Tania's riddle

He was born in New York, on the first of december of 1935.
He is an amazing scriptwriter, director and actor that has won three Oscars and has directed films like "Annie Hall", "Manhattan", "Midnight in Paris" or "You will meet a tall dark stranger".
We can find in all his masterpieces topics like sexuality, literature, philosophy, psychology and above all the history of the cinema and the jewish identity that are almost always present in all his work. He is also a musician, a jazz clarinetist who performs regulary at a small theatre in Manhattan and sometimes he goes on tour.

Finally he is considered one of the best directors of the moment junto with Clint Eastwood because all his films not only entertain the public, they also teach them a educational message.

Who is it?

Tania Sanchis Giménez

English Language Class Blog: Blog Activity Unit 1: RIDDLES

English Language Class Blog: Blog Activity Unit 1: RIDDLES

BY SANTIAGO

He is a dead person. Long time ago, he was a great man, destroying armys and bringing the victory to the senate and the people of Rome. He often read literature greek, and also philosophy
history, etc. He won a lot of battles, but in the senate he always was won by his etern enemy, Marco Porcio Catón. He was the only person who was able to win in a battle to Hannibal, the great general of Cartago. He had one children and two girls and a brilliant wife, Emilia. So who is this person? I think that if he was alive now, he would go to Rome and he would see the changes of the history. I give you extra information; his third name means in latin walking-stick.

He was born in Rome, in 219 b.c, he loved the greek culture. He died in the same place, for cause of a headache very strong. If you love militar strategy as me, see the live of this character.
His family was an important family of the history of Rome.

María Simó' riddle.

He’s a football player from Terrasa (Catalonia) who was born in 25th January of 1980. He’s plays as a midfielder for FC Barcelona.

Widely considered among the finest play-makers in the world. This player is a product of Barcelona's La Masia youth system and has been a regular at Camp Nou since the age of 11. He made his way through the youth and reserve teams and was a key member of FC Barcelona B team that won promotion to the Second Division, at the beginning of his career.

Sustained impressive performance meant that he became a key member of Louis Van Gaal's title-winning team. Because an injury to Josep Guardiola in the following 1999-00 season meant that our player became Barcelona's principal playmaker, a position he has retained ever since. The same person that later has became in his trainer – in 2009-10 season. (In this time, they won 6 coups)

He is one of the football players possesses more titles. With his team (Barça) he won 6 Liga’s cups, 1 Spanish King cup, 5 Spanish Super cups, 3 Champions league cups and 2 UEFA Super cups.

Also with the National team, Spain, he won 1 FIFA’s world cup and 1 UEFA European Football Championship.

Who is it? :)

Bárbara's riddle

He's a handsome actor from Stockholm, Sweden. He was born in 1976 and he has hypnotic blue eyes and blond hair. He's really tall. "X" isn't the only actor in his family, because his father is a very recognised actor called Stellan, who has been in films such as "Angels and demons"or "Pirates of the Caribbean". But we're interested in his son.

This man served in the Swedish Military for eighteen months, but after that, he enrolled to study English, but he admits he didn't study much and then, after seven years away from acting, he started to consider it again. In 1997 he enrolled in a theater course at Marymount Manhattan College and moved to New York City. He returned to Stockholm after six months, but the time he spent studying theater showed him that he wanted to act.

Nowadays, he is one of the most important rolls in the HBO TV serie "True Blood", and he performs a sexy vampire, the sheriff Eric Northman in a true vampire story full of love, sex, violence and danger. Nevertheless, he has appeared in films like "Melancholia" or "Zoolander", but maybe you'll know this actor because of his charm in Lady Gaga's hit videoclip "Paparazzi", kissing the music diva.

I hope you don't know who he is! haha..

Raquel's Riddle


He's an italian artist(sculptor, painter, poetry and architect) who was born on 6 March , 1475 in the village of Caprese, Italy. He was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance.


He started her renowed career at age 23, when his magnificent Pieta was completed. This is a marble statue that shows the Virgin Mary grieving over the dead Jesus. After that, he worked on the colossal figure of David between 1501 and 1504, his most famous sculpture (standing at 4.34m in tall)  which was in place outside the Palazzo Vecchio. 


