sobota 28. února 2009

We have answered the Polish questionnaire

We have finished recording answers of the students about the way how they help the environment. Last year we had another project with a Polish school in Tyczin and they inspired us with one activity which was really great and useful. The students created special sighns which said- Save the energy and they stuck them on the doors of classroom and in the school toilets and bathrooms.

The other contributions are on www.twinner.podomatic.com

čtvrtek 26. února 2009

THe results of the graphs

The Czech students recorded the results of the graphs.

středa 25. února 2009

úterý 24. února 2009

Back to The Day of Languages


We celebrated this day a bit later on Monday after our week´s break.

Here are some results from our lesson.

pondělí 23. února 2009

My journey to school

The competition initiated by the Czech teacher Nada was a great idea. Thanks to that we have to look more carefully at places we see every day. We can see better the beauty of some places but also maybe the necessity for some changes. So, dear students, take your cameras or mobile phones and show us the places you know very well. I'm really looking forward to seeing your trees on our Twinspace!

neděle 22. února 2009

International Mother Tongue Day in our class

We are talking about different langauages in the world. Students think about endagered languages and they give examples, we answer questions given to the students by our Polish teacher Weronika Kuš. Czech students will give a report about languages spoken in their families.

the article:
Languages of the WorldIt is difficult to give an exact figure of the number of languages that exist in the world, because it is not always easy to define what a language is. The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear-cut. It has nothing to do with similarity of vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation. Sometimes, the distinctions are based purely on geographical, political, or religious reasons. It is usually estimated that the number of languages in the world varies between 3,000 and 8,000.
There is a list of the world's languages, called "Ethnologue" (Grimes 1996). There are 6,500 living languages listed. Of these, 6,000 have registered population figures. 52% of the 6,000 languages are spoken by less than 10,000 people, and 28% are spoken by less than 1,000 people. 83% of them are limited to single countries.
The ten largest languages in the world are the first languages for nearly half of the world's population.
Here is a list of the top 10 languages in February 1999 according to Ethnologue:
1. Mandarin 885 million speakers2. Spanish 332 million speakers3. English 322 million speakers4. Bengali 189 million speakers5. Hindi 182 million speakers6. Portuguese 170 million speakers6. Russian 170 million speakers8. Japanese 125 million speakers9. German 98 million speakers10. Wu 77 million speakers
The figures refer to the number of people who have the language as their first language. If those speakers who have learnt the language as a foreign language were to be included, English might be at the top of the list.Arabic would be among the 10 most widely spoken languages, if it were to be counted as one language. Ethnologue lists ten variants of spoken Arabic among its top 100. The biggest of these is Egyptian Arabic with 42.5 million speakers. If they were to be counted as one and the same language, Arabic would come out sixth with 175 million speakers, and Wu would drop out of the top ten. These figures are from 1999, so some languages may have shifted postions on the list for demographical reasons, and then particularly in positions 4 through 7, where also Arabic might turn up, see above.
The branch of linguistics which is called comparative philology, has classified the world's languages into different families. All of the relationships within the families are not yet clear, and therefore the classification must be seen as preliminary.
The languages within a family usually share a common language, from which they developed. However, sometimes languages are considered to be related just because they happen to be geographically close to one another.
You can look at "Mark Rosenfelder's maps of the world's language families (in a new window, close it to get back here).
The Indo-European language family is the most researched of all the families. Languages, which belong to this family, are spoken in India, Pakistan, Iran, and nearly all of Europe. The Indo-European language family has been split into smaller language groups:
The Indo-Iranian has about 600 million speakers and includes languages such as Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi. These languages are spoken in northern India and in Pakistan. The ancient Indian language, Sanskrit, has had enormous impact on the historical language research. The systematic similarities between Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek were observed as early as the 18th century,
Persian and Kurdish are also a part of the Indo-Iranian language group.
The Romance language group developed from Latin and has about 600 million speakers in Europe and Latin America. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian belong to this group.
The Germanic language group has about 500 million speakers in Europe and North America. The Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese) belong to this group along with English, German, Dutch, Flemish (which is spoken in a part of Belgium), and Afrikaans (which is related to Dutch and is spoken in South Africa).
The Slavic language group is mainly confined to Eastern Europe. It has 300 million speakers. The largest language in this group is Russian. Other Slavic languages are Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian.
The remaining language groups within the Indo-European language family are considerably smaller.
The Baltic language group is represented by Latvian and Lithuanian.
The Greek language group is made up of Modern Greek together with various older forms of Greek.
The Celtic language group was once spoken all over Europe, but now it is only made up of small languages such as Breton, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic.
