Year 2013-2014

A Virtual Multi-

cultural

Magazine

Collège Marie Curie, Troyes, France

With the collaboration of

İSTEK KAŞGARLI MAHMUT PRIMARY SCHOOL

W H O IS W H O? PAGE 2

My name is Evliya Çelebi. I was

born in 1611. I Live in Kütahya. I

am a writer and I love travelling.

I am from Turkey.

My name is Louis XIV. I was born in 1638

and I live in Versailles. I am a French king and I love dancing.

I am from Vinci. I have white hair, mous-

taches and a beard. I am a painter, engi-

neer, scientist and an inventot. I am a

genius. My favourite picture is La Gio-

conda. I am Leonardo Di Vinci.

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Acknowledgements PAGE 38

TO

Mrs Kyriaki Tzioti and her class in Greece

Mrs Ildikó Tóth and her pupils in Hungary

Mrs Joanna Czapla and her class in Poland

Mrs Didem Şahin and her class in Turkey

Mrs Antonella Folisi and her pupils in Italy

Mrs Mangni Llaty and her class in France

Thank you so much for your wonder-

ful collaboration and participation in

this fun project! We hope you enjoyed

it as much as we did.

FA MOU S P EO PL E I N EUR O P E PAGE 3

I live in Athens. I have got brown hair, a beard and

a moustache. I’m a playwright.

I write comedies. Some of my comedies are :

“Peace”, “Clouds” and “Frogs”.

Pope John Paul II , sometimes called Blessed John Paul Or John Paul the Great is the first polish Pope. He is one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He visits 129 countries during his pontificate. He likes talking with teenagers.

My name is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. I

was born in 1881. I’m the founder of

Turkish Republic. I am a leader.I ha-

ve blue eyes and blonde hair.

My name is Victor Hugo. and I

am French. I am a writer. I have grey hair and brown eyes. My favourite book is « The miserables ».

I’m a French emperor and I am from Corsi-ca. I am in the army and I like wars. I fight against England. I am short and I have brown hair and brown eyes.

I am Napoleon Bonaparte.

W H O IS W H O? PAGE 4

Hi!My name is Hidayet Türkoğlu . I

am a basketball player. My teams

are Efse Pilsen, Sacramento Kings,

San Antonio and Orlando Magic. I

love basketball.

I live in Athens and I am 67 years old. I have

got brown hair and I wear glasses. I am a

writer. I write books for kids. Some of my

books: “The three baby wolves”,“The 33

pink rubies” and “Little Hermes”.

My name is Jean Dujardin. I’m a French actor. I play In the film « The Artist » and I get an oscar. I have

brown eyes and black hair. I’m 41.

My name is Marion Cotillard. I’m 38 and I’m an actress. I live in France but I work in the USA. I play in the film « Piaf ». I have blue eyes and brown

hair.

Storytelling and

Comic Strips

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Saving Christmas Presents by Joanna (Greece)

Once upon a time, in the Christmas world, Santa was about to

share presents. The elves by mistake, gave Santa a magic po-

tion which made him … a miser.

Elves:

Oh, but who is going to give the presents to the kids?

The elves went to the wise man and told him:

Elves:

We gave a magic potion to Santa, by mistake, and he be-

came a miser. What can we do now? Who is going to give the

presents to the kids?

The wise man:

Santa!!! I will give you a potion that will do Santa well, again!!!

Elves: (shouting) Yippee!!!

The wise man:

But I’ll come with you to make sure that you’ll do everything

right!

Elves: OK.

The elves and the wise man went to Santa and gave him a

magic potion. Santa was well again!!!

And they lived happily ever after!!!

The End

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Storytelling and

Comic Strips

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A Detective Story by Cleopatra (Greece) 011: Hello, sir

Chief: Hi detective 011. Today you’ll catch a thief who stole

2 million dollars from a bank. Go!!!

…… but the two thieves.

Hello, brother!

Hi! What have you got in your bag?

I’ve got my clothes. Go to sleep and I’ll watch some TV.

OK.

011 : …! I’ll get into the thief’s house and catch him.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

011: The thief is sleeping. I’ll catch him now!!!

At the police station…

I’m not the thief! I didn’t steal anything!!!

I’m the thief. I stole the money but I’m sorry. I’ll take the

money back and I’ll stay in prison but not my brother.

Chief: OK! You’re free. And your brother, too. But you must

clean all the police station!

-???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

011, chief and thieves: Ha, ha, ha!!!

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Hello! My name is Kenan Doğulu. I am Turkish. I am a

singer. I love pop music. I was

born in 1974.

