Every day at lunchtime, IH teachers go up to one of our local schools and give classes there. Groups from as young as 3 years old, up to secondary school students aged 13 learn English with us right inside their own classrooms.
Here are some photos from the 1st ESO class hard at work on their "Inspector Gadget" projects! :)
The groups with the finished posters!
The IH wall, with different projects of the various classes
Madrid is the capital of Spain.
You can go and see a lot of diferents things
one of them is go to visit the Santiago Bernabeu, the Real Madrid's stadium, and the Calderón, the Athletico de Madrid's stadium, or visit retiro park.
One of the most visit place is the prado museum, there are a lot of pictures.
In the night you can go to a lot of discos and bars, like Pacha club or the tipic Hard Rock Cafe
La puerta del sol is the o km of the Spanish roads and once time a year,
31st of December a lot of people go to eat the 12 grapes and celebrate the new year.
The street Chueca is the gaystreet and once time a year this street have a party with people around the world.
other interesting points:
The cibeles
The royal palace
Neptuno La puerta de Alcala
El arco de triunfo
Is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia.
Barcelona is today one of the world´s leading tourist, economic, cultural-sports centres, and it influences in commerce, education, fashion, science, and the arts.
One of Europe´s principal Mediterranean ports.
Barcelona is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination and has a rich cultural heritage. Particulary renowned are architectural works of Antoni Gaudí.
The city is well know in recent times for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Monuments: Sagrada Familia, Camp Nou, Port of Barcelona, House Batlló
For go to Barcelona is better go in summer because the are a lot of beaches.
Is a spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain.
The island is well known for its summer club parties which attract large numbers of tourists, but the island and the Spanish Tourist Office have been working in order to promote more family-oriented tourism. Though some dispute the island's ability to attract higher income families in large numbers, the island is keen to dispel its image as merely a destination for young clubbers.Noted clubs include Space, Pacha, , Amnesia, Eden, and Es Paradis. The other notable player in the entertainment world in recent years has been Ibiza Rocks who feature more live acts than the established clubs.
Ibiza is considered the city of young people because is the city which have a lot of things for young people, for example cybercafes, clubs ( the most know is Pacha Ibiza)... In Ibiza there are a lot of concerts, and the famous artists like David Guetta go to ibiza a lot of days.
Other place for teenagers are: the cinema "Cinema Serra"
For go to Ibiza, is best in summer because there are a lot of things.
1º Go to the Jewish museum of Toledo
2º Zocodover Skuare the are a lof cafes
3º Go the top Alcazar there spectacular view of Toledo
4º I like Cathedral It´s very beautiful
5º The home of el Greco´s incredible oil pointings
1.- Go to the top of Montjuit park There´s a spectacular view of the city
2.-Go down las Ramblas Street There are lot of famous bars.
3.-Go for a run in Güell Park It´s a beatiful park
4.-Go out in Barceloneta beach There are beautiful women
5.-Go to a Liceu Theatre There`s beautiful classic Opera.
We are going to talk about what Alex Ubago did with his ex-girlfriend after breaking up with her.
First of all, all he did when he was with her was going out with friends and made songs about another girls. She was very angry with him but he never realized that later they will break up.
The serious problem started when Alex came into his house drunk and started screaming bad things at her, while he was doing it she cried and said that she never wanted to see him again.
Alex began to be worried about all what happened last days, and he thought that he should call her to apologize and if the relationship had already finished, they would have friends.
He decided to try it as well as he could but she never took his calls any more.
So in my opinion I tnink that drugs and alcohol turned him into another man far from what he really seems to be when he write his ¨beautiful¨ songs.
Tote King went to IH Music TV Show with Álex Ubago, where both had a very nice night talking about their new songs.
"The Walk" is the new song of Tote, which explains carefully every detail of his life. Tote talks, principally, about a girl. They decided to broke up two years ago and we can say that he didn't overcome it. In this period of their relationship Tote was very concentrated in his music, so the girl used to be very angry every day so they decided to split up.
Another interesting fact of this song is that helped Tote to find himself. It helped him too to spend more time thinking about his things and how could he forgot the bad memories.Tote is writing new songs, in addition of this one, for his new CD.
Some people say that Tote has been seen with a girl in the beach. Is that true? And if it's true...who is she? Is she going to be his muse for his new CD? Is she going to break Tote's heart? Maybe, we'll know it in a near future.
Tote King is going to stay in Madrid in the Heineken Music Concert in September 7th, where he is going to sing this fabulous song.
