Culture in a BoxCulture in a Box

A Spring Day Project

Teacher: Núria de Salvador

Student: Stoica Valentina

I Batxillerat

Your Flag?Your Flag?

This is the flag of Romania.

This flag has a famous legendary story!

A Symbol Of Your CountryA Symbol Of Your Country

The object that I have chosen is my country’s flag.

I think that my flag symbolizes my country for it’s colours:

Blue symbolises heaven. Red symbolizes the

blood of heroes. Yellow symbolises the

countryside.

My flag country of Romania

Where Are You from? Where Are You from?

I was born in Romania and my town is called Alba – Iulia.

It’s a beautiful and big town.

Now I'm living in Spain with all my family. I really enjoy living here. My town is called Gavà. It’s a beautiful city.

How’s the climateHow’s the climate??

Autumn is a time of short days, long nights, and rainy weather. In autumn the rain showers persist. Autumn colours signal the end of the productive warm season and the onset of winter.

Spring is a time of long days and short nights. The weather is fine and sunny but a little windy.

Climate in Romania

Summer is a time for long days,short nights, warm temperatures,and a little or no rainfall. The weather is, very sunny and very warm.

In temperate regions, winter is aTime of short days, long nights,And cooler temperatures. The people like to build snowmen and play with snowballs. Precipitation is often greater and falls more regularly than in tropical regions.

Capital/Capital/ Population Population

The capital of my country is Bucharest. Before World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), Bucharest was a bustling and gracious city often called the Paris of the Balkans but many of it’s finer features were lost during the Communist era.. This was mostly the result of self – glorifying building projects such as the government palace of president Nicolae Ceausescu.

The population of Romania is 22.395.848

Capital and population of Romania

A famous personA famous person

Vlad III was born in November

or December 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara. More than anything else the historic Dracula is known for his inhuman cruelty. Impalement was Vlad III preferred method of torture and execution. Impalement was and is one of the most gruesome ways of dying imaginable, as it was typically slow and painful.

Dracula

A Proverb That You LikeA Proverb That You Like

If you wish good advice, ask an old man.

Meaning:

Si quieres un buen consejo pregunta a una persona mayor.

I like it because it’s a wise proverb.

A Recipe From Your CountryA Recipe From Your Country

Ingredients:

45 ml oil

1small onion, sliced

4 thick rashers bacon, diced

8 chicken drumsticks

1 clove garlic crushed

80 ml chopped fresh parsley

250 ml chicken stock

10 ml dried marjoram

410 g crushed tomatoes salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method: Heat oil in a large, heavy – based

pan and sauté onion and bacon over medium heat for 5 minutes. Increase heat and add chicken in batches. Brown chicken on all sides, turning often and taking care not to overcook the onion and bacon, for 2 or 3 minutes. Add stock and marjoram stirring to incorporate any bits which may be sticking to the pan base. Add tomatoes, season and stir. Bring to the, cover and simmer gently for 30 minutes, turning chicken occasionally, until cooked through. Serve on rice.

Romanian Chicken

A product of your countryA product of your country

In a local market, a young Romanian farmer offers plaited onions. Agriculture remains the cornerstone of Romanian’s economy, and most farmers still practice traditional agricultural techniques. They use oxen basic hand tools to work the fields.

Onions

A landscape that you loveA landscape that you love

BRAN CASTLE is Situated 30 Km from Brasov, between the Bucegi and Piatra Craiului Mountains, Bran Castle is an important national monument and landmark of the Romanian tourism, due not only to the beauty of the Castle and the landscape but also to the legend of Count Dracula.

BRAN CASTLE

A favorite poem of yoursA favorite poem of yoursThe Road not Taken

Robert Frost

1) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 3) And both that morning equally lay And sorry I could not travel both In leaves no step had trodden black. And be one traveler, long I stood Oh, I kept the first for another day! And looked down one as far as I could Yet knowing how way leads on to way, To where it bent in the undergrowth. I doubted if I should ever come back.

2) Then took the other, as just as fair, 4) I shall be talling this with a sigh And having perhaps the better claim, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- Though as for that the passing there I took the one less traveled by, Had worn them really about the same. And that has made all difference.

Greetings in your languageGreetings in your language

Good morning = Buna dimineata

Good afternoon = Buna ziua

Good Night = Buna seara

How are you? = Ce mai faci?

Ethnic Romanians make up per centof the population; Hungarians, living mostly in Transylvania, account for 7 per cent; and the Romanies for more than 8 per cent, although an exact count has never been made.

More than 56 per cent of Romania’sPeople live in cities.