FOR

FINDING OUR ROOTS

ERASMUS+ PROJECT

LICEO PLINIO SENIORE (CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA, ITALY )

URBI B.H.I. (BASAURI, SPAIN)

VARVAKEIO MODEL EXPERIMENTAL LYCEUM (ATHENS, GREECE)

 WHO ARE WE?
Two teachers of Urbi (Basauri) High School: Mara
Jess Ramrez and Karmele Lpez de Abetxuko.
Urbi is a school with more than 600 students and
70 teachers.
Urbi High School educational availability:
Secondary School, Baccalaureate and Vocational
Training.
We teach Classical Languages (Latin, Greek ,
Classical Mythology).
The subjects are taught through Basque and
some ones through English: Maths, Physics,
Latin, Computers and Cultural Workshop.
The students can learn Spanish and French too.
The High School cope with a CLIL project.
URBIS EXPERIENCE IN MULTILINGUISM
2011-2015 years: project and school exchange with Gymnasium
Marienschule (Krefeld, Renania-Westfalia, Germany).
2011-2014 years: project and school exchange with:
Dronninglund Efterskole, Aalborg, Denmark.
Lyce Michelet, Lannemezan, France.
Name of the projects:
Getting to know each other
Connatre et apprendre.
2012-14 years: project and school exchange with Liceo Plinio
Seniore, Castellammare di Stabia, Naples, Italy.
Name of the project: SOMA (Specific Onomastic by a Multicultural
Approach).
2014-15 year: eTwinning Project with the Italians and the Greeks :
Chloris (Botany terms, our common European cultural heritage).
- TO GAIN AND ASSIMILATE SCIENTIFIC VOCABULARY RELATED TO BOTANY IN
ENGLISH.

- TO ENRICH ENGLISH ACADEMIC LANGUAGE SKILLS.

- ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERACT WITH FOREIGN PEERS IN ORDER TO GAIN

FLUENCY SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

- TO IMPROVE AND ACQUIRE THE VOCABULARY RELATED TO BOTANY IN MOTHER

AND PARTNERSLANGUAGES.

- TO CUSTOMIZE MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY BY USING NEW APPLICATIONS.

- TO IMPROVE PLURILINGUAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES.

WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT?

- To acquire English academic language skills related to

Botany vocabulary.
- To acquire English academic language skills related to
classical myths and plants.
- To improve English linguistic competences in real-life
situations.
- To improve and acquire the vocabulary related to
botany in mother and partnerslanguages.
- To improve ICT skills.
- To improve plurilingual and intercultural competences.
ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT

Every school year: Collaborative glossary of

words about the morphology of some vascular
plants.
Every school year:Collaborative dictionary of
mythological plants.
3 times per school year during the school
exchanges: presentations, interactive exercises,
mythological gymkhana, mythological garden.
METHODOLOGY
CLIL(Contents and Language Integrated Learning)
method.
Interdisciplinary teaching. The departments involved
are: Modern Languages (Basque, English, modern
Greek, Italian and Spanish); Classical Languages(Latin
and Ancient Greek); Classical Culture (Mythology);
Natural Science (Botany); Computers (platforms and
applications).
Information and Communications Technology (school
website, wiki, blog, Linoit, Smore, Padlet, )
eELP (European Language Portfolio).
JOIN US!
Our emails:
Karmele Lopez de Abetxuko Ureta:
karmelelo@urbibas.org
Mara Jess Ramrez Dez:
marije@urbibas.org
Urbi High School:+34 94 4492996
Lehendakari Agirre 93
48970 Basauri (Bizkaia) Spain
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

ESKERRIK ASKO!
VIELEN DANK!

GRATIAS VOBIS AGIMUS!

Laudio, 24th September 2015