Instituto Nacional de Soyapango

INSO

Teacher´s Name: Jorge Alberto Mira Cortez

Matter: English

Tittle: Talking about traditions and life styles.

Talking about different means of transportation.

Talking about seasons and weather.

Student´s Name: Dennis Anderson Menjivar Montano

Degree: 1° Año de Bachillerato Contador

Section: “C”

Delivery Date: 15/05/2015

Traditions: are a set of cultural patterns inherited from a generation earlier.1. Today is the best day of the year.

Between tradicione we have: FESTIVITIE The party bosses, a pattern is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in the heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, or person.

Among the festivities we can mention:

Festivities in honor the Savior of the world (of San Salvador, capital of El Salvador)

Each time you arrive at the civic-religious calendar, the August festivities of the Divine Savior of the World, the Salvadoran heart is filled with joy and come to mind memories of the past to mingle with the ardent desire for a better future.

The festival is held from 1 to 6 August. On August 5 takes just a procession in which the transfiguration scene is represented, some decades now, as a lowering of the image of the Divine Savior dressed in red or purple, in a beautifully adorned tube, then aparacer up and radiant, dressed in white, with the devout enthusiasm of the people.

The procession of palms:

The feast is celebrated on May 13 in Los Planes de Renderos in honor of the Virgin Mary the most popular and colorful festival of the town called Cultural Fair flowers and palms or simply palms procession in honor of the Virgin Mary, festival by a Brotherhood of flowers and palms.

Every year panchimalco people gather to celebrate the procession of palms which indicates the beginning of the rainy season.

A panchita lies along the route of the procession passing through the main streets of panchimalco.

The procession of Jesus Captive:

The ritual of the procession of Jesus Captive patron of Zacatecoluca fulfiled 115 years why Catholics went on pilgrimage church of Calvary and from there toured the different neighborhoods of the city.

The platform, which bears the image that is loaded on the shoulders of a hundred devotees of the image, then a Mass celebrated in thanksgiving and later a dawn, closing this way the festivities in the neighborhood El Calvario, Zacatecoluca, in honor of Jesus Cautivo.

The villagers from Jayaque, in La Libertad, enthusiastically performed the final preparations for the annual festival dedicated to the compadres San Lucas, patron of Cuisnahuat, and San Cristobal, patron of the place.

The announcement of the visit of "cumpa" (godfather) San Lucas

The tradition reflects the enthusiasm, belief and faith of the locals. A month before the holidays begin, the brotherhood of Jayaque sends an invitation from the employer San Cristobal to San Lucas, patron of Cuisnahuat, Sonsonate, accompany you to spend the winter at home. All for a good harvest in both municipalities.

This is how every year, parishioners and devotees traveling with the image of St. Christopher's shoulder to Cuisnahuat to accompany the coming of San Lucas.

In his tour of the mountains and roads, both employers make a stop at Tepecoyo to meet in a festive atmosphere with other cumpa, the employer of the town, Saint Stephen.

Every July 23 the cumpas reach the Jayaque where villagers are waiting for the music, rockets, and how much activity denote festive atmosphere.

As the two images come together for their journey, San Cristobal ahead to enter first and get to San Lucas.

The meeting, known as La Topa of Cumpas, both employers greet and the mayors of the two cities, while parishioners are honored to be a guest at home, and between noise of drums, images are taken to church to celebrate a Mass.

In this celebration the food is the order of the day, without missing the typical drinks: the squat and chicha, where the leading candidates to savor cumpas chargers are images that have walked several kilometers to allow the encuentro.En this activity, members of the brotherhood with drum and whistle through the streets of the town to demand the offering of foods like chicken, rice or meat, so that travelers can cumpas have to eat during the holidays.

This year will be held for the second time the festival squat and chicha, in the framework of the celebration dedicated to meet the saints.

Jayaque is the only municipality in the country with the approval of the Legislative Assembly to produce the two alcoholic beverages from corn, tied sweet and fruit, which are preserved for several days. This just in the period of the holidays.is faster than Mark.