Beside the Indo-European languages there are also a few other language families represented in Europe. The two largest are the Turkic language group, spoken by about 40 million speakers in Turkey, and the Finno-Ugric language group. Finnish, Estonian, Saami, and Hungarian belong to the Finno-Ugric language group. Another interesting language in Europe is Basque, which is spoken in the Basque region in northern Spain and in a small part of southwestern France. Basque, as far as we know, has no known relatives. The languages in Africa are usually divided into four language families:
The Niger-Congo language family is usually divided into ten sub-groups. Each sub-group includes several hundred languages. Nearly half of the Niger-Congo languages are made up of different Bantu languages. Bantu languages are spoken by about 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. Swahili is the most known and wide spread of the Bantu languages.
The Khoisan language family is spoken by a couple of hundred thousand people in southern Africa, especially in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia and Botswana. The Khoisan language family is usually referred to as "click" languages, because of the exotic click sounds the speakers use. The Khoisan family is divided into three groups, North, Central, and South. Earlier, the family was only divided into two main groups: the Hottentots (cattle herders) and the Bushman (hunters and gatherers Đ nomads).
The Afro-Asian language family is found in the northern and eastern parts of Africa from Mauritania in the west to Somalia in the east. This family is usually divided into five sub-groups. The Semitic is the most common and most understood, much thanks to the spread of Arabic, which is understood in the whole of North Africa. Arabic is understood by about 150 million people and is often the language of education. Other important Semitic languages are Amharic and Tigrinya, which are spoken by about 10 million people in Ethiopia. The long extinct Egyptian language, which is known for its hieroglyphics, is considered to have belonged to the Afro-Asian language family.
The Nilo-Saharanlanguage family is all the languages that were "left over" when Africa's language families were being established. The Nilo language group includes about 150 languages, spoken by approximately 8 million people in east Africa. The Saharan language group includes 10 languages with about 5 million speakers in Chad, Niger, and Libya.
Besides these four language families, several Indo-European languages are spoken in Africa, such as English, French, Portuguese, German, and Afrikaans.
The Indo-European languages are spoken by many people in Asia, especially in India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. The Afro-Asian languages are also well represented in the Middle East, especially Arabic.
The Sino-Tibetan language family has the largest number of speakers. This language family is estimated to have 1 billion speakers. Mandarin is the largest language within this family. It is spoken by about 700 million people in northern China. Other large languages in this family are Hakka, Wu, and Yue (Cantonese). These languages are spoken in China. Sometimes, they are called Chinese, but the people who speak these different languages can not understand one another. The reason why they are often lumped together as Chinese is due to the fact that they all share the same written language.
Other languages within the Sino-Tibetan language family are Burmese, Tibetan, and Taiwanese. The relationships between the languages of this family are unclear and disputed.
The Malayo-Polynesian language family is another large language family in Asia and Oceania. It has about 200 million speakers and covers a vast geographical area from Madagascar via Indonesia to Hawaii. After Indo-European, this is the most widespread language family in the world.
The largest languages within the Malayo-Polynesian language family are Javanese, Indonesian, Tagalog (found in the Philippines), and Malay. These belong to the Indonesian (West) branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
The Polynesian (East) branch is usually divided up into Micronesian, Polynesian, and Melanesian languages. Among these you also find Fiji and Maori (the latter spoken in New Zealand).
The Dravidian language family is spoken by 160 million speakers in southern India. The largest languages in this family are Tamil and Telugu each have about 55 million speakers. The Australian language family is significantly smaller than the others. Its languages spoken by the Australian aborigines.
There are also a number of languages whose relationships have not been thoroughly investigated. The largest are Japanese (120 million speakers), Korean (60 million speakers), Vietnamese (50 million speakers), and Thai (40 million speakers). Thai and Vietnamese are considered distant relatives, but neither Japanese nor Korean have any known relatives.
The languages of New Guinea, which number about 700, are usually grouped into a Papuan language family, but only because of its geographic position. The relationships of the languages in the family are unclear.
Indo-European languages were the colonial languages in America, especially English and Spanish. Only a few of the languages that were spoken by the original inhabitants are still spoken. They are usually grouped together under the name American Indian languages. This term covers 20 different families with several languages in each. The largest languages are Quechua (spoken in Bolivia and Peru) and Guaraní (spoken in Paraguay). If you want to know more about where the different languages are spoken see the World Map.

sobota 21. února 2009

Our environment- we care

This is a task for you. How do you get to school? What do you see? You can take photos and make a poster from them or a film, you can draw pictures and scan them then and describe the way to school. Do you care about your environment? Can you take a picture of the most beautiful tree? Let´s make a small competiton about the most beautiful picture. You will decide about the winner. Go to the twinspace and find the photogallery about the trees.

