tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53057068721462654502024-03-08T20:27:44.925+01:00Angličtina maturitamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294612473326347856noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-21044639317420011762012-02-15T12:34:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:34:22.301+01:00AmistadWe have watched film Amistad in school, in lessons of English: Across Culture. It’s historical drama about real event of slaves from Africa. The film is about slavery in 19. century, when people with black skin were escorted from their home to the American continent.
In the beginning Cinque and the other slaves are on the journey from Africa on the ship La Amistad, they get free and they take Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-7605297003146694432012-02-15T12:29:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:29:48.127+01:00English language and english speaking countriesAbout English language About 420 million people speak English in the world. It means that English is the most wide spred language in the world. It means a world language. It is used also for practical purposes – in administrative, in economy, in business, in technology, in education, in sport. English became so important in the 17. century. English is of Germanic origin. EnglishUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-21917921693956506192012-02-15T12:13:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:13:02.007+01:00Medical scienceMedical care is provided for our citizens from birth to death. Soon after birth each child is vaccinated against such illnesses as tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and later smallpox.Health is the greatest gift for everybody. If people meet the usually wish a lot of health one another. We all wish to by healthy. Because when people are ill they can’t work, they feel Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-88747142919296021782012-02-15T12:11:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:11:11.530+01:00Sports & gamesSports belong to most popular leisure time activities. Sports as a form of relaxation are refreshing, can help take off some weight, and to make use of one’s skills and strength. We can practise outdoor or indoor sports, in water or anywhere we want.We can divide all sports into two groups according the place they can be practised:1) Indoor sports include for example athletics, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-70478078115438151652012-02-15T12:08:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:08:17.806+01:00The czech republicThe Czech Republic is the state we live in, and in which most of us were also born. It is our native country.The Czech Republic is situated in the centre of Europe and sometimes it is called the heart of Europe. Its population is about 10 million people and covers an area of about 78 000 square km. Our republic has four neighbours. In the north it borders on Poland and in the south on Austria. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-46867498988010778652012-02-15T12:04:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:04:54.433+01:00Australia and New ZealandAustralia is the sixth largest country in the world but the smallest continent. The Australian Alps has the highest Australian mountain - Mt. Kosciusko. Many of Australian rivers are dry at least part of the year and fill with water only during the raining season. The Murray River is the longest flowing river. The second longest river is the Darling. There are three big lakes - Lake Eyre, Lake Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-86647489056511707542012-02-15T12:01:00.000+01:002012-02-15T12:01:33.383+01:00UsaThe USA are situated in the southern part of North America. Its neighbours with Canada on north and Mexico on south. The United States of America are the fourth largest country in the world.
The land is bordered by three oceans – the Artic ocean, the Atlantic ocean and the Pacific ocean. The largest mountain is Mount McKinley in the Alaska Range. The largest rivers are the Mississippi and the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-45284716357688814722012-02-15T11:56:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:56:07.762+01:00ChristmasIn the Czech Republic Christmas is also the most popular family holiday. People buy Christmas trees; hang various decorations and Christmas sweets on it.
Advent begins four weeks before Christmas Eve (December 24th). The third Sunday before Christmas is called Bronze Sunday, the second one Silver Sunday and the first Sunday before December 24th is Golden Sunday.
Most families decorate their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-29768440276026245032012-02-15T11:51:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:51:26.558+01:00Food and mealsMost people usually have 3 meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Eating style are different in every country. People all over the world can prefer china food like a fish, rice etc., or Italian food, like a spaghetti and pizza. Breakfast in our country consists of something to drink such as tea with sugar and lemon, cold or warm milk or a cocoa. Most people have breakfast onUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-30485023648470030342012-02-15T11:48:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:48:25.087+01:00CanadaCanada is the second largest country in the world. French settlers gave the country the Indian name Canata, witch means a village. Canada occupies the whole of the northern part of North America and a lot of islands. It neighbours with the USA, with Alaska and continental states. The Great Lakes region is the largest area of fresh water in the world. Between the lakes Erie and Ontario there are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-19276396758282572202012-02-15T11:44:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:44:23.643+01:00ShoppingWhen we go shopping we can go either to a big department store or to the shop, which specializes in some extra goods, e.g. We can buy - vegetables and fruit at a greengrocers.