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English reading circle – Book of the month for December
Participate by reading the selected book and attending the colloquium…and discover why words are better read in a circle! Directed by professor Soledad Fox. Participation is free; register at library@iie.es. Book of the month: “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton COLLOQUIUM: Tuesday, December 16th, 19:30 pm Published in 1905, it's a novel that condemns
Reading Circle – Book of the Month for December
Participate in the Library's Reading Circle with the reading of the recommended book and with the colloquium on the last Thursday of each month... and discover why the words read better if you put them in a circle. Directed by Soledad Fox. Free admission with prior registration at library@iie.es Book of the month: “Stars and Stripes” by William
The Spanish language in the United States
“Around the year 2050, Hispanics will constitute a quarter of the US population, which is equivalent to saying that, in the proportion that this data reflects, the country is destined to become a bilingual and bicultural society. This trend is underlined by a recent shift in immigration
The 5 of the week by Mar Campelo (professor at BU)
Friday / Juana Gil Fernández, Phonetics for Spanish Teachers: from Theory to Practice The fundamental purpose of this work is to provide the teacher of Spanish as a foreign language with the necessary theoretical knowledge about the phonetics of Spanish and the methodological resources available to face the task of teaching
Colloquium of the Reading Circle on “Broken Mirror” by Mercè Rodoreda
Today Thursday at 19:30 p.m. The colloquium on the book of the month of the Library Reading Circle will take place in the library under the direction of Professor Soledad Fox. We encourage you to participate in the reading of the recommended book and the colloquium on the last Thursday of each month, it is
Happy Thanksgiving!
From the Library we want to join those who celebrate this special day within American culture. We recommend our selection of books about this holiday: Thanksgiving Books And we take the opportunity to give you a little information about this North American holiday: The Celebration Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration in North America (except
The 5 of the week by Mar Campelo (professor at BU)
Thursday / “En el Último Azul” by Carme Riera The historical events on which En el Último Azul is based took place in Mallorca between 1687 and 1691. On March 7, 1687, a group of Majorcan Jewish converts, fearing being arrested by the Inquisition, they decided to embark towards lands of freedom.
The 5 of the week by Mar Campelo (professor at BU)
Wednesday / “Captain Alatriste” by Arturo Pérez Reverte “He was not the most honest nor the most pious man, but he was a brave man”… With these words begins Captain Alatriste, the story of a veteran soldier from the Tercios of Flanders who he survives as a paid swordsman in the Madrid of the XNUMXth century. Their
Some reflections on reading in the information society
"The more we know about what students need to be good readers, the more difficult we make it for teachers to teach them to be." Emilio Sanchez. “There are many ways to read; each reader is many readers”. Juan Eduardo Garcia-Huidobro. “Spanish students are more adept at relating the
The 5 of the week by Mar Campelo (professor at BU)
Tuesday / “The frozen heart” by Almudena Grandes Grandes, Almudena (1960- ) The frozen heart / Almudena Grandes. — 3rd ed. — Barcelona: Tusquets, 2007. — 933 p. ; 21cm — (Wanderings Collection; 625). ISBN 978-84-8310-373-9 PQ 6657.R32 C6 2007 A colossal exercise in historical memory that runs to around a thousand pages, where