The procession of San Isidro Labrador:

In honor of San Isidro Labrador, patron of the good harvests of coffee, vegetables and grains, is held annually, with a dawn, sharing shuco atole, a parade and dance, residents and municipal authorities of San Isidro, Cabañas, inaugurated the festivities in honor of San Isidro Labrador. Activities will take place from 7 to 15 mayo.Se novena Masses made there an hour after dawn and atole Shuco is distributed in Central Park, the homecoming queen runs through the main streets of the city as part of the parade Mail .La Casa de la Cultura, a fashion show, performances and traditional games competitions, piñatas bankruptcy and the inauguration of the First Festival of Creativity Craft. At night, a party.

It takes place a procession with the image of San Isidro Labrador through the main streets of the town. They also perform a serenade to the queen of the festivities, a parade, rodeo, sports events, parade of floats, burning gunpowder and dance.

To close the celebrations a Mass was celebrated in honor of the patron saint San Isidro Labrador

In every tradition of El Salvador one of the main ones are the typical comidad.

TYPICAL FOODS:

Pupusas: a thick corn tortilla handmade which is filled with one or more of the following ingredients: cheese, pork, squash, beans or cheese loroco. There is also the revolt with mixed pupusas, like cheese, beans, pork ingredients The pupusas are the typical food more widespread in El Salvador probably because of its low cost and established tradition from generation to generation.

Chilate: The chilate is a native of Central America beverage prepared from chili, roasted corn and cacao and that he usually added anise, pepper, ginger and cinnamon. Chilate served hot and is taken with sweets like donuts or nuégados.

TAMALES: is a generic name given to several indigenous origin American dishes usually made with cooked corn dough. In our country there are two types of corn tamales and corn dough. The Corn wrapped in husks from the same plant and beans can's take them in and the dough are wrapped in leaves orchard (mattes banana or banana) can be sweet or salados.los also two types are shown in pictures.

CHICHARRON Cassava: Cassava with pork rind is a typical dish of El Salvador and Honduras for their preparation is cooked cassava with a little salt until soft. It is served with seasoned cabbage, tomato sauce and Greaves

Totopostes: This snack is made from corn and has become a tradition. Its development is handmade and has been passed from generation to generation.

Corn, butter, margarine, salt and sweet tied are the ingredients used in the manufacture of these typical snacks from the east.

After cooking the corn, grind and prepare the dough is shaped hands and ready to be cooked on a handmade oven, where they receive fire up to three hours.

TRADITIONAL GAMES:

The Capirucho: The Capirucho also called: bearing, ticayo, emobote.Es a toy juggling generally composed of a wooden shaft attached by a rope to a golden ball.

Way to play:

It can be played individually or collectively. The game consists of the stick inserted by clicking on Capirucho as many consecutive times. If you fail you lose the turn.

A "hundred" means putting the stick in the Capirucho ten times without fail.

The powers by plucking out to be interesting when the group of participants is large.

The spin: It is a wooden toy consisting of a top shaped like a diamond accompanied by a rope. You should wrap the rope around then and give a boost pointing to the ground.

Here are some tricks to play and entrenerse with spin:

Dance on the floor and raise his hand, holding it as long rotating in hand.

Place a spin within the circle marked on the ground and make group play, so no matter who makes more brands to spin the circle.

The marbles: The marble is a small sphere of glass, clay or parts of ceramics. In this game you can participate in group so demonstrate your skill and accuracy

This is a form of play:

Place the marbles or marbles inside a circle marked on the ground, the circle must have two quarters in diameter (two open palms) with a line shot about 6 steps. All players put a chibola in the circle, he inociará when all players throw the marbles or marbles from the circle to the line shooting begins and so the order of the following, will be launched from the firing line to the circle, in order to take as many marbles circle and win.

The Jackses: This game can be performed in a comfortable space where participants can sit comfortably in the suelo.Los Jackes are thrown to the ground and bounces a rubber ball down while the ball is in the air are collected the Jackese one by one in the first round. Then they collected by twos, threes, and so on to collect all jackses. You should receive the ball with one hand, you must not move any of the jackses when being collected others.

