Culture in a box

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Culture in a box

• An e-twinning Project from
• Lycee Professionnel Sermenaz France and
• 2nd Professional School of Nea Smyrni Greece
• 2006 - 2007

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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 others 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.

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The students France and Greece
Greek Class BP1
French Class
Greek Class BP2
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Your flag? France

• The colors of the French flag "combine"
  different symbols, invented after the fact
• Blue is the color of Saint Martin, a rich
  Gallo-Roman 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.

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)
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Your flag? Greece

• 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 23. Blue
  and white have many interpretations, symbolizing
  the colors of sky and sea, combined with the
  white clouds and waves.

Flag is a precious symbol for every country.
Everybody respect and honor the National Flag.
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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.
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A symbol of Greece Parthenon

• 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.

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.
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Where are you? France
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Where are you? France
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Where are you? Greece
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Where are you? Greece
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Hows the climate? France
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Hows 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 arent extreme temperatures. All
  places are close to the sea, because the mainland
  is narrow. The landscape is intense but it
  doesnt 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 15? 20?
• Summer 30? -35?
• Autumn 10? -20?
• Winter 8? -10?

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Hows the climate? Greece

• 12 Months 12 photographs!
• WINTER SPRING SUMMER AUTOMN

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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).
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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 Rhône-Alpes 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.
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Greetings in your language (Greek)
 
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Greetings in your language (Greek)
 
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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
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• Odysseus Elites, Monogram
• (Greek poet awarded with Literature Nobel
  Price)

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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

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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.
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A recipe from your country (Greece)

• Kourampjedes with olive oil (sugared buns)
  Traditional Greek Cookies
• Ingredients 
• Half litre of olive oil
• 4 spoons of soup, of sugar
• A glass of wine, of lye
• A handful cracked almonds
• 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!

• 1 kilo of flour
• Half a teaspoon of cinnamon
• Caster sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla powder
• Rosewater 

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Our project will be continued next year!

• Happy summer holidays everyone!