John Harrison (3 April 1693– 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker. He invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought after device for solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long-distance sea travel in the Age of Sail. The problem was considered so intractable, and following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707 so important, that the British Parliament offered the Longitude prize of £20,000 (comparable to £2.66 million/$4.48 million US in modern currency) for the solution.
Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 public poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
Fom Wikipaedia
http://www.nature.com/news/a-longitude-prize-for-the-twenty-first-century-1.15259
Hi folks,
This time we have an interesting article from the International press sent to us by our colleague Luis.
Read it and see what you think.
In Britain the government challenges entrepreneurs to solve a major world problem offering a huge reward. Such a prize is a great motivation.
Or is it?
What do you think?
Join us in our discussion group
Contact us at asedow@gmail.com
SALA 1.1.
Universidad Popular 4 June 18:30
lunes, 2 de junio de 2014
martes, 27 de mayo de 2014
Children's time
lunes, 26 de mayo de 2014
The Power of Addiction
There are a lot of addictive things like coffee, sports, drugs, alcohol, shopping, food such as chocolate!
Do you have any?
Do you know about addictions?
Do you agree with the videos?
TALKING GROUP
La Universidad Popular
18:30h Sala1.1
28th May
Here is a really good link with subtitles in Spanish:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm#inbox/146389de8d6a21e8?projector=1
viernes, 23 de mayo de 2014
lunes, 19 de mayo de 2014
Happy Wednesday
CHILDREN'S
STORYTIME
An
old friend is back. Here he is.
Spot
the dog.
We
will listen to the same story again and watch a new episode on our
new TV.
Then we'll play the same game as Spot played with his mother. Do you remember?
Then we'll play the same game as Spot played with his mother. Do you remember?
Yes!
Tig or Hide and seek.
See
you at 17:45h in the Common Room.
Sala
1.1. Universidad Popular
Metro Baunatal
May 21st
Metro Baunatal
May 21st
Talking Group
Here are more clips on the same topic as last week as we got distracted and did not discuss this alternative tourist attraction.
Have you any places like this near your hometown?
Let's hear about it.
lunes, 12 de mayo de 2014
Children and parents
Come
on Wednesday to hear the story of Princess Aurora and wicked
Maleficent.
Do
you know what story it is?
Yes!
Sleeping Beauty.
Then
watch a videoclip from Disney and do a fun activity.
Wednesday
14th May Sala 1.1. Universidad Popular Metro Baunatal
Wednesday Talking Group
Dark Tourism
Visiting a a concentration camp on holiday seems like a contradiction in terms. What do you think?
Also, you will have the chance to talk about vegetarianism again.
Sala 1.1. 6:30 p.m. La U.P. Sanse
martes, 6 de mayo de 2014
Coming up
At the Central Library
Now is the time to pick up some books to read on holiday.
You can exchange up to five books at a time and meet us too.
On Tuesday the 13th the Reading group will be delving into another story by Roald Dahl at 19:15 .
Tomorrow the 7th May the Talking group will meet up at 18:30 in La Universidad Popular
Here is the link to the topic:
Bippity
Boppity Boo
The
magic words
Happy
Wednesday is back with the story of Cinderella.
Come
to the Common Room at 17:45 and hear the story and
watch the clip from Disney.
Cinderella
has to be home by 12 midnight.
A
good way to know what time it is is to play the game
What's
the time Mr Wolf?
Then
we'll draw a picture from a story book
See
you on Wednesday 7th May
Sala
ASEDOW La Universidad Popular
Metro
Baunatal
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