Authors: Alex Samborska and Simon Pszczola

POLAND

Poland

Poland has got sixteen voivodships (regions). We live in Lublin region which is in the south-east of the country. Lubin is the biggest city in Lublin region and this is the city where we live.

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Poland joined the European Union in May, 2004. Since then a lot of things have changed in our country.

Lublin

Lublin is a beautiful, modern European city with a long and rich history. It was first mentioned in chronicles in 1197.

Here you can see the emblem of our city – the ram and the vine. There are many legends about Lublin and its symbols.

We go to the best primary school in our city – Boleslaw Chrobry Primary School. It’s a part of the educational complex EDUCO which also includes a kindergarten, a middle and a high school.

Our school is attended by more than 300 students. We represent classes 5a and 5b. This is the photo of us and our classmates…

Reading is a very popular activity in our school. We often visit the library and do a lot of interesting projects

connected with reading. In the picture you can see „The Reading Night in

Chrobry”

In this picture we are taking part in a special workshop in the local library.

My father

My sister

My mother

Simon

This is photo of my family. My name is Simon and I am 11 years old. My hobbies are chess and basketball. I am the best chess player in our voivodship. I have one sister and one brother. My sister’s name is Susie. She is 12 years old. Her hobby is dancing. She dances hip-hop. She is the world champion in hip-hop. My brother’s name is Jacob. He is 16 years old. He isn’t in this photo beacause he doesn’t like being in photos. My mother’s name is Olga. She is a house keeper. She is the best mum in the world, I love her very much. My father’s name is Jacek. He is a bridge player. He is a triple world champion in bridge and I also love him very much.

This is my family. My name is Alex and I am eleven years old.I have got a brother, Jacob. He’s five years old. My mum’s name is Kasia, she’s forty-one years old. My Dad’s name is Darek, he’s also forty-one.I love my family.

Recently we have conducted a questionnaire in our school. As

you can see our schoolmates are real bookworms!

Do you like reading?

81%

19%

yes

no

Our students prefer to read teen literature, adventure and fantasy books as well as detective stories.

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     Fantasy       sciencefiction 

  adventurebooks

   love stories      horrors     detectivestories

   teenliterature 

    science      travelbooks

    biographies

What kind of books do you like?

The books which are most popular in our school are as follows:

„Harry Potter”,