Hello everybody! Welcome to Litomyšl! This is a special issue of the school magazine Lojza. The name is “Lojza- Comenius”. In this special Lojza you can read about the Comenius project in Litomyšl. We hope that you have enjoyed the programme in Litomyšl. So there is information in a nutshell about all the activities which we were doing. At the moment I would like to say thanks to the people who worked on this special magazine. They are: Jiří Pečinka, Kateřina Kalášková, Daniel Krejbych, Nikola Girčáková, Adam Valtr and me of course :-). And now it is time for the last sentence. It is called “WYNR” = I would like to Wish You a present Nice Reading!
For all the Lojza staff, Dominik Kalivoda
Dear readers of this special issue of our school magazine Lojza, I am so glad, that our school has that honor this week to welcome to on our school students from partner schools in the Comenius. It is the week unique chance for us to show a beauty of our town and of the whole republic to twenty teachers and to twenty one students from our partner schools. I would like to thank our students for helpfulness our, host families and pedagogues, who invested their own free time to involvement to this unique action. I hope, that thanks to this project you will able to try your improve your English language and some of you will start their international friendship.
headmaster, Ivana Hynková
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Table of contents
page 3- Comenius page 4- Partners schools page 8- Logos page 9- Day after day page 11- Special things
Comenius
The Comenius programme is a European Union educational project. It concerns school-level education, and is part of the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013. It aims “to help young people and educational staff better understand the range of European cultures, languages and values”. Its name derives from the 17th-century Czech educator John Amos Comenius. The program is focussed on several areas: • The basic problems of learning motivation, and skills in learning how to learn. • The key skills of Language learning, greater literacy, science learning, learning to support entrepreneurship, and the development of creativity and innovation; • Digital educational, both content and services; • Improving school management, of teaching, and teacher education; • Reducing socio-economic disadvantages and discouraging early school leaving; • Increasing participation in sports; • Educating groups of students with diverse abilities;; • Development of early and pre-primary learning. The goal of the program is to have participation of more than three million students and teachers in international activities, thus improving mobility of students and teachers in the EU.
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1) Have you ever heard something interesting about the Czech Republic? 2) Tell me something about your school ( how big it is, how many students visit it, ..) 3) What’s cool(= the best) about your town or school?
IC BL U P RE 1. Yes of course. I hear about it every day since I was about one H C ZE year old :-). C 2. Our shool is very pretty. We have got about 300 students here. They are really clever and nice people. 3. The best in our town is our school. Everything is the best in our school- me :-), students, teachers, headmaster... everybody!
D LAN 1. Of course! We are neighbors! We heard that you drink a lot of beer. P O Next thing is that you have a differet food but it is very tasty. We know the “Rumcajs” and Krteček” (These are the typical fairytales for children). 2. Our school is very big. We have got 1300 students and 130 teachers. And we have got there a big school canteen where we can buy everything. There are about 100 girls only because it is a technical school. “It very good,” said one girl from Poland. 3. The best is our school because there is a good atmosphere. We have got a practise. In the town we have got many good clubs (dance) and we can do everything everytime. Y AR G 1. Yes, and last year we had a trip to Germany and we went N H U through the Prague. We like it! 2. It ss very big and nice. And we have some extra lesson of photography and we enjoye it very well. 3. Beautiful buildings. Our swimming pool and we have adventure park next to river. It is amazing! 6
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N 1. Yes of course, we heard about the food and music. And now we know that it is great! 2. Our school is small. We have about 200 students only. But our school is new and it has got the modern elements. 3. It is very easy! We have got a really perfect beatches and the ceramic. 1. Yes, Italian people think, that Czech Republic is a beautiful and the ITA LY Italian people like czech bear and czech people. 2. The name is Istituto Gemeri Careri di Taurianova. There are 600 students. Our school is modern. Has more laboratories. Chemical laboratory, Physical laboratory and 5 information laboratory. 3. The place. :-)
GR 1. We heard about the Czech Republic that there are oblique roofs EE CE and that there are many churchs. 2. Our school is in the Chios (it is island). There are about 200 students. For example in our class are 25 students. Our shcool isn’t as your (Litomyšl school). There are about 12 classrooms. It is a little modern school. From outside is very colorful. 3. We have got a big play ground. We have got a very good teachers :-) We have got a very popular beaches. We would like to come to Litomyšl again. TU 1) Yes, I heard. I heard that there are good and friendly people. And now we know that it is right. 2) It is a small school. There are about 200 students. 3) The best in my town is Mevlana museum.
