Meet Slovenia

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Meet Slovenia

• eTwinning Project
• Wall of Cards

by 7. a, I. OŠ Celje, Slovenia (based on
Culture-in-a-box toolkit)
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Our flag

• Our flag is white, blue and red. These are
  Slovanic colours, which appear in most of
  Slovanic flags.

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Location

• Middle Europe
• Next to Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary.
• The state has a shape of a chicken.

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Symbols of our country
Lipizzaners

• Linden Tree

Prekmurska gibanica
Kozolec
The Kurent
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The climate

• The average temperature
• Winter 0 to -5 C
• Summer 20 to 25C
• The average rainfall 1000-1500mm

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Capital / population

• The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana. It has a
  population about 280,000 people.
• Typical for this town is its bridge Tromostovje
  and a dragon, that is on the bridge.

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Greetings in Slovenian language

• Good morning Dobro jutro
• Good afternoon Dober dan
• Good night Lahko noc
• How are you? Kako si?
• Whats your name? Kako ti je ime?
• How old are you? Koliko si star?

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A landscape that we love

• Lakes Bohinj, Bled
• Mountains Triglav
• Caves Postojna, Škocjan
• Sea Adriatic
• Forests
• Rivers

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A favorite poem of ours

• Zdravljica is the Anthem of Slovenia. It was
  written by Prešeren, a well-known poem. The poem
  is about Slovenia and its people.

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A product of our country

• ELAN skies are very famous. First carving skies
  were produced in Slovenia.

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Food from our country

• Our favourite special food is "potica". It's a
  walnut roll. We eat this dessert for holidays
  (specially for Easter and Christmas).For making
  it you need flour, yeast, eggs, nuts, sugar,
  salt. It's not easy to make it. Grandmothers
  usually bake it.

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A proverb that we like

• Slovenian prover Kar seješ, to žanješ!!!
• In English As you sow, so shall you reap!

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A famous person

• Herman Potocnik Noordung was a doctor and a high
  navy officer. He was born December 22, 1892 and
  died August 27, 1929. He was an engineer. He
  entirely devoted himself to the problems of
  rocket science and space technology.

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OUR TOWN

• This is our town Celje. It is in the central part
  of Slovenia, next to the river Savinja.
• It is a town with around 46000 people.
• It is a very beautiful city and has many castles,
  cafes, a cinema, schools and a library. You can
  see the castle called Stari grad.
• Theres a lake Šmartinsko jezero. You can go
  boating or fishing.
• You can go skiing to Celjska koca. 

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OUR SCHOOL

• l. OŠ Celje is a very old and beautiful school in
  Celje.
• It is big and yellow colour.
• We have many classrooms, a playground, a library
  
• The headmaster is Mr Branko Mocivnik.
• Our school subjects this year are Art, Science,
  Maths, English, Sport, Craft, German, Slovene,
  Music, Geography, History.
• The school has 400 students. We don't wear a
  uniform.
• Our school was the first school in Celje.

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OUR SCHOOL DAY

• Our school day starts at 8.00 a.m. and finishes
  at 1.15 or 2.00 p.m.
• We have a big break for 20 minutes and a small
  for 5 minutes.
• Some children have lunch at school and some at
  home. We eat different food.
• In our free time we do homework, play different
  games and talk on the phone.
• We like our school. School excursions are the
  best.