Cultural Week: Monday 22nd through Thursday 25th

 

Todavía tenemos plazas en todas las actividades de la semana cultural. ¡Anímate!

• Lunes, 22: visita guiada en inglés al Real Jardín Botánico a las 18h. Se requiere inscripción previa aquí y 1€
• Martes, 23: karaoke en el salón de actos de la escuela, a partir de las 18:00h.
• Miércoles, 24: charla abierta con Graham Fowles: “How to write a whodunnit" -y presentaciones (20 minutos) en clases de nivel avanzado. Puedes ver los niveles y las aulas dónde se dará aquí! 
• Jueves, 25: visita guiada en inglés al museo tiflológico a las 17h. Se requiere inscripción previa aquí. 

Our Second Bookclub: Nickel and Dimed. On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich, April 9th

 

We will hold this second bookclub on Tuesday April 9th, before our second progress assessment session.

As an appetizer, you may want to watch this interview with the author, definitely an out of the ordinary woman:

Check these links too:

Nickel and Dimed: Language to Check

Nickel and Dimed Discussion Questions

And these are Sparknotes for a summary, a character list and some important quotes explained:

Sparknotes on Nickel and Dimed

Grammar Key: Causatives and Modals

Destinations C1-C2 Anwer Key

Written Mediation Exercise

                                   

Written Mediation Exercise

Word limit: 180 words

Due on: April 2nd

You Don't Own Me, a song by Dusty Springfield

 

CRISPR-Casp9 is the Real Game Changer!!

In year 2020 and for the first time in history, a Nobel prize was awarded to two women, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, from the University of California at Berkeley. They made key discoveries in the field of DNA manipulation with the CRISPR-Cas9 system, so called "genetic scissors", which came to revolutionize the scene. 

March 8th is International Women's Day

I would like to share with you these two poems by the great 20th-century American poet Adrienne Rich: 

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,

Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool

Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.

The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie

Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.

The tigers in the panel that she made

Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.

A Mark of Resistance

Stone by stone I pile

this cairn of my intention

with the noon's weight on my back,

exposed and vulnerable

across the slanting fields

which I love but cannot save

from floods that are to come;

can only fasten down

with this work of my hands,

these painfully assembled

stones, in the shape of nothing 

that has ever existed before.

A pile of stones: an assertion

that this piece of country matters

for large andsimple reasons.

A mark of resistance, a sign.

Biography of Adrienne Rich