martes, 26 de noviembre de 2019

3º British: Shanty towns (revision for exam)


As requested yesterday at class, here you have some helpful material for your exam about settlement: 



Good luck!


miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2019

¡¡Happy birthday!!


@museodelprado ¡Hoy cumple 200 años! El Museo del Prado abría sus puertas por primera vez el 19 de noviembre de 1819 ¿Cuál es tu obra favorita del museo? ¿Has leído algún libro o novela relacionado con el museo, sus obras o sus artistas? 


domingo, 10 de noviembre de 2019

4º British: Did you know…?



Now that we have started the study of Japanese History, what if we learn some curious facts?

For example, did you know that there was a samurai woman? Her name was Tomoe Gozen (1157-1247) and she participated into several feudal wars, such as the famous Battle of Kurikara. She also appears in one of the most well-knows japanese epic books: the Keiki Monogatari. You can learn more about her HERE. Anyway, she was NOT the first case of female warriors... as we have learnt, Amazones were terrible enemies of ancient greeks, there were many brave viking women (origin of the valkyries myth) or, also in Asia, we have the example of a chinese militar commander, Fu Hao. Who said women are not strong enough?

And what about Yasuke, the African-samurai? Sent to Japan as a slave in 1579 as a part of a diplomatic gift, he was released and trained as samurai by his Shogun.

Japan’s emperor finally sent several diplomatic delegations to Europe, such as the Tensho embassy (1582) and the Keicho embassy (1613). Both of them included Spain in their official routes. There are plenty of documents, letters and official recordings about them, if you want to know the details.

Finally, if you want to learn many more things about Japan’s History or its influence on the cinema (do you know that “7 samurais”, filmed in 1954 by Akira Kurosawa, was adapted several times into western and even animation movies?), remember that you can visit previous links in this same blog.

Enjoy!