Oral traditions.

Are defined as oral tradition the way of transmitting culture from earlier times, experience the traditions of a society through stories, songs, prayers, legends, fables, spells, myths, stories, pumps, etc.

LEGENDS.

Click was the Goddess of the fishermen. Out in Barra de Santiago, at night with moon on a white canoe paddling. Acayetl accompanied his beloved. Abundant fishing on those nights. Even today it is remembered.

It was in a distant time. In the Bar Pachacutec, a rich old but cruel she lived. He had a daughter promised by him to a Zutuhil prince. Chasca was called and was beautiful.

One day she met a fisherman, handsome young man who was called acayetl. He lived on the island of Zanate.Y is amaron.Pero Pachacutec opposes this love. But every day, when the sun opened his eyes behind the mountain, she escaped from the hut, situated between a forest of guarumos, and went to the beach where his raft acayetl from sweet singing one morning was canciones.Pero sad. Cajete the pool of golden dawn sun. A cold wind creeping neighbors scraping pineapples, smelling mixture. Blue, cold, sad and silent; sad and lonely; so was the pool of Cajete.De soon appeared a canoe. It was acayetl. He is running and already approached the beach, when the reeds of the shore a blind man shot an arrow. It was an envoy of Pachacutec. The fisherman was killed.

And when the sea was turning red, a woman shouted at the beach. It was clicked.

He ran wild in his grief. Shortly after returning with a stone tied around his waist and he jumped into the water. The sea waves threw her on the body of the virgin.

Pachacutec died when he was a moonlit night. Then he first appeared Chasca in his canoe made of white wood, next to Acayelt.

In the landscape of sand and salt on the black background monster stirring, to the serene light of the full moon, Chasca with feather dress is the eternal white note Bar.

Cadejo

A cadejo is a legendary animal of the extended Mesoamerican region between rural and even urban areas of Central America. It is said to be a mythical dog (or two dogs) that usually appears to wander late at night and which are attributed mysterious powers.

The different versions of the legend in Central cadejo described a white and one black (usually benign and malignant respectively), or just a single black cadejo (usually benign). Cadejo legend is the remnant of an ancient belief which assumes that every human has a pet. This mythical animal is twice the man, so the illness or death of the first to carry the illness or death of the second. Today, you can make comparisons of the above with Christian thought, which says that man has an angel gurdianque protects it from dangers. Belief implies the existence of an animal companion for every man. That animal is the white Cadejo. This character also has its pre-Columbian Mayan resonance spectrum in a beneficent guardian of the roads.

This animal accompanies man in all his travels lonely at night; and in version two cadejos, white protects and defends against evil spirits embodied in the Cadejo black, dark color symbolizing death, that is, evil in all its manifestations.

THE Cipitio

The Cipitío or Cipitillo, originally called Cipit, is a legendary figure in El Salvador. It comes from a religious history of pre-Columbian era, telling your family tree and the reasons for which he was punished with his mother. Has very peculiar dress and customs, is credited with a variety of skills, abilities and supernatural powers, without prejudice, used for fun.

The character is an important part of the Salvadoran culture, taking place as an icon of ancestral remains the country. Authors and writers have taken up the figure in his works; it has also been the inspiration for the filming of a television series about Salvadoran cultural and social problems from the perspective of legend Cipitío.

PUMPS.

The pumps are examples of verbal expressions, which are used as a way of saying things indirectly expressing aspects of everyday life, many are playful, loving and romantic, picaresque, daring, defiant, contemptuous.

Some examples are:

1. The branches of the tamarind and the moon is out,

To gather coconut; and the star does not appear;

If your love is already stated the birds sing

Much ripe orange, Here comes the beautiful moon,

How much lime in the soil, with its bright star in the field,

How pretty girl, how sad man gets

How gallant penniless. When she is cheating.

2. Bomb, bomb,

Rocket, rocket,

I am old,

But no pimp.

Idioms.

Idioms are phrases typical of a place or region. El Salvador is rich in sound idioms and sometimes seem contradictory.

