IES "DIEGO TORRENTE PÉREZ". SECCIÓN BILINGÜE EN INGLÉS

Guess from which buildings are part this pieces:  a) b) c)

Answer these questions about Ancient Rome: Who switched places during the 'Saturnalia'? 2. What substance was used to wash clothes in Ancient Rome? They used the same liquid to whiten their teeth, by the way, that liquid from Hispania was really appreciated.  3. What did Romans use to clean themselves after pooping, and shared it with everyone? 4. Ancient Rome had a 4-story-tall shopping mall with 150 shops and offices. Which emperor ordered to build it? 5. Which Roman author, who wrote the first Encyclopedia, Natural History, died during the eruption of a volcano? Which volcano? 6. Who was Spartacus? 7. What is the origin of the word 'testificar'? 8. What does the abbreviation SPQR stand for? You can find this abbreviation on many Roman statues, buildings and military standards. 9. What was the name of this object? What ...

 Answer these questions about different issues in Ancient Rome: a) What was the most common coin in Ancient Rome? b) How could a slave become free in Ancient Rome? c) What was the name of the earliest law written in Ancient Rome? d) How do you access an Ancient Rome temple? e) How did the Romans use art to decorate their homes? f) What was an equestrian portrait? g) What do you think the stepping stones you can see in the picture were for? h) What were the thermopolia? i) What was the hypocaust?

This will be our last Geography unit this course. After watching it, answer these questions: a) Which percentage of people in the world lives nowadays in urban areas? b) Which percentage of people lived in urban areas a hundred years ago? c) When and why did semi-permanent villages begin to be developped? d) When did these settlements become permanent? Why? e) Name some of the technologies that were developped in cities, linked to commerce? f) Some cities in 2.000 B.C. had population densities very high, how high? g) What did they build to protect the cities and defend them against attacks? h) How cities need to change to accommodate the growth of population in the future?

Look at this interesting short film prepared by Oxfam about slash and burn agriculture.

We have been talking today about supply and demand and their effect on prices.  Today we have a piece of news about this. You can read it in the links. What is Opec? The ​Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec)​ was founded in ​Baghdad in 1960 by five of the world’s biggest oil producers – Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The ​group ​has 14 member​s and ​accounted for 43% of global oil production and 73% of the world’s proven oil reserves in 2015. ​The countries' joint mission is to co​ordinate policies and ensure stability in oil markets so ​consumers have a regular and economic supply, and producers ​receive a fair return. ​Opec is headquartered in Vienna​ and meets at least twice a year. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/30/oil-price-opec-cut-in-output-saudi-arabia-deal-market http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38155185 http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2016/11/30/opep-sube-precio-petroleo-como-afecta-ciuda...

Nice and useful song if you want to learn about the types of economic systems.  

We have watched these videos. They are very interesting.

You can read here some information about population in Spain, they are in Spanish: http://www.ine.es/en/inebmenu/mnu_cifraspob_en.htm http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/21/media/1477065130_289656.html http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/03/10/actualidad/1426004341_312247.html?rel=mas http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/20/media/1476977218_188675.html?rel=mas

What is technology? and Projects. The first two units we are going to work in class. You can download from HERE .

We can learn easily the countries of the world and their capitals with these interactive pages: The useful page created by Enrique Alonso:  http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/flashmaps.htm The page created by Sheppard Software, with the name of the countries/capitals and information about that country:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm Free map quiz games in Seterra Geography:  http://online.seterra.net/en

Just try to guess what the whole painting is!! a) Tell me the title of the painting. b) Who is its author? Give me some details about his life. c) Do you know the name of other paintings made by him? What about this other painting? a) Tell me who was painted with this piece of cloth. Why did he paint himself with this symbol? b) What is the title of the whole painting? c) Tell me who his wife was. d) Tell me something about this artist?

To download our notes about The Baroque Age, click here . Look at this funny (and very clear) video about The Baroque Art

Let's see some Baroque masterpieces:

Here you can see an old Spanish movie friend. Try to guess: a) Who was the child? b) Who was the old person? c) Who was the mother's child? d) Did he change his name when he was older? e) Did the child stand out later in any event? during which reign? f) Did you know any other fact about that event? g) Do you recognise the actor (child)? Do you know any series where he appears now?

As you have been quite fast with the other exercise, let's try with these pieces of two paintings by one of the most important painters in the History of Art. a) In this one try to see something "strange" in the painting. What is it? Look for its author and its title. Tell me the Renaissance characteristics you can see in this painting. b) This second painting has also something "strange". Look for it and tell me. Sure you know the two famouse angels from posters, t-shirts... Look for its author and its title. Tell me the Renaissance characteristics you can see in this painting.

Try to guess in which painting you can see this jewel. Once you know the painting title and its author, tell me: a) Do you know other masterpieces of this artist? b) Do you know more painters in the same period? Tell me three and some of their works. 

As part of our eTwinning project ", some of our students have introduced themselves. Click on the students where you can see a video.