This document provides information about the city of Lleida and Institut Joan Oró high school. It describes Lleida's geographical location in Catalonia, landmarks like La Seu Vella cathedral and modernist buildings. It outlines the school's studies, timetable with subjects like English, maths and Catalan, and students' hobbies like sports, music and social media. Key traditions of Lleida discussed are Aplec featuring snail eating, Moros i Cristians commemorating battles, and Castellers involving human towers.

1. This is us
Institut Joan Oró
Lleida

2. Lleida
The city where we live

3. Geographical situation
 City from
Catalonia
(Spain)
 North East of
Spain
 North West of
Catalonia.
Lleida

4. Past…
 Ancient times names Iltrida and Ilerda

5. SEGADORS WAR
 1640-1652
SUCCESSION WAR
 1701-1713

6. INDÍBIL & MANDONI
 Indíbil, king of the
Ilergetes (left)  Mandoni, king of the Ausetanes(right)

7. Landmarks: La Seu Vella
 “Seu Vella” cathedral
 built in 1203 AD
 finished in 1286 AD

8. Landmarks: La Seu Vella
 Because of the long
building time, it has
various architectonic
styles (Romanesque,
Renaissance and
Gothic)

9. Landmarks: La Seu Vella
 Catalan architecture
of the thirteenth
century
 European medieval
architecture

10. Landmarks: La Seu Vella
At the top of a hill,
in the middle of
Lleida.

11. Landmarks: La Seu Vella
During the Civil War,
Spanish army used it as
a military construction

12. Landmarks: La Paeria
 Lleida’s town hall.
 Romanesque civilian
style

13. Landmarks: La Paeria
 A gothic building.
 Built in the XIII
century

14. Landmarks: Institut Estudis
Ilerdencs
A Romanesque
hospital called
Santa Maria
In 1942, it was
transformed into
a cultural building.

15. Landmarks: Institut Estudis
Ilerdencs
Some Awards:
Photography award Ton Sirera
Theatre Award Les Talúries
Musical Research Award Emili
Pujol
Scientific Dissemination
Award Humbert Torres
Its activity is to promote and
develop the cultural values of
Lleida.
It gives awards of the different
cultural areas

16. Landmarks: La Llotja
 It is the most modern
theatre in Lleida.
 In “Pardinyes”, a suburb.
 One of the biggest theatre
rooms in Lleida

17. Landmarks: La Llotja
 International festivals:
 “Animac”: animations in a
lot of different languages
 “Mostra internacional de
cinema llatinoamericà”.

18. Landmarks: Modernist Buildings
Escorxador
Casa Melecior
Casa Morera
Cases de Balasch
Casa Baró
Casa Bergós
Casa Magí Llorens
Modernist Buildings in Lleida.

19. Landmarks: La Mitjana Natural
Park
 90 hectares
 You can see birds,
animals and a lot of
vegetation.

20. Landmarks: Main Street
 Commercial center
 The longest commercial
street in Europe
 Full of shops and
restaurants.

21. Traditions: L’Aplec
 Since 1980,
 A weekend in May
 12,000 club members and 200,000 visitors
 Everybody eats snails and dance

22. Traditions: L’Aplec
 The main reason is to meet friends and eat
snails with them
 Snails with allioli (garlic mayonnaise) are the
typical food of Lleida

23. Traditions: Moros i Cristians
 Commemorate the battles
MUSLIM
S
CHRISTIANS8th century-15th
century

24. Traditions: Castellers
 “Castell”: a human tower.
 “colles castelleres” (teams)
often succeed in building and
dismantling a tower.
 Started in 1712 near
Tarragona
 Ten-story high castles.
 Described by number of
people in each level and the
total number of levels.

25. Traditions: Castellers de Lleida
 Motto of Castellers: strength, balance, courage and common sense.
 Castellers de Lleida founded on 16 March in 1995
 When a tower is being built, there are musicians that play the song, "Toc
de Castells." This song has different parts to indicate the different
moments.

26. Traditions: La Castanyada
 One of the traditional
things in Catalonia is
La Castanyada.
 It’s celebrated the
day before All Saints.
 The chestnut is the
symbol of La
Castanyada.

27. Traditions: La Castanyada
 On La Castanyada
friends meet and
they eat roosted
chestnuts, sweet
potatoes and
‘’Panellets’’.
 Panellets are small
cakes or cookies in
different shapes,
mostly round, made
mainly of marzipan.

28. Caga Tió is a Christmas tradition
of Catalonia.
Caga Tió means Trunk Shit.
Its name is because children hits Caga Tió
with a stick and singing a song. And Caga
Tió shits presents.

29. Traditions: Sant Jordi
 A very popular
tradition.
 Celebrated on the
23rd of April.
 It comes from a
legend
 St George killed a
dragon.

30. Traditions: Sant Jordi
 Roses for women
and books for men.

31. Traditions: Fira de titelles
 The first weekend in May, the Puppet Centre
organizes a fair.
 The streets are filled with people that want to see
the puppets.

32. Traditions: Fira de titelles

33. Institut Joan Oró
The high school where we study

34. Studies  Compulsory Secondary
Education 12 – 16 years olds
 Post compulsory Education
 Baccalaureau (17-18)
 Vocational Training (17-20)

35. Timetable
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
8:30/9:30 ENGLISH MATHS MATHS ENGLISH PROJECTS
9:30/10:30 PROJECTS PROJECTS OPTATIVE
PHISICAL
EDUCATION
OPTATIVE
10:30/10:55 B R A K E
10:55/11:55 PROJECTS PROJECTS
PHISICAL
EDUCATION
PROJECTS ENGLISH
11:55/12:55 TUTORING SPANISH SPANISH PROJECTS CATALAN
12:55/13:10 B R A K E
13:10/14:05 CATALAN ART PROJECTS SPANISH TUTORING
14:05/15:00 ART CATALAN PROJECTS MATHS MATHS

36. Timetable
 We start at 8:30 am.
 We finish at 3:00 pm.
 25 minute break and 15 minute break
 1 hour classes
 30 hours a week

37. Our subjects
 What's projects ?
 subject where we study
science , technology and
history.
 Catalan?
 The language in our
country, Catalonia

38. Our subjects
 Optional?
 a subject that you
can choose
 Spanish ?
 Our second
language

39. Our hobbies
The activities we do to enjoy ourselves

40. Meet with the friends,
chat on the mobile,
play computer games,
listen to music,
surfing the net,
dance,
watch series online and watch
YouTube videos.
What does a Catalan teenager do
at their free time?

41. Boys’ hobbies
play xbox
play football and other
sports
chat on the mobile
listen to music
watch series online
watch YouTube videos

42. Girls’ hobbies
listening to music
dancing
shopping
meeting friends
chatting on the
mobile
picking photos
singing
painting nails
styling

43. This is us
Institut Joan Oró
Lleida