2. About our place
Hi Everybody!
Before starting to work, let’s know
something about the place where we live
and work...
3. We are from Barakaldo, a city of the
Basque Country.
Where are we?
4. In Barakaldo there are many places to visit.
Barakaldo.
The centre of Barakaldo.
Bilbao exhibition centre.
It is a place where there
are exhibitions.
Cruces (A neighborhood of
Barakaldo)
5. ❖ The autonomous community of Barakaldo is the Basque
Country.
❖ In Bilbao there are 349,356 inhabitants
❖ In Barakaldo there are 100,502 inhabitants
❖ In the Basque Country there are 2,193,093 inhabitants
❖ In Spain there are 47,129,783 inhabitants
Inhabitants
6. Our surroundings and landscape
This is Bilbao, where Athletic
of Bilbao has got his stadium,
the New San Mames, which is
dearly called “the cathedral
of football”. In the pictures
you can see the “Ria”, the
Guggenheim Museum that is
known all over the world and
the “Puente Colgante” (in
Getxo).
We are surrounded by mountains, and the sea
is very near. Here, the ports had been very
important in the past and nowadays they
remain in active.
Green areas are also an important attractive thing
here and we’ve got many beautiful parks, like “Doña
Casilda” park. At the back, you can see the
Iberdrola tower (the third highest tower in Spain).
7. Our surroundings and landscape
This picture shows San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, located
between Bakio and Bermeo, in the north coast of Spain and
the views from the top are spectacular.
We live in a beautiful place
where tradition and
modernism live together.
8. Our high school
Our school is divided into two buildings.
In the first building, there are students
for first and second of secondary. In the
second building, there are students for third
and fourth of secondary and first and second of
bachiller. 1 of secondary to 4 of secondary is from the age 12-16. And
in bachiller there are two school
years from 16 to 18 years.
Our school is between mountains and buildings.
The view from the playground is very beautiful.
This is the second building.
9. Our school year starts on September
and finishes in June. The school year is
formed of three terms. The first term
started in September, the second term
started after Christmas holidays and the
third term started after Easter week.
We classes start at 8:15 every day and
finishes and 16:10 except Wednesdays
and Fridays because we haven't got
class in the afternoon and we finish at
14:15.
Our school year
10. In September and June we haven't got class
in the afternoon so we also finish like on
Wednesdays and Fridays. For having lunch
some people eat at school in the dining room
and other people go home. the time to eat
starts at 12:20 and finishes at 14:40 when
the afternoon classes start. Between classes
there are 5 minutes break time.
Our school year (2)
11. We are divided in 2 class, and we have different subjects depending on what
you want to work in the future. Some people study science
( Biology,Physics and Chemistry..) and others study Technology, Drawing…
then we have common subjects for example, Basque, Maths,Spanish, Gym…
our break time, is 30 minutes long and we can stay at the playground or go
out to buy something to eat.
SUBJECTS AND BREAK TIME
12. What we usually do
We usually get up at seven o’clock to start classes
at quarter past eight in La Siebe high school.
After being 6 hours in classes and some time of
brake, we go home and we do our homework.
Some of us also do different activities after
classes, like football, boxing, swimming…
Weekends are days of relaxing
a little bit from everyday
stressful life. We usually go
out with friends and enjoy.
13. Museums, Food and Sports
● Museums:
1.Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by
Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to
the Cantabrian Sea.
14. 2. Bilbao Fine Museum
It is the second largest and most visited museum in the Basque Country, after
the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum. It houses a rich and quite comprehensive
collection from the Middle Age to contemporary art, including works by El
Greco, Cranach, Murillo, Goya…
15. Basque Sports
Basque sports, ‘Herri kirolak’ in Basque, are the typical sports here.
In the beginning, Basque people did them because boys sometimes put face to
face and competed to see who was the best.
All the Basque sports have got his origin in the works that the men realised in
the sea or in the land.
A harrijasotzaile lifting the stone.
Esku pilota is a very
popular sports in Basque
Country
In the beginning men went to
hunt whales in trawlers from
Basque Country to
Newfoundland
16. Typical Basque food
In the Basque Country we love eating well so we have a
very rich food.
Codfish al pil pil Culttlefish in its ink
Talo with chorizo. Talo
is made with cornmeal.
Basque cake.
17. Our school year started in September and we finish in June. So the rest of the
year we have summer holidays, but during the year we have some other
holidays like Christmas holidays and Easter holidays, both of them are two
weeks long. During Easter holidays in many parts of our country there are
specific religious processions, the most important ones are celebrated in
Sevilla. Then, we have less important free weeks like Carnivals. A normal day
in class we must spend six hours in the high school.
Holidays and Festivals (1/2)
18. On Christmas we have a special character, Olentzero. He is an old man who
works in a mine, and on Christmas Eve he spend the whole night handing out
presents with his old donkey.
Holidays and Festivals (2/2)
