Read, what a pleasure!

Here you have the list of books related to Contemporary History.

You have to choose one of them, read it, and ask for the work. I have almost all.

Download the list here

French Revolution Report

Do you remember the freaky guy from whom we watched a video about American Revolution?

Here he is!

Covent Garden

A lot of tourists go to Covent Garden every day. In this market we find ...

Look this video and finish the story.

Hi everybody!

We are beginning a new year in the European Section, our fourth one. It’s time to welcome all the new people who are going to share our project, students (too many to mention each one) and teachers (Virginia, Almudena, Marta and Julio) and it’s also time to thank the people who have been with us in previous years but  they have left the Section for different reasons, the students again and  teachers such as Ana Esther, Flor or Ingrid.

This year, due to the budget cuts we won’t have a very important figure in this project, the foreign language  assistant, so we want to thank Megan and Kate, our excellent assistants these last years,  their work with us.

We hope all of us enjoy a lot and have a very successful year in spite of the difficulties.

Percent increase and decrease

Percent increase is when you find a given percent of an amount and then add it to it.
Percent decrease is when you find a given percent of an amount and subtract it from it.

 One really important thing to remember about percent increase and decrease is that percent is always based on something, it doesn't stand alone, there is always something that it is "of" and with percent increase and decrease problems that is always the ORIGINAL amount.

There are three kind of percent increase and decrease problems and a good first step towards solving a problem is to decide which of them it is:
 1.Original amount, percent known, you want to find the new amount.
 If cost of life is running at 3%, how much would you need to live a year if your current expenditure is $920 per month?
 2.Original amount known, new amount known, you want to find out what percent the increase or decrease is. 
The value of Spain exports to Germany increased from €1480 million in 1987 to €2768 million in 1988. What was the percentage increase?
3.New amount known, percent known, you want to find the original amount.
 An item originally costing $20 is on a 10% off sale. What is the sale price? 


Solve the problems in a paper and write the answer as a comment.

See more information and examples here and here.

ALICIA

0.7 TARGET

Did you know that if rich countries invested just 0.7 % of their GNI we could end up with extreme poverty? If you want to know more about that, read here...

I prepared you an activity about this, I hope you like it.

Take care,
ALICIA

PREPARING THE EXAM

Hello! Here you can find the contents for our next exam. Good luck!
Pilar

Preparing the exam