ENGLISH MAGAZINE Presentation

Dear readers:

We would like to welcome you to our English magazine. We are students of the third grade of ESO and have been working on the magazine in the first term of this course, from September to December.

First of all, we are going to introduce ourselves. After that, you are going to find articles that we have been writing, like interviews with some teachers, recipes and more.

We hope that you’ll enjoy reading our articles.

Yours,

Brianna Carmona, Souhaila El Khoulatie, Kandela Gómez, Nerea de Gracia, Aroa León, Muqaddas Mansoor, Laia Montaña, Nadia Mouhal, Sara Puigcerver and Abril Salabert.

Let me introduce myself Hello! My name is Souhaila el Khoulati, I am 15 years old. I have 1 brother and 2 sisters called Mohamed and Ikram and Wassima. My hobbies are doing sports and reading, my better day of the week is Friday, I enjoy dancing, also going to the mountain; I like listening to music so much.

The type from music that I like is pop, rock and relaxing music. My favourite singer is Carson Lueders, he is very beautiful and sings very well, and my favourite youtuber is Kevlex. His show is very funny.

My brother is very good, although he is a little annoying, but I love him so much and my sister is very funny, I also love her so much, I enjoy giving my advice, I enjoy travelling with my family, it is very entertaining.

I like school, my favourite subject is English, physical education, biology and arts. I enjoy working in groups.

My name is Brianna. I ‘m 14 years old. There are 4 people in my house, my favourite hobby is listening to music.

My brother is 12 years old. I like playing fornite and I hate homework.

Hi, my name is Muqaddas; I’m 14 years old. I live in Olesa de Montserrat with my parents and my brother.

My brother’s name is Moosa, he is 11 years old. My mom’s name is Saima and she loves to get crafty. My dad’s name is Mansoor and he is studying CCNA.

Moosa studies in escola MARE DE DÉU DE MONTSERRAT. I study in a high school called INS DANIEL BLANXART PEDRALS .

My favorite singers are Grace Vanderwaal and Selena Gomez. My hobbies are painting, crafts and writing. I don’t like reading, playing football, watching cricket and homework.

I want to be a lawyer or a doctor.

Let me introduce myself

Hello, my name is Kandela and I’m 13 years old. I was born in Martorell on December 25, 2004. I don’t have any brothers, but my mother has a friend of always and has a son who is like my brother. My hobbies are playing drums, listening to music, shopping, traveling and doing crafts. My singer favourite is Bruno Mars, I love him. I do not know what I want to work, but I like theater a lot. My favorite food is pasta.

Let me introduce myself Hi, my name is Laia and I’m 14 years old. There are 3 people and 2 dogs and 5 cats in my family: my parents, Marta and Toni. I don’t have a brother and sister, my dog’s names are Draco and Jack, my cats are Nina, Neko, Jodie, Willy and Foxy.

Let me introduce myself: My name is Nadia Mouhal Benhdia, I am 14 yeras old, I have a brother, his name is Ismael and have a sister, her name is Salma .My favourite hobby is listening to music and my favourite day is Saturday, my favourite colour is black, my favourite music is relaxing music .I don’t like school. I would like to be a psychologist.

I like listening to music because it is relaxing. I don’t like school because it is very boring. I have a brother, he is two years old, he likes watching TV. I want be ha psychologist because I like helping people.

I like sleeping always because I like to rest, I like the confidence I have with my friends. I like reading books because it is interesting.

RECIPE FOR: RAINBOW CAKE

INGREDIENTS

300 gr of flour 300 ml olive oil 300 gr of sugar 6 eggs 3 teaspoon of yeast 2 teaspoon of vanilla extract colorant: blue, orange, yellow, purple, green, red

For coverage:

400 ml of cream 500 ml of cream cheese 200 ml of icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Put the olive oil and brown sugar in a bowl and mix them. Crack 6 eggs open, mix all well. Next, add the flour and yeast and mix. Add vanilla extract, shake all until you have a homogeneous mix. Pour 6 eggs into the same bowl. Put the colorant in the bowl, blend everything. Put a little oil into the mould Pour the batter in the mould, bake the cake at 180°C during 20 minutes. Allow to cool.

