UNIT 8. Session 5

DAY OF ANDALUCÍA

Complete the time line you can find in the class wall. 10'

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Read this article about important Andalusian people throughout history. For instance, Lorca, Picasso, A. Banderas etc. Then answer this question for all of them: Why did they deserve to be remembered?

Federico García Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca is not only Spain's most universal poet, but he is also a universally recognised symbol of Spain - and especially Andalucia - itself. His poems paint a vivid and intrinsically poetic portrait of this fascinating region, with its stark landscapes of olive groves and fig trees, its moonlit nights among whitewashed walls and Moorish towers, its bullfighters and, above all, its gypsies with their free-roaming ways and fierce codes of living and loving.

The fact that Lorca was summarily executed (Alfacar, Granada) at the onset of the Spanish Civil War has to some extent increased his fame, but the reverse side of the coin is that the political implications of the tragedy have eclipsed his worth as one of the 20th century's most brilliant and innovative poets.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is considered to be one of the most famous painters in the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga, Spain on October 20, 1881. In addition to painting, Picasso was also a printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. He spent most of his adult life in France.

Picasso grew up to become one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Picasso is now regarded as one of the artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century.

Belen Cuesta

Mariana Pineda

Read more on: https://www.andalucia.com/history/people/home.htm

Why did they go down in history?

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Now, it is your turn. Think on an Andalusian person that should go down in history. Write an opinion essay explaining why this person deserves it.

Graded version. Use this pattern for opinion essays.