Avila

Fighting noise now, not to repent later.

If you produce too much noise, you won’t listen the wonderful sounds in the nature and you can be sure that you will repent
You can change it but you will ask yourself how? It is very easy. To start with, you can reduce noise in your house, for example when you listen to music you mustn’t go beyond certain limits. Or if you are going by car and you are trapped in traffic jam you shouldn’t touch the horn because in this way you don’t cause noise.

SLOGANS:
1-Too much noise = no wonderful sounds = repentance.
2-Fed up of unpleasant noise? Collaborate reducing your noise.
3-You won’t listen your grandchildren. It will be too late then. Now, you can change it

SARA LÓPEZ GARCÍA
DIANA RÍOS PERAL
CRISTINA SÁEZ BLÁZQUEZ
SANDRA VELAYOS VELAYOS

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Too much noise is not good for us

Eduardo García
Fernando Rodríguez
Rodrigo Feliú
Mario Jiménez

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The maangement of water is different.

In this pair of images, we can see the difference between a river that flows in a poor country and a river that flows through a rich place.
Developed countries use the water on rivers with modern technology, and for this, they build a lot of reservoirs that have a great impact on environment.
The creation means a menace for the nature. The reservoir’s construction is to collect the water for the irrigation system, but this constructions destroy a lot of wetlands.
This means that the reservoir’s profit entail a lot of enviromental and social problems.

Underdeveloped countries don’t build reservoirs and their nature is less polluted,but their water is more wasted.

Beatriz Redondo

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Nowadays squares keep their role as space and representation.

Ana García provided us with the pictures for this new type of square. Las Gradas, an open space is a place where graffiti are allowed. It has become a symbol for young artists. It is not easy to understand the meaning of these works: desparation, fury, fear....
Look at them and try to find your own meaning. Post a comment.

Are these images a symbol of our industrialised society that pollutes everything, even men?

What is this figure swallowing? Our mechanical world?

Why is she shouting? What is she afraid of?

A child's tear deserves all our attention.

Thank you to these artists because they make us think and to Ana because she has finally found a way to collaborate.
Post your comments.

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The bell at the high school makes a lot of noise

The bell at the high school is bad for our ears.

The noise is the cause that a lot people have health problems.

The bell at the high school can to provoke deafness.

We should take measures about the noise of bell´s high school:

It shouldn´t be so loud.

LIDIA SERRANO SOTO
NOELIA HERNANDO MORALES
INMACULADA SAN SEGUNDO

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Noise and health.

The noise pollution is generated by the noise and it affects negatively our health.
The noise is a not wished, annoying and irritating sound. Its production is cheap, it doesn’t generate residuals and it doesn’t pollute neither the wind neither the water.
The effects of the noise pollution are undestimated but they are immediate and accumulative. The excessive noise provokes in you:
- Audition loss and deafness
- Memory loss
- Stress
- Sleep reduction.
The world health organization qualifies the noise like the nuinsance in the industrialized countries. Spain is the second country with index od acoustic pollution. Two types of measures exist to combat the noise:
- Passive measures: We should diminish the intensity of the noise but without eliminating the focuses. Example: Helmets, acoustic screens.
- Active measures: We should eliminate the issuing focoses of noise. Example: To disminish the traffic and to foment the public transportion.

Judit San Segundo García
Carolina Martín Martín

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Build silence!

The advances of History have also some disadvantages. One of them is the noise caused by traffic, industries, building of roads or houses, and so on.
People are used to living with the noise and the worst thing is that people don't do anything to stop it, because they don't realise about the problems that It has caused in the last years, like deafness, stress, heart problems, and so on.
Definitely we must solve this problem reducing the noise. We can reduce noise in this way:
- moving industries farther away.
- using public transport more
- using the machines less

Cristina García Blázquez, Marta Lozano Martín and Cristina Rodriguez Seco

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The square Rollo, in south avila

EL ROLLO: Is a column of stone finished of by a cross or ball. It represented the administrative local category, getting up only in the “villazgos”, indicating the regime to which it was submitted: Royal dominion, clergyman Besides they were marking the territorial limit and in certain cases it was a commemorative monument of the “villazgo” to share with the pillories the functions of execution: To judge and to condemn to death. These execution were suspended by the decree of the courts of Cadiz in 1812.

THE SQUAR ROLLO: In the square with the roll, at present it is a park with swings where the children play. It has arches and is surrounded by a low “paredon” which the people use as a seat. There are houses shops and bars.

Miriam Hernández Berrón

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San Francisco, small and beautiful square of Avila

This square is in the north of Avila. It is small and beautiful, the ground is of paving stones.
In the square there are different shops; hairdresser´s, bakery, bars, restaurant... These shops are below arcade. Here there is a small fountain, also there are benches.

In this square the auditorium "San Francisco" is. Before, it was a church. The church is Romanesque. In the auditorium concerts, exhibitions...are celebrated.