I'm 28. I'm French. I'm a singer. I can dance and sing. My real name is Tamara but nick-name is Shy’m. I took part in “Dance with the Stars”

I am Greek but I live in New York and Paris. I

have got dark eyes and dark hair. I am an

opera singer, a soprano! I sing operas such

as: Ave Maria, Carmen, Aida etc. I am Calllas.

I’m from Florence. I have got brown hair

and brown eyes. I’m an actor and I won

the Oscar Prize with the film « La Vita è

Bella ». I interpreted Pinocchio, a famous

Italian tale. I’m Roberto Benigni.

W H O IS W H O? PAGE 6

My name’s Adam Małysz. I’m

a ski jumper. My successes : 4

individual Olympic Games

medals, 4 individual World

Championships gold medals ,

4 individual World Cup titles.

I’m from Rome. I have got brown eyes and

dark hair. I’m a singer. My favourite songs

are « Se bastasse una sola canzone » and I

belong to you. I am Eros Ramazzotti.

Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union

organizer and human-rights activist. In 1990 he

became the president of Poland. He presided

over Poland’s transformation from a communist

to a post-communist state. His wife’s name is

Danuta. They’ve got eight children.

Storytelling and

Comic Strips

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Bella 007 by Manon (France)

Hello, my name is Bella 007. I’m a secret agent. My boss gave me a secret mission: capture public enemy n#1, Jane. First, I followed Jane. Last night, I worked hard to have some information about her. Finally, this morning, I de-cided to wait past her house. Wgen she came out, I captured her and I called the police to put her in prison. My mission was a real success!

Re-order the illustrations according to my story:

The answer is: 2/3/1/5/4/6

1 2

3

4

5 6

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Storytelling and

Comic Strips

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A Day in a Frog’s Life by Anaelle (France)

Once upon a time, a little green frog got lost in a kitchen. She wanted to go home. So she jumped from the kitchen window. Then, she wal-ked across a bridge and jumped over a leaf. There were big stones on her. So she went around them. Finally, she arrived at home. It was such a long journey! She took three hours to get back home.

C HRI S T MA S I N E UROP E PAGE 7

IN GREECE

Some days before Christmas house wives make sweets (kourabiedes : something like shortbread melomakarona: small cakes with honey syrup) and all the houses smell wonderful . We offer them to our guests!!! The traditional dish used to be pork or lamb but nowadays we cook turkey!

On Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve all families have lunch or dinner together because it’s a family celebration. Families enjoy a delicious meal and everyone is happy.

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IN HUNGARY

After Christmas Mass, Hungarian families

meet and eat a Christmas meal. They can

have jellied pig’s feet, and poppyseed bis-

cuits with honey called kocsonya. Some

families have fish soup, fried fish with po-

tato salad and yeast raised cakes with pop-

pyseed and walnuts. They drink Palinka.

In Hungary, they have many traditions befo-

re Christmas. They do advent calendar

like in France. But Santa Claus comes on

December 6th. Children put their boots

into the windows and santa fills them with

candies.They have Luca Day on December

13th.: Men must build a stool and finish it

for Christmas. They sing carols and they

build a crib too.

They decorate their houses and streets.

They buy a christmas tree a day or a week

before Christmas and they decorate it with

lights, and wrapped holiday candies.

Storytelling and

Comic Strips

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Molly’s Summer Holidays

by Benjamin (France)

« Hello, My name is Molly. My master is

Benjamin and I am the Watchdog at ho-

me. My job during the holidays in 2013

was to watch the children. It’s a very

difficult job for a dog!

Sometimes, I had to wash the dishes. They really

took advantage of me but it was so good! I also had

to keep an eye on them when they watched TV, a ve-

ry hard job. You’re right, it’s true that sometimes I

fell asleep. That’s because there were some sun-

beds for the family near the swimming-pool. I wore

my sunglasses to see them but I was too tired! For

my birthday, benjamin and his brothers forced me to

wear a hat: I really looked prettier, didn’t I?

Well, the most difficult element in this family is Os-

Put the picture in the right order:

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European Favourite

Superheoroes

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On 8th of On 8th of

December each December each

Italian family uses decorate a tree. Italian family uses decorate a tree.

Some people prepare a Nativity Scene Some people prepare a Nativity Scene

tootoo..

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IN ITALY

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IN FRANCE

We put a crib ( Crèche in French)at the foot of the christmas tree.

We do a Christmas tree that we decorate. We decorate the house and the Christmas tree with baubles, subjects, tinsel (Guirlande in French) and lights

At midnight, we go to church.

We eat some duck liver, turkey with vegetables , chestnuts (chataignes in French) and potatoes .

For dessert, it is a yule log.

In the morning, we discover the presents under the Christmas tree and we open them.

cadeaux

papillotes

Buche de noel

SAPIN

DINDE

European Favourite

Superheoroes

PAGE 31

IN EUROPE

He is a boy. He is tall. He has got blond hair

and blue eyes.

