Transcript European Bingo Game Part 2 • You will need: – Printing out cards for bingo (map on one side, pictures on the other) – Printing.

European Bingo Game
Part 2
• You will need:
– Printing out cards for bingo (map on one side,
pictures on the other)
– Printing out cards to place on it (Picture on
one side, info on the other)
– Optional: tokens
•
How to play:
– Pick a bingo card to put together
– Pick level of difficulty: you can either place it
with pictures side up, or map side up and
guess if the cards that you are drawing
belongs to you
– Mix the cards with descriptions and place
them in some little bag (or cover them, to
avoid seeing the picture of the next item right
away)
– Draw the cards one by one and the one who
has it on his bingo places a token on this item.
– If you can name a fact about the card, get
another token
– The one to get all spaces filled and who has
the most tokens at the end of the game –
wins!
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
•(capital: London) island
country on the North Europe,
•Consists of England, Northern
Ireland, Scotland and Wales
•Constitutional monarchy
•Windsor Castle: world’s
oldest royal residence still used
•English LOVE tea: drink more
then any other nation!
•Medieval England courts tried
and punished even animals
•London Eye: world’s tallest
observation wheel, 30 min/rotat.
Landmark: Big Ben
•316ft tall clock tower of Britain’s
Houses of Parliament in
Westminister, London
•World’s largest 4-faced,
chiming clock; built in 1858
•Big Ben refers to the clock, it
is actually the name of 16 ton
bell.
•Tower is St. Stephen’s Tower.
•The tower is designed in the
Gothic revival style by Charles
Barry; clock by Augustus Pugin
•New Year is celebrated around
Big Ben; TVs transmit the bell
United Kingdom
Loch Ness
•Large, deep, freshwater lake in
Scottish Highlands (rugged,
mountainous region of Scotland)
•Scotland has 6002m of lakes
•2nd largest lake (loch) & the
most famous due to mysterious
monster lurking in its depth
•Most frequent speculation: its a
long-surviving plesiosaurus’ line
•1933: emerges anecdotal news
•Scientists regard it modern-day
myth; sightings - hoaxes &
wishful thinking.
United Kingdom
Animal: European Robin
•(Erithacus rebecula) is a
European small perching bird
•Not related to American robin!
•Have a lovely warm, warble
with melodic rippling of notes
•Notoriously territorial
•Prominent in British folklore:
stained his breast singing to
Christ’s to ease pain on a cross
•Often on Christmas cards:
possibly, because of UK redbreasted postman’s uniform
•Unofficial national bird of UK
United Kingdom
Bagpipe
•Wind instrument played by
blowing air into a pipe leading to
the windbag. Air is squeezed
from the bag into reed pipes.
•Most recognized symbol of
Scottish culture, although
existed since ancient in other’s
•Made of sheepskin or a cow's
stomach & a few hollow stalks
•By 16th century: Scottish clans
established hereditary pipers
•Later used in wartime to
inflame soldiers’ battle passions
United Kingdom
Gustav Theodore Holst
Artist: Joseph Mallord William
Turner
Winnie The Pooh
•Fictional bear created by A.A.
Miln, named after a teddy bear
owned by his son, Christopher
Robin Milne, basis for the
character Christopher Robin
•His other toys also lend names
to all characters, except Rabbit
and Owl, that were probably live
animals in their yard (and
Gopher, later added by Disney)
•“Winnie” was a bear in a zoo,
brought from Canada by soldier
•Translated to many languages
9/21/1874 – 5/25/1934
•English composer, most famous
for orchestral suite “The Planets’
• Romantic landscape painter,
•Known for unconventional use
of meter and haunting melodies
•Composed 200 works,
including choral hymns, ballets,
operas, songs
•Very interested in Hindu
literature and philosophy and
even learned Sanskrit
•Worked as trombonist&teacher,
composing in spare time
watercolourist and printmaker.
•Controversial figure in his day
•Now seen as an artist who
elevated landscapes to a level
of history painting.
•Renowned for oil paintings
•Also 1 of greatest masters of
British watercolor landscape.
•“Painter of light“; work regarded
a preface to Impressionism.
23 April 1775-12/19/ 1851
Shakespeare
baptized 4/26/1564 died 4/23/1616
•English poet and playwright,
regarded as the greatest writer
in the English language and the
world's pre-eminent dramatist
•Called “national poet” or “Bard
of Avon”, born in Stradford-Avon
•Most known work produced
1589-1613: Hamlet, Macbeth,
King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, etc.
•Built & performed at 2 Globe
Theatres, with only men-actors
•No portrait painted while S lived
United Kingdom
Southern Europe: Monaco
•(capital: Monaco) is in
Southern Europe, along the
French Riviera on the French
Mediterranean coast near Nice
•Whole country is just one city!
•.72 mi – 2nd world’s smallest
country (1st – Vatican)
•Constitutional monarchy with
32,000 people; tax heaven!
•Known for its Monte Carlo
casinos and American actress,
who became Princess Grace.
•Since 1275 House of Grimaldi
ruled with on/off independence
Landmark: Tower of Belém
•fortified tower in the Belém
district of Lisbon, Portugal
•Played significant role during
Portuguese Age of Discovery
•Commissioned by King John II
to be both defense system at
the mouth of the Tagus River &
a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon
•Built in early 16th century; is a
prominent example of the
Portuguese Manueline style
•Originally stood on island, but
shoreline moved over the years
SW Europe: Portugal
Alexander the Great
July 20, 356 B.C. – 323 BC
•Greek king of Macedonia
•In 336bc: succeeded his father,
king Philip II of Macedon
•Next 13 years: created largest
world’s empire (until Mongols);
cultural impact lasted centuries
•Tutored by famous Aristotle
•At 10, tamed the wild horse
Bucephalus that accompanied
him in hardest battles; renamed
a city in India in his memory.