In the square parties like: "San Francisco", "Resucitado"... are held, orchestras play at the parties.

Teresa Pacho and Mónica Garciniño

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San Nicolas square, in the south of Avila.

San Nicolas square is in the south of Avila.It is triangular shaped and around there are houses built in a varity of styles ,there is a churh too that is San Nicolas, there aren`t arcades. San Nicolas churh was built in devotion to San Nicolas, the bishop,in 1198. and the constrution materials are and reflect in some way the poverty of its former parishioners. the origins of this church date back to the early days of the repopulation.

Nowdays, there are two bars (one in each corner).the only symbols of the economycal power. There was a supermarket “Consum”.
Around the square there are parks, roads,…where there were vegetable gardens before. in habitans this zone there were fermes, livestock farmers, craftsman,…

Streets from San Nicolas square end in other different streets, square.....

Sheila Herráez García y Maria Martín Martín.

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Health is one of the most precious goods we have. Don't put it into danger.

- Look for silence, we can find it.

- Silence is pleasant.

- too much noise makes life unpleasant.

- More noise, more victims.

- Noise is an illness.

- Noise causes death in environment.

- Would you like to live without noise: Run & walk. Don't drive.

- We should beat noise.

Students in 4th D.

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_A NOISE – A LIFE +

_WITHOUT NOISE FOR AN IRON HEALTH

_JUST:SILENCE

_LEARN TO LISTEN

_NOISE: EVERYBODY IS TO BLAME

_EVERY YEAR THOUSANDS PEOPLE GET DEAF DUE TO NOISE

_STOP!! WITH THE NOISE ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡NENG!!!!!!

_KEEP, LISTEN, LIVE!!

_WHAT IS SILENCE?

_DO WE LIKE NOISE?

Mª Ángeles Gómez Gómez , Alba Mª Jiménez Jiménez & Mª del Carmen Sánchez Vázquez

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One of the ways to protect the environment and our own health is fighting noise.

Nature is not mute. It produces pleasant sounds: rain, wind among the leaves, quiet sea, birds as well as awful noises from volcanoes, earthquakes, floods.
Modern lifestyle generates a great amount of noise. Noise everywhere: at home, at school, in the streets.......
According to scientific studies, noise can damage our health.
So, let's be responsible with ourselves and let's fight noise.
Post your works here.

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One of the most important squares in Ávila

CHICO SQUARE.

A square very important of Avila is “El Chico”. It is a square from XVIII century, which is in the center of city. A lot of people visit the square everyday. The name of this square is “Victoria” but it’s called “Market Chico” for everybody.”Chico” means small.

There we find a church called San Juan, where Santa Teresa De Jesús was baptized, and where Carlos I (1534) and Felipe III (1600) were welcomed. We, usually find the religious power and the political one in squares.

In this square there are both powers. In this square the Town Hall is. The Town Hall is a big building where the mayor works with his asistants. There are balconies with flags of Spain, Castilla Y León and Ávila.
Usually in the square people trade since early moments in history for that reason in the square there is an arcade, because the merchants get under and they sell their products. Nowadays the people trade on Friday with the region products- vegetables, fruits, ceramics- for this, it is called “Market Chico” ,although now the merchants don’t use the arch to sell.
In the past the market lasted since the morning until the night. In this square the tourists buy keepsakes and traditional food, for example “Las yemas de Santa Teresa”.
Usually in the squares one can also find a bank o two banks where the people can keep money or obtain
money.
In the fair of Avila there are bullfightings and these they were done in other square of Avila but a year the
town council decided to do the bullfightings in the square called “Market Chico”, but it was not popular.
Perhaps this square was the center of a zone of vettons. It is possible for the boar which is in the arch of San Vicente.
This square is being reformed, in the future the cars won't drive in the square and this square will be for the pedestrian. They will be able to walk in the square without traffic problems.

Every year a medieval market is held in the Chico. It is a very beautiful and important event. A lot of people from other countries and cities come to Avila for the medieval market. In this date the people wear clothes similar to the ones people wore before.
And the people buy natural things, keepsake and traditional food.

The square of Chico just as the other squares is a place where the people walk and speak with their friends, a place where the people buy on Friday, a place where the people go to pray...

Virginia Martín & Tamara Martín

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The Italy Square is a very small square outside the Walls.

The squares were the most important places in the cities and for that reason some commercial activities, bullfighting festivals and dances were held there.
The Italy square is a meeting place, where people gather to speak and to take a walk. It is a small but pretty square. Santo Tome church, which now has been rehabilitated as a museum, is there.

Santo Tomé church

As well as the Serrano family palace, one of the prettiest palaces in Ávila.

Serrano family palace

The square has commercial activities, such as a shop were wine and alcoholic drinks are sold, two bars, an administration office and a boutique.

Boutique.

But there were no arcades where the retailers could be sheltered from the cold and from rain, it has not much activity.

Beatriz Martín Agudo

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