Latvia

J.Pilsudska Daugavpils valsts poļu ģimnāzija

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Our country covers an area of over 64,000 km², with a population of 1.9 million. The capital city of country is Riga, but our city Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia.

There’re one of the fastest WiFi speeds in the world.

Latvia is famous for its beer, beautiful women, lakes, nature and bread.

Latvia is among the world's greenest countrie, forests are taking about 52% of Latvia’s territory.

Latvia lies in Northern Europe, on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. Is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast.

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Latvian flag is one of the oldest in the world.

Daugavpils

Daugavpils is exceptionally rich in red brick buildings. This style was developed by many outstanding architects.

• Daugavpils is a state city in south-eastern Latvia, located on the banks of the Daugava River, from which the city gets its name.

Our town was established in 1275, this year it will be 748 years old.

• Daugavpils is located close to Belarus and Lithuania borders.

The most prominent is Daugavpils fortress dating mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.

In April 2013 the Mark Rothko Art centre was opened in the fortress.

J. Pilsudski Daugavpils State Polish Gymnasium

• Founded in 1921
• The school consists of

two buildings:

• primary school on Marijas street,
• middle and high school on Varsavas street.

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The school is located on a Church hill

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• More than 460 students and 46 teachers.
• All students learn Polish and Latvian traditions and history.
• Pupils speak four languages.

Our school events and traditions

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• 100- dniówka- 100 days untill the exams in 12th grade. Usually 11th grade performs, supports and wishes them success.

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• Tłusty czwartek the last Thursday before the lent. Students can eat doughnuts and sweets because later it will forbidden to eat a lot of food for around one month.

Mikołajki- 6th December.

The Day of Holly Mikolaj. Students from high school dress up and act like Santa and his assistants. They give small presents to primary and secondary school students. There is a dress code on this day, everyone has to be dressed in red or have Santas red hats.

SPAIN

IES Celia Viñas

Almería

Done by: Paula, Fátia, Sofia, Razan, Luna y Claudia

1. Where is Spain in Europe?
2. History and weather
3. Geography
4. Monuments
5. Culture and traditions
6. Andalusia
7. Almería
8. Our High School

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ERASMUS + OUR PROJECT

3 KINGDOM:

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• Kingdom of Castilla
• Crown of Aragón
• Kingdom of Navarra

HISTORY OF SPAIN

Surrounded by:

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• The Cantabrian Sea
• The Atlantic Ocean
• The Mediterranean Sea

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WEATHER

Main climates in Spain:

-Continental weather

-Maritime weather

-Mediterranean weather

GEOGRAPHY

Spain is located in the Iberian Peninsula

-17 autonomous communities

-50 provinces

-2 autonomous cities

The Alhambra Palace in Granada

The Alhambra Palace in Granada

The Royal Palace of Madrid

The mediaval Wall in Ávila

The Aqueduct of Segovia

The Holy Family in Barcelona

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

Flamenco

Typical food

The Fallas Valencia

Andalusia is an autonomous community formed by eight provinces: Almería, Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Huelva, Seville, Córdoba and Jaén. It’s situated in the south part of the Iberian Peninsula. The Atlantic and Mediterranean seas bathe Andalusia. Both seas get together on the rock of Gibraltar.

In 711, there was a Muslim invasion in the Iberian Peninsula and Andalusia was named al-Ándalus. That’s why we have such amazing monuments like the Alhambra in Granada or the Alcazaba in Almería.

The green colour in Andalusia’s flag represents hope and union and the white colour represents peace and dialogue.

The lyrics of the hymn appeal to the Andalusians to ask for "land and freedom"

-Almería is located in the southeast of Spain, in Andalusia.

-Almería is bathed by the Mediterranean sea.

Due to the Italian conquest and because they were Christians, Almería has a cross in the flag.

-Almería´s weather is usually really warm all year long.

-In winter and autumn it´s usually windy..

We have unique virgin beaches

Here we have autocthonous plants and animal species

The plastic sea is seen from the moon

We export vegetables to all Europe

ALMERÍA IS EUROPE’S GREENHOUSE

The spot where a lot of western films have been shot since the early sixties.

TABERNAS DESERT

Game of Thrones

Wonder woman

Once Upon a Time In The West

Indiana Jones

SOME FILMS SHOT IN ALMERÍA

CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF ALMERÍA

Built in 1923.

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HISTORIC HIGHSCHOOL OF ANDALUCIA

• Active for 100 years

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• More than 35.000 people studied in the school

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• Currently there are 1,082 students and 117 teachers

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• In Celia Viñas High School we teach:

SECUNDARY EDUCATION

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

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PERCEVAL

GARCÍA LORCA

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We should say that the school suffered a German bombing in 1937!

