New assistant, Kelly Hurd from Detroit.

Hello everyone:

I imagine you all would like to know who is our new assistant this year. Well, her name is Kelly Hurd, she is an American girl from Detroit, Michigan. Detroit is a city in the East state of the U.S.A, although Americans call it the "Mid-West". This city is located just between the Great Lakes. From what I know, it's very cold there in winter time.

In the next pictures you'll see more it in detail.

Now you'd be able to see a short documentary on Northern Michigan (1950), as part of a travel documentaries series. It includes footage of Spikehorn Meyer, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Mackinac Island, Travese City and other enignatic places in Michigan, Kelly's hometown.

Press here to see the video

When Kelly was in High school, she started wondering how about becoming a photographer, because she loved taking photos. In fact, she won some photography contests during those years.

She studied arts at college, but she was mainly keen on photography.

One of the Photography contests in which Kelly participated was one of NY. The photos had to be related with food. Kelly decided to take a picture of avocado sushi, that later became her lunch.

But why avocado sushi and not tuna sushi, for example?

Well, in fact Kelly is a vegetarian, but please do not confuse it with vegans. She doesn't eat meat and fish, but she can perfectly eat eggs, honey or dairy products.

And if you are wondering how vegetarians get the needed proteins you have to know that if you combine correctly thet different types of vegetables you get the 20 aminoacids without any problem. As it's said in the picture :"If you cook 'em right they are delicious".

Definitely Kelly is a magnificent and peculiar girl. At the moment, she is really concentrated in her career.

Some of my classmates had also asked her impressions and personal feelings when she arrived to Spain.Our assistant told us that she was amazed of the magnificent climate  in Madrid, but she also affirmed that she was very surprised when she saw how crowded was the separated smoking area. From there one saw how high was the smokers rate in Spain.

This is all we know about Kelly until now. But as we are very curious we'll find more about her this year.

See y'all soon,

Yelyzaveta Savchynets

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christmas is time for family celebrations but also for reflection an relax. People like singing carols, sending Christmas cards and giving gifts. How do you celebrate?

If you like carols, here you have the latest Lady Gaga´s video singing a beautiful song called "White Christmas".

The consumer society

                         These are the wonderful  wallcharts students in 1E have made. Congratulations.
                         You have done a good job and you have got the idea. We also have to think about
                         the poeple who are in need.                                                                                    

December has just started and Christmas are very near. Most of the times we want to buy things not because we really need them, but because may be they make us feel happy.

I would like you to watch this video : Greed versus Need and tell me what you think about it.

According to the video:

__What do some people have?

__What do other people need?

__What can we do to solve the problem?

Happy Thanksgiving

As you know, Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the USA on the fourth Thursday of November. Our assistants have been talking to you about the history of this tradition and you have learnt some vocabulary about typical food for the feast. We have also been doing some crafts such as the " turkey hands" and I want to show you some of them to wish you "Happy Thanksgiving".

WHAT DOES HE/SHE LOOK LIKE?

Second graders made these posters for the class using the "collage" technique. They describe different physical features and the rest of the class will guess who is the character all the different things cut out
belong to. The result is great.

Vocabulary games

Refresh some vocabulary  about different topics and different levels clicking in the link below.

Play and have a good time.

http://acacia.pntic.mec.es/agip0002/auro/inicio.html

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is one of the prettiest european cities I have ever visited. Watch the video and find out ten things you need to know about it. Then answer to the questions below:


1--What can you do in the new town?

2--What is the most famous street in the old town?

3--Scotland´s number 1 attraction is...............................

4--There are some museum that you can visit for free. Mention 3 of them.

5--Arthur´s seat and Calton Hill are places where you.............................................................

6--Some of the most popular pubs are.....................................................(Mention 3 of them).

7--The traditional food to try in Edinburgh is.."..........................".

8--Do you know some important festivals that take place in the city? What are they?