Our New Book

The third classes in St József School are happy with their new book called Welcome. This is our new book, Welcome. We like Masid, the genie very much.

Children like the characters, the story and the wonderful pictures of the book.

A CD also included, so children can listen the songs again and again at home.

Laci and Milan are enjoying the funny pictures together. Fruzsina likes the pictures of monsters.

Bucharest Days

This week-end we celebrated Bucharest Days. On Sunday, September 19th, within these events, the Students’ Parade took place on the streets of Bucharest. Our school, 186, “Elena Vacarescu” was represented on this occasion by some of our students and teachers.The march started in front of the Palace Hall and ended in Constitution Square, near the Romanian Palace of Parliament. This was a great opportunity for us to make our project known to Bucharest citizens. Also, both teachers and students enjoyed the live concert given by some famous Romanian bands and singers.

1st - 17th September

Last week we found out various meaning of ‘break’. Now we know that you can break not only a leg or a glass but also a promise or the law. The meaning will be changed if we add ‘out’ to the verb. Then we have a phrasal verb which means ‘to begin something usually suddenly’. Our dictionaries illustrate the meaning with the sentence: “War broke out in 1939.”.

Our grandparents remember the 1st of September 1939 very well. They couldn’t start school because of the outbreak of the World War II. On the 17th of September Poland was attacked by another neighbouring country. To memorize these horrifying facts the special ceremony is held every year. On Friday, 17th, we gathered in the school hall where year six-graders and Mrs Morcinek, a history teacher, reminded us of the war events.

A Graduate and Poor Children

We have been learning English as a foreign language for nine years. In April we are sitting a final exam in English. Sometimes we dream of having 10-month holidays and a two-month school year. Learning new words is such a boring job! How we can distinguish between apple and apply? They both look almost the same!
However, last week we read about children in Victorian times. It seems impossible but even little kids had to work really, really hard. Their job was often very dangerous and awful ! Many children worked as chimney sweeps. They had to climb up the chimney and sweep out all the soot. The chimneys were narrow and it was difficult to breathe. Other children worked long, long hours in coal mines where they had to draw the coal trucks along passages as little as 18 inches high. If you find out such horrible facts, learning new English words looks like great fun.
Moreover, a special guest is visiting our English lessons. This is Roxana, our former student. Currently she is studying English at college because she wants to become an English teacher. She showed us where she was sitting while she was a pupil of our school and gave us a few clues how to memorize the most difficult English words.

Hungarian Group to Czech Republic

Miklós or Miki

Evelin or Eve

Dominika or Domi

Anita

Cintia or Cinti

Renáta or Reni

Dominik

Romanian group to Czech Republic

Ana Maria (Ama)

Ileana

Elysa

Mihai

The School Year 2010-2011

Hi Everyone!
From the very beginning we started our English lessons with a strange person. This person has messy black hair or long brown dreadlocks or red spiky hair. His oval face is sometimes suntanned but often very pale. Sometimes he has a beard and a moustache. He wears strange hats or a headscarf. He is shy and lonely or sociable. He is cunning, crazy and nutty. Do you know whose photos we can see in our English textbook?