For the cream, beat the cream and sugar and mix with the cream cheese. Finally, put it on the cake.

Brianna

Recipe for warm chocolate liquid cake

Ingredients:

♥ 55g chocolate coverage

♥ 40g flour ♥40g sugar ♥40g butter ♥2 eggs ♥Ice cream with cream flavor to decorate ♥Ice cream sugar and mint to decorate

Preparation: ♥Put flour on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. ♥Melt butter with chocolate in bain-marie. ♥Beat the eggs and the sugar with the help of a rod blender. ♥Add the chocolate with the melted butter and mix gently, with round movements. ♥Add the baking flour and keep mixing gently ♥Line the moulds with baking paper and pour in the dough, until you reach the middle of the mould. ♥Bake at 200ºC for 5 minutes. ♥Remove from the oven, let it rest for a minute, place it on the serving dish and remove the mould. ♥ Sprinkle with icing sugar, add a scoop of ice cream and decorate with mint leaves. Finished! Aroa

Recipe for unicorn cake Ingredients ★ 3 cups of all purpose flour ★ 30 gr of baking powder ★ 2 cups of sugar ★ 1 cup of natural yogurt ★ 1 cup of oil ★ 3 eggs ★ White fondant ★ Whipping cream ★ Food coloring ★ A pastry bag ★ And edible gold paint Instructions First mix all the dry ingredients. Then mix 1 cup of yogurt 1 cup of oil and 3 eggs with the dry ingredients. Mix well. Put the batter in a big round baking mold. Wait 40 min and check every 10 min. When done, leave the cake on a strainer plate to harden. Use white fondant to cover the whole cake. Now use a new pastry bag to mix the whipped cream with red, yellow, black and blue (separately). Decorate the cake red, yellow and blue: this is for the unicorn hair. Use black mixed whipped cream to make the eyes. Get a small packet of fondant, cut it in half and form into snakes and then twist them together. This is the horn. Paint it with the edible gold paint.

FINALLY ENJOY

Muqaddas Mansoor

Recipe for Sacher cake

Ingredients 1. 1290 g almond paste 2. 390 g sugar 3. 630 g of egg yolks 4. 450 g eggs 5. 750 g egg white 6. 390 g sugar 7. 300 g flour 8. 150 g cocoa powder 9. 300 g cocoa paste 10. 300 g butter

Preparation 1. Mix the almond paste (130g) of sugar. Next add the yolk of egg one by one until you have a smooth paste. 2. Beat the eggs white with the rest of sugar (260g). 3. Sieve the cocoa powder with flour. Meanwhile, melt the cocoa paste with the butter. 4. Add a small quantity of the egg whites beat and add to the cocoa paste and the butter so that the mix is soft and liquid. 5. Add the almond paste, and with the help of a spatula mix in the dry ingredients. 6. Finally add the egg whites, beat and mix. 7. Divide in baking moulds (round) or in trays, bake at 180°-200°C and then leave it for some 20-25 minutes.

Souhaila

Double chocolate cake with Maltesers

Ingredients for 9/12 persons

Ingredients For the black chocolate cake: ● 50 g black chocolate ● 50 g butter ● 50g sugar ● 2 eggs ● 50 g flour ● 2g yeast

For the white cake: ● 50 g white chocolate ● 50g butter ● 50 g sugar ● 2 eggs ● 50 g flour ● 2g yeast

For covering: ● 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract ● 500ml cream ● 350g chocolate with milk ● 2 teaspoon of icing sugar ● To your liking of Maltesers for decorating

