martes, 31 de mayo de 2016

BEHIND AND BEYOND NAMES


What´s behind your name and surname?
Decades ago there were hardly any foreign students in our schools. Nowadays about a quarter of the school population was born in a foreign country. We´ve witnessed some crucial demographic changes and have welcomed many students from nearly all countries. This unit is a tribute to those children and teenagers who had to leave their home countries and found something a bit better under the andalusian sun.
You probably know that the most common Spanish surnames are:
GARCÍA
GONZÁLEZ
RODRÍGUEZ
FERNÁNDEZ
LÓPEZ
MARTÍNEZ
SANCHEZ
PÉREZ
GÓMEZ
MARTIN.
The most common Christian names for men are:
ANTONIO
JOSÉ
MANUEL
FRANCISCO
JUAN
DAVID
And for Spanish women:
María
Carmen
Josefa
Isabel
Ana María
Mª Pilar
Mª Teresa
Ana
Mª Dolores/ Loli


In both English and Spanish there are names which can be used either for a boy or a girl:
BORJA
REYES
FRAN
CHRIS
PAU
SAM
JORDAN
ALEX
DANNI
LES
PAT
BOBBY
MADISON
MORGAN
JAMIE


  1. FIND OUT THE COUNTRY THESE SURNAMES ORIGINATED FROM:
ARIDI DADDUK
KHAMAL BATTIKI
PFLIPSEN
MOZZI
TANAKA
O´HANLON
MAC LAREN
DUVIGNAC
IQBAL
VAN DER HEIDE.
  1. Christian names which ARE also SURNAMES:
PALOMA
ESTEBAN
MARCELO
MODESTO
OLIVA
LORENZO
JAIME
FELIX
BAUTISTA
BENITO
AMADOR
DOMINGO
PAZ
VENTURA
LEÓN

ORIOL
Etc…Find two more.


  1. Some English surnames have A DIRECT EQUIVALENT IN SPANISH.


ABBOT……….
BARBER……….
CURTIS……….
WOLF………..
HILL……………
JEROME……..
KING……….
QUEEN……….
PAGE………..
PORTER………

COOK.............(We´ll miss you John)


  1. Upper-class families have long used English double-barreled or even triple barreled surnames. Try to find some Spanish ones:
VANE-TEMPEST-STEWART
LANE-FOX-PITT-RIVERS
ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMUND
ANDERSON-CARTER-JAMES
EX: ALVAREZ DE CIENFUEGOS……


  1. There are seven types of surnames:
OCCUPATIONAL: Smith, Carpenter, Silversmith, Porter,..
DESCRIBING A PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC: FAIR, BROWN, SHORT,..
FROM AN ENGLISH or SPANISH PLACE NAME :KIPLING,MASLOW
FROM THE NAME OF AN ESTATE:NORTON, MURCIA,..
FROM A GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURE: BRIDGE, LAKE,forest; HILL…
PATRONYMIC or ANCESTRAL:JOHNSON,HOWELLS,ANDERSEN,..
SIGNIFYING PATRONAGE: HICKMAN, KILPATRICK,..


  1. Find five English or American surnames which are in common everyday use in Spanish.
Ex: Osborne,…….


  1. What´s behind these names, which became nouns or adjectives?:
WEAPONS:


MAUSER
COLT
KALASHNIKOV
GATLING
DERRINGER
LUGER
REMINGTON
WINCHESTER
SHRAPNEL
STEN GUN
TOMMY GUN
UZI GUN


OBJECTS:


BIRO
BLOOMERS
CONDOM
GUILLOTINE
LEOTARD
TARMAC
PRALINE
TEDDY BEAR
WELLIES
TUPPERWARE


WRITERS & FICTIONAL CHARACTERS:


ORWELLIAN
KAFKAESQUE
CLERIHEW
QUIXOTIC
ROMEO
SPOONERISM
FAGIN
MICAWBER
ROBINSON CRUSOE
ROBIN HOOD

SCIENCE EPONYMS:


AMPERE
CURIE
DIESEL
FAHRENHEIT
FERMIUM
GALVANISE
GAUSS
GEIGER
JOULE
NEWTON
BECQUEREL
OHM
CELSIUS
COULOMB
ANGSTROM
AVOGADRO
WATT
VOLT
MAXWELL

