Erasmus+: Multilingual guide for tourists

And here is the result of our Erasmus+ project:

This is the most important output of our strategic partnership, due to its complexity and the need of transnational collaboration. Students from the three schools have collaborated online in order to create this multilingual guide for tourists. We have divided the guide in sections and each school has been in charge of the English version of some of them, although collaboration of all schools has been essential in order to complete the translations and audio files in all four languages.

We hope you will find it useful when travelling to any of our countries. You will enjoy it better if you click on full screen.

Multilingual Guide for Touists

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Basque students to Sardinia!!

Finally it was up to Sardinia to welcome the delegations.

Trip in Cagliari Sardinian music concert at the school

Sports Day Students are engaged to complete the multilanguage guide The "Bread house" workshop Villanovaforru

Flemish and Sardinian students at Laskorain!

Our Flemish and Sardinian partners have been with us in Tolosa, and we have had a wonderful time.

On our first day, our headmaster Kepa Goikoetxea welcomed our guests:

We carried out some dynamics to let students meet each other:

Besides, Tolosa's mayor, Olatz Peon, welcomed the project officially at the Town Hall:

Here is a video that the media published about this event.

During the exchange, we carried out some of the project activities using ICT like google drive or Dotsub. We worked on the multilingual guide, and we started recording the expressions in the different languages. At the beginning they found the procedure quite complex, but they all learned how to do it and we are proud to say that much of the work was accomplished successfully:

  

We also translated a Basque song into Dutch. It had previously been translated into Sardinian and English, and this was the song that our Flemish and Sardinians learnt so that we could sing it altogether during the farewell party.

But apart from working, we also wanted our guests to know a little bit about the Basque country. We visited Donostia, Zugarramurdi, Baiona and we had a great time.

Grammar and vocabulary exam Unit 4

If you're thinking of preparing your grammar and vocabulary exam, here are some exercises to start with it:

• VOCABULARY

• Synonyms 
• Meanings
• Definitions (crosswords)

• CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:
• Conditional sentences 1
• Conditional sentences 2
•  Conditional sentences 3

• USE OF ENGLISH & REWRITING GRAMMAR
• Mixed exercises

Basque students in Hasselt

2. Hasselt (Flanders)

Our second transnational meeting and first transnational learning activity for students took place in Hasselt from Sunday 10 April till Saturday 16 April. The Flemish were happy to host us and Sardinian friends. We participated in our host's family life and could experience what the daily life of Flemish pupils is like.

They introduced us to some important Flemish/Belgian cities and cultural events: we visited Hasselt, Leuven, Bokrijk and Brussels where we visited the cities' most important highlights, we were provided with some historical background information and in Brussels we visited, of course, the European Parliament.

During this well - filled week we were also able to achieve many of the project goals. First of all, the linguistic competence of our pupils increased considerably. In the beginning of the exchange communication may have been a bit awkward but by the end of the week the pupils were able to communicate fairly fluently. As the pupils are interested in languages they spontaneously compared their mother tongues, both the language itself and its position in today's society. This process was stimulated by the language activities at school: a language quiz, language classes, research into the history of our (minority) languages, the creation of linguistic family trees etc. As a result our pupils are more aware of the position of our languages in Europe. This information has been and will be shared with their peers, their families and friends.

Time flew past this week and we all had a very exciting, instructive and exhausting experience. And very important: we are still in touch and we are looking forward to meeting again in Tolosa!

FCE 1: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3

Here are a few exercises we have prepared to practise the new vocabulary from unit 3 (Technology):

• Appliances and other gadgets (flashcards)
• Appliances and other gadgets (matching)
• Appliances and other gadgets: translations (flashcards)
• Appliances and other gadgets: translations (matching)
• Verbs and prepositions (filling in gaps)
• Word families (flashcards)
• Word families (matching)

As you are  working on FUTURE TENSES at the moment, here are some links to exercises we have found on the internet. We specially recommend exercises 5 to 12.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Exercise 11
Exercise 12
Exercise 13
Exercise 14
Exercise 15
Exercise 16

Travelling Unit 2

Here are some exercises to practise the vocabulary and structures studied in unit 2

• Vocabulary: Basque-English flashcards.
• Vocabulary: synonyms flashcards. 
• Vocabulary: synonyms and definitions reading 1 (flashcards)
• Vocabulary: synonyms crosswords.
• Vocabulary: word families.
• Use of English part 3: word families.
• Use of English part 4: rewriting exercises.

