SEPTEMBER 11th 2001

Do you know what happened on September 11th 2001? The Amercican society was shocked when they saw their nation attacked. The mythical Twin Towers from New York were crushed down after two planes impacted on them. Who was behind these attacks? What was the purpose of the attackers?


The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights. (extract taken from wikipedia)

Authorities claimed that Al Qaeda and its leader, Osama Bin Laden were behind the attacks. But what do we know about them? Why were American soldiers sent to Afghanistan? To search for Bin Laden? Why weren't they successful?
Have a look at the following video, which is going to help us understand some things.

Anyway, on Monday 2, 2011, Barack Obama, the president of the USA announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a militar operation by American soldiers.

This is how the Guardian, a British newspaper covered the news of his death and the later reactions to it.

FISH

finned fish

Fishing is quite a difficult topic for us as we have to learn a lot of different names for fish that sometimes we don't even know how they are called in our own language. Well, here you have an exercise that will help you learn names of fish by heart.

sole

halibut

sardine

anchovy

flounder

herring

tuna

hake

cod

sea bream

scallop

clam

squid

shrimp

Lobster

crab

oyster

FISHING - Interview to a fisherman

Listen to a fisherman talking about his job (act 28 from the book).

BASQUE WHALING

Did you know that WHALING was an important activity in Basque economy? Here you have a power point presentation about BASQUE WHALING.iNTERESTING, ISN´T IT?

FARMING MULTINATIONALS

Last day I asked you to find some information on MONSANTO (official webpage), the biggest multinational on farming products.

Here you have some videos that illustrate the damages genetic manipulation developed by some multinationals is causing.

FARMING

machinery for farming

Traditional farming, plantation farming (colonial), commercial farming, industrial farming ... Did you know that there are different systems of agriculture all over the world? depending on how developed or undeveloped the country is, depending on the climatic conditions, multinationals ... one type or the other is going to predominate.
Here you have some exercises that will help you prepare the exam you'll have soon.

bocage

• Vocabulary exercises:
• exercise to practise some concepts connected with farming (crosswords).
• Matching pictures and concepts
• exercise with multiple choice options, for reviewing vocabulary and concepts learned until now.
• exercise where you have to fill in the gaps. 
• Exercise on farming systems around the world with multiple choice answers.

• Here you have a mind map that explains all these farming systems in the world. I hope it will be very useful for the exam you will have soon. Have a look at it!
  FARMING SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD

  

  open-field

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  rice paddy
  

  

  greenhouses

  
  

  

  Extensive farming because of the extension of the territory, however, it's intensively exploited because of the use of many technological advances

  

  Intensive cattle raising

  

  Extensive cattle raising

  

  Artificial irrigation
  
  
  

THE OIBAR VINEYARDS, DO WE HAVE A FUTURE?

This is a very interesting video of a young boy and his father who work in the Oibar vineyards. Listen to their opinion about their everyday life and future. Who does really controll the agricultural production? How can we fight it? Which are the possible solutions?

SEVERAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS

www.datutalaia.net is an interesting page where you can easily find information on economic statistics, both in the whole Basque Country and in municipalities.
Have a look at them and do the following activity:

Fill in this chart, but before ...

• Make a copy of the document and drag it onto My Drive
• Change the name of the document, (e.g: Ibai Arana economic concepts)
• Share it with me from the very first moment (larranaga.helena@laskorain.net)
• Take the data (datuak) of each row (lerroa) and make a clear graph to illustrate it. For that...
• Select the range of information (rows and columns)
• Insert - graph (choose the style of graph that most suits it)

Careful!! One range of data per graph!!!

THE BOMBING OF GERNIKA, 75th ANNIVERSARY

On the 26th April, 1937, the city town of Gernika (Biscay) was bombed by the Condor Legion (German), following General Franco's advice. It was market day and the town was busy. It was a massacre against civilians.
Spain was involved in a civil war, Republicans and Franco's followers. In the Basque provinces, the front was in Elgeta (Intxorta)
Later, Pablo Picasso painted the famous "Gernika", a large painting which became the symbol of the cruelty of war and a message of peace.
Let's have a look at the following docummentaries and know about our past.

OUR PLANET

Just some images from BBC ONE promo to see the beauty of our planet. They may you reflect, isn't taking care of such a beauty worth? Have a look and enjoy it.

RENEWABLE & NONRENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Do you know which energy source is mostly used nowadays? Do you know how much of the energy we consume comes from renewable sources? Do you know when we started using petrol as a fuel? What was used before?
In DBH3 we are dealing with the topic of energy at this point, and here you have a very nice didactic material to work on the topic and know more about it. Have a try!  (click here) Once you have seen the films on that page, do the online exercises it proposes. You'll learn a lot!

GURE PLANETAREN EDERTASUNA

DBH3koak biomak eta paisaiak lantzen ari direnez, aurkezpenak egiten ari dira gelaz gela. Har ezazue tartetxo bat gure planetaren edertasunaz gozatzeko!