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS NAMED AFTER SCIENTISTS; (See if you can guess who they are after):
CURIUM
EINSTENIUM
FERMIUM
GADOLINIUM
HAHNIUM
LAWRENCIUM
MENDELEVIUM
RUTHERFORDIUM


PLANTS:


BEGONIA
BOUGANVILLEA
CAMELIA
FREESIA
FRANGIPANI
FUCHSIA
GARDENIA
LOBELIA
MACADAMIA
MAGNOLIA
MARIGOLD
SEQUOIA
WISTERIA


DISEASES & SYNDROMES:
DOWN´S
ALZHEIMER
PAGET´S
CREUTZFELD-JAKOB
PRADER-WILLI
KAPOSI´S SARCOMA
PARKINSON
HODGKIN
ASPERGER
TURNER


  1. Find out ABOUT the original people who gave their names to the following:


BOYCOTT
BRAILLE
CYRILLIC
DERRICK
GUY
HOOVER
JACUZZI
LYNCH
MACKINTOSH
SADISM
MASOCHISM
RAMBO
MATA HARI
GUINNESS


i)What follows is just a list of some of our students´ surnames. Try to classify them according to their original countries (This task is more difficult as in the USA Spanish surnames such as Rodríguez or Lopez are becoming part of American culture):

OSLIKOVA
HEIMER
BAUER
KENIRY
SIEGEL
PEARSON
BOUAZZOUNI
CHAKOUBI
MGUAMGUAM
CHEN
LIN
QIANG
NIELSEN
PORTO
JANEIRO
MIZOUARI
COLLICK
YEO
LOCK
BECKER
KRAMPITZ
ROBICHAUD
BADMAEVA
LANGE
ECKERSLEY
WARREN
ALBRECHT
SCHULTE
BAMOHAMED
FUILLERAT
ABONNEAU
BARNWELL

j) Fashions in naming boys and girls have changed.People tend to give their children unisex names,or after famous actors and actresses: Ex: Quincy, Remi,Winter, Ellis, Briar, Indigo,Sage, Sasha, Ray
Find the etymological origin of the following:
AINARA
ADONAIS/ADONIS 
GASTÓN
ARIEL
DENNIS
ABRAHAM
TAMARA
GAEL
AYMEN
ZOUHEIR
JADE
ABRIL/AVRIL
YERAY
SARAY
CIRO
THALIA
MELISSA
ABIGAIL
YAIZA
MIRELLA
JAIRO
GIOVANNI
SHANIA
MARVIN
SABINE
DAWN
VIOLANTE/YOLANDA
YVON
HECTOR
CÉSAR
SABRINA
YASMINA
ARACELI
SHEILA
SHELLEY


k) Find the Spanish equivalent of the following expressions:

ACHILLES´ HEEL
ADAM´S APPLE
CAESAR SALAD
CASSANDRA
SWORD of DAMOCLES
DOW-JONES INDEX
GORDIAN KNOT
LOGANBERRY
LORELEI
MESMERIZE
OCKAM´S RAZOR
PANDORA´S BOX
PAVLOVA
SANDWICH
VENN DIAGRAM

l) See which products are advertised behind these trade marks:

ROBERTSON´S
AVON
BOVRIL
HEINZ
HORLICKS
HP
LEA&PERRINS
WORCESTER
SCHOLL
VICKS
WALLS
WRIGLEY´S
YALE

m) Some Christian names characterize the person or even mark their characters deeply NOMEN OMEN as the Romans used to say:

PRUDENCE
LIBERTY
PEACE/ PAZ
DOLORES
ANGUSTIAS
MODEST
HORACE
VICTORIA
MAXIMILIAN
HOPE/ ESPERANZA
CARIDAD
FE/ FAITH
JULIO CÉSAR.
EVARISTO
INOCENCIO

n) Traditionally feminine Christian names end in -a and masculines in -o. However, this is not always the case as we have some feminine names ending in -o:

ROCÍO
AMPARO
MARTIRIO
SOCORRO
SAGRARIO
PRADOS
LORETO

Add two more

Masculine names ending in -a(s)