GRANTS FOR LEARNING ABROAD IN SUMMER

Students from DBH3, DBH4, BATX 1 and BATX 2 can apply for a grant to go abroad in summer to learn English or French. If you are interested in applying for one of these, have a look at the information on dates, requirements, conditions etc before you fill in the application form.Follow these steps:

• Use a computer (not a tablet or mobile phone)
• Enter this page
• Then click on "Aurkeztu beharreko dokumentuak"
• Then "onartzen dut"
• Fill in the form and "aurre.eskakizuna bidali"
• then "jarraitu"
• Print the page and sign it. Bring it with your NAN photocopy

You should fill in the application form, print it, sign it (you and your parents) and together with the photocopy of your identity card, give it to your English teacher by November 11th (Wednesday). Otherwise we may not have enough time to send all the application forms in time.

INFORMATION MEETINGS:

• DBH 3 and DBH 4 (Wednesday, 28th, patio time)
• batx 1 and 2 (Friday 30th, second breaktime in batx 2B)

Ana's students in Batx 1

Please, I need to have your email addresses, so will you please complete this form as soon as possible? Thank you. Do not forget to press on SUBMIT (BIDALI/ENVIAR) when you finish.

Grammar and vocabulary exam in Batx 1: FCE unit 1

Dear students

We have already studied a lot of new words in  the first unit, "Relationships", and soon we will be testing your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar related to the unit. Here are a few exercises for you to practise.(Please, note that some of the exercises were designed in previous years, and that you are handling a new version of the book, so a few of the words that appear in these exercises might not have been studied yet.)

• Vocabulary revision exercise (flashcards) 1
• Vocabulary revision exercise (fill in the gaps)1
• Vocabulary revision exercise (fill in gaps) 2
• Vocabulary revision exercise (flashcards) 2
• Exercises on verb tenses
• Rewriting exercises (vocabulary and grammar)
• Rewriting exercises2
• A Crosswords 

FCE 1: Grammar and vocabulary Unit 4: MONEY

If you're thinking of preparing your grammar and vocabulary exam, here are some exercises to start with it:

• VOCABULARY

• Synonyms 
• Meanings
• Definitions (crosswords)

• DETERMINERS
• Determiners 1.
• Determiners 2
• Determiners 3
• Determiners 4 (theory and exercises)
• Determiners 5 (theory and exercises)
• Determiners 6
• Determiners 7
• Determiners 8

• CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:
• Conditional sentences 1
• Conditional sentences 2
•  Conditional sentences 3

• COUNTABLE / UNCOUNTABLE / QUANTIFIERS:
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Very good page to understand how we count uncountable things.

• USE OF ENGLISH & REWRITING GRAMMAR
• Mixed exercises

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!

TRAVELLING: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY EXAM

Hi, as you know, there's a grammar and vocabulary exam on 22nd December. Here are some exercises we have designed for you to practice a little bit. (Remember this is not enough to prepare the exam although it may help.)

• Vocabulary: Basque-English flashcards.
• Vocabulary: synonyms flashcards. 
• Vocabulary: synonyms and definitions reading 1 (flashcards)
• Vocabulary: synonyms crosswords.
• Vocabulary: word families.
• Use of English part 3: word families.
• Use of English part 4: rewriting exercises.

Come on, have a go!

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)

RADIO PROGRAMMES IN BATX 1

We are about to start the third evaluation and together with the corresponding unit, we are going to work on a project. We are going to broadcast a RADIO PROGRAMME. To know more about this, click on the link.

FCE 1: VOCABULARY EXERCISES FOR UNIT 3

Here are a few exercises we have prepared to practise the new vocabulary from unit 3 (Technology):

• Synonyms (flashcards)
• Appliances and other gadgets (flashcards)
• Appliances and other gadgets (matching)
• Appliances and other gadgets: translations (flashcards)
• Appliances and other gadgets: translations (matching)
• Verbs and prepositions (filling in gaps)
• Word families (flashcards)
• Word families (matching)

We hope you will find them useful. Remember there is a previous post with exercises about the future forms.

FUTURE FOR BATX 1 (FCE) STUDENTS

Hi, students from BATX 1 (FCE).
As you are  working on FUTURE TENSES at the moment, here are some links to exercises we have found on the internet. We specially recommend exercises 5 to 12.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Exercise 11
Exercise 12
Exercise 13
Exercise 14
Exercise 15
Exercise 16

Winter holidays

Did you know that you can spend your holiday in a hotel carved out of ice??? Our FCE1 students know something about it, but in order for them to see it more clearly, here's a video of this hotel in Jukkasjarvi.



Would you like to book a room in such a "cool" hotel?

FALSE FRIENDS

"False friends" are pair of words in two languages that look or sound similar but differ significantly in meaning. One of the most popular examples is the Spanish word "embarazada" and the English word "embarrassed", which look similar but are very different in meaning.

As I was correcting your reader exams, I realised that some of you were being victims of false friends, so I thoight it might be a good idea to provide you with a list of the most common false friends. Here you are!