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LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMMECOMENIUSSchool Partnership
European education with Information and Communication Technologies
PROGRAM CELOŽIVOTNÍHO UČENÍ COMENIUS
Partnerství škol
Evropská výuka pomocí informačních a komunikačních technologií
JAN AMOS
COMENIUS
THE TEACHER OF NATIONS
CZECH REPUBLIC
HEART OF EUROPE
BASIC INFORMATION The Czech Republic is situated in the middle of Europe. It borders on Slovakia, Austria, Poland and Germany. The borders are lined by the mountains. The Giant mountains are the highest mountains.
(The highest mountain is Sněžka - 1602m). The lowlands line along the rivers. The most watery river is the Elbe, the longest one is the Vltava. An alleviative oceanic type of climate with western circulation appears mostly.The population of the Czech Republic is 10,3 mil., with national minorities of Slovaks, Poles and Germans. While 46 million people travel abroad, 101 million tourists visit the Czech Republic every year. (1994).
CZECH REPUBLIC
HISTORY First settlement: 30 000 B.C.
First proved inhabitants: Celts
First state formation: The empire of Sám (600 - 655 )
Czech state becomes a kingdom (line of Přemyslovci, Charles IV): 13th century
A part of Austrian empire: 1526 – 1918
Rise of Czechoslovac Republic: 28th October 1918 (first president T. G. Masaryk)
Period of totalitarian rule of the Communist party: 1948 – 1989
Rise of the Czech Republic: 1st January 1993 (president Václav Havel)
Czech Republic entered the EU on 1st May 2004, with the chair in 2009
CZECH REPUBLIC
NATIONAL EMBLEMBS
National emblem
The Czech flag
Prezident banner
State seal
State colours (red-blue-white tricolour)
Czech state anthem „Kde domov můj?“
CZECH REPUBLIC
Crown jevels
POLITICAL SYSTEM
The Czech Republic is a democratic parliamentary republic. The president
and the government has the executive power. The government proposes
the legislation. It is responsible to the Chamber of Deputies. President is
the head of the state.
The parliament is double-chambered – with the Chamber of Deputies and
the Senate. 200 members are voted to the Chamber of Deputies and 81
senators to the Senate.
CZECH REPUBLIC
LANDMARKS
Czech lands were confronted with many different cultural influences
during the course of history. Rich cultural heritage was preserved there.
There are 12 registered landmark reservations in the Czech Republic,
acknowledged by the international organization UNESCO. The most
significant is Prague and its historical centre.
CZECH REPUBLIC
NATURAL ASSETS
The Czech natural assets is protected by many wilderness areas
and nature preserves. There were declared four national parks in
hight protect mode.
Our streams of mineral water are used as curative methods or
table water.
CZECH REPUBLIC
INDUSTRY AND AGRONOMYThe Czech industry has a long-term tradition. A share of food-
processing industry has increased in last years. On the other hand
a share of engineering has fallen off. Anyway engineering is still
pretty important branch of industry in Czech Republic.
A production of flour, sugar, meat and beer is valued for food
industry. There is a tradition in keeping fresh water fish - that´s
why our fishpond managment is so developed.
CZECH REPUBLIC
WHAT DO YOU SURELY KNOW ABOUT THE CZECH ?
SPORT – Jaromír Jágr, Petr Čech, Roman Šebrle
BEER – Pilsner Urquell, Budweisser
VELVET REVOLUTION (1989) – Václav Havel CARS – Škoda, Tatra
CONTACT LENSES and SILON
LUMP SUGAR
THE WORD „ROBOT“
MISS WORLD - Taťána Kuchařová
CZECH REPUBLIC
CITY IN MOTION
OSTRAVA
Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic.
Total area: 214 km² Population: about 317, 000
23 town districtsLatitude: 49°50'30.31″ N, Longitude: 18°17'29.56″ E
Altitude: 208–334 mOstrava is situated on the junction of rivers Lučina, Odra,
Opava and Ostravice.
Townhall of Ostrava Ostrava emblem
BRIEF HISTORY30, 000 years ago – first residence of huntsmen (the oldest usage of hard-coal in the world)
8th century - there were 3 castles
1763 – in the town area was found a coal-seam
Second half of 19 th century - big industrial development, foundation of Vitkovice steel, Ostrava became an industrial centre of Habsburg Monarchy
1930s - departments stores Bachner, Brouk a Babka
14 th March 1939 - the occupation of German army
30 th April 1945 - freedom of Ostrava by Soviet army
1949–1951 - building of Arcelor Mittal, the city became „the steel heart of the republic“
1997 – great flooding in Ostrava
View of Ostrava, 1855
Venus from Petrkovice
INDUSTRY
Arcelor Mittal – production and elaboration of pig-iron and steel
Vítkovice Steel – mettalurgical and engineering produce
Industrial zone Hrabova– business activities, firm domiciles:
Asus, SungWoo Hitech, STP Invest, Briggs & Stratton,…
OKD – sole producer of pit-coal in Czech Republic
UNIVERSITIES
VŠB – Technical university
University of Ostrava
Business college
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
ZOO Ostrava – more than 900 animals
Industrial centre – authentic buildings of the mines
Museum of mining – origination and developmnet of coal-mining
Miniuni area – You can see there thumb-nails of European buildings
Vitkovice – authentic zone since 19 th century
SPORT
Ice-hockey club Vítkovice Fotball club Baník Ostrava
Golden spike – international athletic meeting since 1961
LEISURE TIME
The Stodolni Street – more than 60 restaurants, cafés and
night- clubs situated on this street
Beskydy Mountains – national park not far from Ostrava
peak – Lysá Hora (altitude 1,323 m)
ZÁKLADNÍ ŠKOLA A MATEŘSKÁ ŠKOLA Ostrava-Hrabůvka, Mitušova 16,
příspěvková organizace
1978 - 2008
KEYS TO THE WORLD
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
We have been educating by course of education program the
„KEYS TO THE WORLD“ since 1st Septembre 2008.
Number of pupils: 404Number of teachers: 28 Number of classes: 19
Headmaster: Mgr. Martin Pail
EXTENDED EDUCATION OF LANGUAGES
Pupils start learning their first foreign language-English-in the first class. The second one – French, German or Russian – starts in the 6th class.
ECOLOGY-MINDED
The second specific target of our school is enviromentalism. We are members of the Ecological education club and we also cooperate with ZOO Ostrava and sponsor the animals in ZOO. Regularly we are placed in town competitions about ecology and arrange the Earthday exhibitons.
We were awarded the prize „ Ecoschool“ in 2005.
INFORMATICS
The third specific target is our active work in the ICT area . Our PC room is furnished with very modern ICT technology. We arrange the ICT courses and we were awarded the certificate „Information centre of government Information policy in education“ by Ministry of Education.
PHOTOGALLERY
Tento materiál byl vytvořen s podporou Projektu Partnerství COMENIUS v rámci Programu celoživotního učení.
This material was created with grant-in-aid of School Partnership Comenius - Lifelong Learning Programme.
Odpovědnost za obsah tohoto textu nesou jeho autoři. Obsah textu nevyjadřuje názor Evropského společenství, které také není odpovědné za jakékoliv případné využití dat
prezentovaných v textu.
The authors are solely responsible for the content of this paper. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community, and the European Community is not responsible for any use that
might be made of data appearing therein.