IES "DIEGO TORRENTE PÉREZ". SECCIÓN BILINGÜE EN INGLÉS

Four ferocious teams entered an exciting competition this morning. Do you want to meet them? President : Six-Pack Boy Coach : Mary President : Mike Coach : Mike President : Henry Coach : Héctor President : Tommy C Coach : Ainhoa 

A total of 132 children and nine staff are now known to have died after Taliban gunmen stormed a large military-run high school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30507836 http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2014/dec/17/pakistan-school-attack-reprisals-against-taliban-after-132-children-killed-in-peshawar-rolling-report

We are going to begin with the Reconquista . You can have our notes clicking here . And this will be the presentation we are going to work with.  

Click on this link to see how the Plague spread throughout Europe:  http://wadsworth.cengage.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534600069_spielvogel/InteractiveMaps/swfs/map11_1.html After checking the map, click on the Critical interactive questions . The Plague or Black Death came to Europe in 1347. This disease was highly contagious. It spread across Europe. It was so widespread and so deadly that it is estimated to have killed one fourth (or one half, according to several historicians) of all the people in Europe. All the conditions were right for an   epidemic . Doctors were powerless against infectious disease. People were weakened by war and harvest failures. Germs, the fleas which carried them, and the rats which carried the fleas, flourished in the dirty towns. Busy trade routes carried the plague from one place to another. ·          The  bubonic plague  was a painful d...

In this interesting video you can watch information about a medieval city, London.   Try to watch it in English and understand it. You can use the English subtitles.

Teresa, one of our students, has suggested that we should watch this interesting video. After watching it, we could debate about several topics: bullying, stereotypes, homophobia, gender discrimination, ...  

You can find the notes clicking here or in the medieval town draw. And you can see the presentation we will watch during the classes. La ciudad medieval / Medieval towns / Late Middle Ages  

Hi!!! Here we´ve got some work for you: a practice about the human body. with this practice you are going to review your anatomy knowledge. Download HERE.

Listen to our videos. In spite of having  a really bad quality mic, we managed to record the audio for these videos about bullying: 2º A   2º B 2º C 2º D

In this video you can review how a medieval castle was:    The questions we prepared for students are in this document .

Hello, everyone! If you click on the image you will be directed to an interesting website where you can revise the parts of the body Now that you are an expert, enjoy playing this game. Click here

We were yesterday watching a video about Feudalism, the Medieval way of life, but there were several technical problems and we couldn't listen to it properly. Anyway, you can watch the video here: And try to answer the following questions: 1.   How was The Medieval way of life known? 2.   Who was the highest class? 3.   After them, came the noble lords, such as __________ and ___________. 4.   Who followed the noble lords? 5.   Where did serfs work? 6.   Under the Feudal system, how did people of lower classes show their respect to the upper classes? 7.   For example, the lord of a great castle might serve his king by supplying him ___________ and soldiers for a war. To show his appreciation for the service, the king might reward the lord with the gift of _______, usually in the form of a ____________, which was an important unit of ___________ in Feudal society. 8.   What did  a manor usually come with?

Hi students!!! Do you want to dance? Take a look to this thriller animation. If you want, you can practise your dancing skillls (if you do the dance like the skeletons you will be the King/Queen of the party). At the same time   review the  anatomy and answer this question: Can you tell us wich bones do not appear in the skeletons? (Take a look to the back, the leg, the arm and to the front part of the body) Don´t forget to send your answer!!!

Hi students! Do you remember this video? If you want to improve your listening here you´ve got a great apportunity. Bye.

Para poder acceder a toda la normativa referente a bilingüismo de Castilla La Mancha PINCHA AQUÍ

Are you very exhausted after this morning lesson? We are sure you still have some strength to guess some of the places where we trained this morning. PLACE 1: The famous park where we did some triceps dips PLACE 2: the lighthouse where we sprinted PLACE 3: the lake where we did some multi hops PLACE 4: the forest where we ran  Leave a comment and... good luck!!

All Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway. The founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, was a Swedish cosmopolitan. In his will, he declared that the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded by a Norwegian committee.  A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later. Joseph Stalin , the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II. Adolf Hitler  was nominated once in 1939.  Incredulous though it may seem today, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt. Answer ...

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize. Malala won along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist. The two were named winner of the £690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee - Norway’s former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland - on Friday morning.  

