vendredi 19 novembre 2010

Visit during our school trip


We are going to speak about our visit during our school trip in Netherlands from the 10 th October to the 15 th October.
First we are going to speak about  Monday the 11th because we visited an art modern museum: The Kröller Müller. The museum is next to Otterlo and it's in a national park. It's a privacte museum. In the museum, there are a lot of painting from the impressionit period. The majority painter of the period was french (Monet, Manet...)But two of the most important painters was Picasso and Van Gogh. In the garden, there are a lot of sculptures. In the park, we can walk, we can see sculptures, we can eat, we can ride bikes...
Our impression: The wisit was very intersting because the guide was nice and in France we don't have a museum with something in and out in a garden.

Secondly we are going to speak about Tuesday the 12nd we discovery Amsterdam. It was  nice moment of the school trip. The morning we was in the Anne Franck's House. We traveled Amsterdam with our penpals and after we navigated on the canals of Amsterdam.
Our impression: It was great to saw that but we was so tired.

To conclude we will tell our visit in the museum of the war in Grosbik.We saw a movie who spoke about the liberation of Netherlands. One of village ( Nijmegen) was completly destroy. The old station destroyed by a bomb.
Our impression: it was nice experience, we was a little quite moved.

The netherlands and its geography.

We are going to talk about the geography of Netherlands :

The capital city of the Netherlands is Amsterdam.
The area of this contry is : 41 848 km², It's a very very flat land.
In 2010 the estimation of the number of inhabitants is 16 627 200.
The Official language in the Netherlands is the Dutch



The regions of Netherland are:-Zeeland
                                     -North brabant
                                     -limburg
                                     -gelderland
                                     -overussel
                                     -utrecht
                                     -south holland
                                     -north holland
                                     -flevo-land
                                     -drenthe
                                     -friesland
                                     -groningen

The Netherlands is Parliamentary Monarchy, were the queen's name is Beatrix and the Prime Minster is Mark Rutte.


The fives bigger cities are :
-Amsterdam  (North Holland) with 744,740 inhabitant
-Rotterdam (South Holland) with 581,615 inh.
-The Hague ('s-Gravenhage) (South Holland) with 474,245 inh.
-Utrecht (Utrecht) with 290,529 inh.
-Eindhoven (North Brabant) with 209,601 inh.

This is a picture who show you the water in the Netherlands without the dikes, sluices and dams...












Lots of Cities and lands are under the water level if the dikes aren't here.



 





For the end, if you like biking and visit beautiful town you must go in the netherlands !!!

vendredi 12 novembre 2010

AMSTERDAM

On wednesday we went to Amsterdam, it was AWESOME ! First, we went to Anne Frank's huis, we were separated in three groups to visit her house. The day before we had watched a movie about her life and we had to find differences and similarities between the movie and the house. We ate while we were walking  because we had to answer questions about monuments and landmarks in Amsterdam with our penpals. When we were done, we had time for shopping, when we were in H&M trying clothes our penfriends thought that we left them and they went away, leaving us alone in the big unknown Amsterdam. In the evening we ate pancakes on a boat and we came back at OBC Bemmel School. It was a very good day ! 

Our penfriends !

Hello !
Today we are speak about our penfriends.
We have one or two penfriends for one pupil.
 It's not the same daily routine in the Netherlands.
For example we ate between five and six pm but we had a big evening : we watched TV, we played games, we talked with the family...
On Monday afternoon we cooked dinner with our penfriends. It was planned that we would eat it on Tuesday evening at school.

They speak two languages : Dutch and English. They learn French at school but they are not very good at it.
They are very friendly and nice !!!