The Canyons Guara River

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At ten o'clock we arrived to the natural park, we went by bus and first we had twenty minutes to eat or drink something and see some parts of the village, Santa Cilia.
Then we went to a room in wich a woman taught us the geology, vegetation and fauna of this park.
In the wall there were a lot of photos of animals and plants.
Later, we went to another room, with many showcases representing typical scenes of the park.
In the room of the ''Friends of the Vultures” we saw the different types of vultures in this park like: the Eurasian Griffon, easy to identity by its characteristical circular flight on ascending in the thermal currents, the Bearded Vulture and the Golden Eagle.
We also saw the different typical animals in the park: the wild bear, fox, wild cat or mountain cat and garden dormouse. Then, we went to the beginning of the park and we went trekking.
When we needed to go across the river was very funny because a lot of people put their foot into the water.
While we were walking the woman showed us the different plants as Rosemary and basil and different trees like the Portuguese Oak, the Scots Pine, the Beechwood, the Oak Wood or the Boxwood.
Later, we went back to the bus and we went to a restaurant and had a very good lunch.
In short, we had a very nice day and we learned a lot of new things!

City Tour

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In the morning, we arrived at the school at 8.30 and we went to Pilar by bus. Then we visited the museum of the Roman forum. We saw the pipelines of lead and the common sewer from the time of Tiberius.
After that we visited the museum of the fluvial port and we watched a video that explained the trade in that time.
While we were going to the museum of the Roman theatre the guide explained to us the most important streets in Roman time, that were: the “Cardo street” that is the same as Don Jaime and the “Decumano” that is the same as the “paseo La Mina”.
When the guide finished the explanation, we had a meal and we went to the museum of the Roman theatre, there the guide explained the customs of the Romans and we saw the ruins of the Roman Theatre.
After that we had a walk around the Roman Walls, then we took the bus to school.
After lunch, we went to the Aljaferia Palace which is dated from the Muslims time and it's beautiful.
The palace was redecorated by Pedro IV of Aragón and was reconstructed by the Catholic King and Queen.

European Debate: North and South

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European Debate: Teachers and Students

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European Debate: Care baby... Health... Education

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European Debate Presentation

On Tuesday, we went to the “Aula Magna” to make some mixed groups, in which there were three or four people, each one from a different country.
On Thursday before lunch, we went to the school library.
Pepe Trívez, the Spanish language teacher, was waiting for us, because he was in charge of the activity we were going to do: a debate about European politic topics, for example, legalizing drugs in the UE, or the holidays in each country.
We were supposed to read some questions about different topics and look for some information about them at the internet quickly.We had to take out three things from an envelope: topic time and language.
We were very nervous because we didn´t know what topic we had to explain, and the most important thing, we didn´t know which language we had to speak in, but we thought that hopefully it would be a language that we knew. Those languages were Spanish, English, French and German.
The first topics had to be explained in French, so it was a bit difficult because there were some groups where there weren´t any French students , but we finally did it well.
After each explanation, we could translate the last one into another language, so many groups did it and they got a lot of points more than the ones they got for their discussions.
At the end, most groups had many pints, but two of them got six pints, so they were the ones who won the game.
This activity was very interesting for us and we learnt a lot about it. Moreover, we have been told this activity will be useful in our future, because we will have to work with foreign people and in other languages.
We liked it very much and we hope we will do something similar again.
In Sweden we usually do debates like this in both Swedish and English class. And in Germany they do it too. There is only Spain who does not do it.
Marta, Chema, Rene and Katarina.

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Activity in the Laboratory

On this Thursday morning all of us met in the school laboratory. We all got in groups of three or four people, then we were given instructions to do the experiments. The first experiment was with a candle, we were supposed to light it and observed what happened. Then we were supposed to blow it out and write down more observations.
After that we had to melt some ice cubes and observe the changes in their state, from solid to liquid.
We boiled the ice cubes and took the temperature of them while they were getting hotter and hotter, to see how the temperature rose. Then we drew a diagram of the rising temperature in the difference of twenty seconds. After the experiments were done we were supposed to write a conclusion. At the changes of state; solid, liquid and gaseous.
Most of us had already done experiments like this in maybe 6th grade, so we were familiar with this kind of activities.

Mariam, Anna, Alicia.

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