Transcript Greece - France

Culture in a box
An e-twinning Project from
Lycee Professionnel Sermenaz – France and
2nd Professional School of Nea Smyrni – Greece
2006 - 2007
The project
The Title of our project is:
Getting to know each other better!
The estimated duration of the project is two school years.
The project intends to help students to exchange information about the geo-cultural
profile of their countries and by this, getting familiar with each other’s civilization
and comprehend the ways of everyday life.
We use English as a common language, but French and Greek as well.
The ages of students are from 15 to 19.
The aims of the project are:
 Getting familiar with a foreign language.
 Exchange information about everyday life of the students and present the geo-cultural
characteristics of both countries.
 Development of communication skills, collaboration, responsibility and consistency of
programming, research, gathering and evaluating sources and knowledge.
The students: France and Greece
Greek Class BP1
French Class
Greek Class BP2
Your flag? France
The present Constitution of the
French Republic (1958) says:
L'emblème national est le drapeau
tricolore, bleu, blanc, rouge (The
national emblem is the tricolor,
blue, white, red, flag)
The colors of the French flag "combine"
different symbols, invented after the fact:
Blue is the color of Saint Martin, a rich GalloRoman officer who ripped his blue coat with his
sword to give one half of it to a poor who was
begging him in the snow. This is the symbol of
care, of the duty that the rich had to help the
poor.
White is the color of the Virgin Mary, to whom
the Kingdom of France was consecrated by
Louis XIII in the 17th century; it is also the
color of Joan of Arc, under whose banner the
English were finally driven out of the Kingdom
(15th century). It became logically the color of
Royalty. The King's vessels carried plain white
flags at sea.
Red is the color of Saint Denis, the saint patron
of Paris. The original oriflamme (war banner) of
the Kings was the red oriflamme of Saint Denis.
Your flag? Greece
Flag is a precious symbol for
every country. Everybody respect
and honor the National Flag.
In Greece, our flag has a very
special meaning. It is based on nine
equal horizontal stripes of blue
alternating with white. There is a
blue canton in the upper hoist-side
corner bearing a white cross; the
cross symbolizes Orthodoxy and the
nine stripes represent the nine
syllables of the phrase "Freedom or
Death", " E-lef-the-ri-a i Tha-na-tos".
The official flag ratio is 2:3. Blue and
white have many interpretations,
symbolizing the colors of sky and
sea, combined with the white clouds
and waves.
A symbol of France: Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built
on the Champ de Mars beside the River
Seine in Paris, France.
It is the tallest structure in Paris and
one of the most recognized monuments
in the world. It is named after its
designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel.
Including the 24m antenna, the
structure is 324m high.The structure of
the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tons.
It was built between 1887 and 1889 as
the entrance arch for the Exposition
Universelle, a World's Fair marking the
centennial celebration of the French
Revolution.
A symbol of Greece: Parthenon
The Parthenon was built at the initiative of
Pericles, the leading Athenian politician of
the fifth century B.C. It was built under the
general supervision of the sculptor Phidias,
who also had charge of the sculptural
decoration. The architects began in 447 BC,
and the building was substantially
completed by 432, but work on the
decorations continued until at least 431.
The Parthenon, the most famous
surviving building of ancient Greece, is
a temple of Athena, daughter of Zeus
and patroness of Athens; it was built in
the fifth century BC on the Acropolis of
Athens.
It has been praised as the finest
achievement of Greek architecture. Its
decorative sculptures are considered
one of the high points of Greek art.
The Parthenon is an enduring symbol of
ancient Greece and of Athenian
democracy, and is regarded as one of
the
world's
greatest
cultural
monuments.
Where are you? France
Where are you? France
Where are you? Greece
Where are you? Greece
How’s the climate? France
How’s the climate? Greece
Climate is the average of the weather conditions at a certain area for a long period of time. It
depends on the distance from the equator of the earth, the distance from the sea and the
altitude.
Climate of Hellas:
Hellas accepts enough solar energy but not too much. So, there aren’t extreme temperatures. All
places are close to the sea, because the mainland is narrow. The landscape is intense but it
doesn’t have very high altitudes.
So:
The islands have lower temperatures during the day than the mainland.
Rain showers are more intense at western part of the country than at the eastern one.
At Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus and Thrace the climate is colder than the rest of the country and
the rain showers are a usual phenomenon during all the seasons.
Ionian Islands and south Crete have a sweet climate with small differences between the winter
and the summer temperatures and enough rain showers.
Eagan Islands accept less rain showers and they suffer from strong north winds during the winter.
Athens (average temperatures):
Spring
15ο – 20ο
Summer
30ο -35ο
Autumn
10ο -20ο
Winter
8ο -10ο
How’s the climate? Greece
12 Months – 12 photographs!
WINTER
SPRING
SUMMER
AUTOMN
Capital / population: Athens
Athens is the Capital of Greece.
Population:
In the Metropolitan Area of Athens there are 2.664.776 people,
1.265.930 males and 1.398.846 females (statistics 2001).