After suffering one of the most devastating natural disasters ever known, the Japanese people have demonstrate that they form the most developed human community on earth. Their behavior and the way they have responded is impressive. No robbery, no abuse has been committed after this catastrophic event.
The response of the tsunami and earth-quake victims in following the instructions given by the authorities, gives us an idea of what kind of education they receive. We could think that the behavior is due to a strict military dictatorship as in China or North Korea. However, it is the success of the real democracy. The last survey indicates that most of the Japanese agreed the Government increase the taxes for helping the victims and the Country after this disaster.
Therefore, people of other countries should learn from the Japanese and try to improve the compromise with the society in which we live, helping the group before thinking of the individual.
Aimee Mullins was born 1976 in Allentown Pennsylvania in the USA. Is American athlete, actress, and fashion model and former President of the Women's Sports Foundation.
In 1999, she modelled for British fashion designer Alexander Mc Queen in his London show.
Profesional life (by Lorena, Sandra, Jhonaira)
Aimee Mullins was actress and her debut went movie un chien andalou in 1929
she was graduating of school from the departament of defense, her love of competitive sport
in 1999 debut of the model in London at the invitation of one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Alexander McQueen.
Miss Sarajevo is the only single in the album Original soundtracks by U2 (Bono and the Edge), in a parallel project of The Passengers. It was compoused by Bono and interpreted by him, Luciano Pavarotti, The Edge and Brian Eno (a famous producer) during a concert in Verona, Italy. It highlights the voice of Pavarotti with Bono and the violins.
The song and the videoclip are about an event which happened during the war in the old Yugoslavia, in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This city was attacked by the Serbian, Muslims and Croatian armies. In these riots, hundreds of people died daily. In the middle of this chaos, some citizens created a beauty competition.
The context, the city
Bonia and Herzegovina is a sovereign European state, with the capital in Sarajevo, situated in the peninsula of the Balkans, in the southeast part of the continent. Its borders are bounded by Croatia at the north, west and south, Serbia and Montenegro at the east and the Adriatic sea in the south. In 1992 it obtained its independence as one of the six federal unit constituents in the old Yugoslavia which emerged at the end of the first World War, and was constitued according to the terms of the agreement of Dyton, which foresaw its administration. It’s divided into two entities: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Srpska Republic.
The war
The Bosnian war was an international conflict which happened in Bosnia/Herzegovina from 6 April 1992 to 14 December 1995. It was caused by a complex combination of political and religious factors: pride exaltation, political crisis, social problems and lack of security that followed at the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Communist system in the old Yugoslavia.
The history behind the beauty pageant
The anecdote which is based on Miss Sarajevo happened during the Balkan War, in the early nineties.
In a city besieged by bombs, a group of people called a beauty contest, to crown a Miss Sarajevo for the first time. For this event a special effort was made by the European administration in order for it to be transmitted to the whole world. Most girls that participated in the audition showed physical traces of the war on their bodies. A parade of malnourished adolescents in swimsuits was shown in front of the cameras, in an extravagant show.
A young girl about 17 years old won the title. At the end of the show a banner showed the sentence: DON’T LET THEM KILL US!.
After the conflict
The winner of the contest Inela Nogic moved to the Netherlands with a Dutch journalist and was married for six years. There, she has lived since then. Despite her history an urban myth was created according to which she was murdered by a sniper after the beauty contest. In the concert which was celebrated at the Kosovo stadium, on 23 September 1997, Nogic arrived at the city with U2, in the private plane of the group and acompanying them on a tour on the devastated city before the concert started, where she was a guest. After she worked as a model, she started profesionally to be an art designer, settling down in Amsterdam. Despite all, she has decided to be in anonymity.
I’m still alive!. I’ve been travelling throw France. I’m in the eighth platoon of infantry of the British Army, the high captain call us, the platoon of Miner street.
We’re in Somme, near the oriental border of France with the French Army fighting against the German Army.
It’s ten o`clock p.m., I’m with Tom and Albert, I share the tent with them. They’re sleeping now, but I’m thinking of you. I remembered the first time that I saw you in the baker’s shop. So much time since then... you were very pretty, five minutes then I would know that in the future you would marry with me. Two days before started the war, I asked you with a engadged ring. We married in the old church near your home with other four couples, all of the mans were being sent ahead (to the war). A new law for the goverment, helped for the families that had mans in the Army with a salary for the wifes and his sons.
