This PPT material was used during the English lesson organised with the Italian students during the Grundtvig project meeting held in Arezzo, Italy (April 2014)

1. LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC DE SERVICII „SFANTUL APOSTOL ANDREI” PLOIESTI
GRUNDTVIG LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
„PROMOTING ENGLISH AS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN
EUROPEAN ADULT EDUCATION”
(GRU - 13 - P - LP - 253 - PH – ES)
MATERIAL CREATED FOR THE ENGLISH LESSONS ORGANIZED WITH THE
ITALIAN ADULT STUDENTS BY
PROF. ANDREI SORINA MONICA
APRIL 2014

2. MEET ROMANIA, THE
LAND OF FAIRY TALES

3. ROMANIA ON THE MAP OF EUROPE

4. SINCE 2007 ROMANIA IS PART OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION

5. THE 9 REGIONS OF ROMANIA

7. FLAGS OF ROMANIA AND ITALY

8. ROMANIAN CLIMATE
• The highest
temperatures: +44.5°C (in
the South)
• The lowest temperatures:
-32.5°C (2 years ago)
• The highest peak:
Moldoveanu – 2544 m
• Ploiesti is situated at half
distance between
Bucharest and the
Carpathians

9. ROMANIA HAS 4 SEASONS
• Winter
• Summer
• Autumn
• spring

10. NATURAL BEAUTIES – AMAZING
LANDSCAPES

11. THE CARPATHIANS
11 NATIONAL PARKS AND 7 NATURAL PARKS

12. WILD ANIMALS PROTECTED BY THE
LAW

13. 6 SALT MINES FROM WHICH SALT HAS
BEEN EXTRACTED FOR 1000 YEARS
• Constant
temperature
+12°C
• Popular tourist
attractions
• Recommende
d by doctors
for lungs
diseases and
weak immune
system
• Constant
humidity

14. A GREAT NUMBER OF FAMOUS
CAVES IN ROMANIA

15. GLACIAL LAKES, THERMAL LAKES,
VOLCANIC LAKES, MINERAL WATER SPRINGS
Famous
resorts

16. MUDDY VOLCANOES AND MUD
GOOD FOR HEALTH

17. THE BIOSPHERE RESERVATION OF
DANUBE DELTA
• Tourists from all over the
world visit it every year
• Difficult to live there in
winter

18. FAMOUS AND BEAUTIFUL PLACES
BUILT BY PEOPLE

19. THE MERRY CEMETERY FROM
SAPANTA
• It became an open-air
museum and a national
tourist attraction
• It is famous for its colorful
tombstones with naïve
paintings describing in a
poetic and original
manner the people who
are buried there and
scenes from their lives

20. THE MONASTERIES FROM THE NORTHERN
PART OF ROMANIA – PART OF UNESCO
WORLD HERITAGE

21. THE 7 VILLAGES WITH FORTIFIED
CHURCHES FROM TRANSYLVANIA
• Enlisted as UNESCO
world heritage sites
• Built in the 13th century
as defensive works
within which people
could take shelter
from the invaders (the
Ottoman Empire)
• Prince Charles has
properties here and his
foundation is involved
in the restoration of
many historical
monuments

22. MEDIEVAL CITIES FROM
TRANSYLVANIA

23. FAMOUS CASTLES
• The Bran Castle
(Dracula’s Castle)
• Savarsin Castle
(the residence of
the Romanian
king, Michael I)
• The Huniad Castle
• Peles Castle
(build by the first
king of Romania
who was of
German origin) is
150 years old

24. CITADELS

25. BUCHAREST
• The Houses of Parliament is
the second biggest
administrative building in the
world after the Pentagon
from the USA
• It has 1100 rooms

26. THE CHURCHES WITH WOODEN TOWERS
FROM MARAMURES AND BUCOVINA

27. POPULAR TRADITIONS AND
CUSTOMS

28. TRADITIONAL CLOTHES, DANCES AND
SONGS

29. CALUSARII
• Calusarii ritual is inscribed
on the UNESCO List of the
Intangible Cultural
Heritage of Humanity
• The dancers called
Calusari are invested with
supernatural powers and
while dancing they
protect people from the
female demons
• They also bring luck,
health and happiness to
people watching them
dancing
• http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=qTlmPgaXdoM
#t=81

31. CHRISTMAS CAROLING
• Ancient tradition preserved
in the countryside areas;
• Children mostly go caroling:
in big groups they go from
house to house to sing
songs about Christmas (the
birth of Jesus);
• In exchange for their
singing, they receive nuts,
apples, sweets, bread or
money;

32. SACRIFICING THE PIG
• Strong pagan tradition
remained till nowadays in
traditional country life –
before Christmas
• Pigs were sacrificed to feed
the sun with their blood in
order to help him become
stronger, fight against winter
and bring spring
• This custom resisted along
with the Christian one in
collective memory

33. PAINTING EGGS ON EASTER
• Painting eggs on Easter is an ancient tradition
• It is performed with wax and different natural
colours
• It’s a tradition preserved at the countryside
• On Easter Day, people knock eggs and say
“Jesus has risen!” and “He has risen indeed!”

34. SPRING TRADITIONS
• Watering the girls
• Cooking pastries in the
memory of the martyrs
who were killed in the first
Christian centuries

35. FIRST MARCH AMULETS
• It is an ancient tradition celebrated at
the beginning of spring
• Women and girls wear March Amulets
to let people know spring is coming
and to be happy and lucky
• The red string symbolizes the blood
and life and the white one – the purity

36. TRADITIONAL FOOD

37. COMMON INTERESTS OF PEOPLE
FROM ROMANIA AND ITALY

38. COMMON ANCESTORS - THE LATINS
FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE
THEY
CONQUIRED
OUR TERITORY
AND MIXED UP
WITH THE
NATIVE
POPULATIONS
FORMING THE
ROMANIAN
NATION

39. THE TRAJAN’S COLUMN FROM ROME
• Presents scenes
from the 2
Dacian wars
the Roman
Empire had in
order to
conquer our
teritory
• 101-102 aC
• 105-106 aC

40. ROMANIAN AND ITALIAN
LANGUAGES HAVE LATIN IN
COMMON AS A COMMON ROOT
• Romanian has
inherited a number of
about 2000 lexical
items from its
ancestral language,
Latin (45% of the usual
language).
• It’s easy for
Romanians and
Italians to understand
each other’
languages

41. ITALIAN CUISINE IN ROMANIA

42. ROMANIAN AND ITALIAN PEOPLE
PRESERVE TRADITIONAL COSTUMES AND
DANCES

43. BOTH NATIONS LOVE FOOTBALL

44. THANKS FOR WATCHING!
MATERIAL CREATED BY
PROF. SORINA MONICA ANDREI
ROMANIAN COORDINATOR AND TEACHER OF ENGLISH