He is Homer Simpson.

He is Bart’s dad. He is

bald and he has got big brown eyes. He lo-

ves cookies.

His son is Bart. He is short and he has got blond

hair too. He can be clever. He loves skateboar-

ding.

His name is Peter Parker. He is strong, thin

and agile as a spider. He wears a red and

blue suit. He can fly thanks to his cob-

webs.

He is very handsome.He is tall and thin. He

has got balck hair. He has got big blue eyes, a

small nose, a mouth and perfect teeth.

He wears a cloak , a blue and red uniform,

and red boots.

He can fight bad men. He is so strong that he

can lift a whole building with his hands...only.

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European Favourite

Superheoroes

PAGE 30

IN FRANCE

GRU

ASTERIX

PAGE 11 Fun Stuff

Fun Stuff PAGE 12

CHRISTMAS IN FRENCH

Down:

1 It is a decoration.

2 It is a traditional dish in France

3 Children love these candies.

4 We decorate it with baubles.

6 It is a Christian decoration.

10 Christmas in French.

Across:

5 Chestnuts

6 They are under the Christmas tree.

7 It is the French Christmas cake

8 Merry Christmas in French.

9 He brings presents.

European Favourite

Superheoroes

PAGE 29

In Greece

ARHELAOS He is a cabbage.

He is thin and short.

He hasn’t got hair.

He has got big and blue eyes.

He wears T-shirt and shorts.

He can runs for 200m but he can’t run for

1km.

LITTLE HERO

Little Hero is a Greek comic he-

ro. His real name is George Tha-

lassis.

Geroge is tall; he has got dark

hair, big eyes, a normal nose, a

big mouth, and big teeth. He is

thin.

He wears a blue t-shirt, trousers,

and brown shoes. He can climb and do karate moves. He

can’t go to war. He is a kid.

PAGE 28 Back to school

A Typical Wednesday In Turkey

The first lesson is maths. We learn fractions. Second

lesson is social information. We repeat Atatürk’s life.

Third lesson is art. We draw clean environment pictures.

Fourth lesson is ICT. We write a paragraph. In lunch

breaktime we play basketball. Fifth and sixth lessons are

P.E. We play football. We pull hard shots but the

goalkeeper catches the ball. In corner we shoot the ball

with our head and goalkeeper can’t catch the ball.

Seventh and eighth lessons are Turkish. Teacher gives us

homework and we go home.

Let’s cook ! PAGE 13

A very easy and healthy salad : Traditional Greek Salad -Horiatiki Ingredients and equipment :

tomato cucumber onion green pepper feta cheese

olives

olive oil salt oregano spoon knife small bowl

salad bowl

Procedure:

Cut the tomato into pieces ¯ Mix the olive oil with the salt

Slice the cucumber and the oregano

Peel and chop the onion ¯Put a piece of feta cheese

on the top

Slice the green pepper of the vegetables

Put the vegetables in a salad bowl ¯ Pour the dressing onto the

salad

Cooking Instructions

Let’s Cook ! PAGE 14

A Cherry Clafoutis: a healthy cake

You need:

750g of ripe cherries

100g of flour

Half a bag of baking powder

4 eggs

125g of sugar

Half a teaspoon of salt

25g of melted butter

25cl of milk

1 bag of vanilla sented sugar

1. Wash and remove the stones in

the cherries

2. In a bowl, break the eggs.

3. Add the sugar, the vanilla sen-

ted sugar, the salt and whip for 5

minutes.

4. Pour the flour and the baking

powder

5. Mix delicately with a wooden

spatula.

6. Add the melted butter and the

milk

7. Butter the pan, arrange the

cherries in the pan and pour the

mixture on the cherries

8. Put it in the oven and bake for

45 mniutes at 180 C°.

PROCEDURE:

Back to school PAGE 27

But can you find the school

subjects in the following

wordsearch?

LANGUAGE MATHS

HISTORY GEOGRA-

PHY

ENGLISH SCIENCE

CIVIL EDUCATION MUSIC

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

ART FRENCH GERMAN

PAGE 26 Back to school

A Typical Timetable

Hi! I’m Yiannis from Greece. I go to

the fifth class of Primary School.

Here’s my school timetable for this

school year!!!

Let’s Play ! PAGE 15

Put the pictures in the correct order.

