The Virtual Picture Album -- Basque Country

The grid below is an annotated index to part of the Virtual Picture Album compiled and distributed by the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project at the University of Minnesota. The pictures in this section of the VPA are of people, places and objects in the Basque Country. Each of the pictures is represented by a thumbnail-sized image in the grid, and is accompanied by:

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Due to the number of pictures in this section, the VPA index for the Basque Country is divided into three parts.

Part 1 People and daily life
Part 2 Culture
Part 3 Landscape and scenery

To view or download a full-sized picture from the VPA, click on its thumbnail representation below.

Photo (Thumbnail) Vocabulary Items Topics Grammar Points

City, buildings, old, stones; historic, traditions, customs, market; adjective, number, gender agreement;

Ancient , walls, people, building, piers, to visit, visitors, century, historic; tourism, historic, architecture; adjectives, locatives;
behind, above, etc.;
past tense, gender, numbers
Sunday market, gathering, old men, basque bonet, oil, vinager, food products, City life, festivals, traditions; adjectives, plural, spatial relation, locatives;

City, buildings, old, stones; Architecture, city, square,historic, traditions, customs, market; adjective, number, gender agreement;
Santiago day celebration, buildings, ancient, tower, church, old city, old women;
holiday, visit, tourism;
Religion, celebrations; constructions, number, how many, plural;

rural houses;
courtyard, path, stone, roof;
architecture, history, design, materials number, prepositions, adjectives;

wood work, decorative, flowery, beautiful, structure, direction, size; Architecture, color, pattern, style; Noun/adjective agreement;

folklore, dance, men, women, celebrations; Traditions;
music, musical instruments;
Adjective, nouns, sentence structure;

rural house;
light, color, form, line, style, courtyard;
History, rural, tourism; adjectives;

goats, goat-cheese, cheese-maker, land, gate, visitors; tradition, rural economy; number, motion verbs

mountain, landscape,to grow plants, gardening, flowers, bushes, woman, man, clothing, terrace, weather, warm, sunny, stone, materials, garden Seasons-Spring Numbers, colors, comparatives, adjectives, present tense, past tense
plural;

breakfast, to eat, to drink, friend, woman, man, mountain, terrace, hill, valley, concrete, window, to wake up, to view,land; Village life-activities; Present tense, future tense, present continuos,how many?;
comparatives, colors, prepositions

to swim, sun lotion, to be tanned, rocks, sea side,to seat, to lay down, to surf, towel, swimming suit, to dress, to wear, to undress, sandals, sand, water, umbrella Landscape-Beaches-Activities Present tense, action verbs;
comparatives, colors, prepositions

to hike, to climb, to take a rest, to eat, to drink, green, rocks, mountain, people, mother, father, son, umbrella, sunny, windy, chair, table Landscape-Mountains; Present tense, action verbs;
comparatives, colors, prepositions

land, mountains, mother, daughter, green , stone, rocks, sky, weather, summer, storm, wind, shorts, sandals; Landscape-mountains-leisure activities; Present tense, past tense, verbs egon, ukan izan, ikusi, adjectives

gardening, to grow plants, plant trees, fruit, flowers, grass, cut grass, mother, daughter, friend, cousin, grandmother, happy, to smile, house, windows Village-Outdoor activities; gender, plural, singular, adjectives, verb izan and egon, past tense, future tense, present tense

breakfast, to eat, to drink, friend, woman, man, mountain, terrace, hill, valley, concrete, window, to wake up, to view Village life-activities number, motion verbs

rural, light, color, form, tree, to climb, basquet, to collect, fruit, cherries, woman, man, to help, branch, leaves, green; Rural life-Harvest
History, rural, geography;
Present tense, future tense, present continuos,how many?;
comparatives, colors, prepositions

rural life, grandmother, light, color, cherries, to collect, to dry, to select, to put, tray, table, chair, glasses, to wear, kitchen; Rural life-Harvest
History, rural, geography
adjectives
gender, numbers;

to go for a walk, sight seeing, leaves, to take a rest, green, scenery, landscape,trees, snow, to snow, winter clothers, gloves; Landscape-Leisure/Outdoors-Activities; Present tense, action verbs;
Future tense, Paste tense, numbers, prepositions

GRAMMAR POINTS Nouns   Adjectives Verbs ukan, izan, egon   Adjective agreement Verbs tenses   Colors Gender   Number Action verbs   Prepositions Distance   Near/far Geography   Number Historic/historical   Numbers How-many?   Verb tenses Location   Prepositions Pastimes/ancient   Religion


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