International Mother Language Day

The International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999, has been observed yearly since February 2000.
It originated as the international recognition of Language Movement Day, which has been commemorated in Bangladesh since 1952.
The tenth International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2009 also provides an opportunity to recall the objective of this celebration to Member States: the recognition of linguistic diversity and the importance of multilingual education. (http://portal.unesco.org)

Our eTwinning group members can also celebrate it responding to the questions posted on: http://werkus.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-02-21T08_31_31-08_00

Spring Day in Europe 2009

Our school takes part in this programme every year and we always create nice contributions. This year is called the Year of Creativity and Inspiration. We should try something. Let´s have a look at http://www.springday2009.net

There are a lot of competitions too-


The Spring Day competitions address students from age 5 to 20, who are invited to submit entries that result from classroom activities. The entries consist of texts, pictures and/or audio and visual productions. The competitions can be adapted to different teaching and learning needs since they are designed to suit the various curricula in Europe.

My Spring Day film
Have you ever wanted to make your own movie? Do you plan to do something exciting for Spring Day this year? Would you like to share it with others? Then get started and make your own Spring Day film. More

Create a leaflet for Europe
Would you like to show Europe from your point of view? We invite you to present it to other students outside Europe. Design a leaflet with pictures and texts to illustrate the aspects of Europe that you most like. More

Your Best Idea for Europe
Europe is changing, thanks to your ideas. If you have something to say, now's your chance! Tell other students what you think could change the future of Europe for the better, and how. More
The Spring Day competitions address students from age 5 to 20, who are invited to submit entries that result from classroom activities. The entries consist of texts, pictures and/or audio and visual productions. The competitions can be adapted to different teaching and learning needs since they are designed to suit the various curricula in Europe.

čtvrtek 19. února 2009

Information for the Czech students- Polish musical instruments


The eTwinnig group members have various interests and hobbies. Some of us are really keen on music! Mateusz can play keyboards, Dominika Kaczmarek likes playing the guitar and Sara, Dominika Kopczyńska and Natalia love dancing.
This is a piece of information for the Czech students. They are searching the information to be able to answer their questions.

středa 18. února 2009

We care

In our school and in our families we try to care about other people, animals and natural environment. There is still a lot to do but it's important that we're aware of the problem. This tool will help us to share with our ideas.
http://werkus.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-02-18T11_07_42-08_00

It's time for Mateusz

úterý 17. února 2009

neděle 15. února 2009

Our environment

There are many problems with the environment where we live. can we change it???

http://twinner.podomatic.com/entry/2009-02-15T15_45_24-08_00

sobota 14. února 2009

Language Culture Days







From 10th to 13th February Days of Language Culture were organized in Gimnazjum nr 14 in Ruda Śląska. Students took part in such competitions like: Humanistic Contest, Spelling Contest, Poetry Declamation Contest. Some of our eTwinnng group members participated in them and Dominika Kaczmarek won the Humnanistic Contest! One of the events organized to celebtare the Days of Language Culture was a performance prepared by our schol Drama Club. It was a funny "Literature Lesson with Amor".

A lesson with Amor - Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

A lesson with amor - Odysseus and Penelope

Jola as a contemporary Penelope

A literature lesson with Amor

A school Drama Club prepared a nice play for St Valentine's Day. It was titled: A literature lesson with Amor. students wrote their own script. They presented contemporary dialogues between famous pairs, like Adam and Eve in the garden of Paradise, Odysseus and Penelope, Romeo and Juliet and Tadeusz and Zosia (characters from our national epic "Pan Tadeusz"). The audience liked it very much. Of course it was eros who kept watch over the whole show.

It was nice to see you:-)
































On 11th February our first videoconference was organized. It was an important experience for both students and teachers. It was an hour filled with stress (at the beginning), curiosity and excitement. We really enjoyed it:-) Hope to see you again! Thanks to the czech teacher for preparing the list of topics to discuss - it definitely helped to break the ice.

