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Magic Words Free
Some of you, reading this around the world, will have seen news reports of a massive demonstration in Barcelona, in favour of independence for Catalonia. This is significant news because it could point...
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Duende Free
To Bilbao to see the Hockney exhibition at the Guggenheim. Driving there, we stopped for the night in Torla, a beautiful little town at the very end of a Pyrenees valley, surrounded by vast peaks of rock...
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Re-building the site Free
The summer is ending, temperatures are dropping back to the comfortable, and it's time for re-building the site. Websites are not like books in that they are never completed. This has the disadvantage...
Literature
Clues & inference 1
The opening pages of the novel require very attentive reading, since Donoghue has the difficult task of introducing us to the world of a five-year-old isolated in an extraordinary situation - without...
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Only a game Free
Watched the final of the Copa del Rey, Spain's big football knockout tournament, last night. It was between Barcelona and Athletic Club of Bilbao: Barcelona won, after a first twenty minutes of such frenetic...
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Ghosts Free
Two images – what do they have in common, and how are they connected ? The top one was taken at Olerdola, in the mountains near where I live. Olerdola is an ancient hilltop fortified site, in constant...
Literature
Reading minor characters
Minor characters can have major roles in the architecture of a novel. One example in Girl with a Pearl Earring is van Leeuwenhoek, who only appears properly three times, but who has something vital to...
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Found in translation Free
My wife and I stumbled over this placard outside a terrace restaurant in the Rua Mayor in Salamanca – a rather pretentious place with imposingly elegant waiters. The English translations had obviously...
Building a programme
C1 Collaborative planning
C1: Collaborative planning - explanatory notes The notes are arranged to follow the sequence of the document Action flowchart 1. Numbers refer to the IB document Guide to school authorisation: Diploma...
Building a programme
C4 Assessment
C4: Assessment - explanatory notes The notes are arranged to follow the sequence of the document Action flowchart 4. Numbers refer to the IB document Guide to school authorisation: Diploma Programme,...