Noticias del IIE
Las últimas noticias de Instituto Internacional e información sobre nuestras actividades
Empieza Summer in the City 2015: Campamento Urbano en Inglés
Ya ha terminado el colegio y ¡empieza Summer in the City! Nuestro campamento urbano en inglés viene cargado de muchas actividades para practicar inglés y divertirse a la vez. Los profesores nativos, todos procedentes de EE.UU. o Canadá, llevarán a los chicos a conocer la cultura norteamericana a través de talleres de manualidades, música, baile,
POETRY READING CLUB – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “Wishing Well” by Gregory Pardlo
Gregory Pardlo, recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is the featured poet for the final session of our Poetry Reading Group. And, although this session will be the last one before we all retreat into summer vacation, you will be pleased to know that Pardlo will be visiting the International Institute on the
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE SECOND SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “THE LENGUAGE OF MEN” BY NORMAN MAILER
Our last story of the 2014-2015 cycle is Norman Mailer’s “The Language of Men,” published in Esquire magazine in 1953. This story closes not only our annual cycle, but also the sub-cycle of our last three texts, all of which (starting with Twain’s “The Californian’s Tale” and continuing on with Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”)
Clase de inglés Young Learners 1: Occupations
During the last class of May, Young Learners 1 continued to do vocabulary practice using flashcards. In the photos you can see the students matching words for occupations to their images as they play musical chairs. Since the weather was so nice, they got to play (and learn!) in the Institute’s garden! En la última
Clase de inglés Young Learners 5: Cities of the World
In May the Young Learners 5 class worked on a city guide project. After studying a variety of infographics and promotional videos for tourism in North American cities, students researched a city of their choice (with the help of the International Institute’s new tablets!). Each group designed an infographic-style poster to present their findings, which
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE FIRST SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway
This month we close the 2014-2015 Reading Club cycle with two short stories that deal with a shared set of themes: gender and language. The first story is Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” published in 1927 and included in the collection Men Without Women. At a mere three and a quarter pages long, this
Earth Day en Young Learners 2
Coming on the heels of Earth Day, during May the YL2 class’s theme was Our Earth and they did many fun activities! Kicking things off after Earth Day, they worked in teams on a word mine of Earth Day. They tried creating as many words as they could by using only the letters found in
POETRY READING CLUB- POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “AMERICA” BY ALLEN GINSBERG
Visionary. Dreamer. Wanderer. Poet. The question is, who are we talking about, Walt Whitman or Allen Ginsberg? If we allow ourselves a little bit of poetic license to imagine a meeting between these two men, it’s not hard to picture the disciple sitting down at the feet of the spiritual teacher, or the younger brother
Kids Culture Club
April 13, 2015 To kick off the class Michaela´s Kids´ Club group discussed what the perfect class is like and made rules accordingly. In the spirit of poetry month the group read a funny poem by Linda A. Anderson entitled “When Noses Bloom”. The Kids continued by creating their own poems about odd body parts
Kids Culture Club with Daniel
These past months in Kids Club have been a blast! Loads of interesting activities and stuff to do made every week a busy one! In April the kids started off making their very own Gingerbread Men and Women. After reading a couple of different stories with various points of view about his life, they decided that