Dominika Kaczmarek is talking

Dominika is one of the best students in our school. It was a pleasure for her to talk to the Czech teacher:-)

pátek 13. února 2009

Video chat Poland - Dominik

Sometimes it was hard to understand what the partner was saying:-) But it was fun anyway:-) We're sorry for the quality of the films. Next time they won't be so dark!

Video chat - it's Roberts turn

Robert is quite a relaxed boy:-)

středa 11. února 2009

Albert is talking

He is good at English and a very good sportsman.Even for him, it was quite difficult.

What are your favourites, pets, school and other topics

All the students tried very hard. But sometimes it was difficult to understand.

Videoconference 11.2. 2009

It was not as easy as we thought, but rewarding and useful also for us, teachers. The students could use English in a real situation.

Gimnazjum nr 14 presents

This film was made some time ago but it presents various events which take place in our school (for example, European Day of Languages, "A pass for life" campaign, "A day without a Car" campaign, Dutch guests' visit, cooperation with a hospital). It also shows how the idea of integration is present in pur school - there is an "integration" class for disabled students. We hope you can understand it - Polish and Czech are not so different:-)

úterý 10. února 2009

Graduating Ball - Poland







Every year our school organizes a Graduating Ball for third class students. This year it took place on 16th January in "Parkowa" restaurant. We we wearing elegant clothes and we enjoyed the special atmosphere. The DJ chose nice pieces of music so both students and teachers liked the party. The food was delicious as well. All the students say they would like to have another party at the end of a school year. To see what it was like see some of the pictures.

neděle 8. února 2009

What would Jonh Lennon say?

Singing can be a remedy in many situations. Here you can see our students reducing their stress while waiting for a performance in November 2008. One of the boys (Mateusz - he's wearing the military uniform) belongs to our eTwinning group. Boys are singing their version of what a very popular Polish cabaret made of Lennon's song "Stand by me". If you want to see cabaret "Ani Mru-Mru" version go to http://video.google.pl/videosearch?hl=pl&q=tekst%20daj%20mi&lr=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

Sara likes playing the guitar

Listen to Sara playing and singing her favourite song - "You are beautiful' by James Blunt.

středa 4. února 2009

Hobbies- Tereza is playing the keyboard

She is playing a famous song from a famous film. Will you recognize the song???

úterý 3. února 2009

Hobbies- Czech group - Bára and her violin

She goes to music school in her free time and she plays in a small band. This is from this Christmas from the concert place in the museum.

pondělí 2. února 2009

Albert

Albert is very good at sports and also at English. He is one of the best students-at English.

Kristina- animal lover

Kristina loves animals and she has a lot of them at home. She was so nice that she brought one of them to school although she has to commute by bus. Her rabbit is really very nice.

Czech group- our hobbies

Janek is playing the clarinet. he is very good at it. But his favourite free time activity is playing football.

neděle 1. února 2009

Česká Lípa- my town



Here is a short presentation about our town.

Hobbies and free time activities








Here are the graphs from 12 students from the Czech group.

Our school- gymnázium Česká Lípa



Our school Gymnazium Ceska Lipa has four floors.It is 15 years old.43 teachers work here- 14 men and 29 women. On the first floor there isa snack bar and 10 classrooms.On the second floor there is the school canteen, 10 classrooms and Biology room.On the first floor is Physics, English and IVT room.On the 4.floor there is Chemistry and Geography room. /Mirka F. /


Our school Gymnázium Česká Lípa is 15 years old. We have a lot of after school clubs, for example- International projects, expedition Drákula, biology and physics olympiad and more sports. You can play volleyball on Friday, floorball on Thursday, chemistry and biology club on Friday . I think that our school is in after school clubs very good because it is funny. / Kate S./


Student´s day On 17th November we have students day. We have only 4 lessons, then we have lots of activities which we prepare ourselves. Only on students' day we can play games in computers rooms. / Martin B. /


Our school-subjects What and how many subjects we have? We have 13 subjects:Maths,Czech,English,P.E.,History,Geography,Physics, Chemistry,Biology,C.E.,Art,IVT and Music. In a Geography we learn about Europe. In a Biology we learn about vertebratea. We have marks from 1 to 5.One is the best and five is the worst. / Kate P./