Presentation about Spain, Madrid and IES Gómez-Moreno

1. IES Gómez-Moreno
A bilingual school in Madrid (Spain)

2. Spain
• Population: 46,704,314 (2013)
• Currency: euro
• Government: Parliamentary Monarchy
• Official languages: Spanish, Galician, Catalan,
Basque
• Immigration: 5.7 million foreign residents in
Spain (2011), or 12.2% of the total population

5. MADRID: a fun city
• Spain’s capital city
• Population: 3,233,527 (2012)
• Spain’s largest city
• Located on Manzanares River
• Mediterranean climate (cold winters and warm
and dry summers)
• The European city with the highest number of
trees and green surface per inhabitant

6. “From Madrid to Heaven”
• History, Art, Culture,
Tradition
• A city of great
monuments
• Welcoming, modern,
multicultural, vivacious,
lively
• www.madrid.es

7. Gómez-Moreno High School
• Secondary Education and
• Bachillerato (junior and senior years)
• 608 students (13-18 years old)
• 50 Spanish teachers
• 4 English language assistants
• 1 French language assistant

8. • Our school’s Bilingual Project:
– Bilingual Section classes
• 5 hours of English language and literature
• Different content subjects in English (Science, History,
Geography, Art, Technology, Music, PE)
– Bilingual Program classes
• 5 hours of English
• Optional content subjects in English (Art, Technology, Music
and PE)

10. • Special Program for deaf students:
– Sheltered classes to
address these
students’ necessities
– 2 signs language
interpreters to help
regular
teachers

11. • Global Classrooms: UN model program
– 3rd year of secondary education students (15-
16 years old) in several bilingual schools in
Madrid
– Defense of different countries and topics
imitating the UN delegates
– Final Bonus: visiting the UN headquarters in
NYC

12. “Culture Beyond Borders”
– Exchange program with three European
schools (in France, Denmark and Poland)
– Financed by EU
– 2 years
– Trips to the different countries
– Use of the English language

13. Let’s

14. Gómez-Moreno School is
more than happy  to
have you here