Some music...

The Wife of Bath´s Tale (from the Canterbury Tales)

What are the differences between this version of the tale and the one you read?

Harry Kloor and Rayna Ismail at LGB

Harry Kloor and Rayna Ismail are in Madrid invited by the American Embassy. We are extremely lucky to have them in our school for a lecture on Tuesday at 13.00.  

As I told you Dr Kloor is a scientist, writer, film producer and director who has taken part in four episodes of Star Trek:Voyager. In 1994 he became the first person to achieve two simultaneous PhDs in Chemistry and Physics. He has also been adviser to several companies including the NASA. He has even got an entry in Wikipedia! (ckeck it out here).

Rayna Ismail  is an educator, industrial engineer, actress and film producer. She was born in India and has worked in Boeing (she took part in the design of the Boeing 777). She has been involved in the film industry for 11 years.

They´ll talk about their jobs and experiences and will be ready to answer questions, so start preparing yours!

The Pardoner´s Tale (from The Canterbury Tales)

El Escorial Immersion course

Teamo Nemo explaining the amazing abilities of the clown fish

One of The Panthers´ presentations... about the panther, of course

The Rainbow Warriors showing their poster

Playing Twister

Daniel explaining how to play "Splat"

Nathan and one of the board games designed by the students

Tai chi in the morning

Alan jotting down points at lunch

The Panthers having fun

A presentation about an invention by The Teamo Nemo: the Hooya Clock

The Rainbow Warriors fighting hard for points

All-round counsellors, Programme Director Marta and Master of ceremonies Alan dancing to Abba

The Berlanga Dream Team

Four fantastic days that we´ll never forget

Yes, we couldn´t really have asked for more: there has been time for everything thanks to the thrilling schedule (from 9 am to 11 pm!) designed by the amazing Diverbo team. It´s been a pleasure to witness the hard work, the teamwork and the engagement of our students who have come up with jaw-dropping presentations and activities. As I told you there, both Graham and I are extremely proud of you all!

Next week´s plan (3ºA,D)

So these are the assignments to be handed in/corrected starting on November 17:

-Student´s book: p.27 ("Portfolio 3"), exercises a, b and c. (the exercise c is a composition to be handed in on a separate paper on Monday Nov 17. Write no less than 200 words. Students who take part in the immersion activity can hand in the composition later (until Wednesday 19).
-Student´s book: p.28 ("Growing up in multi-racial Canada") , p.29 exercises 1 a, b, c. For Monday 17
-Workbook: p.19 (ex.3 a,b), p.20 (in full): for Tuesday 18.
-The Canterbury Tales "pack" I gave you yesterday must be done in full for Wednesday 19.
-Don´t forget to read Skellig! You´ll have an exam about the first 14 chapters soon.
-The other exams are coming soon too...

What about starting now?

What can we do with Grendel?

Grendel as you know is a dreadful blood-thirsty monster who (or should I say which?) has salughtered many warriors in a brutal way.  Beowulf killed him, but now the question is, what would we do with a monster like Grendel now, in the 21st century? We no longer live in barbaric, brutal Middle Ages, we are far more civilised... aren´t we?  In pairs (the same ones as for the presentations), you have been assigned the following possible solutions for the situation and countries, because as you know we are going to find a way to solve this using the UN model. You have to defend your action in the Wednesday Thursday conference, so you are supposed to prepare an opening speech and come up with pros but also cons about it (to be ready for refutations in the moderated caucus). You should also think of disadvantages of the other punishments in order to have arguments against the other pairs in the caucus. In relation with your country you don´t have to prepare anything, just make a placard with the country name on it. Good luck.



3ºA

NAME	ACTION	COUNTRY
JAVIER ALCOLEA	Confinement in a mental institution.	NEW ZEALAND
DANIEL VALBUENA
ISMAEL FERNÁNDEZ	Death penalty	UNITED STATES
ADRIÁN GONZÁLEZ
GEMA NOELIA GÓMEZ	Life Imprisonment	ARGENTINA
LUCÍA FERNÁNDEZ
AROA MATAS	Reeducation in a special institution with special teachers	SWEDEN
NOELIA ORTEGA
RUBÉN BARRIO	Confinement in a zoo.	SOUTH KOREA
STEFAN PARNIC
LAURA LÓPEZ	Confinement in a zoo.	ITALY
MARÍA GUTIÉRREZ
BEATRIZ MAVRU	Life Imprisonment	INDIA
MARIELENA BARBU
ALEJANDRO ZAMFIR	Confinement in a mental institution.	UKRAINE
JORGE ESPEJEL
IRENE TEJEDA	Brain surgery in order to change his violent behavior.	SOUTH AFRICA
IRENE ALCALÁ
ÁNGELA CONLEY	Reeducation in a special institution with special teachers	THE NETHERLANDS
ELISABET CRUZ
ANDRÉS RUIZ	Brain surgery in order to change his violent behavior.	RUSSIA
GONZALO PLAZA
IGNACIO CANO	Death penalty	CHINA
ADRIÁN MANZANARES

3ºD

NAME	ACTION	COUNTRY
AITOR BAYÓN	Confinement in a mental institution.	NEW ZEALAND
ALEJANDRO ZURDO
RAÚL CÁCERES	Death penalty	UNITED STATES
CARLOS EXPÓSITO
VERÓNICA TORNERO	Life Imprisonment	ARGENTINA
ÁNGELA ABAD
SILVIA MARTÍN	Reeducation in a special institution with special teachers	SWEDEN
SELMA REDONDO
RAQUEL LÓPEZ	Brain surgery in order to change his violent behavior.	SOUTH KOREA
MARÍA MARTÍNEZ
IRENE FERNÁNDEZ	Life Imprisonment	ITALY
MARÍA GARCÍA
INÉS ARENAS	Confinement in a zoo.	INDIA
SARA SÁNCHEZ
DIANA VALCU	Confinement in a mental institution.	UKRAINE
RAZVAN BUCURICA
LUCAS SANTODOMINGO	Confinement in a zoo.	SOUTH AFRICA
JAVIER MORUJO
SILVIA DE LA TORRE	Reeducation in a special institution with special teachers	THE NETHERLANDS
NOELIA PARRA
ANDREA GONZÁLEZ	Brain surgery in order to change his violent behavior.	RUSSIA
LAURA GARCÍA
ÁGUEDA ALCARAZ MARÍA ANGELES AYUSO	Death penalty	CHINA