Noticias del IIE
Las últimas noticias de Instituto Internacional e información sobre nuestras actividades
NUEVA ACTIVIDAD EN LA BIBLIOTECA: GROUP DISCUSSION FOR TEENS
La Biblioteca ha iniciado en los últimos años un programa de actividades destinado a atraer nuevos públicos. El primer objetivo fue el público infantil (de 4 a 8 años), consolidado en la actualidad como un grupo creciente gracias a los “Storytellings” y después la franja de 9 a 13 años con la actividad “Reader’s Theater”.
Notes & News, Noticias del Instituto Internacional. Mayo de 2015
Para acceder al número de mayo de 2015 de Notes & News : N&N May 2015 From the President, Dear Members of the International Institute Community, The mounds of snow (at least, most of them) have finally melted in Boston, and Spring has arrived here at last. Spring traditionally brings the promise of new life, and
Poetry from Young Learners 2, “I’m from Madrid…”
I’m from Madrid…. April is poetry month in the United States and the Young Learners 2 class celebrated this by reading and learning about poetry. At the end of the month, they created visual poems about their hometowns. This activity started with a review of the five senses and how they can build our experiences
ENTREVISTA AL BIBLIOTECARIO COREY WITTIG EN SU VISITA AL INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL
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Novedades en la biblioteca: “Redwoods” de Jason Chin
“A young boy finds a book about redwood trees sitting on the seat of the subway. He reads it on his way home and imagines himself at the places the book describes. After his adventures in the pages of the book, he leaves the book on a park bench for another child to pick up
La clase de inglés Young Learners 4 dice “Welcome to Madrid” a alumnos americanos
In April, one of the fun things the students in YL4 did was create posters to welcome visiting high school students from Glastonbury High School in the U.S. Having learned in class about giving advice in the form of “If I were you”, they applied this to a real life situation. First, everyone brainstormed on the
POETRY READING CLUB: SECOND POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS
This week in our Poetry Reading Club we will continue our exploration of mid-twentieth-century poetry with a poem by one of the most important American poets from this era: T.S. Eliot. Eliot exploded onto the literary scene with the publication of his first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). Like William Carlos Williams,
3ª y 4ª sesiones de “Aprender Para Enseñar” para padres y profesores
El jueves 7 de mayo y el lunes 11 de mayo ofrecemos la 3ª y 4ª charlas de nuestro ciclo Aprender para Enseñar, Encuentros para Padres y Profesores. La charla del 7 de mayo lo darán un equipo de madre e hijo de familia bilingüe ¡y docente! Dr Veronica Steffen, de la Universidad Camilo
Recomendación cultural para el fin de semana
Exposición “Jim Campbell. Ritmos de Luz” “La exposición de Jim Campbell (Chicago, 1956), que abrirá el 1 de abril de 2015, recogerá obras basadas en una combinación de la técnica del vídeo arte y el uso de la luz, que retan al visitante y cuestionan su capacidad de percepción. En sus trabajos se cruzan arte
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE AT THE LIBRARY: THE SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS
This week’s story is Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, published in 1890. While it would be unfair to suggest that Bierce deserves to be considered a “lesser-known author” given the strength of the rest of his oeuvre, it is undeniable that this story is by far his most popular and widely anthologized.
