This is a presentation made by the students of EES Nº 7 from San Nicolás, Buenos Aires, Argentina for the Connecting Classrooms project.

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5. Argentina is considered a
country of immigrants.
Most Argentines descend from
colonial-era settlers and of 19th
and 20th
century immigrants
from Europe.

8. We all speak the same
language: SPANISH.
But there are slight
variations in vocabulary,
intonation and
pronunciation.

9. We interviewed two of our
classroom partners that
come from Colombia in
order to find out about their
experience of coming to live
to Argentina.

11. * SPAIN
* ITALY
* CHILE
* BOLIVIA
* COLOMBIA
* PARAGUAY
* CHINA
* VASQUE COUNTRY

13. It was built at the end of the
XIX century as ‘The Italian
Society Union and Fraternity of
Mutual Help’. It has been
enlarged but it conserves its
original style.

14. This building was oficially inagurated on 1st
April,1863 as ‘The French Society of Mutual
Help’. It has had many multiple uses lately
without changing its original appearance.

15. It was opened in
1920 as a place to
help both the
Spanish community
in our city and their
descendants. It still
conserves its
original style and
aim.

16. It is situated in
the centre of the
city and is used
to celebrate
parties carried
out by the
community of
Vasque people
that live here.

17. It is the most modern of them. It was built
about twenty years ago. It is used by a large
number of Bolivian people who live in our
city to practice sports and practice typical
dances.

18. Foreign community members
gather in these places to celebrate
parties or eat typical dishes .
But these are also cultural places
to learn typical dances, sports
and languages. .

19. Some of these communities keep
some old traditions and still
celebrate some festivals.
Follow this link to see a video about the Guadalupean Party in our city:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUxE-PT8aYw
For example, the community of Bolivia in
our city celebrate the day of the
Guadalupe Virgen on 8th
December and
that of the Copacabana Virgin on 7th
September.

21. People from different
countries have the
possibility of showing their
typical costumes, music,
traditional dishes and
traditional objects.

22. All along the American
continent,
we commemorate
The Day of Cultural
Diversity
on 19th
April.

23. … a great step towards
Cultural
awareness
is…