Try to guess where these mosques are:  a) b) c) d) e) f) g)

The adhān is the Islamic call to worship, recited by the muezzin (almuédano, muecín) at prescribed times of the day.  Adhan is called out by a muezzin from the mosque five times a day, traditionally from the minaret. You can watch and listen in this video the nice call to prayer from the Blue Mosque in Istanbul:   In this other video Rick Steves gives us information about the Blue Mosque:

Hajj or Pilgrimage is one of the five main pillars of Islam. Once a year, Muslims of every ethnic group, colour, social status, and culture gather together in Mecca and stand before the Kaaba praising Allah together. It is the journey that every sane adult Muslim must undertake at least once in their lives if they can afford it and are physically able. The Hajjis or pilgrims wear simple white clothes called Ihram, to show that everyone is equal in the eyes of Allah. Mecca is a place that is holy to all Muslims. It is so holy that no non-Muslim is allowed to enter.  

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Human beings are used to living under laws that are dictated to us by society, we have rights and responsibilities.  One important aspect for being a good citizen is to help people. Remember  that little actions make the difference. Another important thing we have to remember for being a good citizen is to have an active participation in our community. The last recommendation for being a good citizen is the respect toward the people that live around us. We have to remember that as we have rights, they have them too. 

We are going to try our first easy activity: a)Who is this woman? b)Who was her husband? c)Why was he important? d)Where can you find this mosaic? e)Do you know any building that her husband ordered to build?

a) Name of a project or a scheme for the creation of a reserve army of 140,000 men that was to be paid for by all the dominions of the Spanish Crown. b) Who prepared that project? c) Consequences of that project. d) Look at this picture and look for the title of the whole painting: e) Who is the author?  d) Explain the whole painting.  f) Guess who painted this masterpiece: g) Tell me all you know about it!

You can read how the international newspapers had informed about the event: Let's watch some video:  Let's see some pictures:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/10911233/In-pictures-The-coronation-of-Spains-new-King-Felipe-VI-in-Madrid.html  http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/jun/19/spains-king-felipe-vi-begins-a-new-reign-in-pictures Read some articles:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10910920/Prince-Felipe-coronation-Spain-prepares-for-new-king-after-Juan-Carlos-abdicates-latest.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/spain-king-felipe-vi-promises-renewed-monarchy-sworn-in http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/international-home/felipe-is-proclaimed-new-king-of-spain.html?hp&_r=0 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27918094

Some clues about this person: a) His sister was Margarita, the little girl who was the subject of Velázquez's masterpiece Las Meninas.  b) His description: h is jaw stood so much out that his two rows of teeth could not meet; I would be quite happy with him in our classroom because he was unable to eat a chewing gum and h is tongue was so large that he couldn't almost speak.  

Verónica has found this nice song by Bars & Melody, it is a really moving song:  

A very clear video about Human Rights:  

Let's continue with another woman, a real lioness.  a) Who was she?  b) Who was her husband? When did he die? c) Why were they important?

Let's learn about Boko Haram:    

You can watch here our presentation about the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, the Austrias:    Or download our notes, clicking here .

Leire, one of our students, suggested to watch this interesting video. It is a story about overcoming, self-improvement, we have learnt a lot from it.  

We are talking in Citizenship about Gender Equality, so we cannot forget women who were important during the Conquest and Colonization of América. It is said that the first woman in América was María Fernández, she went to América during Colombus' second trip.  a) Who was she? Why was she important? Who is the man who is seated? b) What about María de Estrada? Who was she? Why was she important? c) Francisco Pizarro married two Inca princesses. Who were they? Were they relatives? d) Pizarro's first wife fell in love with a page and Pizarro let her marry him. What was this page's name?

Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!  

The European Language Portfolio (ELP) was developed by the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe: to support the development of learner autonomy, plurilingualism and intercultural awareness and competence; to allow users to record their language learning achievements and their experience of learning and using languages. In our school, we have adapted the official documents to our idiosyncrasy, so we have prepared our own models, based on a joint study between the University of Cartagena and the IES "Domingo Valdivieso".  These are our documents:  Passport of the ELP 

a) Guess it and let me know! b) Why was she important? c) What did she have to do with the Catholic Monarchs? d) What does she have to do with Madrid?