Song of the week – De agua by Zia
Posted by Mr Picardo in A2, AS, Español, Languages on 19. Mar, 2010 | 5 Comments
This week Señor Picardo is hijacking Mrs Moorhouse’s weekly song of the week to showcase the work of a band he discovered in the last Residential Study Trip to Madrid in 2008: Zia (click here to go to their MySpace page), who are one of Madrid’s finest rock bands, and their songs have been keeping Mr [...]
6th form pupils make more Spanish videos
Posted by Mr Picardo in AS, Español on 18. Dec, 2009 | 2 Comments
The boys in year 12 were tasked with writing a dialogue about a teacher complaining to parents about a naughty pupil. They were to use the both the preterite tense and imperfect tenses. Here’s what they came up with!
El Guernica de Picasso
Posted by Mr Picardo in A2, AS, Español on 28. Nov, 2009 | 11 Comments
Watch the video about Guernica, one of Picasso’s masterpieces, read the text below and answer the questions in Spanish by way of comment (Year 13 only). The boys in Year 12 and 13 will have an opportunity to see the actual painting in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, as a part of our residential [...]
