I hope you are all prepared for the holiday season!
In this issue of the newsletter you will find:
a Christmas wordsearch and a Christmas crossword
10 Christmas facts
contributions from students at IH Cape Town and IH Buenos Aires.
I hope you enjoy it!
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all! [...] 
In London there is a Christmas tree made of 600,000 Lego bricks! The tree is 12 metres high and stands in St Pancras Eurostar Station. It took 2 months to build the tree.
In Greece people give gifts on 1st January and in Spain they give gifts on 6th January.
The first Christmas card was designed by ... [...]
At IH Buenos Aires we recently had a haiku project around the theme of cities. For those of you who don’t know about haikus, it is a kind of poem (originally from Japan) with the following structure:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
They don’t have to rhyme like some kinds of poetry.
The students had to take a ... [...]
Across
2. A sculpture that can only be made in cold weather.
6. They pull Santa's sleigh.
7. What does one find under the Christmas tree?
11. A traditional Christmas song.
12. The part of the world where Santa lives.
13. The Three Wise Men.
14. It melts like snow and burns.
15. A piece of clothing to be hung on Chr [...]
How and why simple three words can change the real and true life?
Feelings and sensations are difficult to be explained? And why? We live in a world of war and dispute, where the earth turns increasingly faster and the sensation is that there is never enough time. Recently I went to visit an orphanage ... [...]
English Corner Online, a new social network designed for learners of English, is now live!
English Corner Online has been developed by a team of people from International House and is designed to help learners like you practise your English by putting you in touch with other learners of English from different countries around the world.
We ... [...]
What you can find in the summer 2011 edition of the newsletter:
I hope you are either enjoying the summer sun or the coolness of winter. It is time for the IH Club newsletter again. In this issue I hope we have something for all of you.
As this is the time of year for exams and ... [...]
IH Milan sponsored the Simona Orlandi Association poetry competition. The prize-giving for the best poems took place at San Donato Town Hall on Friday 10th June. Assistant Director of Studies, Tania Vaz, read out the winning poems from the ever-popular English section.
The Association was set up in 1992 by friends of Simona’s family after she ... [...]
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