Noticias del IIE
Las últimas noticias de Instituto Internacional e información sobre nuestras actividades
In Memory of Lee Buckley
By Anita Haas, Teacher, English Program On April 14, 2017, our colleague and dear friend Lee Buckley passed away. Lee was born in New York City in 1955 and arrived in Spain in the early 1990s. Her long career as an English teacher included working at La Fundación de Ponce de León, The Cottage, and,
Notes & News, Mayo 2017
Aquí puede acceder al newsletter del Instituto Internacional, Notes & News: Notes & News, May 2017 Tendiendo puentes de cooperación y amistad por Pilar Piñón, Directora Ejecutiva El Instituto avanza con éxito en el establecimiento de nuevos vínculos con otras instituciones así como en la proyección de actividades y programas fuera de su sede. Todo ello
YL 3 – Back from Semana Santa and ready to go!
After having a week off for Semana Santa, everyone came back refreshed and like new! Our Young Learners 3 class decided after last term that this term we were going to focus on our writing skills. We have journals that we write in every Saturday about various topics to focus on different grammar points and
MUJERES FUERA DE SERIE: ALICE HUNTINGTON BUSHEE (1867-1956)
ALICE HUNTINGTON BUSHEE (1867-1956) Alice H. Bushee dedicó catorce años a colaborar con Alice G. Gulick en el Instituto Internacional durante el periodo de San Sebastián, Biarritz y primeros años en Madrid. Fue responsable de la organización y catalogación de la biblioteca del Instituto Internacional en 1904. A su regreso a los EE.UU. desarrolló una brillante
FAMILY RECIPES AND BOOKS CLUB: RECIPE OF THE MONTH (APRIL): APPLE BREAD PUDDING
Recipe by Nanor Rose Demirjian. Comments : This recipe is really fun and easy to make and it needs apples! We hope you have enjoyed the story for this month “To Market, To Market” by Nikki McClure… and also your homemade apple bread pudding. See you next session! — Family Book Club: American Family Food Stories The Family
¿Qué harán vuestros hijos este verano?
Summer in the City y Summer in the City – Teens son campamentos urbanos de verano en auténtico inglés norteamericano. Sus participantes, niños de 5 a 12 años y jóvenes de 13 a 16 años, viven el idioma a través de experiencias y actividades realizadas en inglés, y adecuadas a su nivel de madurez
La poesía en la biblioteca y los encuentros de la “Unamuno Author Series”
La poesía es la máxima expresión del valor de la palabra como género literario y como biblioteca que trabaja con la palabra impresa nos gusta estar ligados a ella. Desde hace algunos años es parte importante de la programación cultural de la biblioteca y por extensión del Instituto. Además de los recitales poéticos que han
Happy Earth Day from Young Learners 3
This week in Young Learners 2 we continued studying the past continuous. We practiced this grammar point by writing silly short stories in the past and sharing them with the class. Next we talked about Earth Day, and we read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. We brainstormed ways that we can give back to the
20Time with YL6
Hello from the final week of the Winter Trimester in YL6! In addition to English language learning this trimester, our students have participated in a project called 20Time, where they dedicated 20% of their class time each week to exploring and creating a unique topic of their choosing. The idea for this project was born
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE – SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “THE SNAKE” BY JOHN STEINBECK
This month’s story is John Steinbeck’s “The Snake”, written in 1934 and published the year after. It forms part of The Long Valley collection, which was published in 1938. The story is set in Monterrey, California, and features a character, Dr. Phillips, that is based on the marine biologist and philosopher Ed Ricketts, a friend