- meat and sausages at a butcher shop. - bread, rolls and cakes at a bakery. - chocolate, bags of candy and cakes at a sweet shop. - flowers at a florists. - different metal goods (nails) at a hardware store. - writing paperUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-66276618799906610492012-02-15T11:41:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:41:25.938+01:00At the post officeAt the post office I go when we need send away some correspondence, a telegram or a parcel, to phone somebody, to buy stamps, to send money.When we have written a letter, we sign it, fold it and put it into an envelope. We stick down the envelope, writes the address and buy a stamp. We stick in on the right-hand upper corner. Then we take the letter to the post office or we can drop it in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-53264605447621597402012-02-15T11:37:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:37:51.092+01:00LondonLondon is the capital of England. It is the 9th largest city in the world – its population is about 10 million. London is situated on the river Thames in south-east England. It was founded as a Roman settlement. The great fire in 1666 destroyed almost all the city. There are many places of interest. We can see them by walking or by various means of transport. London is famous Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-9889720131248140702012-02-15T11:27:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:27:34.681+01:00World around us• world around me:
• it is my family
- I live with my mother, stepfather and halfbrother Joseph in Kopřivnice
- my father live in Bartošovice with his wife, she has 2 children from her first marriage, they are twins and 21-year-old, and my father and his wife (I say her: aunt) they have children, he is my second halfbrother Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-44254736676720329492012-02-15T11:19:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:19:29.672+01:00Fashion and clothes• for Czech is typical proverb: “The clothes make a man.” it is true, when you see a person who has wonderful and expensive clothes or when you see a person in clothes of homeless, what you think about this person but clothes don’t make a better person only prettier person
• there are different attitudes (= přístupy) to fashion people
- go to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-48883922776177007462012-02-15T11:11:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:11:10.555+01:00British customs and habits, celebrationsCustoms in England:
• drive on left side of road
• they have parliament for 400 years
• Queen pay tax
• change guards
• red two-storied buses
• formal clothes to work (you think all of them are lawyers)
• hunt for fox
• on Sunday they have public Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-87167108407325545542012-02-15T11:04:00.000+01:002012-02-15T11:04:49.992+01:00American way of life, holidays and festivals• typical words for American: hamburger, Mc Donald, Coca-cola, Statue of Liberty, skyscrapers
• go from home after 18 years
• people in big cities haven’t driving licence – they have caps (yellow taxies)
• everybody hurries everywhere
• there are places where is savanna and desert where people live alone andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-16427710404076560092012-02-15T10:58:00.000+01:002012-02-15T10:58:30.096+01:00American literatureEdgar Allan Poe
• he was born in 1809, poem-writer, story-teller, critic
• he lost both of parents and his childhood wasn’t nice
• he tried to committed suicide
• master of horror in literature and he was first who used detective in literature
writing:
The Raven and Other Poems – never more
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-69268451530287549472012-02-15T10:40:00.000+01:002012-02-15T10:40:48.429+01:00British literature• during Middle age, Roman Catholic Church was criticised by John Wyclef a professor of Oxford University, he translated the whole Bible into English and inspired our John Hus
Renaissance
• very important in this period is person and they wrote about him
• there was early printed book
William Shakespeare
• he was born on 23rdUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-46175070347757341372012-02-15T10:26:00.000+01:002012-02-15T10:30:51.076+01:00Housing• I live in flat with my mother, step father and brother.
• our block of flat is small, it has only 4 floors
• our surrounding is wonderful, we live in calm part of our town, my basic school was 200m of my home
• our flat is modern, very nice and my mother is expert by decoration of our flat, I like my home very much
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-22157955874607586452012-02-15T10:13:00.000+01:002012-02-15T10:13:03.485+01:00Health and Diseases, Human Body1) The human body
• skeleton = kostra consisting of about 206 bones
- bones connected by joints = klouby
- backbone (33 – 34 vertebrae)
- brainpan = lebka, chest = hrudní koš
- upper limbs = horní končetiny: arm: shoulder, upper arm, elbow = loket, forearm = předloktí, wrist = zápěstí, hand with fingers
-&Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-18883060113123475282012-02-15T10:07:00.000+01:002012-02-15T10:07:48.393+01:00Environment, climate, weatherEviroment
Greenhouse effect
• Greenhouse
- small building made from glass
- through glass sunshine goes but not back and in greenhouse is warm for plant
• native greenhouse effect
- it exists because of our Earth, it is useful for having a good temperature on Earth
• anthropogenic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-27934968827450922762012-02-15T10:01:00.000+01:002012-02-15T10:01:44.087+01:00Travelling1) Travelling
• all people on the world travel, people travelled in history and they travel at present too
• reasons of travelling:
- learning about new places, countries, new people (Africa – most interesting continent, there lives people, who you never see before, with different religion, style of life, weather)
- business,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305706872146265450.post-77458207434977760842012-02-15T09:37:00.000+01:002012-02-15T09:37:59.823+01:00My impression of Prague1) Prague
• capital and the largest city of Czech republic
• official name is Capital City of Prague
• situated on the River Vltava
• has been the political, cultural and economic center of the Czech state for over 1100 years
• there live 1.2 million people (+ surrounding 1.9 million people)
• &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0