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Café con leche project

Café con leche project

Research Project: Find 3 items you would love to investigate and make a powerpoint or poster presentation about them.

(They have to be from different groups: you cannot choose 3 football players) 

Actors- actresses

Antonio Banderas (born 1960)
Penélope Cruz (born 1974)
Sara Montiel

Javier Bardem

Maribel Verdu

Architects

Ricardo Bofill
Santiago Calatrava
Ildefons Cerdà (1815-1876)Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926)

Authors

Mateo Aleman (1547-c1609)
Jacinto Benavente
Pedro Calderón de la Barca - playwright and poet
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) - author of El Quijote
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) - Spanish poet
Mariano Jose de Larra
Tirso de Molina - playwright
Agustín Moreto y Cavana - playwright
Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla - playwright
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - playwright
Fernando Sanchez Drago
Gala

Directors (movie)

Luis Buñuel
Pedro Almodóvar
Alejandro Amenábar

Explorers

Hernán Cortés - Spanish conquistador
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c1475-1519) - first to sight the Pacific
Francisco Pizarro (1471-1541) - conqueror of Inca Empire

Leaders

El Cid (c1045-1099) - Spanish knight and hero
Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936)
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ( Dictator)

Juan Carlos I (Spanish King)

Musicians

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Pau Casals (1876-1973)
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Enrique Granados
Joaquín Turina

Andres Segovia

Joaquin Rodrigo

Painters

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)Francisco Goya (1746-1828)Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945)
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1644)

Philosophers

Maimónides (1135-1204)
George Santayana (1863-1952)
José Ortega y Gasset

Seneca

Scientists

Algafequi - glasses inventor
Gregorio Maranón
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905-1993)
Eduard Punset
Isaac Peral ( inventor os the submarine)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) - father of Neuroscience
Miguel Servet Blood circulation discovery, burnt at the stake for this.

Singers

Miguel Bosé
Montserrat Caballé
José Carreras
Plácido Domingo
Julio Iglesias
Alfredo Kraus

Enrique Bunbury

Manolo Garcia

Macaco
RaphaelAlejandro Sanz
Camarón de la Isla

 

Sports

Severiano Ballesteros - golfer
Rafa Nadal - tennis player
Fermin Cacho Ruiz - athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist
Pedro Carrasco - world champion boxer
Javier Castillejo - world champion boxer
Juan Carlos Ferrero - tennis player
Sergio Garcia - golfer
Pau Gasol - NA basketball player
Luis Miguel González Lucas - bullfighter (father of Miguel Bosé)
Miguel Induráin - cyclist
Carlos Moya - tennis player
José Maria Olazábal - golfer
Raúl - football player
Carlos Sainz - rally driver
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario - tennis player
Cristina Sanchez - bullfighter
Javier Sanchez - tennis player, brother of Arantxa
Fernando Torres – footballer

Spanish celebrations

San Fermines

Corridas de toros

Feria de Abril

El Rocio

Romerias

Las cruces de mayo

La tomatina

Procesiones de Semana Santa

Spanish Food

Paella

Tortilla de patatas

Gazpacho

Salmorejo

Gachas

Cocido Madrileno

Ropa Vieja

Chorizo

Morcilla

Aceitunas