter they live under the sea, in the sand, but in spring they migrate to the coast on the rocks.

Octopuses have 8 legs around their mouths. They eat crustaceans, other molluscs and fish. They hunt at night. They can weigh up to 10 kg and measure 1 m length.

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The sea is full of colourful corals where the clown fish lives.

by Joel B 5B

There are many plants in the sea. The sea is like a garden.

The sea plants are called algae. They are beautiful!

THE GARDEN OF THE SEA

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by Vega G 5B

3. And finally we will talk about the seal. They are friendly and intelligent marine mammals that live in many parts of the world, both polar and tropical areas and prefer to live in places where there is plenty of food for them.

2. The shark has a skeleton made of cartilage. That is why it has a lot of strength without making any effort. They usually have a powerful tail at the end and a set of three larger fins: dorsal (on the animal's back), and two pectoral fins (on the animal's chest).

1. The whale is a very large animal and feeds on at least a million fish because it is very hungry. They are also mammals that have a lot of hair but very thin.

1. The whale 2. The shark 3. The seal

There are many fantastic species in the ocean. Today we are going to talk about three:

Ocean animals

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Although bathing in the ocean may seem like a great pleasure, not all people think the same.

THALASSOPHOBIA by Ximena 5C

The wonderful sea can be a terrible place for some people, to the point of generating intense discomfort and fear just thinking about it. This condition is known as thalassophobia: fear of the sea and the depths.Thalassophobia is one of many phobic pathologies diagnosed in psychology. Other well-known phobias are claustrophobia, arachnophobia, coulrophobia or acrophobia. When a person suffers from a phobia, they can experience anxiety attacks, panic and even difficulty breathing when exposed to that situation that generates fear.

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GREAT JOB!!!

5C: 1. Álvaro N 2. Álvaro R 3. Ariadna 4. Erika 5. Icía 6. Ximena 7. Yara

5B: 1. Ana 2. Carla 3. Iago C 4. Joel B 5. Martín 6. Pablo R 7. Vega G

5A: 1. Carlota 2. Emma 3. Paula 4. Sara

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CEIP EMILIA PARDO BAZÁNTravesía Los Rosales, s/n 15.011 - A Coruña (Spain)

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