This document provides information about various aspects of Polish culture, including its geography, famous people, customs, and holidays. It discusses Poland's beautiful mountains and notes their blue-white color in winter and green color in summer. It also profiles several influential Polish figures like Pope John Paul II, composer Frédéric Chopin, ski jumper Adam Małysz, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, and poet Wisława Szymborska. Additionally, it describes several Polish customs and traditions associated with holidays such as New Year's, Advent, Ash Wednesday, Marzanna, Christmas, Palm Sunday, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day. It concludes by listing some common Polish words and phrases.

1. Our great country!
Nasz wspaniały kraj!

2. Poland on the map
Polska na mapie

3. Beautiful, Polish mountains…
Piękne, Polskie góry…
In winter, the mountains are as
nice as in the summer, have a
blue-white colour.
In summer, the mountains
are beautifully green.
The mountains are characteristic for Poland
Latem góry są pięknie zielone.
Zimą góry są równie ładne jak
latem, mają niebiesko-biały
kolor.
Góry są charakterystyczne dla Polski

4. Famous Polish
people
Znani Polacy

5. Jan Paweł II
Pope John Paul II came
from Poland.
Papież pochodzący z Polski.
He became Pope on 16
October 1978.
Papieżem został 16 października
1978 roku.
He died on April 2, 2005
in Vatican City at 21:37
Zmarł 2 kwietnia 2005
w Watykanie o godzinie 21:37.

6. Fryderyk Chopin
The most prominent Polish
pianist and composer.
Najwybitniejszy Polski pianista
i kompozytor.
He wrote a lot of
polonaises,and mazurkas,
nocturnes, waltzes.
Napisał dużo polonezów,
a także mazurków, walców, nokturnów.
He died on October 17, 1849
in Paris.
Zmarł 17 października 1849 roku
w Paryżu.

7. Adam Małysz
Polish ski jumper.
Polski skoczek narciarski
.Four times (including
three times in a row)
winning the World Cup.
Czterokrotny (w tym trzykrotny z
rzędu) zdobywca Pucharu Świata.
He lives in Wisła.
Mieszka w Wiśle.

8. Mikołaj Kopernik
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish
astronomer who discovered and
described the heliocentric theory.
The book he called "On the
Revolutions of the Celestial
Spheres".
Mikołaj Kopernik to polski astronom
który odkrył i opisał teorie
heliocentryczna. Książkę nazwał "O
obrotach sfer niebieskich".
Zmarł 24 maja 1543 r.
He died on May 24, 1543

9. Wisława Szymborska
Polish poet, essayist, literary
critic, translator, columnist,
member and founder of the
Polish Writers' Association
(1989), member of the Polish
Academy of Sciences (1995),
winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (1996), awarded the
Order of the White Eagle
(2011).
Polska poetka, eseistka, krytyk literacki,
tłumaczka, felietonistka; członkini oraz
założycielka Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy
Polskich (1989), członkini Polskiej
Akademii Umiejętności (1995), laureatka
Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury
(1996), odznaczona Orderem Orła Białego
(2011).

10. Polish customs
Polskie zwyczaje

11. NEW YEAR
New Year - January 1st is
a holiday celebrated at
the beginning of a new
calendar year. To
establish the date was not
a simple matter. In
Poland, January 1st is the
day of the New Year of
1630, on this day family
and friends made a wish
for the coming year to be
happy, or at least not
worse than the year that
is leaving.

12. ADVENT
It is a four -week waiting period
for the feast of Christmas , the
time of concentration, fasting,
prayer and worship .
Advent was a time when in the
past the neighbors organised
meetings when they carried out
household chores. The time
passed chatting , gossiping,
matching young couples and carol
singing . When the boys go from
house to house with the crib ,
singing Christmas carols was a
sign that the Nativity of the Lord
is near.
As far as the ecclesiastical rites ,
the so called „Roraty” in Polish or
Morning Prayer – (Holy Mass
pleading for the coming of the
Savior) is celebrated in all the
churches during Advent at dawn

13. ASH WEDNESDAY
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in the
Western Christian calendar. Occurring 46 days
before Easter, it is a movable feast.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-
day liturgical period of prayer and fasting or
abstinence.
Ash Wednesday derives its name from
the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of
adherents as a celebration and remminder of
human mortality and as a sign of mourning and
repentance to God.
The ashes used are typically gathered from the
burning of the palms from the previous year's
Palm Sunday

14. MARZANNA
Marzanna is a pagan springtime
festival in Poland that signals the end
of winter. It usually takes place on the
fourth Sunday of Lent. On this day a
straw or rag effigy of Marzanna is
constructed, sometimes by school
children who then throw her into a
river or a lake to “drown” her because
the effigy is imbued with the negative
qualities of the long, cold winter. This
old custom predates Christian rites, so
Marzanna is not universally observed
throughout Poland.

15. Chrismas
Christmas Day, called the first
holiday by the Poles, is spent with the
family at home. This is a day of
enjoyment, for Jesus was born. On
Christmas Day, people start to observe the
weather very closely. It is believed that
each day foretells the weather for a
certain month of the following year.

16. PALM SUNDAY
Palm Sunday is a Christian's movable feast
that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The
feast commemorates Jesus' triumphant entry
into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four
canonical Gospels.
In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday
includes a procession of the assembled
worshipers carrying palms, representing the
palm branches the crowd scattered in front of
Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem.

17. ALL SAINTS - All Souls' Day
( November 1st and 2nd )
All Saints' Day (also known as All
Hallows, Solemnity of All Saints, or
The Feast of All Saints) is
celebrated on
1st November in Poland in
honour of all the saints, known and
unknown.
It is the day before All Souls'
Day

18. Polish words:
Polskie słówka:
• Good morning – dzień dobry
• Goodbye – do widzenia
• Good night – dobranoc
• Thank you – dziękuje
• I’m sorry – przepraszam

19. Thank you for watching the slide!
Dziękujemy za obejrzenie slajdów!