I couldn’t write before because there’s no time to lose in war. The other day was very hard, we missed twenty three soldiers in the last riot. It’s frustrating to think, that we can’t stop with this slaughter. We had eaten all the food, and we didn’t have provisions. So we needed to sort out this problem, some soldiers were died of starvation. Two Days later, we saw a new shipment of food. For the godness sake!!
Three days ago, after the end of the battle against the German Army, the captain deal out a bottle of ron, we drank a few couples, the alcohol heat our stomachs, but one hour after I had a hard headche, and I felt sleep... Suddenly, I heard a high sound and the floor was shaking, they were attacking us. Bombs, shotguns.... I woke up in a second, took my gun and I went out to watch what was happening... the captain was shouting, we didn’t have bullets and nobody wanted to asked for them, so I went to the tent and asked to the high command:
-Sir, we don’t have bullets for our shotguns since two days day ago. How can we fight?.
The captain looked at my, in this moment I felt that I wanted that the earth ate me, finally he heated me in my mouth and a thoot was thrown. My mouth was full of blood, but anyway, I was conscious. Not bad at all!
Two hours later we were in a trench shooted with our guns hand grenades and all the material, one hour later, we were in silence, nobody were moving. We thought, well, we had won the battle. The captain came with us in his horse, and he said that I platoon of soldiers had been fleeing out the battle field. They had violated the honor code. Ten minutes later, we saw that platoon, the captain shouted:
-shooted them!!!.
The platoon were scared, they didn’t know what was happening, and I thought:
-Why I must shoot to my compatriots, they’re like me, British!! This captain is crazy!.
I pointed the sight of my shootgun to my captain and shooted tree times, the last one in the middle of his brain. He felt down to his horse and he was dead. I said:
- Nobody knows what has happen here!
All the platoons acclaimed me.
I hope the end of the war is coming up. Anyways, nobody knows what is happen in the world, and why God want this to us.
I miss you so much, and I supose that you and your familly finds you well.
I was walking in front of the central bank, when sudently I saw a young man going out of the bank, he was shouting furiously:"go away, go away!" He had a gun in his right hand, and a bag with money in the other. After him, a fat old policeman, with his blue jacket went out. He was running after the evil thief. The thief couldn´t run with the bag, so he took an old bike to go faster.
When the evil thief started to bike, I ran after him. I was running as fast as I could, but he biked faster than me with the old bike. When I was running I fell down, and the thief escaped with the money. Then the old policeman arrived immediately and asked me how was the thief like, I said he is young, he has long curly hair, he´s about 1.80 metres tall, he´s wearing a long green coat, and a brown cowboy hat.
The next day the police started to investigate about the bank robbery, they went to his house to arrest him, but he wasn´t there. The police took some clues from the dirty house, to find more information about the mysterious man like some type of DNA or somethig like that.
A week later, the police called me to say they had caught the thief, and to say thanks for helping them. They gave me a gold medal, congratulating me for the hard work I did.
I´m going to speak about a children book from 0 – 12 months called Baby Bright.
The bookisveryattractivetobabiesby theircolorsanddifferentmaterials itismade. In the cover appear a big butterfly in the middle of the country. The butterfly is smiling and in her wings are brilliant pieces of paper of different touch than the rest. Flowers, grass and a very big sun are the other drawings in the cover.
The first page is the butterfly singing to the baby who is looking the flowers. The butterfly is flying around the flowers. The wayshe wantto teachis thecircle. In the second page she want to teach the zig zag though the trees with a form like triangle.
The following is a loop in the sky. Theloopiscutin thecarton,as before, thezigzagandcircles.
The next is a spiral around the sunflower and a rose.
The last one appear the butterfly touching the baby´s nose. The right sideofthepageisabutton thatif youpresssoundsof laughterof achild.
So thebooktakes into account thecolor, touch, soundandwordstostimulatebaby'ssenses.
Book corner are rounded to save damage.
Also great Ormond street hospital children´s charity receives a 2.5% royalty from every copy sold.
I think is agoodbooktoteachdifferentthingstobabies whocanstimulatesight, touch, hearing…
It would be betterifthepicturesweremorevaried that these.
This blog is a place for students, made by students who want to write, post and comment for others to see. It doesn't matter if your spelling isn't perfect or if you aren't the next Shakespeare, but we want to see this grow and be a spot where you can practise your writing in an authentic manner. So come ask us if you are interested in posting to the page--ask your teacher for information on how to upload your ideas!