WAMBA
DIMAS
WALIA
ELIA
EGICA
LUCA(S)
GORKA
IRA
MATÍAS

Add two more

Ñ) Christian names have featured geographical marks or shrines.See where in Spain you can find the following;

GÁDOR
VALVANERA
CABEZA
FUENSANTA
COVADONGA
ALMUDENA
IRATI
VALLE
GUADALUPE
CASTELLAR
AITANA

o) Name your pet in an original way:

p)ROUND THE WORLD NAMES: Which culture or countries would you associate with the names below?;
ABRAHAM       VLADIMIR     ENZO           RAJIV                        KEIKO
ISAAC                 IVAN              MARCO       RABINDRANATH  ATSUKO
MOSES                FJODOR       STEFANO     PRAKASH              MASANORI

COLIN               ABDELMAJIK  TERJE        HELMUT         MONTSERRAT
GEORGE            DRISS               INA             DIETER            OLIVER
JOHN                 SALIH                BIRGIT       HANS              JORDI

DILMA             GORKA          SOFÍA              COLETTE          SEAMUS
DEVANIZIO    ARÁNZAZU  ARISTOTELES  FRANCOISE    KEENAN
EDSON            UNAI             APOSTOLOS      PIERRE             KELLY

ZSA ZSA                 ISWEL          LAM
LADISLAV(laszlo)  EVAN           CHUN
JANOS                      LLOYD      QUONG

q) Create an anagram from your name and surnames. For instance: GEORGE BEST becomes GO GET BEERS

r) A fashionable name in 2016 can quickly become outdated tomorrow.
    Reflect on the recent changes in naming boys and girls: From Kevin, Oscar,
    Ezekiel,...to Joaquina, Ofelia,Gwendoline, Jennifer, etc..
    The most popular and strangest baby names in 2016 are:
    SANSA, AUDI, TOKYO, BROOKLYN; APPLE, XZAYVIAN, AITANA;etc..

s) Make up your funny combinations of christian names and surnames.Exs:
     Luz Cuesta Mogollón
     Dolores Fuertes Barriga
     Crystal Ball
     April Weeks
     Anita Job
     Barb Dwyer
     Gladys Friday

t) A bit of geography related to Christian saints´ names: Where in the  world would you find...:?

SANTIAGO  (Chile, Cuba,Spain,..)
SAN FRANCISCO
SANTO DOMINGO
SAN JUAN
SAN JOSE
SAN FERNANDO
SAN QUENTIN
SAN JOAQUÍN
SANTAFE
SAN JUAN DE CAPISTRANO
SAN JACINTO
SAN ANTONIO
SAN DIEGO

u) Find the etymology and original meaning of your own name and surnames: Exs:

VIVIAN: Full of life
VALERIE:Strong
SAMANTHA:She who listens
NATALIA:Born at Christmas
CAITLIN:Pure
ALISON:Light of the sun
ABIGAIL:Father´s joy
EILEEN:Light of the sun
NICHOLAS: Victory of the people
EDWARD:Happy guardian

v)Write an acrostic of your name or surnames.Ex: Eve
Every
Vital
Experience

A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July -

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,...(Lewis Carroll  Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland)


Regions of Nothingness turn fast with hope,
Ascend to the being as he touches them
Freely and happily like a rock
Asteroid zooming down a slope
Ever the slow avalanche, axis of his orb,
Love´s thief of dusks chocolate and strawberry.....

(Homage to Rafael Pérez Estrada by Jesús Aguado)

w) Historical Dynasties and Dyniceties:

Why are these  families famous?
The Medici
The Borgias
The Windsors
The Kennedys
The Caesars
The Bourbons
The Napoleons
The Ming
The Ptolemaic

x) Tell us about your family nickname or your school nickname.

y) Choose an original name for your future baby, for example,

BOYS: Craig, Florian, Ken, Rudolf, Godric, Quentin, Lucifer,Akhenaton, Tutankhamen, etc..

GIRLS: Asia, Mia, Moon, Niamh, Saffron, Saskia,Delilah, Artemis, Dolly, Nefertiti,Hipatia, etc..

z) names often confused: Madonna-Maradona; Schlegel- Scheler_Schiller; etc..

