Great way to improve your vocabulary

Find an article, song or any piece of text that you're interested and go to WordSift.

Paste the text in the box provided and you will get incredible results - all you need to extend and make your use of vocabulary more accurate. Great fun too!

Talking about holidays

Write a post saying what you would like to do for your holidays.

• tell us about the place you'd like to visit
• what you'd like to do and see there
• include photos to illustrate the things you describe in your post
  

osvaldo(aitor)

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Jose Juan

Get a Voki now!

Create a voki

• Go to http://www.voki.com/ and sign in with my log in.
• Click on My Voki
• Click on create a Create a New Voki
• Click on Create New Scene
• Choose a character
• Customize your character
• Give it a voice using the model: "My name is ... (think of a name). They call me .... because (think of a reason). I love ... (think of something your character loves doing). I hate ... (think of something your character hates doing)."
  
• Make sure you save your recording
• Choose a background
• Choose a player
• Click on save
• Choose embed in: Blogger
• Choose size: small
• Click on Get Code
• Copy the code
• Now create a new posting on the blog
• Paste the code in the Edit Html window to embed your Voki character in the posting
  

Nightlife in Bilbao

Shopping in Bilbao

Food and festivals in Bilbao

breathing earth (javi & aitor)

In this website there is a world map were you can see how many people are born or die in total or in each country in that moment. We can know how is the standard of living in each country and you can also watch how many CO2 is produced by each country. In this way you know how the world is and we think that is a good way to aware people of the state of the world.

In my name (Javi & Aitor)

I think that nowadays there are a lot of problems in the world, but the main is that the mayority of people don't care about them. Surely, if everyone worked and took part in the rebuilding of a better world, it would be much easier to achieve it.

After making people aware, we all need to work hard with the purpose of ending with the poverty, hunger and injustice. For that, it isn't enough to give money or clothes to poor people, it's also important that we ourselves work to defend and respect each other.

We don't need to work thinking about very big objectives, we have to start the change in our daily acts. It would be better the help you give a person with problems in your school or work place than trying to help people in Africa who you don't know.

Athletic's Video

In my name (xabi and gorka)

I think that nowadays, one of the biggest problem the world has is the enormous poverty which affects more than a half of the total population. However, there are some things people could do to solve the problem. For example, if everyone really wanted to change the situation surely the problem would be solved in a few years.
In my name I would like poverty to be completely beaten . This is a problem of underdeveloped countries but the solution must come fron developed ones and from their citizens and politicians from it.

Breathing earth

Look at the Breathing Earth web site.

Write a post saying what you make of it. (what you understand it to be about).

In my name (Néstor)

I think that the biggest problem the world has is the extreme poverty that affects to more than the half of the world's population. If we achieve eliminating world's poverty, consequently hunger will disappear, every child will be able to have a primary education and also everybody could gain access to a public health system.

I think that there are a lot of governments that don't want to eradicate poverty because they don't do anything and also big organizations exist like the religious ones such us the Catholic Church, which has millions and millions of euros, and although they supposedly spread equality between all people and give help to poor people, they don't really do anything to finish with this big problem.

In my name

Go to the youtube video channel inmyname

Read what the 8 goals are and watch some of the videos.

Now write a post saying what you would like to be done in your name.

How to use Windows Movie Maker to edit your video

This video gives you step by step instructions:

Video tasks

• Convert your audio files to MP3 format in Audacity
• Familiarise yourself with the video camera
• Familiarise yourself with the video editing program Movie Maker
• Record your interviews/presentations with the video camera or the MP3 recorder
• Decide what material you need to import into Movie Maker
• Discuss in your group how you are going to order and edit your material

Supplementary activities

If you are at a loose end while you're waiting for other members of your group to finish their tasks, work through the following activities:

• Read this article on Breaking News and then do the exercises below it
• Practise your spelling with this fun game
• Practise your pronunciation and improve your best score with karaoke party
  

Barack Obama's inauguration speech

What does he promise and pledge to do?
What do you think about his promises?

Deusto (nestor)

I have always lived in Deusto, which is a district of Bilbao. Deusto is well known for its university, for its tomatoes in the old times, for its bridge, and also because it's a big neighbourhood. Deusto has 52,000 habitants and include the neighbourhoods of San Ignazio, Arangoiti and Zorrozaurre.

Deusto was an independent town until it became a district of Bilbao in 1925. My family has always lived in Deusto since they had moved to Bilbao from Dima (a small town of Bizkaia) long time ago.

Deusto has got a lot of schools like "La Salle", "Salesianos", "Ibaigane"... And there is also our beloved British Council, where we learn a lot of English and spend very nice moments.

As I said before, Deusto it's very famous for its university, which is one of the most important Jesuit Universities and it has got a lot of prestigious in economic careers over the world.

This district of Bilbao is near the "Nervion", the river of the city. In the old days there was a little port near Deusto but the ships tied up in the other side, in the district of Indautxu.

Another famous building of my neighbour is the "Deusto's Bridge" (as we can see in the previous photo) which can be opened so that the ships could pass, because long time ago a lot of boats went to the "Casco Viejo" in order to sail and buy products. This bridge connects Deusto with Indautxu, but there are also more bridges wich connect both districts like the "Euskalduna Bridge" and the "Pasarela Pedro Arrupe", in front of the university.

In conclusion, I recommend everybody to visit Deusto so as to visit the university, walk over the "Deusto's Bridge" and have a walk around the neighbourhood in general.