My hobbies

My hobbies are very extensive. I like swimming. I have gone swimming for eight years. I met some friends during this activity. My other hobbies are volleyball, badminton, cycling, in-line skating, photography and climbing. I like playing badminton with my younger sister, because I am always better. I like climbing because in the Czech republic there is very nice nature. I also like riding a bike. I rode a bike to school last month (it is about 20 kilometres). I like it very much.

Jitka Škrabáková, PL2

My hobbies are sports, tourism, photography, reading books, climbing and listening to music. I like listening to Ewa Farná. She is my favourite singer. I go to her concerts. It is really fantastic. I like swimming very much. I often meet my friends. I read books very often. It is my favourite hobby. I go in the mountains and climb there, I go there every holidays. Me and my family go to Slovakia. It is fantastic.

Felicita Hoppová, PL2

Food in the Czech republic

Typical food of the Czech republic are these meals: pork with dumplings and cabbage, dumplings with roast sirloin, cabbage soup with a slice of bread, chips and potatoes. There is a very good cake called Marlenka. We also like pancakes with fruit and ice-cream and whipped cream, jam and chocolate. Czech people like bean, lentil and pea soup, and also fish with potatoes. In big towns there are fast food restaurants and people eat chips, fried meat and cheeseburgers there. There are a lot of salads, for example carrot salad, cucumber salad and vegetables salad with cheese.

Anna Pavlicová, PL2

The most favourite food in the Czech republic is: dumplings with cabbage and meat. We often eat potatoes, rice, potato pancakes and a lot of meat and cheese. My favourite food is sweet dumplings filled with fruits served with cottage cheese and melted butter. For breakfast we often eat bread and butter and cheese or jam. I do not like meat. I like vegetables and fruit. My favourite fruit is bunch of grapes and my favourite vegetables is garden salad.

Dominika Janů, PL2

Czech people eat a lot of meat and vegetables. We like boiling, frying, cooking – all the recipes. We like eating pork, beef, chicken and deer meat. Czech people do not eat cats and dogs. Favourite side dishes are potatoes, pasta and dumplings. We like a lot of cheese, eggs, salami and spread too.  Typical Czech food is pork, cabbage and sliced boiled dumplings. We also eat dairy products a lot. Stanislava Vandlíková, SV4

Czech people like chicken with rice and schnitzels with chips. In the Czech republic many people do not eat mushrooms but the like collecting it. We also like fruit and vegetables. Many people eat sweet meals. We usually cook home and they do not go  to the restaurants because it is very expensive. I think there are no good canteens in the Czech republic.

Jitka Štýrská, SV4

Food is an important part of celebrations and visiting our friends and family. People buy food in shops and Czech people grow vegetables and fruit in their gardens. Czech people like eating meat. My favourite meal is chicken and pork meat, I also like potatoes and pasta. Our national food is pork, cabbage and dumplings. At Christmas people do not eat before dinner, then they eat fried carp with potato salad and some sweets. My family like past with tomato sauce, pasta salad – my mother cooks it very well.

Markéta Hanáčková, SV4

My favourite food

I love food! I eat lots of food. My mum says that I eat like five men... My favourite food is grilled steak with baked potatoes and also sweet dumplings filled with plums, served with cottage cheese, cocoa and hot butter. However, I do not eat vegetables very much. I do not eat beans. I have coffee and some chocolate every afternoon. My favourite drink is an orange juice. For dinner I like black tea or green tea, but fruit tea is not my favourite drink.

Kateřina Pavelková, Czech republic

Languages in the Czech republic

We speak Czech in the Czech republic, but we have to learn foreign language at school. We usually learn English, German or both. At some schools students can also learn French, Russian, Italian and Spanish. I like English the most, because it is quite easy and it sounds good, but German is nice, too. Me and my classmates have problems with two languages, because we are confused and in English lessons we sometimes speak German instead.

Veronika Ryšánková, PL2

Characteristic features of the Czech republic

There are about 10 million inhabitants in the Czech republic. Typical Czech dance is polka and waltz. Czech people are keen on listening to music, too: dance, hip hop, electro – house, metal, trash metal, rock, pop etc. Czech people go to the theatres to see a play very often. Czech nation has famous National Theatre in Prague. Prague is the capital and is the largest, about one million people live there.

Milan Týn, SV4

Our capital is Prague. Our largest cities are Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc. We have big rivers, their names are the Vltava and the Labe. In the Czech republic there are a lot of historical buildings and monuments. There are also famous theatres (The Czech National Theatre) and churches but also very nice nature.  Czech people usually live in a detached house or block of flats.

Denisa Pavlicová, SV4

The Czech republic is country in the centre of Europe. The capital is Prague. The biggest cities are Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc, Plzeň, Zlín and České Budějovice. The Czech republic has three parts: Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia. The most important rivers are the Labe, the Vltava, the Odra, the Dyje and the Sázava. Our national dance is called polka.

Markéta Hanáčková, SV4

Music in my life

For me there is only one thing to do when I've got a lot of homework, bad marks or too many activities. I listen to music. Last year I started to prefer harder music like hard rock and metal.  This is because I am playing the drums and metal music has the best drum solos. In a lot of songs we can hear impossible drum compilations and many styles of drumming.

The main bands that I am listening to are As I Lay Dying, Slipknot, and System of a Down.  I also used to listen to Linkin Park, but they have changed their style of playing and now I don't like it very much.

I also changed my look to fit my interest in this sort of music because sometimes I go to metal-bars and there everyone wears black leather. It's not only because of the people, but also because I like this look.

In the Czech Republic there are a lot of metal concerts and festivals. One of them was Sound of Darkness in Prague, and the ticket cost about 800 crowns.

I also like summer festivals like Masters of Rock and Colours of Ostrava. Czechs don't have many metal bands, so I listen to bands from other countries, mostly from Finland and America.

Many young people don't like metal, because they think that it is just screaming and nothing else. I think these people only hear the screaming, and do listen to the other elements of the music which are really beautiful.

I hope that more people will understand my delight and they will stop sending me away for my love of metal music.

Vojta Burel

COMENIUS Schulpartnerschaft - Austausch Herbst 2011

Der dritte Schüleraustausch im Rahmen des aktuellen Programms ist für 23. bis 29. Oktober 2011 geplant. Treffpunkt ist diesmal Cefalù, Italien.

We intend to continue our joint effort of creating a multilingual dictionary (Czech, English, German, and Italian) with audio support. Users will be able to have a word spoken to them while browsing the dictionary. By using multi-media features like this, we hope to enhance the usability and benefits of conventional dictionaries.