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14/03/08
My Country Poland
Main Square Wrocław (Rynek)
By Aga Grade 6
Contents Page
1.Country Flags
2.Religion & Language
3.Alphabet
4.Polish food
5.Polish food
6.Holidays and celebrations
7.Christmas
8.Games
9.Games
10.Famous People
11.Famous people
12.Famous people
13.Famous places
14. Famous Places
15. Famous Places
16. Famous Places
17. Other Places
18. Polish Money
19. Bibliography
20. Bibliography
21. End slide
Country Flags
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This is the flag of Poland.
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This is the flag of Wrocław
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This is the emblem of Wrocław
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Wrocław's motto: Miasto Spotkań (The City
Of Meetings)
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The white eagle is the symbol of Poland. It is
found in schools,
passports, etc.
Religion
•Religion in Poland has changed through out the
centieries.
•More than 90% of Poland's population is Roman
Catholic, with 80% regularly attending church.
Polish Language
•Total Speakers: 43 million
•Language family: Indo-earopean, Slavic, West Slavic and
Lechitic.
•Writing System: Latin
Polish Alphabet
Polish Food
Some of the most traditional Polish dishes are:
• Bigos- Cabbage with meat
• Pierogi i Uszka- 2 sorts of dumplings
• Gołąbki- Stuffed cabbage
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Sernik- Cheese cake
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Makowiec- Poppy seed roll
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Barszcz- Beetroot soup
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Flaki- Tripe soup
Holidays and Celebrations
Namedays
•Most people in Poland
celebrate Namedays rather
than Birthdays
Easter
•One of the most out standing celebrations in
Poland is Easter.
•The ‘’ Blessing Basket ’’ is one of the most
unique Easter traditions in Poland.
•It is prepared on Saturday before Easter on
Sunday.
•The basket has colored eggs, bread, cake,
salt, pepper, horse radish and white sausages.
• All of these things are taken to the church to
be blessed.
Christmas
•Christmas Eve is another wonderful celebration in Poland.
•Usually we spend the whole day preparing for Christmas Eve dinner.
We eat 12 different dishes.
•Some of them are, barszcz, pierogi, kapusta, etc.
•We don't eat meat because of cathlic beliefs.
•Under the table we will always put some hay because little Jezus was born
in the stable and slept wrapped in a blanket in hay.
•Before we sit to the table we have to wait for the first star to apear in the
sky.
•Before we start eating everybody gets a Christmas wafer and shares it with
each person while giving them wishes.
•After we finish the meal, the children uswell as parents and other family
members get to unpack their presents.
•At midnight everybody goes to the nearest church to celebrate the
midnight mass, were everybody sings joyful carols.
•The next day we have a Christmas breakfast and now we can eat meat.
Games
We don't really have any traditional Polish games.
Most of our games are just normal or very common games with a different Polish
name.
Ciu ciu Babka
This is a simple Polish game called "Ciu ciu babka" translated into
"Blind Woman”
All you need for this game is a scarf or something to cover your eyes.
The objective of the game is for the blind woman to catch
somebody. When you get touched you are the new bling woman.
Very simple.
Zbijak
This is a game like dodge ball and piggy or monkey in the
middle combined together.
Two people stand on the outside of the area and try to hit
the people with the ball.
2 ognie
Translated into "2 fires".
There are two groups on two sides of the area and one person from
each group goes behind the oponents team.
Then on "start" the teams start throwing balls at each other.
If the ball touches you you're out.
But if somebody from your team catches the ball you're back in.
Podchody
Podchody translated into "trace and track".
In this game there are two small groups.
One of the groups runs away and draws arrows to leave a track
behind them while the other team counts to ten before they set out
to find them.
You can also leave notes and other hints and clues if you like.
Traditional Polish Clothes
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This is one of the most beautiful
traditional polish clothes.
It is called the Łowicki costume.
Woman wear colourful skirts with
flowers and other decorations, white
shirts, a black waistcoat, black shoes,
a red necklace, red shawl and plaits
in the hair with colourful flowers.
Men wear black shoes, also red
trousers with colourful decorations,
white shirt, black waistcoat and a
black hat.
There are traditional costumes for
each region in Poland.
Famous People
• John Paul the II, born in Wadowice, Poland,
was the 264th Pope in the Roman Catholic
Church.
• He was the 1st and only Slavic Pope.
• He was a Pope for almost 27 years until his
death accured (84 years of age) on the 2nd of
april 2005.
Pope John Paul the II
• Over 2 million people came to Vatican City to
mourn his death.
Statue of Pope John
Paul II, Cathedral de la
Amudena, Madrid
•Roman Polański is a famous Polish film director, writer,
actor and a producer.
• He has made films like: Frantic (1988), Death and the
maiden (1994), The pianist (2002), Oliver Twist (2005) and
more.
• The Academy Award-winnig and Cannes Film Festival
Palme d'Or- winning films were The pianist and Oliver Twist.
Roman Polański
•He was born in Toruń on the 19th of
February in 1473.
• He was the first person to prove that the
earth revolves around the sun, not on the
contrary.
Nicolaus
Copernicus
Statue of
Nicolas
Copernicus in
Olsztyn.
Fryderyk Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin born in Żelazowa Bola near Warsaw from a Polish
mother and a French expatriot father is believed to be the most
talented pianist and composer of the Romanticism Period.
He was also the 1st world known composer to introduce slavic
elements in his works, especially his Mazurkas and Polonaises.
Famous Places
Wieliczka Salt Mine
The mine reaches to a depth of 327 meters, and is 300 km
long. There is a special tourist route that is 3.5km long that
shows hystoric and mythic figures that have been sculpted by
the miners out of rock salt.
Even the crystal chandaliers are made out of salt.
The island of the domes)
Today known as the oldest and the most historicle area in
Wrocław.
It also has the oldest bui;dings in wrocław.
There is a beautiful cathedral.
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Ostrów Tumski
It is a famous painting picturing the battle of Racławice.
The picture is spread on the walls of the Rotunda-shaped
building gives viewers
the impression of participating in the battle.
Panorama
Racławicka
Mariacki Cathedral
•It's a brick Gothic church build in the 14th century.
•It's beside the main market square in Kraków.
•It's mostly famous for it's wooden altarpiece carved by
Veit Stoss.
•Evey hour, a trumoet signal- called the "hejnal" is
played from the top of St. Mary's two towers.
•This trumpet sound is to remeber the 13th century
trumpet player who got shot in the throat while he was
sounding a alarm before the mongol attack
Rynek was made in the 13th century. Since all
those years Rynek has maintained it's size and
shape.
It's the second biggest square after cracow in
earope.
Rynek (Main Square)
The building below was
knocked down in 1864 and
was replaced in the 14th
century with the New City
Hall.
The City Hall in the 14th century.
(Brick Gothic style)
Other Places
The Rynek fountain
Plac Solny (The Salt
Market)
In 1827 they put a
statue up of a field Marshal
Bluchera and plac solny was named Blücherplatz.
In the salt market there is a shelter that is 1000 m².
The maximum number of people in the shelter is
300.
Hala Stulecia (Centential Hall)
also known as Hala Ludowa
(People's Hall) by the
modernist architect Max Berg
The People's Hall is now used for concerts and sport
game such as basket ball.
Polish Money
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Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw
http://festivals.iloveindia.com/easter/traditions/easter-in-poland.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110166/Polish-games.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko
Pictures
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