Short Story Competition
March 3, 2014 at 3:55 pm | Posted in Uncategorized, Young Learners 5, Young Learners 6 | Leave a comment
YL 5 and YL 6 members worked in pairs to write short stories using animals as characters. The plot of the stories touched upon teenage problems. The winner of this writing competition will be posted on the blog. Good luck kids!
YL 5 & YL 6 Pop Stars
March 3, 2014 at 3:44 pm | Posted in Uncategorized, Young Learners 5, Young Learners 6 | Leave a comment
This week in YL5 and YL6, we talked about pop stars, pop music and how pop culture influences teenage life. We chose one student to have a makeover and be rebranded as a pop star. The transformations were incredible!
Career Day 2: Young Learners 5 and 6
March 12, 2013 at 2:59 pm | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Young Learners 5, Young Learners 6 | 1 Comment![la foto[2]](https://iieyounglearners.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/la-foto2.jpg)
Este mes los alumnos de Young Learners 6 tuvieron otra visita, esta vez de un antropólogo. Neahga Leonard habló con las alumnas de Christine, y los de Alex en Young Learners 5, sobre sus experiencias trabajando en el extranjero. Aquí pueden leer el resumen que escribieron en la clase de Young Learners 6.
Last week, an anthropologist named Neahga Leonard gave us a talk about his life experiences living and working abroad.
He was born and raised in Northern California , where he was always surrounded by nature. Ever since he was a little boy, he liked climbing trees, going on hikes, etc. When he got older, he decided to study something related to ecology. He earned a master’s degree in anthropology and when he finished, he travelled to Alaska to study the movements of the glaciers. While there, he would put a stake in the ice to see how much it moved from one week to the next. Later on, he went to South America to work on a project to protect bears, which were endangered because a lot of farmers killed them because they ate their harvests. A lot of people helped and when the project was successfully completed, he started working on another project in Asia. He lived in China for a while. The last project he took part in fell through. He had planned to live in Indonesia, but he ended up coming to Madrid to visit and he is currently searching for a new job opportunity.
Throughout his adventures he has had some really exciting experiences. The project that we found most interesting was the one with the bears and he told us some stories that happened there. One time he had to put a tracking collar on a bear to follow its movements. Another time, when he was asleep, he heard something scratching at his tent and he realized it was a bear when it scratched his shoulder.
Neahga loves our planet and he told us that in every single place on Earth you can find something interesting.
Muchas gracias a Neahga por venir, y a Christine por organizar la visita.
Young Learners 6: Rebranding and Career Day
February 13, 2013 at 2:52 pm | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Young Learners 6 | Leave a commentTags: writing
La clase de Young Learners 6 ha estado trabajando diversos temas sobre el mundo del espectáculo y del trabajo. En primer lugar, hablaron de Rebranding, un fenómeno que lleva a las personas a cambiar de look y de carácter con el objetivo de atraer a más público. Y por segundo, su profesora, Christine, invitó a una periodista, Timisha Dixon, a hablar con las alumnas sobre las diferentes vueltas que da la vida, y las que la llevó a cambiar de profesión en distintos momentos de su vida. Le damos las gracias a Christine por la iniciativa, y a Timisha, por compartir su tiempo y su experiencia con nuestras alumnas.
Abajo pueden leer los resúmenes de las actividades, escritos por las alumnas.
Rebranding Class:
Last week, we were talking about Rebranding. Rebranding is when someone changes their appearance or personality to become famous and more marketable. To start, we watched a video about how some famous people have changed their names, got plastic surgery and makeovers to become more remarkable. Then we drew a picture of our best friends, and then rebranded them and presented the changes. We were shocked by how many normal, pretty girls had changed themselves to become famous.
Career Day:
Last week, a journalist called Timisha Dixon visited us to talk about the world of journalism and TV production. First she spoke about her beginnings, she was born in Queens NY, and she wanted to be a writer. Then she changed her mind, because she realized that there were some disadvantages in that career, and she ended up studying media communication and also journalism. Once she finished, she took some jobs that didn’t get her enough money to pay off her student loans. For a few years, she worked as a blogger, on the radio, as a Hip Hop/R and B music interviewer. She got tired, especially because she wasn’t making enough money, and she decided to give up her career and move to Spain to become a teacher to start over. So far she loves it and she´s really happy with her life here, and we all thank Timisha for coming and speaking to us.
Happy Halloween 2012
November 20, 2012 at 4:32 am | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Holidays, Young Learners 1, Young Learners 2, Young Learners 3, Young Learners 4, Young Learners 5, Young Learners 6 | Leave a commentTags: Food, holidays
Once again, Young Learners and Kids’ Club students got involved in some American Halloween traditions. Some classes, like YL 3 on Tuesday and Saturday, and YL 5/6 on Wednesday, carved pumpkins. Kids’ Club and YL 3 and YL 4 made popcorn balls, a tasty treat that some Americans eat at Halloween and Christmas. Our popcorn balls were made with candy corn, a special Halloween candy from the U.S. Some students made lollipop ghosts to take home, too.
End-of-term celebrations at the Institute
June 26, 2012 at 5:02 am | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Parents, Young Learners 2, Young Learners 3, Young Learners 4, Young Learners 6 | Leave a comment
On Saturday, June 16th, the Young Learners Saturday classes did a show for their parents and classmates. Young Learners 2 and 4 did “Readers’ Theater” pieces, Young Learners 3 did a newscast with some amazing stories, and Young Learners 6 students acted as greeters and presenters for all the other acts. 
Everyone enjoyed the show, and the kids got to show off the English they learned this year with their fantastic teachers: Alicia and Donna, Alisha, Chloe, Chris and Christine.
Alisha’s and Chloe’s classes wrote their own scripts.
After studying Martin Luther King, Jr., and other figures of the civil rights movement in the United States, as well as discussing discrimination and civil rights in Spain, the Young Learner’s 4 Saturday class put their heads together to write their own anti-discrimination fable using words from their vocabulary notebooks. Here is what they presented in a “Readers’ Theater” format for us:
The Possum and the Raccoon: an anti-discrimination fable
One day, in a forest in Georgia, animal friends were talking about the raccoon’s party… all except one. The possum didn’t have a lot of friends because the other animals said that he was very nasty, above all the raccoon.
That morning, the possum was looking for food when he saw a lot of animals with presents.
“Where are you going?” the possum asked the bird.
“We are going to the raccoon’s party. Hurry up! The party is going to start soon,” answered the bird.
The possum thought, ‘Oh, a party could be fun!’, and he followed the animals. All the animals went into the garden, but when it was the possum’s turn, a very big fox stopped him.
“Sorry, you aren’t on the list,” said the fox. Continue Reading End-of-term celebrations at the Institute…
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