Preparation

Of the white and black chocolate cake. 1. Heat the oven to 170 º C, butter a mould, and sprinkle with flour. Melt black chocolate and butter in a bain-marie or microwave, a minute or two at half power, and reserve. 2. Whiten the eggs with the sugar in a food processor. Add the melted chocolate and butter, and also the vanilla extract. Add the previously sieved flour a couple of times with the yeast, and mix it with a spatula. 3. Pour the dough into the mould and bake for 15 or 25 minutes, or until the tip of a cupcake thermometer turns red. 4. Remove from the oven, let it stand for 15 minutes, unmould and put the cake on a rack to cool. 5. Repeat the same process with the ingredients of the white chocolate sponge cake and, once baked and let it cool on a rack. 6. Put the sugar and the cream in a saucepan. Heat it until the thermometer reaches 87° C at most. 7. Put the milk chocolate in a bowl and pour in the hot cream. Let it rest for about five minutes so that the chocolate melts and mix carefully until you get a cream of a homogeneous color. 8. Let it cool to room temperature, cover with a cloth and store in the refrigerator for 12 hours. 9. The next day we prepare the cream with a kitchen robot, being careful not to pass so that no butter is made.

To assemble the cake: 1. Place the black chocolate cake on a rotating base, cover with a little cream and place the white chocolate cake on top. 2. Cover the entire surface and edges with the milk chocolate cream. 3. Decorate the cake by filling it with Maltesers starting at the edge and ending at the center of the surface. 4. We keep it in the fridge until we go to serve it.

Enjoy your meal!

Kandela

MY FAVORITE SINGER

My favorite singer is Taylor Alison Swift. She is 28 years old. She was born in 1989 in Pennsylvania. And she has a brother called Austin Swift.

When she was 14 years old she started to sing country music and she was the youngest artist who signed a contract with BIG MACHINE RECORD.

Her famous songs are New romantics, Fearless, Mine ,Tim McGraw, Safe and sound, our song, We are never ever getting back together, Teardrops on my guitar, Blank space, Love story, Mean, state of grace, Dear John, Style, You belong with me, What you made me do and Delicate.

I like Taylor Swift because she is very talented and makes very beautiful songs with a very good beat.

Muqaddas Mansoor

My favourite singer

Her name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, she is 30 years old, she was born on 20 February 1988 and is from Barbados. Her religion is Christianity.

She began her profession in 2003 when made a name for herself with the help of her producer Evan Rogers. Roger decided to go to the United States to record a demo. With more than fifteen years in her profession, Rihanna has accomplished to take a stance in the list of the ten best-selling artists of all time with 275 million musical production distributed in the whole world.

Her famous songs are: Diamonds, Break it off (with Sean Paul), Disturbia, Take a Bow, S&M, Pour It Up, We found Love (with Calvin Harris).

We like her because she has nice songs, she is very beautiful, and sings very well. Our favourite song is “We found Love (with Calvin Harris)”.

Nadia and Brianna

My favourite singer Anuel AA

His name is Enmanuel Gazmey Santiago. He was born on 27 November 1992.His nationality is Puerto Rican. He has one daughter. He works as a singer. His type of music is Reggaeton and Trap. He began in 2005. His more known songs are La ocasión, Ella y yo, Nací para morir, Quiere beber.

He studied at María Auxiliadora school in Carolina. When he was at school he got interested in music, in 2005 he began, but in 2010 he started recording in Maybach Music. In 2016 he started being famous.

I like Anuel AA because his songs have a good beat. He is handsome. He sings well.

Aroa

My favourite singer Saad Bachir Lamjarred is a Moroccan singer, he was a born on 07-04-1985 in Rabat, Morocco; he is 33 years old.

Saad is an actor and singer from Morocco, he started his acting career in 2001 in soap opera, his mother is an actress and comedian and his father is a classical singer, he collaborated with his fathers.

His famous albums are Enty and Salina. He got very popular with the release of his album named "Enty Baghya Wahad". He even got the Méditel Morocco Music Awards in the year 2014. In the same year, MTV Europe Music Awards nominated him for the Best Middle East Act.

His famous songs are “LM3ALLEM”: it’s a very popular song, it achieved a Guinness World Record. This is probably the most viewed Arabic song on YouTube. His other songs are "Ana Machi Sahel", "Ghaltana" and "Mal Hbibi Malou" was also very popular on the internet.