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AMAZING ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS IN OUR HIGHSCHOOL!

Thanks for watching and listening to us.

We are very proud of our city and our country.

HUNGARY

Új Budai Alma Mater Általános Iskola, AMI és Óvoda

Raáb Dávid Ádám, Vezse Áron, Késmárki Ádám, Szántó-Gál Sára, Sebők Panna, Szonda Eszter Kincső

HUNGARY

Új Budai Alma Mater Általános Iskola, AMI és Óvoda

Main information about Hungary

• Capital city: Budapest
• Central Europe
• Area: 93.025 km²
• Population: 9.71 million
• Currency: hungarian forint (FT)
• Official language: Hungarian
• Bordering countries: Slovakia,

Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia,

Slovenia, Austria

Budapest

• Divided by the Danube: Buda & Pest
• Known for:
• magnificent architecture
• thermal baths
• traditional food
• vibrant nightlife
• 23 districts
• 9 bridges above the Danube

Some sights�

FISHERMAN’S BASTION

MARGARET ISLAND

STATUE OF LIBERTY

VÁROSLIGET

Food

�COTTAGE CHEESE STICK

History

• The Great Hungarian Conquest and the Kingdom of Hungary:
• Conquest of Pannonia 🡪 896
• Settlement
• 1001: Saint Stephen I: Formation of the Kingdom of Hungary
• Beginning of Hungarian history as a country

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History II.

• The invasion of the Ottoman Empire:
• 1520s: Ottoman Empire 🡪 massive invasion
• 1541, capture of Buda: end of Hungarian resistence🡪Hungary

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• The occupation lasted until 1699

Kingdom of Hungary Ottoman territories Principality of Erdély

History III.

• Hungary’s role in the World Wars:
• WWI:
• Member of the Central Powers (Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria)
• After loss in WWI: territory has shrunken, Kingdom was dissolved
• Member of the Axis (Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan…)
• Darkest times in Hungarian history
• 1945 (after loss): Soviet occupation 🡪lasted until 1989

History IV.

• The Soviet occupation and modern-day Hungary:
• Soviet occupation:
• One-party-state, dictatorship
• Communism
• Soviet leadership 🡪 support for the Hungarian communist leaders
• 1956: Hungarian revolution: revolution against the regime, but failure
• 1980s: The Soviet Union 🡪 not that stable anymore🡪 1989: Peaceful revolution: The Declaration of the Third Hungarian Republic
• Modern-day Hungary:
• Parliamentary republic.
• NATO membership: 1999
• EU membership: 2004

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Inventions

Language:

• Hungarian 🡪 one of the hardest languages
• Agglutinating language
• Latin letters
• Alphabet 🡪 44 letters
• Around 15 million people speaks it (worldwide)
• FUNFACT: the longest Hungarian word:

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Eltöredezettségmentesítőtleníttethetetlenségtelenítőtlenkedhetnétek (67 letters, but actually nobody uses it)

ÚJALMA �our school

• 1997
• Full name: Új Budai Alma Mater Primary School
• Private school
• Around 300 student and 46 teachers at the moment
• PHILOSOPHY

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• Our traditions/celebrations:
• carnival
• harvest fest
• may day
• student director’s day
• forest school

Thank you for the attention!

ESTONIA

Rapla Vesiroosi Kool

Ella-Nora, Eliise, Kaisa Ingeliis, Joosep, Tõnis, Renate

ESTONIA

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• country by the Baltic Sea
• in Northern Europe
• capital city: Tallinn
• area: 47 549 km²
• population: 1,357,739
• government: unitary parliamentary republic
• currency: euro
• official language: Estonian

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ESTONIA

• more than 50% forest
• 1,500 islands, 1,000 lakes and 7,000 rivers in Estonia
• The Estonian Song Celebration dates back to 1869, attracting thousands of singers every 5 years
• Digital Society
• Suur Munamägi (Big Egg Hill), at 318 meters high, is the highest in the Baltic region
• Tallinn was the European Capital of Culture in 2011
• Estonia won the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest

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RAPLA

• town in central Estonia
• capital of Rapla County
• centre of Rapla Parish
• population: 5,684 people
• oldest records date back to 1241 in the Danish Census Book
• Rapla church is the only rural church with two steeples in Estonia
• a railway station on the Tallinn–Viljandi railway line which is operated by Elron
• own basketball team - AVIS UTILITAS RAPLA

RAPLA VESIROOSI KOOL

• one big building
• established in 1988
• 560 students
• 72 teachers
• very active Students` Council
• is connected and participates in movements like Stay healthy and a healthy lifestyle, Bullying-free study environment, charity campaigns for the Zoo and animals` shelters, green movement, study trips into the nature and natural resources.

