World Down’s Syndrome

https://bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-68579226

The Brown Betty teapot

Riken Yamamoto, 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Pritzker Prize 2024

Riken Yamamoto, 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Watch these videos to learn more about Riken Yamamoto

https://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/riken-yamamoto#laureate-page-2626

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto (b. 1945) was born in Beijing, People’s Republic of China and relocated to Yokohama, Japan shortly after the end of World War II. Negotiating a balance between public and private dimensions from childhood, he lived in a home that was modeled after a traditional Japanese machiya, with his mother’s pharmacy in the front and their living area in the rear. “The threshold on one side was for family, and on the other side for community. I sat in between.”

Yamamoto knew little about his father, who had passed away when the architect was only five years old. In some ways, he sought to emulate his father’s career as an engineer, but instead forged his own path into architecture. At age 17, he visited Kôfuku-ji Temple, in Nara, Japan, originally built in 730 and finally reconstructed in 1426, and was captivated by the Five-storied Pagoda symbolizing the five Buddhist elements of earth, water, fire, air and space. “It was very dark, but I could see the wooden tower illuminated by the light of the moon and what I found at that moment was my first experience with architecture.”

Professional stay in Guadeloupe

From the 27th of January to the 11th of February of 2024, I had the chance to participate in a programme of the Spanish Ministry of Education called “professional stay”. It has been a very interesting experience and I would like to share it on my blog.

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Portraits from recycled materials

Watch this video about the artist Nick Gentry from London and answer the questions:

1. What does the artist use for his works?
2. What type of paintings does he do?
3. Where did he get the material from?
4. He wanted people to participate in …..

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Art Movements

Shops

Types of Stores

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Valentine’s Day

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Let’s talk about love. Are you a romantic person?

Notting Hill Carnival

https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/PET/Reading_Part_4/four_option_multiple_choice_2.php: Notting Hill Carnival

• NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL
• Notting Hill Carnival takes place in London every August bank holiday. It is the most colourful and largest street event in the UK. The festival celebrates the traditions of the Afro-Caribbean community, who emigrated to England from the West Indies in the 1950s. They brought the Caribbean idea of the carnival with colourful costumes, processions, steel bands, and street dancing. Preparations for the carnival start many months in advance. Costumes need to be made and floats built, ready for the carnival street procession. Steel bands practise traditional Caribbean music on instruments built from used oil barrels. Just before the festival, the streets are decorated with yellow, green, and red streamers, and amplifying devices are set in place, to carry the rhythmic sounds over the roar of the London traffic. The carnival is celebrated for more than three days and is full of music and colour. Processions of steel and brass bands, floats, and dancers in colourful costumes make their way through the narrow London streets, watched by tens of thousands of people. The streets are lined with stalls selling tropical fruits, such as fresh mangoes, watermelons, and pineapple. Everyone dances – young and old, black and white – and even the policemen on duty take part in the fun. For these three days in August, a little Caribbean magic touches the streets of London.
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• 1) What is the writer’s main aim in writing the text?
• A) to encourage people to celebrate the traditions of black people
• B) to talk about problems with the Afro-Caribbean community
• C) to recommend people spend more time outdoors
• D) to understand and describe the Notting Hill Carnival
• 2) According to the passage, Notting Hill Carnival …
• A) takes place every Bank Holiday
• B) is held annually in August
• C) is organized by the Bank of England
• D) is held at the beginning of August
• 3) During the Notting Hill Carnival,
• A) the participants in the carnival decorate the streets with colourful streamers
• B) preparations start early in the morning
• C) music and colour fill the streets of London
• D) traffic is banned from the main shopping streets
• 4) The writer claims that
• A) this carnival has been organized since at least the 1950s
• B) tens of thousands of people take part in the preparations for the carnival
• C) dancers in the carnival wear special clothes
• D) the dancers in the carnival are from the black community
• 5) Although the carnival is a celebration of the traditions of black British …
• A) everyone seems to participate in it
• B) only Caribbean people take part in it
• C) it is gaining in popularity among the white in recent years
• D) people from all over the world come to watch it
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Listening exercises B1-

Housing

https://english-practice.net/listening-exercises-b1-housing

Past Events

Practice Listening English Exercises for B1 – Past Events

Famous people

https://english-practice.net/listening-exercises-b1-famous-people/