Getting around town

Calentamiento using the picture on the next slide- write where items are in relationship to other items.

1. The flowers 2. The chair 3. The table 4. The light 5. The books

Las respuestas 1. Las flores están encima de la mesa. 2. La silla está enfrente de la mesa. 3. La mesa está adelante de los libros (las sillas, la ventana) 4. La luz está arriba de la mesa. 5. Los libros están lejos de la mesa. Están arriba de las sillas, están encima del estante.

Palabra del día Cajero Durante el verano, yo trabajo de cajero en el supermercado. Los cajeros en la tienda de ropa cuentan (count) mucho dinero. Es importante tener cajeros muy inteligentes en una tienda de ropa o en un supermercado porque siempre hay muchos clientes (clients).

La fiesta de San Isidro

The fiestas of San Isidro, Saint Isidore, one of Madrid's patron saints, take place in May. As well as the most important bullfighting festival in the world, the celebrations include fairs, concerts, dances and the romeria, a kind of pilgrimage, to the ermita de San Isidro, where, more out of tradition than belief, the faithful take the supposedly miraculous water.

May is a festive month in Madrid. As everywhere, May 1st is, of course, Labor Day, then on May 2 nd, Dos de Mayo*, Madrid celebrates the insurrection which built up into the Spanish War of Independence, which others call the Peninsular War. And these festivities are barely over by the 15th of May, the day of Saint Isidore, one of Madrid's patron saints. The fiestas of San Isidro are genuinely popular events, while the bullfighting festival, the most important in Spain, runs for nearly a whole month.

During the week or ten days either side of the saint's day, concerts are held in the Plaza Mayor, the Vistillas park near the palace becomes a verbena, an open-air dance-hall, and many Madrid castizos, true-blue natives, will dress up in one of their local costumes.

There are two kinds of costume: the majos and majas, and the chulos and chulapas. The former is the popular dress as recorded by Goya, the men looking rather bandolero-like, the women sporting high combs and lace shawls.

Chulos and chulapas are even more engrained in the spirit of Madrid, to the extent that chulo, meaning cocky or insolent, is almost synonymous with the city. This costume usuall consists of white neckerchiefs, black-and-white check jackets, waistcoats and caps for the men and clinging, frilly dresses and headscarves for the women.

Chulos and chulapas dance to the chotis, a slow, polka- like air, preferably sounded on a barrel piano. The lady dances in courtly fashion around the man, who rotates arrogantly on the spot, only shuffling his feet to face his partner (almost a chulo statement). It is very theatrical and a great pleasure to watch. ture=fvwrel ture=fvwrel

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