Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

For Christmas we want to wish you Merry Christmas spent with your
family, smile on the face, many sunny days, happiness and a Happy
New Year! ; )

We want show you some posters about Christmas traditions in Poland.
Click each poster to see more:

Polish food

Polish cuisine consists of typical European food.
It doesn't have anything special. However as like each country, we have traditional and national dishes which were invented in Poland.


Link for the presentation

POLAND

I prepared for you a presentation about Polish geography. Here you've got a link to the presentation.Nice watch ! : )

Link for the presentation : )

Traditions in Poland

The presentation which I prepared with Olga is about some holidays which we celebrate in Poland. You can watch it in the folder called: „Our Countries”. See you soon.
link of the presentation

UEFA EURO 2012.

On the TwinSpace there is a presentation which I prepared with Sebastian about UEFA EURO 2012. It is in the part called: "Our Countries". This presentation shows stadiums in Poland and Ukraine.
See you soon :)

Link for the presentation

Polish Cinema

Presentation which I prepared is about Polish cinema: great actors and directors who are known in the whole World (I think you should know some of them). You can watch it on the TwinSpace in the same part as Liwia's presentation ("Our Countries"). See you soon. :)
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=0b5f84f8-f4a3-4ad9-984d-bc394408603c&groupId=14495497

Poland-Fashion

On the TwinSpace there is a presentation on the fashion in Poland.It is in the part called: "our countries". This presentation shows the largest Polish designers and models.
I invite you to watch. ;)

http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=14460527&p_p_id=20&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_20_struts_action=%2Fdocument_library%2Fview&_20_folderId=14496094

The Santa Claus Day

Today is 6th December and we've got a Santa Claus Day. On this day we remember about St. Nicolas, a bishop, who lived many years ago and who helped poor people. Therefore today in Poland people give each other some gifts. Usually somebody dresses up as Santa Claus and wears a red costume, red cap and long beard. This person gives children some sweets and different toys. In our school today there also was a St. Claus and he was giving candies.

Welcome in Poland !

Poland is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea. The longest Polish river is Wisła (The Vistula River). The country’s highest peak is Rysy (2 499 m). Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world.

We invite you to watch a silent award-winning movie about the history of Poland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DrXgj1NwN8

Here you've got some information for you about our country.
First, the short text written by Paweł about Polish movies .

Poland is the country very rich in many artists from different fields. We have the huge wealth of many movie directors who are known in the whole World – Agnieszka Holland (“In Darkness”), Roman Polański (“Ghost-Writer”), Jerzy Skolimowski (“Essential Killing”) or Andrzej Wajda (“Katyń”) are some of these. They were nominated to many movie awards - Oscars Academy or César. Andrzej Wajda has won an Oscar for his output. We have many great actors too. One of them is Daniel Olbrychski, in 2010 he got the role in the thriller – “Salt” in which he performed beside American superstar Angelina Jolie. *Curiosity: Alicja Bachleda Curuś - Polish actress met American actor Collin Farrell during her stay in the USA, but their marriage wasn’t long. There is a difference between Polish and American productions. Our movies are valuable and with a message, so they are respected and appreciated on an international scale.

Next is Liwia's presentation about Models and designers.

Fashion starts playing an increasingly important role among our countrymen. We have many great designers, including Ewa Minge, who begins to achieve success in Europe. In addition to the well-known designers we also have wonderful models who take part in shows by top designers in the world. More information will be included in the presentation. I strongly encourage you to watch! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZM1OfgmWKw&feature=channel_video_title

Here is Ola's note about athletes.

In Poland there are a lot of famous athletes in different disciplines for example running, cross-country skiing , ski jumping etc. In the picture we can see two winners Kazimierz Orzeł and Józef Bednarczyk who won a lot of contests. Kazimierz Orzeł is a famous runner who was a participant in the Olympic Games in Mantreal in 1976. Józef Bednarczyk is a repeated winner in discus throw in sports competition in Poland. Here is a photo of my father with both former sportsmen:

These are the most popular sportsman in our country. Check out these links and enjoy videos:

Agnieszka and Ula Radwańska: http://www.radwanskasisters.com/

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBNcHv5Dik&feature=fvst

Adam Małysz: http://www.malysz.org/en

Robert Kubica : http://www.kubica.pl/

Justyna Kowalczyk: http://www.justyna-kowalczyk.pl/?locale=en_GB

EURO 2012

It is also important that we, along with Ukraine, are the organizers of Euro 2012. This is already the fourteenth football championship. We are proud that we can organize them in 2012. You can see below the national stadium in Warsaw, the capital of our country.

And a link to the official website of the championship in 2012:

http://www.2012.org.pl/en.html

Zuza and Natalia have prepared for you something about Polish food.

Polish cuisine.
Polish cuisine is typical European food.
It doesn't have anything special. However as like each country, we have traditional and national dishes which were invented in Poland.
Special meal is for example: bigos, pierogi, schabowy, mielony, naleśniki, rosół and gołąbki.
We think that Polish cuisine is one of the best in the world.

Polish traditions.

Polish traditions are unique and magical. In Poland

we celebrate for example: welcome spring, Night of St. John (midsummer Night), St. Andrew’s Night, blessing of Easter food, Christmas Eve Supper and Shepherds Mass on December 24. In Poland, the traditions are passed from generation to generation. We try to cultivate our traditions.

The biggest Polish companies.

The most famous Polish companies are

LOT Polish Airlines

WAWEL

and OLZA producers of sweets,

HORTEX (http://www.hortex.com.pl/en/ )

and TYMBARK

producers of fruit juices,

PZL MIELEC – the producer of aircraft ( http://www.pzlmielec.pl/en/ )

and many others.

The photos come from official websites of these products.

Watch this video and feel invited !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXPeofkW-Pw

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