Some idioms are:

1. What chunchero which bring!

2. Chunchero" is a word used to refer to a large group of things. Each individual element is a "thingy".

3. Pechito What is this dick!

4. The word Pechito in El Salvador means "thin, lightweight" and Cipote is used to refer to a child.

TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION

Generic means of transportation makes the mass movement of people or goods from one place to another reference.

Transportation can be classified as:

Water, like: Boat, Underwater, yacht, boat, human

Land, such as auto, bicycle, motorcycle, bus, train, tank, feet, etc.

Flight, including: Airplane, helicopter, hot air balloon, fighter planes, etc.

Animal traction: carriages, sleighs, carts, etc.

And using the technology will exist some hybrid that is they can be aquatic and terrestrial at the same time or air and water etc.

Here is a list of the main media.1

Air

Plane

Plane

Rocket

Helicopter

Glider

Paramotor

Ultralight

Air balloon

Aerodynamic globe

Cableway

These are some of the air

RailroadRail

Train

Meter

Monorail

Tram

High-speed train (AVE)

Funicular

Cog Railway

Means of rail transport

Road

Bus or coach

(City bus)

Car

Bike or any other velocipede

Van

Truck

Motorcyclerolleybus

 

Nautical

Boat

Vessel

Canoe

Ferry

Kayak

Submarine

Transatlantic

Aquatic boat

Sea transportation and rive 

TALKING ABOUT SEASONS AND WEATHER

Seasons

Roman mosaic depicting the four seasons.

Seasons / Annual rings

The seasons are the periods of the year when the weather conditions are maintained, in a given region within a certain range. These periods are usually four and last approximately three months and are called spring, summer, autumn and winter. The seasons are caused by the tilt of the axis of rotation of the earth relative to the plane of its orbit to the Sun, which makes some regions receive different amounts of sunlight depending on time of year, due to the length of day and different intensity depending on the angle of the sun above the horizon (since the light must pass through more or less the atmosphere).

In the equatorial regions of the Earth (where the parallel 0 ° passes) are only two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season; because in them it varies dramatically rainfall but the temperature does not vary much. Since the four parallel 7th stationary changes are observed clearly. Certain cultures, such as some Aboriginal Australia, divide the year into six seasons.

Depending on latitude and altitude, weather changes throughout the year may be minimal, as in the low or maximum tropics, and in the mid-latitude areas the 4 seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter. In these areas we can distinguish periods, we call stations, with more or less similar characteristics, which affect living things. Generally it is speaking four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, although there are areas on Earth where there are only two, wet and dry (monsoon areas etc.).

Roman mosaic depicting the four seasons.

Seasons / Annual rings

The seasons are the periods of the year when the weather conditions are maintained, in a given region within a certain range. These periods are usually four and last approximately three months and are called spring, summer, autumn and winter. The seasons are caused by the tilt of the axis of rotation of the earth relative to the plane of its orbit to the Sun, which makes some regions receive different amounts of sunlight depending on time of year, due to the length of day and different intensity depending on the angle of the sun above the horizon (since the light must pass through more or less the atmosphere).

In the equatorial regions of the Earth (where the parallel 0 ° passes) are only two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season; because in them it varies dramatically rainfall but the temperature does not vary much. Since the four parallel 7th stationary changes are observed clearly. Certain cultures, such as some Aboriginal Australia, divide the year into six seasons.

Depending on latitude and altitude, weather changes throughout the year may be minimal, as in the low or maximum tropics, and in the mid-latitude areas the 4 seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter. In these areas we can distinguish periods, we call stations, with more or less similar characteristics, which affect living things. Generally it is speaking four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, although there are areas on Earth where there are only two, wet and dry (monsoon areas etc.).

The cause of the stations

In this scheme you can see the tilt of Earth's axis as Earth revolves around the sun, causing the seasons and the solstices and equinoxes called.

Contrary to popular belief, the succession of the seasons not because the Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical and in its movement away and closer to the Sun, as the difference between the farthest point of its orbit (aphelion) and the nearest point (perihelion) is only 2, 499,971 km (3.4% of the distance) .2 So this is an almost imperceptible effect on climate.