ç) What would you call jokes....
 What would you call an irishman hanging from a ceiling?
 Sean D´Ólier
 What would you call a bullet that came back?
 Rick O´Shea
 What would you call the children of the corn´s father?
 POP corn
 What would you call an alligator in a vest?
 An investigator
 What would you call a group of unorganised cats?
 A cat-astrophe.

ç+) Some nouns sound better in one language than in another, for instance
Matthew sounds better than Mateo; Does Aurora sound better than Dawn?
Reflect on this and give us some examples and explain why you think it sounds
better in one language than in another...
* +) Some famous writers changed their names to become more appealing.
        Who´s behind these names and surnames?:
        Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
        G.A. Domínguez Bastida
        J. Ramón J. Mantecón
       Mary Anne Evans
       Félix R. García Sarmiento

      Give three other examples:

**+ The school with strange staff names:
RECAREDO
RESTITUTO
ERUNDINO
REMIGIO
MACARIO
FULGENCIO
IRENEO
SECUNDINO
BALBINO
TIBURCIO
EUSTAQUIO
EUFRASIO
SATURIO
PETRONILA
HENAR
ERÉNDIRA
LEOVIGILDO
ALMENDRA

Make up your own list of strange(no longer fashionable) names

**++
Untranslatable proper names from oine language to another:
ANGUSTIAS
DOLORES
AMPARO
COLLEEN / COLLIN
BATHSHEBA

Give two more examples

¡+Ç
Short forms of Christian names:
INA-TINA-MARTINA
FINA-ADOLFINA-JOSEFINA-SERAFINA
ISA-LISA-ELISA-FELISA
ANA_ELIANA-MARIANA
ELODY-MELODY
Give three more examples if you can

?¿ *+ Some suffixes indicate origin,son of: sen/son/mc/mac/ EZ in Spanish.
Guess who the following surnames originate from:


FERNÁNDEZ
PÉREZ
RAMÍREZ
NÚÑEZ
JIMÉNEZ
SÁNCHEZ
ÁLVAREZ
DOMÍNGUEZ
MARTÍNEZ
RODRÍGUEZ

The Unnamable : In Germany very few people are named Adolf, after the tragic memory of the Nazi leader. Which names would you never give your child? As a clue, the following were fashionable names a hundred years ago: Gregoria, Ezequiela, Gabriela, Serafina, etc..
       

            Full Stop.Period The controversy over naming your baby LOBO.
            In the summer of    2016  the Spanish court finally agreed to let a couple name
                                        their new born baby WOLF. What special name would you choose for your
                                        new born baby? Remember ATAULFO means WOLF.
                                        If you can call your child LEÓN or PALOMA, why not LOBO?

 Final After thought project
ALL GREAT NAMES IN HISTORY are CALLED:
JOSEPH,or ROBERTor JOHN or FERDINAND  or ELIZABETH  or MARY  or SOPHIA  or JULIA
EXs: Joseph of Nazareth, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Priestley, José Martí, José Saramago, José Rizal,
         José Zorrilla, José de San Martín, José R. Copacabana, Josep Carreras, Chief Joseph,
           J.Merrick, J.Stalin, J. McCarthy, J. Goebbels, J. Fiennes, J, Brodsky.....
           Find out who they were and why they are important in our history.

domingo, 1 de mayo de 2016

Truth is...STRANGER & more SINISTER....than Fiction

 Every day headlines prove that reality is infinitely stranger than fiction because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities and  Truth is not. Life can be full of both pleasant and unpleasant surprises.
The longer you live the more surprises you´ll get as regards to people, ideas  and objects. Literature is full of incredible stories of survival, faith, hope, success, forgiveness,kindness and shocking cruelty all over the world.
Let´s look at some of  these news stories:


FIREFIGHTERS MISTAKENLY PUMP JET FUEL ON FIRE INSTEAD OF WATER

MISSING WOMAN UNWITTINGLY JOINS SEARCH PARTY LOOKING FOR HERSELF

WOMAN,46, BECOMES A MOTHER AND A GRANDMOTHER IN THE SAME WEEK

SCREENING OF NOAH CANCELLED AFTER THEATRE FLOODS

FEMALE-NAMED HURRICANES KILL MORE THAN MALE HURRICANES AS PEOPLE DON´T RESPECT THEM

DISABLED BOY RECORDS BULLIES TORMENTING HIM. POLICE CHARGE HIM WITH ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING

CHINESE ZOO UNDER FIRE FOR DISGUISING HAIRY DOG AS LION

MAN GOOGLES HIMSELF.FINDS HE IS MOST WANTED AND SURRENDERS.