In Nea Smyrni Municipality there are 73.986 people, 34.052
males and 39.934 females (statistics 2001).
Capital / population: Paris
Paris is the capital city of France. It is situated
on the River Seine, in northern France, at the
heart of the Île-de-France region. Paris has an
estimated population of 2,153,600 within city
limit (2005 est.). The Paris urban area has a
population of 9.93 million and a commuter belt
around the same completes the Paris
metropolitan area that, with its population of 12
million, is one of the most populated areas of its
kind in Europe.
Rillieux-la-Pape is a commune in the département of Rhône and the RhôneAlpes region of France. It is a suburb of the city of Lyon, and is located to its
north-northeast. It is a component of the metropolitan Urban Community of
Lyon. In the 1999 census, Rillieux-la-Pape had a population of 28,367.
Greetings in your language (Greek)
English
Greek
Pronounced
1
Good morning
Καλημέρα
Kalimera
2
Good afternoon
Καλησπέρα
Kalispera
3
Good night
Καληνύχτα
Kalinichta
4
Thank you
Ευχαριστώ
Efcharisto
5
You are welcome
Παρακαλώ
Parakalo
6
Yes
Ναι
Ne
7
No
Όχι
Ochi
8
How are you?
Πως είσαι;
Pos ise?
9
I am fine
Είμαι καλά
Ime kala
10
What time is it?
Τι ώρα είναι;
Ti ora ine?
11
It’s… o’clock
Είναι … η ώρα
Ine … I ora
12
What is your name?
Πως σε λένε;
Pos se lene?
13
My name is …
Με λένε…
Me lene…
Greetings in your language (Greek)
14
How old are you?
Πόσων χρονών
είσαι;
Poson chronon ise?
15
I am …. years old
Είμαι … χρονών
Ime …. Chronon
16
How much does this cost?
Πόσο κάνει αυτό;
Poso kani afto?
17
It costs ….
Κάνει …
Kani …
18
Would you like to go to the
cinema?
Θες να πάμε
σινεμά;
Thes na pame cinema?
19
Yes, I would love to / no, thank
you
Ναι, Θέλω / Όχι,
ευχαριστώ
Nae, thelo / ochi efcharisto
20
What music do you like?
Ποια μουσική σου
αρέσει;
Pia mousiki sou aresi?
21
I like the …..
Μου αρέσει η ….
Mou aresi i ….
22
Where do you live?
Που μένεις;
Pou menis?
23
I live in …..
Μένω …
Meno…
24
I like ….
Μου αρέσει ….
Mou aresi ….
25
We are friends
Είμαστε φίλοι
Imaste fili
A favorite poem of yours (Greece)
…Always you are the star and always I am the dark ship
Always you are the port and I am the right lighthouse
The wet quay and the light on the oars
Up there to the house with the vineyard
The climbing roses, the cold water
Always you are the stone statue and always I am the growing shadow
You, the half closed shutter, I, the wind that opens it
Because I love you and I love you
Always you are the currency and I am the faith which pays…
Odysseus Elites, Monogram
(Greek poet awarded with Literature Nobel Price)
A favorite poem of yours (Greece)
THE TORMENTS OF LOVE – Nikos Engonopoulos (October 21,
1907 – October 31, 1985), modern Greek painter and poet
As her hair blew there before my eyes as if suddenly I'd woken for
the first time I saw - and observed - that lovely young girl
I was taken by the harmony of her movements the lissomness of her
limbs the fascination of her gaze the gentle rotundity of her breasts
and more by all the charm effused by that elegant vernal creature
And I straightaway reflected - and "philosophised" - my mind turned
to that innocent who may at times - I'm sure of it – suffer in torment
know unhappiness in imagining that the tender the ethereal the little
creature has a mind and soul
And his heart may bleed despair in attributing even a grain of
intelligence to that wholly empty little head
Translated by David Connolly
A recipe from your country (France)
Pot-au-feu
Preparation: 20 min
Cooking: 180 min
Total Time: 200 min
Difficulty: Easy
For 8 people:
3 kg of beef in equal shares: paleron, lodging, breeches and tail, 8 carrots, 8 leeks, 8 potatoes, 1/2 cabbage, 4
turnips, 2 onions and 4 pieces of garlic, thyme, bay-tree, 1 celery branch, 1 bunch of parsley, 15 peppercorns and salt
1. Peel onions. Prepare two furnished bouquets: thyme with bay-tree, celery with parsley.
2. Plunge the whole with the meat tied up beforehand (by your butcher) in a large stew pan with 5 l of cold water.
Leave it for 3 a.m. cooking to "small quiverings".
3. A boiling, add a handle of salt and pepper. Regularly withdraw the scum that is formed on the surface.
4. 50 minutes before the end of cooking, add other vegetables gradually. As a preliminary, withdraw the meat and
filter the bubble. It will be better for the final look. Once filtered give the whole to be cooked (meat + bubble).
5. Incorporate carrots and turnips initially (h-50 min), then the cabbage (h-40), finally the leeks (h-20). The potatoes
must be cooked separately.
6. Serve vegetables and the meat cut in sections in a large dish. Accompany by proposing gherkins and salt.
To finish... For the courageous ones, which like the bones with marrow, they are to be poached 10-15 minutes with
share in bubble of cooking.
A recipe from your country (Greece)
Kourampjedes with olive oil (sugared buns): Traditional Greek Cookies
Ingredients

Half litre of olive oil
 1 kilo of flour

4 spoons of soup, of sugar
 Half a teaspoon of cinnamon

A glass of wine, of lye
 Caster sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla powder

A handful cracked almonds
 Rosewater

Half a teaspoon of vanilla powder
Implementation
Few hours before we make the lye (water with ashes, filtered). We sock enough hour the oil
(approximately half hour), adding slowly the lye, until it becomes white. We add the sugar, the
almonds, the vanilla, the cinnamon and finally the flour. We mould kourampjedes. We bake them
in pre-heated oven, in the 200 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes. We spray them immediately with
rosewater and we throw the caster sugar on them. They become crisp as biscuits and maintain
for a long time!
Our project will be continued
next year!
Happy summer holidays everyone!