PORTUGAL

Real Colégio de Portugal

Our current flag started to be used since 1911, after the monarchy’s fall in 1910 and the rising of republican political system.

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Portugal exists as a country since the 12th century and our first king was called Afonso the 1st.

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• Portugal is one of the countries in Europe with older and stabler borders, since medieval times.

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• Lisbon is our capital city since the 13th century with King Afonso the 3rd.

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• We had about eight centuries of monarchy and we have a republic since 1910.

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• We entered the European Union in 1986 along with Spain.

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• The total area of Portugal is 92 256 km².

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• Our population is 10 343 066 inhabitants.

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• Portugal is an ocean country, with a great

line coast, about 2500 km, having one of

the greater exclusive economical zone in

the world with about 1,7 milion km² of

ocean to explore, with a great amount

and diversity of ecosystems and

resources.

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Portugal is located in Southwest Europe.

It’s one of the two countries in Iberian Pensinsula.

It is bordered by Spain to the north, northeast, east and southeast.

Portugal’s natural limit is Atlantic Ocean at West, Southwest and South.

Our country is formed by continental Portugal and two archipelagos: Madera and Azores.

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Lisbon

• Lisbon has an urban area of 100,05 km² and counts with 545 796 inhabitants.
• It’s the biggest city of Portugal, it’s the political center where the government has seat, as well as the official residence of our President. It’s also the seat of the Comunity of Countries of Portugueses Language. Lisbon is the capital city more to the West in European continent in Atlantic coast.
• Its first name could have been “Olissipo”, because Tejo banks were already known by Fenitians and Greeks in centuries b.C., that went there to do business with people of Lisbon. Actually there are archeological traces of human presence in Lisbon since Neolitic, much before those civilizations came to us, but Romans and Musslims, who took Lisbon by invasions to enlarge their empires, had a very important presence in our city and left many cultural traces.
• Most of its urbanism, especially downtown, was renovated in the 18th century because of a terrible natural catastrophe: many things were destroyed by an earthquake followed by a tsunamy and fires. Almost everything had to be rebuilted and Lisbon became one of the more modern cities of Europe at the time.

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Lisbon is located in the center of Portugal and is our capital city, located on the banks of the Tejo River. Like Rome, it has 7 hills.

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Real Colégio de Portugal

• Founded in 1999, our school is proud of being located in the arquitectonic complex of the Lumiar counts and Pisani’s palace. Lumiar was a place where nobles of Lisbon came to relax in the 18th and 19th century like if they were in the countryside, so we are not located in the center of Lisbon.

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• We receive children since they start to walk until they become adolescents. We teach since pre-school until secondary.

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• In the main building we have pre-school and primary school students. In “Quinta do Pisani” we have highschool with students that attend 2nd and 3rd grade and secondary school.

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Real Colégio de Portugal

• Our main goal is to give our students the tools and the necessary skills to find their own vocation and talents, to follow their dreams and convictions. We focus on the person, not only in the professional future.
• We are a non religious educational private institution with a strong multicultural component, with students from 18 different nationalities. We strongly believe that socialization between different cultures can be a very important experience for our students in a world in permanent change, because it increases the adaptation sense.
• 400 students attend our school. We teach the regular curriculum in Portugal, but we have complementary educational offers like Mandarin and Enterpeneurship between the 4th and the 9th grade.
• We have Ballet classes and a Music School where children can learn instruments like piano or classical guitar. We have special events to show their skills to community.

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Real Colégio de Portugal

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Real Colégio de Portugal

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• We bet a lot in language learning, like German, Mandarin, Spanish and English. We have two native speaker English teachers.

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• We have agreements with several international Language Institutes, like Cervantes or Cambridge. We also have the Dual Diploma.

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• We offer our secondary students every official courses that provide them the conditions to access university: Sciences and Tecnology, Economical Sciences, Languages and Humanities, Visual Arts.

Our school events

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• Real Colégio de Portugal gets into many field trips:

Here we have some peace of last school year finalists trip to Paris (9th and 12th graders), a picnic and stroll through Sintra and visits to VanGogh, Viking and Roman exhibits.

Our school events

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• Real Colégio de Portugal also gets into many projects and events envolving as many students as possible and gathering all the community:

Here we have some piece of Roman and Renaiscence feasts; celebrating the Students day with multicultural activities like “Holi”, the indian festival of colours where people literally throw vivid coloured powders to celebrate the joy of living; Christmas and summer feasts plenty of different activities.

Thank you for your time!