Later on his work in Florence, in 1505 he was invited  to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II, who forced him into the reluctant achievement of the world's greatest single fresco. He covered the ceiling with paintings done on wet plaster, showing nine scenes from the Old Testament. Afterwards, he painted The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.


Toward the end of his life, Michelangelo became more involved in architecture and poetry. In 1546 he was made chief architect of the partly finished St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where the Pieta is now kept.


By: Raquel Esteban Pérez

Ana Marqués' Riddle

He's a very famous singer born in Staffordshire (England) in 13rd February of 1974. He has been awarded many many times because of his great musical career and has broken two Guiness record of people gathered in one of his concerts.

This great singer began his career at the early 90's with the band 'Take That'. They enjoyed years of success and fame until this man decided to give up the group.

Then, he took his solo career with whom he got lots of hits as 'Feel' or 'Come undone'... but in this period of his life, he joined the world of drugs and his public image was widely damaged.

Luckily, he achieved to get out of it and currently he's completely recovered.

Nowadays, he's back with 'Take That'. They're recording a new album and they have recently released a new single: 'The Flood', whose video clip shows really beautiful images of London.

I think at this moment he's composing new beautiful songs, because apart from being a very professional singer and a very good-looking guy, he's also one of the best current composers; he has written wonderful songs as 'She's the one' and 'Only you know me'.

Silvia's Riddle

It is a woman, she is an Australian and American actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel and humanitarian.

After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, her breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder , Far and Away, and Batman Forever . She followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s, it was her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge which earned her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf the following year in the drama film The Hours received critical acclaim and she earned the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other successful films include Cold Mountain , The Interpreter, Happy Feet (2006), and Australia.

She has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. Her work has earned her a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award.

Silvia Martorell Crespo

Sara's riddle

She is a French actress who was born in Paris in 1975. She is daughter of actors, so she has been in touch with cinema since she was a child.

She is well-known because of her rols in Jeux d'Enfants (Love me if you dare), Big fish, Nine or Inception, for example. Furthermore, she is well-known because she won the Best Actress Oscar for "La vie en rose (Edith Piaf)".

This woman met his couple, Guillaume Canet, who is also an actor, during the filming of the film "Love me if you dare" in 2003, and his first child was born last May. They do many things together, they often go to cafés or go shopping around Paris, and they have good relation with the media.

She is ecologist and she is a member of Greenpeace and one of it's spokesperson. She is learning and improving some languages as she is one of the actress who doesn't usually film in her own language.

Right now, I think she and Guillaume are taking care of their baby. Or maybe, she is filming Low Life or Rust and Bone, the new films she is starring on.

Sara Vázquez

Riddle by Alexandra Fernández

He was born in London in 1946. He worked as a graphic designer before becoming an actor. He's never been married, but he met his partner at the age of 19. They've been together ever since.

Some of his appearances on the big screen as a villain were in films like Die Hard, Robin Hood: the Prince of Thieves or Sweeney Todd. His performances in Sense and Sensibility and the Harry Potter series are memorable. He is a very skilled narrator, he's got an alluring deep voice. He's been awarded an Emmy and a BAFTA, and nominated twice for a Tony.

He took his driving test in LA when he was 41. He failed the first time because he was driving 'too carefully'. His liscense isn't useful in Britain, where he lives.

He is currently acting in a Brodway play called Seminar, but he is likely to be having luch at this exact moment.

Carmen's Riddle

He was an American pop artist who was born on October 27th, 1923 and died on September 29, 1997.

In his paintings you can easily see the influence of the characteristic comic book style and his most famous painting is "Whaam".

This person studied fine arts at Ohio State University, however he had to leave his studies for three years because of World War II. After this, he hark back to his studies and had his first one-man exposition at Calerbach Gallery in NYC.

He created some sculptures too, such as "Lamp" (1978) .

Finally he died of pneumonia in NYC (1997).

I'm a huuuuge fan of this artist, so I hope you guess who's he and enjoy his work if you decide to learn something more about him.

By Carmen Rosa Sorlózano