Czech school buildings typically have several floors and sports grounds. Classrooms are large with rows of desks, windows opposite the door, and teaching materials at the front. Other facilities include a basement for lockers, offices on the ground floor, long corridors with classrooms and staff rooms on other floors, and sometimes separate buildings for the gym, cafeteria, and clubs. The hallways are decorated and teachers supervise students during breaks. Lessons follow a standard format of revision, new material, exercises, and homework assignment.

1. Created by primary school
Kosmonautu 15, Ostrava
This project is funded by European Union

2. • The old school buildings in the Czech Republic
look very similar to our school. They are usually
large buildings with a few floors, often with
sports grounds behind the building.
• In the basement or on the ground floor there are
cloakrooms with students´ lockers.
• On the ground floor are usually a hall way, the
headmaster and the secretary offices, the
administrative offices, the teachers´ meeting
room, sometimes even a snack bar and some
elementary classrooms.

3. School
Playgrounds
Old lockers

4. Entrance hall
A staff room
Office

5. • On the other floors is usually a long corridor
with many doors leading to typical classrooms
or teachers´ offices.
• Some classrooms are specially equipped for
chemistry, biology or physic lessons or as a
library.
• The gymnasium and workshops may be in
another building as well as school canteen and
school clubs which look after young pupils
until 5 p.m. when parents return from work.
• Some schools also have an assembly hall.

8. • The hallways and staircases are decorated
with pictures, notice boards, and flowers.
There may also be some cabinets and glass
cases.
• A teacher stands in the middle or walks along
the corridor and looks after the pupils.
• Pupils are allowed to spend their breaks in the
corridors, visit their friends, chat and walk.
• They mustn´t run, shout and smoke.

10. Classrooms in the Czech Republic are usually
large rooms with large windows opposite the
door, with rows of school desks and chairs
with two aisles in between, a whiteboard and
a shelf with coloured markers and chalks, a
sponge and a cloth on the front wall, a
teacher´s desk, a notice board, a few pictures,
a wash-basin, a mirror and a waste-paper
basket. Often there is an interactive board,
cassette recorder, maps and other visual aids.

12. • After the bell when the teacher enters the room,
the pupils stand up to greet her or him.
• The teacher makes an entry in the class register,
marks absent pupils and then starts the lesson
with revision of the previous lesson.
• The teacher examines the pupils individually by
asking them to come to the whiteboard, pupils
are asked to do an exercise, explain a problem,
respond to teacher´s questions.
• Sometimes the whole class takes a written test.

13. • Mark one is the best, mark five is the worst.
• The performance of the pupils who excel is
usually perfect, they are fluent and creative.
• Sometimes the performance is rather
disappointing both for the teacher and the pupil
alike. The reasons differ from not paying
attention in class, not doing homework regularly
and copying it in the break before the lesson,
relying on one´s pretty face, cutting classes and
not working consistently and systematically to
spoiling one´s performance due to nervousness.
• The results range from excellent, very good,
good, and satisfactory to failure.

14. • After examination the teacher explains a new
subject matter and practices it with exercises.
• Before the end of the lesson he or she sums up
the topic and sets assignments for the next
lesson.
• If it is the last lesson in the classroom, pupils
pick rubbish from the floor and shelves under
their desks.
• They also put all chairs on the desks.
• Windows are closed and whiteboard is cleaned.

16. • The teachers are supposed to follow the
curriculum but they are free to choose
textbooks for their pupils.
• Textbooks are provided by school.
• Pupils buy their exercise and work books.
• Some pupils stay at school after school hours
and take part in after-school activities such as
singing in the choir, drama club, arts club or
games. There is a little fee for those activities.

17. This was a short
presentation of
a Czech school.