1 2

3 4

5 6

7 8

Answer: 5/8/7/6/1/3/2/4

Ingredients:

Let’s Cook ! PAGE 16

Hungarian Goulash Soup

60 dkg beef

30 dkg onion

2 big carrots

1 smaller

celeriac

40 dkg peeled

potatoes

1 spoonful

red paprika

½ spoonful

hot red

paprika

1 spoonful

salt

1 teaspoon

grounded

cumin

2 bay leaves

1 teaspoon

freshly

grounded

black pepper

1 smaller

tomato

3 cloves of

garlic

2 spoonful

grease

½ bunch of

celery leaves

1 green

pepper

½ bunch of

parsley

1 big white

carrot

csipetke

(see recipe)

Back to school PAGE 25

School Life in Greece

Now Emily and Nick, our class-

mates are writing about school.

Hi! My name is Emily. I’m ten years old and I go to the 4th Pri-

mary School of Daphni.

My favourite subjects are Maths, History and English. But I

also like Music and P.E.

I hate German and Science. I don’t like Religious and Geogra-

phy! But my favourite subject is…BREAK!!!

I’m Nick. I get up at 7:30. I have breakfast and I go to school

at 8:00 o’clock. We have Language, Maths, History etc. After

school, I go home, I have lunch and I do my homework.

PAGE 24 Back to school

Istituto ComprensivoIstituto Comprensivo

OctaviaOctavia

III AIII A

ItalyItaly

A typical Italian Timetable

Our Free Time

Let’s Cook! PAGE 17

Instructions:

1 Chop the beef into 2cm pieces then chop the onions.

2 Fry the onion, mix it with the paprika then add 1,5 dl water.

Boil it until the water disappears.

3 Add the beef, stir and fry it and when it is white add all the

spices, the chopped garlic and tomato and the whole green

pepper. Cover the dish and cook all these for 90 minutes

without adding water. While it is boiling you can prepare the

’csipetke’.

4 Slice the carrots, the white carrot, chop the potatoes, the

celeriac, the parsley and the celery leaves and add them with 2

-2,5 l water. Cook it for 50 minutes.

5 Add ’csipetke’, let it boil for 10 minutes until it is ready.

The best goulash soup is made on open fire.

Csipetke:

1 egg, 8 dkg flour, 1 teaspoon salt

Mix all these to make dough then leave it rest for 20 minutes.

Roll the dough and make small balls with your fingers.

Leave them on floured board until using them.

Ingredients for 2:

Let’s Cook ! PAGE 18

SPAGHETTI ALLA CARBONARA

Directions:

Back to school PAGE 23

There are 3 services. One at 11.30 ano-

ther at 12o'clock and the last one at

12.30 pm. The pupils are called by clas-

ses, paying attention to the time they be-

gin. The pupils have 45 minutes to eat.

The canteen in comprehensive school is

called the self.

The food is well balanced. Several dishes

can be chosen.

Today I had:

salad

chicken nuggets

pasta

cheese

banana

Our Canteen

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A Typical Year 6 Timetable:

Each pupil in Marie-Curie has a timetable to organize his time. It tells him what he must do. Every hour corresponds to a subject: German, English, Biology and Physical Educa-tion... At 9:55am and 2:55 pm pupils have break time to eat so-mething, or to play with friends , or to discuss with their classmates. It's my timetable!

Back to school

Let’s Cook! PAGE 19

Pierogi with meat

INGREDIENTS

3 glasses of flour

1 egg

¾ glass of warm water

an onion

salt

pepper

cabbage

meat

Preparation:

1. Flour, egg, water you mix and crease.

Then you have to roll it and cut out

small circles.

2. Then you have to prepare a filling with

cooked cabbage, onion and meat,salt and

pepper.

After that you put the filling into the cir-

cles.

3. You cook pierogi for about 20 min-

utes.

Let’s Cook ! PAGE 20

YAPRAK SARMAYAPRAK SARMA

2 cups rice 1 tomato, diced 1 tbsp tomato paste 2 onions, shredded 200 gr (1/2 lb) grape leaves, fresh/ preserved 2/3 cup olive oil 3 cups water ½ lemon, sliced 2 tbsp dried mint ¼ tsp black pepper ¼ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp allspice 1 ½ tsp salt ½ tsp sugar

INGREDIENTS

Ou r School Life PAGE 21

Marie Curie

School In France

A Typical French Pupil’s description

In France, pupils don’t wear uniforms. They wear fas-

hionable clothes: jeans, sports shoes, t-shirts and

jackets. They have got a schoolbag too.

A Typical School Day:

School starts at 8 o’clock and finishes at

5pm. We have got two breaks : at 9.50

am and at 2.50 pm. Pupils walk to school

or take the bus. They eat at the canteen or

they can eat at home. Pupils can do their

homework in a study room or can read

books at the school library.

At lunch time, pupils can play games ( ta-

ble tennis , babyfoot or board games) or

they can use their phones. In class, you

can’t use your phone. In our school there

are 650 pupils. Pupils learn French and

English. German and Italian are optional.