WOMAN INADVERTENTLY BECOMES 87TH BEST GLASGOW ATTRACTION AFTER TRIP ADVISOR MISTAKE,

DETROIT GOES"MURDER FREE" FOR 36 HOURS

DISGUSTED CENTRAL PARK MUGGER REJECTS VICTIM´S FLIP PHONE.

TRUCK CRASHES, SPILLS PENGUINS

MISTAKENLY BELIEVING ONE OF THEM TO BE GAY, TWO HOMOPHOBES ATTACK EACH OTHER.

BEFORE MATING, THE FEMALE GIRAFFE WILL FIRST URINATE IN THE MALE´S MOUTH.

"I MARRIED MY CAT AND IT´S PURR-FECT"

A TIGER BEFRIENDS A GOAT

A TAPEWORM IS FOUND INSIDE A WOMAN´S BRAIN

SHE FOUND HER HUSBAND´S INFIDELITY THROUGH FACEBOOK

MY FAVOURITE PAINTERS ARE ALBERTO BURRI AND EDWARD BURRA

MY FAVOURITE AUTHORS ARE JOAN MIRÓ AND GABRIEL MIRÓ or

                                                           JUAN GRIS AND A. JEAN GROSS

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE: A BANDAGE/A pair of scissors WAS LEFT INSIDE A GIRL´S WOMB AFTER DELIVERY. (Check ten horrible cases of medical malpractice)


There is enough misery in the world, isn´t there? Reality is more sickening, much more shocking .There is plenty of literature on  misery memoirs. Just to recall a few:


 DAVE PELZER´S A CHILD CALLED IT HAS SOMEONE BEING FORCED NAKED ONTO A HOT STOVE

CONSTANCE BRISCOE´S UGLY  HAS THE MAIN CHARACTER BLEACH-SWALLOWING

ARTHUR´S KOESTLER´S DARKNESS AT NOON REFLECTS THE DYNAMICS OF TORTURE AND PRISONER ABUSE.


Just to finish off on a bitter note I´m going to reflect in words the cruelty and brutality of war, the shocking effects of war, any war which opens up a catalogue of human depravation. The end justifies the means and All is fair in love and war so there we are..any type of behaviour can be acceptable to get what you want and demoralise the enemy.....
Horrifying scenes of violence can be seen in many modern films from Stanley Kubrick to Quentin Tarantino, M. Haneke, Gaspar Noe... The following have not been gleaned from a CIA torture manual or from the Inquisition but from a history book depicting the emotional devastation of the Spanish peninsular war fought between 1808-1814, The peninsular war by Charles Esdaile The repetition of  mistakes is the essential characteristic of any war. They are too dreadful to relate in more detail, which would render this as pornographic.


CIVILIAN BOMBING 

Intentionally wounding instead of killing

Backstabbing
Men stoned to death
  "     starved to death
  "     burned to death
 "      boiled in oil
  "     sawn in half
  "    buried up to their necks in the ground and left to die of thirst
  "    had their testicles cut off  and put into their mouths  
  "   used the coffins as wood to warm themselves up, throwing away the skeletons
  "   saw their wives and daughters raped by the enemy
  "   were fed rotten food.
  "   were hacked to pieces alive starting with fingers and toes
Emaciated dogs were eating the corpses of the entire population which had been massacred
Girls had their earrings plucked.
At Fontaneira a woman caught in the streets had her breasts cut off and a heavily pregnant woman was torn open to have her unborn child killed and she herself died bleeding in agony.
Prisoners were forced to dig the hole in which they were to be buried themselves.

 These chapters of the utmost horror and horrid excesses of humankind  are 
unspeakable acts committed by ordinary people...
How are we ever going to redeem ourselves? 
Where are our survival skills and resilience?
Are these our universal wounds or our original sins?
Is it better forgetfulness or the clear remembrance of horrors?
Remember animals are never half as cruel as human beings.
As human beings do we accept defeat and assume other people´s pains?

I simply wanted to awaken  your sleepy conscience.