The seasons are caused by the tilt of the axis of rotation of the earth relative to the plane of its orbit about the sun. This axis is always oriented in the same direction (except the phenomenon of precession) and therefore the hemisphere north and south They are unevenly lit by the sun depending on the time of year, receiving different amounts of

sunlight due to the length of day and with varying intensity depending on the angle of the sun above the horizon (since the light must pass through more or less the atmosphere).

Every six months the situation is reversed.

If the axis of the Earth was not inclined to the ecliptic, the Sun would be found all year for Ecuador; and describe every day the same path in the sky, always reaching the same maximum height above the horizon (which would be equal to 90 ° minus the latitude where we found ourselves), there would always be the same hours of sunlight, and there would be no seasons.

The stations do not have the same duration as the Earth's orbit is elliptical and crosses its path around the Sun with a variable speed. Goes faster the closer the Sun (perihelion) and slower the further away is (aphelion). This is a consequence of Kepler's second law he says that the radius vector joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times.

The rigor of the seasons in each hemisphere also depends on the distance to the sun. As the northern hemisphere has more solid surface to the southern hemisphere, when it is summer in the northern surface heats up faster and re-emits the heat to the atmosphere, generating higher temperatures. Instead, as the southern hemisphere has an area largely covered by water, in the southern summer heat from the sun it is absorbed by the water in the oceans and is re-emitted into the atmosphere more slowly, so that the temperature reached is not as high as in the northern summers.

During the winter something similar happens. When the sun warms the northern hemisphere winter, the heat is re-emitted into the atmosphere very quickly, so the temperature does not rise because the days are short and the sun does not heat too long. When winter occurs in the southern hemisphere, the sun's heat is absorbed and re-emitted by the oceans into the atmosphere more gradually, and thus moderating the temperature.

Beginning of the stations

The seasons vary their start because the calendar year lasts 365 or 366 days while the astronomical year or lasts 365.2422 days tropics.

As the leap year lasts longer than the astronomical, after a leap year before the seasons start. Then every normal year with stations delay their start about 6 hours, so that in the normal three years delayed the start 18 hours, until a new leap year returns its start almost immediately to start the cycle.

The beginning of the stations is calculated using the following formulas:

Spring equinox year Y:

JD = 1721139.2855 + 365.2421376 * Y + 0.067919 * (Y / 1000) 2-0.0027879 * (Y / 1000) 3

Summer solstice year Y:

JD = 1, 721,233.2486 + 365.2417284 * Y - 0.053018 * (Y / 1000) 2 + 0.009332 * (Y / 1000) 3

Autumn equinox year Y:

JD = 1, 721,325.6978 + 365.2425055 * Y - 0.126689 * (Y / 1000) 2 + 0.0019401 * (Y / 1000) 3

Winter solstice of the year Y:

JD = 1721414.392 + 365.2428898 * Y - 0.010965 * (Y / 1000) 2-0.0084885 * (Y / 1000) 3

Then you need to convert the Julian to the Gregorian calendar date. Julian dates by subtracting the length of seasons is obtained, except for the duration of the winter; for the latter the approximate amount of the tropical year length of 365.2422 at the beginning of the Spring of the year and obtaining the sum of the year Y + 1 and subtract the onset of

.

The four seasons are:

Spring: begins September 21 and ends on December 20. It is characterized by the flowering plants and trees, the offspring of animals, butterflies and insects appear out of their lethargy, increases the average temperature.

Summer: starts on December 21 and ends on March 20. The days are very long and the short nights. Rainfall is in the form of storm and temperatures are high. Animals care for their young, and the plants are full of leaves and fruit.

Fall: its duration is 21 March to 20 June. The days are becoming shorter, temperatures drop and it rains a lot. The animals begin to prepare for the cold or emigrate and plants lose their leaves.

Winter lasts from June 21 to September 20. The days are very short and very long nights, very cold temperatures and precipitation as snow. Animals and plants have little activity.