Questions and answers about Greece.

• Where are you from?

• We are from Greece.

• What’s your nationality?

• We are Greeks.

• Where is your country?• Greece is in the south of

Europe.

• What countries are next to you?

• Albania, Fyrom, Bulgaria and Turkey.

• How old is your country?My country is very old. It comes from the Antiquity.

• What is the number of inhabitants?About 11.000.000 people.

• How large is your country?It’ 131.957 km2

What is the name of the capital?Athens

• Does your country take part in the European Union?Yes, since 1981.

• What is the flag of your country?

• Our flag is blue and white

Do you have a king, a Prime Minister or a President?We have a Prime Minister and a President.

• Our President is Mr Karolos Papoulias and

• Our Prime Minister is Mr Antonis Samaras

• What is the currency?• The euro.

• What is the National Anthem?• The Hymne to the liberty.• It was written in 1823, after our

war of independence by Dionysios Solomos.

• That is the symbol of our country.

• What languages do you speak?

• We speak Greek but most people speak English and other European languages as well.

• What is the official language?• Greek.

• What’s the weather like?• In the winter it rains a lot and it

snows, especially in the mountains, and in the summer it is sunny.

• What’s the climate like?• The climate of Greece is

Meditteranean with mild, wet winters and hot,dry summers.

• Do you have famous national monuments? What are their names?

• The Parthenon in Athens

• The Irodion theater in Athens

• What is your favourite monument?

• The white tower in Thessaloniki.

• Meteora, a complex of 6 Eastern Orthodox monasteries, built on the rocks.

In Greece there are also many beautiful islands, such as Rhodes, Corfu, Myconos, Schiathos and many others.

What is the national food?Souvlaki, greek salad, moussaka (with aubergines) and spanakopita (a

pie with spinach)

What are the traditions?During Easter we dye red eggs on Holy Thursday and we also have the

procession of the Epitaph on Good Friday.We also celebrate the Carnival and our National Days (the 28th of

October and the 25th of March, the day of our Independency)

• What are the national sports?• Football

• Basketball

• Who are your national football players?

• Kostas Mitroglou

• Giorgos Karaggounis

• Who are your national celebrities?

• Maria Kallas, a famous opera singer(1923-1977)

• Georgios Seferis(1900-1971)

• He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for

Literature in 1963.

• Do you have a uniform to go to school?

• No, we used to but since 1982 we don’t have.

• How many lessons do you have per day?

• We have 5 or 6 lessons per day.

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