Cultural and Intercultural Connections BIS ELL students were captured demonstrating excellent team work and individual initiatives. Students are participating in an in-class project titled, “Cultural and Intercultural Connections”. Students are making use of technology for research purposes in order to broaden their knowledge about cultures in different countries. Students made connections to prior knowledge and

MUN Kiva Fundraising Microloans This Academic Highlight was written by the leader of the Kiva Fundraising Event, Yoyo Huang from G9: “Though the actual event only lasted two hours, days and nights were dedicated to preparing. Consent forms had to be written and translated, posters designed and printed, invitations sent to selected performers, tickets procedures

Human Resource Management The BIS business students truly hold the characteristics of entrepreneurship. Their newly formed international school, the “Real BIS”, is ready to soar as the young, dedicated sprit within the organization. This week they interviewed BIS Head of HR, Ms. Zhu, to learn the essence of human power management. From human resources planning,

Christmas Cookies What would the Christmas season be without homemade cookies? To bake Christmas cookies during Advent season is very traditional in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The students got to know two Christmas cookies recipes. They prepared the dough, baked the cookies and decorated them. During this activity they listened to German Christmas songs

The Folk Tradition Students are learning how folk music is an aural tradition in which songs and dances are adapted and arranged according to the resources, stylistic interests of the performers and the occasion. This unit explores: use and arrangement of traditional melodies and dances; songs and dances learned aurally; use of pentatonic and modal

Travelling The topic of Unit 2 in Grade 10 is travelling throughout Germany. In this unit the students learned in German how to make a plan for a trip, preparing things for travelling, how to make a reservation in German, how to ask the ways or prices. They learned a lot of vocabulary about countries

Short Novel Students adapted the novel they studied, “莫泊桑拜师” into a play, adding the appropriate characters and a detailed description to create their own script, according to the theme, in a team. The Unit title is “文字的力量”, to learn the short novels which can influence people’s feeling and thought. The Key Concept of this Unit