Noticias del IIE
Las últimas noticias de Instituto Internacional e información sobre nuestras actividades
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
Las novedades destacadas de la biblioteca: “Her” dirigida por Spike Jonze
“En un futuro cercano, Theodore, un hombre solitario a punto de divorciarse que trabaja en una empresa como escritor de cartas para terceras personas, compra un día un nuevo sistema operativo basado en el modelo de Inteligencia Artificial, diseñado para satisfacer todas las necesidades del usuario. Para su sorpresa, se crea una relación romántica entre
Bilingual Family Forum with Anna Steele
The first Bilingual Family Forum this past Saturday, May 23rd was a big success. Several parents from bilingual families came together over coffee and snacks to chat, share experiences and ask questions about bringing up bilingual children. Anna Steele talked about her own experience as a mother in a large bilingual family, and shared lots of
POETRY READING CLUB- POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman
This month, the star of our Poetry Reading Club is America’s first “celebrity poet”: Walt Whitman. Born in 1819, on Long Island, New York, Whitman lived through the great events of nineteenth-century America, i.e., the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the assassination of President Lincoln; westward expansion and the settling of the American
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE” BY MARK TWAIN
This month’s story is Mark Twain’s “The Californian’s Tale,” published in 1893. Twain rates among the most celebrated and iconic of all American writers, and has achieved that rarified air of an author whose characters (Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in particular) have come to embody the mythos of the country they reflect. With his
Poetry Month in Young Learners 3
Young Learners 3 experimented with writing some poems in their English classes in April. They looked at some examples and then wrote their own poems following the model. For the first poem, the students brainstormed ideas about things they can and can’t do. They used picture dictionaries to help them with more varied ideas.
CLUB DE LECTURA EN ESPAÑOL: ONCE AÑOS Y MÁS DE CIEN LECTURAS COMPARTIDAS
Con la primera sesión del 2015 el Club de Lectura de la Biblioteca del Instituto cumplió once años y sobrepasó la década de existencia. En todo este tiempo se ha celebrado sin interrupción durante los meses de septiembre a junio y siempre los últimos jueves de cada mes, para poner en común opiniones y debatir
Campamento urbano en inglés: Matrícula abierta para Summer in the City 2015
Ya estamos con los preparativos de la nueva edición de nuestro campamento urbano en Madrid para niños y jóvenes. ¡Summer in the City 2015 ya está aquí! Los chicos llevan todo el curso con las clases de inglés. Y ahora es el momento de dejar los libros de texto y los deberes y divertirse en
Notes from 2015 talks for parents and teachers: Aprender para Enseñar
This year we have had three excellent talks by some wonderful professionals from the world of international and bilingual education. Dr. Linda Gerena from City University of New York followed up her talk about Building Vocabulary through Children’s Literature last December with an engaging session about using questioning to develop critical thinking with students at
April Young Learners 1
In April, the Young Learners 1 group did a lot of activities centered on reviewing and adding vocabulary related to categories that they had previously studied, and practicing grammar concepts started in the previous trimester. In the pictures you can see the students playing a game in which they had to fish for letters, then