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Day after day 1. day- Tuesday
Tuesday was called „arrival day“. Some partners from Comenius came to Litomyšl in the afternoon but the others came until in the evenning. After their arrival we could enjoy as we worked. Somebody started a sightseeing tour around Litomyšl but somebody went to play bowling.
2. day- Wednesday
In the morning all the foreign students went on a trip to Moravian karst. They visited many interesting places there, for example the well known abysm Macoca (more on p. 12). When they came back at about 3 p.m. leisure time followed. During their line they could do what they wanted with their host families. However, most of them went to a concert called „The best of (not only) classic” (J. Williams, E. Morricone, A. Dvořák) in the Smetana’s house.
3. day- Thursday
In the morning it was taken a photo of all participants. The official welcome was took a part right afterwards and the mayor of Litomyšl Michal Kortyš also attended. Then the vote of the best Comenius logos and slogans happened (the bets of CZE on p. 8-9 ). When votes were counted and the winners were known, the foreigners were toured through around of our school, to get to know let them the beauties of this historical and architectonical building. As the last not the least thing in the program was the presentation of the partnership schools, where they introduced themselves, so we all know a little more about each another. After this busy day there was a time for personal activities. Some people relaxed at the city pool the others were hanging out around the town. Nonetheless at 3 p.m. everybody needed to be ready for the Litomyšl’s chateau, which is on the UNESCO list.
4. day- Friday
From 9 o’clock conducted presentations of all Comius project started. It was followed by the „competition“! Everybody had must to perform tasks around all Litomyšl. „It was really funny when we didn’t know our way and we were lost,“ said to editorial staff one of participants of Comenius. All the program is called after John Ámos Komenský. So we had must to visited legendary „Pink meadow“ (Růžový palouček; more is on the page 12). All day was closed by big party. It was called „Farewell party“ and everybody had posibility to try sample czech food here. We enjoyed it too much!
5. day- Saturday
Early in the morning the participants of Comenius went to Prague to get to know the capital town of our country. The next day everybody departed the Czech Republic.
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SPECIAL THINGS The Moravian Karst
The Moravian Karst (Czech: Moravský kras) is a karst landscape and protected nature reserve to the north of Brno in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, located near the town of Blansko. It encompasses a number of notable geological features, including roughly 1100 caverns and gorges and covers an area of roughly 92 km². Currently, four of the cave systems (Punkva Caves, Balcarka Cave, Kateřinská Cave, and Sloupsko-šošůvské Cave) are open for public tours and exploration. This region is also home to one of the most important single geological features in the Czech Republic, the Macocha Abyss, a gorge 138 m deep, which was formed when the ceiling of an underground cave chamber collapsed. Macocha Abyss is also the place where the Punkva River begins to run underground through the Punkvení cave system, and two small pools of water are visible at the surface. The Moravian Karst is a popular tourist attraction in the local area, and large numbers of tourists visit in the summer months. In addition to caverns, the nature preserve also contains well-marked bicycle trails and hiking paths to explore.
Pink meadow
The Pink meadow is a memorable place, which was on January 1. 1989 declared as a cultural sight. It is located about 7 kilometers west of Litomyšl between villages Morašice and Újezd and proximally 1,85 hectares big. As it’s name foreshadows pink roses grow at this place. Today the Pink meadow is surrounded by a park, where the copper memorial of Czech Brothers is placed. The first mention of this place is from Joseph’s cadaster in year of 1787 with a note of useless piece of ground. Credits for it’s fame could be given to writer Alois Jirásek, who wrote about it in his book Old Czech Rumors. He got interested in the Pink meadow in 1879 at the time he taught at grammar school in Litomyšl. It’s almost breathtaking how many different rumors is connected with this place. For example, this should be the place, where valedictory Czech Brothers hid a golden calyx and from their tears white roses have grown. The roses from there, as other rumors say, could not be removed as well as planted elsewhere. The Pink meadow also resists to every disruptor and a few rumors mention Russian soldiers moving through at the time of Napoleon’s wars.
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