PLANET EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE

Have you ever thought about the universe and the size of the planets and millions of stars there are in the universe? Here you have a video about the dimention of the universe. Stunning!

Post by Renaud Margry.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

EXPLORING THE SEAS IN DBH1

We´ve gone exploring the seas in "The secrets of the oceans", the new unit we have just started in DBH1. Here you have a nice video about the zones of the ocean. Have a look at it and ... wellcome aboard!

FANTASTIC TALENT SHOWS IN DBH 1B

DBH 1B students have given us a fantastic show. Dancing, singing, playbacks ... we have had a little bit of everything.
have a look at it and enjoy it.

Thanks a lot, guys, it's been a pleasure.

VIDEOPRESENTATIONS OF THE MUSIC GROUPS

Here you have the videopresentations that students from DBH 1B have made in order to introduce their performance in the talent show. Have a look at them!

QUESTIONNAIRES ON MUSIC PREFERENCES

Hi guys!

Our DBH 4 students are designing fantastic music magazines! They need to write an article on the musical preferences of the students in Laskorain Ikastola, so they need your help, please fulfill these questionnaires.

Thank you very much!

Questionnaire for LH 6 A students (group 1)
Questionnaire for DBH 1 A students (group 2)
Questionnaire for DBH 2 C students (group 3)
Questionnaire for DBH 3  students (Helena's group) (group 4)
Questionnaire for DBH 3C  students  (group 5) 
Questionnaire for Batx 1 A (Maddi's) students (group 6)
Questionnaire for Batx 1 B (Helena's) students (group 7)

NEWS IN LEVELS: fantastic site!

Hello

Have you heard of Newsinlevels.com? It's a fantastic site that publishes news for students of English everyday. The news can be read in 3 different levels, the third of which provides the video of the news too. If you devote ten minutes to reading / watching the news everyday, your English will surely improve!!!

STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS

Batx 1 students are learning how to write stories and they have developed some wonderful ones for us to enjoy. In fact, they are going to LH6 to tell them the stories they have written. Have a look at them!

STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS

Publish at Calameo or read more publications.

GRANTS FOR LEARNING ABROAD

After some delays, the Education department from the Basque Government has released the lists of those candidates that have been given a grant to study abroad. Follow the link to know if you are one of the lucky ones!

In memoriam

 

In our hearts, for ever

Welcome to Laskenglish, again!

DIGITAL POSTERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Hello, our dbh4 students of "ICTs in English" have created these nice posters to claim for human rights. You can view them in full size to appreciate them better. I would like you to read and listen to them carefully and to decide which you like best and why. Vote by clicking here.

Poster number 1

Poster number 2

Poster number 3

Poster number 4

Poster number 5

Poster number 6

Poster number 7

Poster number 8



Poster number 9




Poster number 10

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas is already among us! Streets glittering with colourful lights, Christmas carols, cold weather ... snow is the only element which is missing. And who knows, we still may have a white Christmas!
Long days for resting and enjoying with family and friends are waiting.

All the staff of Laskorain ikastola wish you a merry, merry Christmas and a happy new year!

vocabulary website: learning chocolate

Hello, we have received an email from one of the creators of learningchocolate.com giving us details about that site. It can be an interesting site for all of you, because it provides lots of labelled pictures organized according to semantic fields. Are you interested in learning new vocabulary related to cars, computers, insects or kitchenware? You've got many more options in learningchocolate.com . The interesting thing about it is that they have designed nice matching games, filling in exercises and even dictations for you to practise the words.

We have included the link in our laskogrammar page, in the vocabulary section.

Teenagers vs Adults

Hello. Some students from ICTs in English, Lierni and Olaia, have written one article on the reasons why teenagers and adults have many arguments, and they have created a questionnaire to find out. Will you , please, read their article and answer the questions in their questionnaire? Don't put your full name, just your initials. Thanks a lot!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hi students!
2009 is nearly over and here come the holidays we have so much deserved and longed for. Enjoy them, do not eat too much and we expect you all back, full of energy, next year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Laskenglish teachers!

Christmas are coming...

Hello there!

Did you enjoy the Christmas vocabulary activity yesterday?Can you remember any of those words?well, lets go further in practice and try this shooting game.

If you get bored, on your right handside you can choose more and different games.

Enjoy it!

BERNARDO ATXAGA'S VIEW OF BASQUE

We happened to discover the prologue to the English translation of Obabakoak, written by the same Author,Bernardo Atxaga. It describes our language and ourselves with a poetic touch, it´s worth reading it, have a look!

We speak a strange language. Its verbs,
the structure of its relative clauses,
the words it uses to designate ancient things
- rivers, plants, birds -
have no sisters anywhere on Earth.
A house is etxe, a bee erle, death heriotz.
The sun of the long winters we call eguzki or eki;
- as you´d expect - called eguzki or eki
(it´s a strange language, but not that strange).

Born, they say, in the megalithic age,
it survived, this stubborn language, by withdrawing,
by hiding away like a hedgehog in a place,
which, thanks to the traces it left behind there,
the world named the Basque Country or Euskal Herria.
Yet its isolation could never have been absolute
-cat is katu, pipe is pipa, logic is lojika-
rather, as the prince of detectives would have said,
the hedgehog, my dear Watson, crept out of its hiding place
(to visit, above all, Rome and its progeny).

The language of a tiny nation, so small
you cannot even find in the map,
it never strolled in the gardens of the Court
or past the marble statues of government buildings;
in four centuries it produced only a hundred books...
the first in 1545; the most important in 1643;
The Calvinist New Testament in 1571;
the complete Catholic Bible around 1860.
Its sleep was long, its biography brief
(but in the twentieth century the hedgehog awoke).

Bernardo Atxaga.
Prologue to the English translation of Obabakoak

Present and Past Simple

Hello there!

Are you already nervous for the grammar test this week? If so, don’t worry, a little practice will help you. Here, you will find different exercises to practise the present and past simple, why don’t you have a go?

 

• "To be" in the present simple 
• "To be" in the present simple 
  
• Present Simple 
• Present simple 
•  Past simple 
• Past simple
  

If you still need more practice, you can try more exercises in laskogrammar

Are you interested in PARKOUR or FREE RUNNING?

Until recently, I hadn't heard of parkour or free running. If you had asked me about it a short while ago, I would have shrugged my shoulders with indiference. However, nowadays I know what it is thanks to an article Yon M, a dbh 4 student,  has written in his blog. If you want to read about these extreme sports and see a very interesting video visit Yon's blog, Urban Free Flow.

Don't forget to leave a comment with your opinion in Yon's blog.