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.

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!

BATX 2: Unit 9, grammar and vocabulary exercises

"Work" is the new unit we are dealing with.
To learn the vocabulary we have seen so far, here you have some exercises:

• Vocabulary Crosswords (1). 
• Vocabulary exercise, matching 1 (flashcard)
• Vocabulary and grammar exercises (exam type) Grammar & vocabulary exercises. (Exam type).

Concerning GRAMMAR, in this unit we have 2 different topics: RELATIVE CLAUSES and HAVE / GET CAUSATIVE.

RELATIVE CLAUSES:

• Theory
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4: Defining or Non-Defining?
• Exercise 4: Defining or Non-Defining (2)
• Mixed exercises

HAVE / GET CAUSATIVE

• Theory
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4

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)

FCE 2 students: Unit 6, grammar and vocabulary exam

Hi, soon you will have a grammar and vocabulary exam. Laskenglish can help you prepare some points of the exam.

You have been dealing with lots of new words related to nature and environment: recycling, water conservation, natural phenomena, insects...

  Here are a few exercises where you can practise some of the vocabulary learnt in this unit.

 

Crosswords  

Matching exercise (synonyms)

Flashcards (translations)

Insects (quiz)

As for grammar, if you want to practise the passive, you have a good number of exercises in our grammar and skills section. We specially recommend:

•  Passive exercises 1 
•  Passive exercises 2 
• .You also have theory about it.

You could also practise infinitive and gerunds with us. Just go to this post. You will find theory and lots of exercises. Finally, there's also an exercise to practise the difference between "Prefer" and "would rather".

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.

U8 COMMUNICATION (grammar and vocabulary exam)

Unit 8 deals with communications, and here are some flashcards to help you learn the vocabulary we have studied in it.

• translations flashcards
• synonyms flashcards

In this unit we have studied Reported Speech. Here are some exercises to practise it:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• exercise 4
• exercise 5
• exercise 6
• exercise 7
• exercise 8
• mixed 1
• mixed 2

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

MODAL VERBS

Hello

In this unit we have been looking at modal verbs. Here are some exercises for you to practise this grammar issue:

• Class exercises
• Laskoquizes
• www.englishpage.com
• www.autoenglish.org

UNIT 6: NATURE

Hello! FCE 2 students have been dealing with lots of new words related to nature and environment: recycling, water conservation, natural phenomena, insects...

  If you are one of these students, here are a few exercises where you can practise some of the vocabulary learnt in this unit.

 

Crosswords  

Matching exercise (synonyms)

Flashcards (translations)

Insects (quiz)

"REALITY SHOWS" in selectivity exam

Hi students from Batx 2!

REALITY SHOWS is the next selectivity exam we are going to work on and I would like you to do it ...

1. answering the questions in the form I enclosed (just click on it)
2. After that, choose a topic for your composition and develop it on DRIVE (share it with your teacher)
3. Here you have an exercise to correct the typical mistakes we make in selectivity exam (examples taken from former students' compositions)

U9: "WORK" IN BATX 2

"Work" is the new unit we are dealing with.
To learn the vocabulary we have seen so far, here you have some exercises to practise it:

• Vocabulary Crosswords (1). 
• Vocabulary exercise, matching 1 (flashcard)
• Vocabulary exercise, matching 2 (flashcard) 
• Vocabulary and grammar exercises (exam type) Grammar & vocabulary exercises. (Exam type).Voca

Concerning GRAMMAR, in this unit we have 2 different topics: RELATIVE CLAUSES and HAVE / GET CAUSATIVE.

RELATIVE CLAUSES:

• Theory
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4: Defining or Non-Defining?
• Exercise 4: Defining or Non-Defining (2)
• Mixed exercises

HAVE / GET CAUSATIVE (have a look at this video)

• Theory
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4

KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE

Correct the mistakes you find in the following sentences.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

"SPORTIVE" BATX 2 STUDENTS' TRAINING ON SPORT VOCABULARY & MODAL VERBS

Batx 2 students  have already started working on UNIT 7, which deals with SPORTS.
We want them to watch this video about extreme sports and leave a comment on the following topic:

Which (extreme) sport do you think is the most thrilling one and why?
(Try to use vocabulary and expressions learnt in class)



Vocabulary exercises

• Exercise 1 (flash cards)

• Exercise 2 (crosswords)

The first  GRAMMAR we are going to work on in unit 7 is MODAL VERBS. You have some theory and exercises to do here.

• Modal verbs 1  
• Modal verbs 2
• Modal verbs 3

The second GRAMMAR of the unit is PREPOSITIONS. Have a look at the following guideline!

• Some guidelines on prepositions 

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!

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!!!

Write a report on Laskenglish

Your English teacher has asked you to look into Laskenglish, the English blog from Laskorain Ikastola, and to write a report with your findings. Don't forget to make some recommendations to improve the blog.

(Please, create a document with Google Docs, and share it with me before you start writing. Give me permission to edit.)

ADVICE ON WRITING A REPORT

Here you have some theory and examples on REPORTS.

Theory
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3