This week in Young Learners 2, we celebrated Thanksgiving. We read a story called Spare the Turkey about a boy who had his first vegetarian Thanksgiving. After that the class was split into two groups and we placed Guess Who? and Memory with Thanksgiving vocabulary cards. Lastly, we made fingerprint turkeys with paint and we each wrote
El francotirador (American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, 2014) es una película dirigida por Clint Eastwood basada en la autobiografía de Chris Kyle, un Navy SEAL que sirvió en la guerra en Irak, titulada American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. Estrenada en 2014, la película llegó a ser la más
This month’s story is Francis Brett Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” first published in 1868. Harte’s career has been tightly linked to Mark Twain’s, and it’s not hard to see why: they shared a time, place, and an interest in capturing the colloquial reality of provincial America, in particular the realities of the California
Young Learners 2 did a creative project with shadows using recycled paper on October 22nd. The students read a story together about making animal shapes using hands and a flashlight. Only the description of one of the shapes alluded to Halloween, with its howling dog, but as you can see in the pictures, its theme is there in the legs of a zombie, a bat, and a
Monday, December 19th, from 18.00 to 19.15 Aula 203 Attendees Will Receive a 5% Discount on Winter 2017 Enrollment! Join us to learn more about the American Cultural Studies Program (ACS) and meet our faculty. Find out about the content for the Winter 2017 trimester of our core courses (American Art History, American Expression, American Literature.)
American Theatre: Broadway and the American Dream This course on American Theatre will use material from Broadway to introduce students to the concept of “The American Dream.” We will study three plays and musicals presented on Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun A Streetcar Named Desire West Side Story Students will strengthen language skills and
Descarga el flyer aquí: mini-camp-diciembre-2016 Programa de Lengua y Cultura Norteamericanas 9 de diciembre 2016 • 9:30am – 14:00pm / 9:00am – 16:00pm El Instituto Internacional presenta su Mini Camp para niños de 6 a 8 y 9 a 11 años, un auténtico campamento norteamericano donde sus hijos practicarán inglés en un entorno creativo mientras se divierten.
We’ve had a great start to this year in YL4! The kids are enthusiastic and eager to learn English. We’ve focused a lot on speaking. I’m impressed with everyone’s level, enthusiasm, and imagination. The things they’ve invented during our fake interviews surprised me and made me laugh. I was very excited about our Halloween class!
This month, we’re very pleased to welcome Mark Conway to our poetry session, where he will be sharing his new poem “In the Blizzard” (the text of the poem appears at the bottom of this message). Last month we contemplated matters of life and death with Nick Flynn’s “If This Is Your Final Destination.” Flynn’s