I like him because he is very handsome and sings very well, My favorite song are Lm3allem, Casablanca, Ghaltana.

Souhaila

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My favourite singer: Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars isn’t his real name. His real name is Peter Gene Hernandez. He was born in Honolulu (Hawaii). When he was a child he went with his dad to stage to perform as Elvis Presley, he moved Los Angeles in 2003 to continue his carrier. His most important albums are 24k magic, Unorthodox Jukebox and Doo-Wops and Hooligans. I like him because he is a marvelous singer, I love him.

Candela

MY FAVORITE SINGER BEYONCE

She was born in Houston, Texas (4 September 1981). She is a singer, dancer, rapper, actress, model, and fashion designer. She did singing and dancing competitions. Her songs deal with in love, female empowerment. Her famous songs are: Diva, Halo, Partition.

MY PERSONAL OPINION I like and admire her because she is a diva.

Abril

Interview with Emma Marcos by Souhaila and Muqaddas

S: Can we ask you some questions? E: Yes, of course. S:Do you like Christmas? E: Yes, I like it. S: Where are you going on holiday? E: I’ll stay at home. S: Who do you celebrate Christmas with? E: I celebrate Christmas with my family. S: What do you prefer as a Christmas gift? E: I don’t know, it depends on the year, maybe some clothes. This is very useful. So, yeah, clothes will be ok. S: Do you believe in Santa Claus? E: I used to. But not nowadays, I mean, I am too old. S: Thank you for your attention! E: You’re welcome.

Interview with Alex Miralles By Nadia and Brianna

Nadia: Can we ask you some questions? Alex: Yeah, sure. Brianna: Do you like Christmas? Alex: Yeah, I like it. Nadia: How do you celebrate Christmas? Alex: I usually have dinner with my family. Brianna: Do you giving presents? Alex: Yes, I like them. Nadia: Who do you celebrate Christmas with? Alex: With my family: my parents, my brother, my wife, daughter, my aunts, my uncles. Brianna: Do you receive present on Christmas? Alex: Yeah, I receive some presents. Nadia: Thank you!!!

Interview with Ana Serrano by Kandela Gómez

C: Can we ask you some questions, please? A: Yes, of course! Tell me. C: Do you celebrate Christmas? A: Yes, in my family we celebrate it all the years. C: Do you like it? A: Yes, absolutely. It’s my favourite season C: Where do you celebrate it? A: It depends on the year. One year in my house, another year in my father’s house, another year in my mother’s house or at my brother’s or sister’s. C: What do you prefer: Santa Claus or the Three Wise Men? A: My favourite are the Kings, the Magic Kings. C: And… what is your favourite day of Christmas? A: Mmmh… the 25th… yeah. The birth of Christ C: Thank you! A: You’re welcome.

Interview with Patrick By Nerea de Gracia and Laia Montaña

N: Can we ask you some questions? P: Ok, sure. Go ahead. N: What do you like about Christmas? P: What I like about Christmas is seeing my family and seeing my friends. N: Do you put up a Christmas tree? P: Yes, usually quite late, so my family usually put up a Christmas tree on the 23rd or the 24th of December, so one or two days before Christmas day. L: What presents would you like to get? P: I don’t know, it’s quite difficult, because I live here and at Christmas I will be in Wales with my family, but it’s difficult to bring the things back here, because I’ll be on a plane and I only have a small suitcase, so I don’t know the answer. L: How do you celebrate Christmas in Wales? P: Well, we have Christmas trees and presents and usually you wake up on Christmas day, on the 25th of December, and you have some presents in a stocking, which is a long sock and then you spend the day with your family: maybe you go for a walk (that’s what I do), and then afterwards you have a big meal, Christmas dinner, which is a roast dinner with turkey or duck or some nice meat. And then you open the rest of your presents. So, that’s Christmas day. L: Where would you like to celebrate Christmas? P: In my hometown, the town where I’m from, which is called Prestatyn. So, that’s where I go for Christmas, it’s nice. L: Thank you! P: You’re welcome!