•Undid Gordian Knot: cut it!
Alps
•Great mountain range system
in E., stretching from Austria
and Slovenia; through Italy,
Switzerland, Liechtenstein and
Germany; to France in the west
•Mont Blac: highest mountain
(15,782 ft); border Italy–France
•9/8/1786: Mont Blanc 1st
ascended by two natives,
Jacques Belmat and Dr.
Packard; stayed for ½ hour,
with the thermometer several
degrees below freezing point.
•Sw.: famous for Alpine scenery
Central Europe: Switzerland
Animal: Wisent
•European bizon, that used to
live all over Eurasia, but now only in Poland, in its ancient
woodland Białowieża Forest
•live in groups of 10 to 20
•tend to do everything together:
the herd will sleep, eat, reset at
the same time.
•Newborn calves are able to
walk and run shortly after birth
•A call can be heard 3mi away
•For safety, sleep 2-10 min at a
time, hardly total 1 hour a day!
Central Europe: Poland
Belgium Chocolate
•Belgium produces 220,000
tonnes of chocolate per year.
•European delicacy centuries; 1
of world’s most sought items
•Was given as a gift between
lovers; awarded to champions
•1528: conquistador Don Cortes
brought cacao beans; until 19th
century only drank cacao
•Brussels National Airport: the
world's biggest chocolate seller
•1912: Jean Neuhaus, Brussels,
invented the pralines chocolate
Central Europe: Belgium
Composer: Beethoven
Artist: Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
Baptised 12/17/1770-3/26/1827
July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918
•German composer and pianist.
•Most crucial figure between the
Classical and Romantic eras
•1 of most famous & influential
composers of all time.
•In his 20s moved to Vienna and
lived there for rest of his life
•Real celebrity of his times; one
of 1st composers to earn only by
music, without church or patron
•Wrote some his best music
after he went deaf in his 30s
• Austrian painter, founder of the
Vienna Sezession school of
painting.
•Early work was rather realistic
•Prior to 1898 mostly did large
murals for the theaters.
•Later: much more innovative
and imaginative way until
eventually his creations were
very decorative and quite
symbolic - many of the images
in his work had hidden meaning.
Central Europe: Austria
Mitten
•Ukranian folktail retold in
English by Jen Brett
•Boy Nicki drops his mitten in
the snow & goes on without
realizing that it is missing.
•One by one, woodland animals
find the mitten and crawl in:
mouse, rabbit, fox, wolf – all the
regular inhabitants of the
Ukrainian forest and common
characters in its folklore.
•Finally, a big brown bear joins
and the mitten breaks apart.
Western Europe: Ukraine
Southern Europe: Macedonia
Portugal
Northern Europe: Finland
•(capital: Helsinki) Nordic
country situated in the
Fennoscandian region of
Northern Europe
•7th in size, but most scarcely
populated in E.: 1/4 of the total
area lies north of the Arctic
Circle, 75% - forest, 10% water: 188,000 lakes, 180,000
islands; have 2 million saunas.
•2 official languages, Finnish
and Swedish; natives talk Finish
•Last in E. to adopt Christianity
•Santa Clause lives in Finland
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
•"National Cathedral", lacking
the main ingredient that makes
cathedral out of church: bishop!
•Here St. Patrick supposedly
baptized the first local converts
besides a "Holy Well".
•Burials: Dean Jonathan Swift
(Irish foremost satirist poet in
English) & his beloved "Stella".
•In Gulliver's Travels Swift
described Mars’ two gave their
exact size and rotation speeds
100 years before their discovery
Northern Europe: Ireland
•Swedish chemist, engineer,
innovator, armaments
manufacturer and the inventor
of dynamite.
•Held 355 different patents,
dynamite - most famous.
•His enormous fortune left for
Nobel Prizes in physics,
chemistry, medicine or
physiology; literature & piece
•Synthetic element nobelium
was named after him.
Europe: Sweden
Fjords, Sognefjord
•Formed when a glacier cuts a
U-shaped valley by abrasion of
the surrounding bedrock
•Many formed during ice age.
•In 2000: found coral reefs!
•Exist all over the world, but
Norway has most of them
•Sognefjord is worlds 2nd largest
•Typically fjords have mountains
on either side & river in between
•Norway fjords are estuaries
and have abundant wildlife:
seals, porpoises, birds & fish
Northern Europe: Norway
Animal: Puffin
•Live most of their lives at sea,
swimming, resting on waves.
Excellent swimmers: wings
strike underwater with a flying
motion; steer with rubberlike
webbed feet; dive 200 feet deep
•Surprisingly fleet flyers
•Hunt small fish: herring, eels
•Spring, summer: return to land
to form breeding colonies
•Nicknamed "sea parrot.“ for
colorful beak.Winter: beak fades
to a gray; spring: it blooms with
color – to attract to mates?
Amber
• fossilized tree resin (not sap),
appreciated for its color and
natural beauty since Neolithic
•used for the jewelry. 5 classes
of amber, defined on the basis
of their chemical constituents.
•Because it originates as a soft,
sticky tree resin, sometimes
includes animal and plant
material as inclusions.
•colors: from whitish color, pale
lemon yellow, to brown & almost
black; rarely - Red, green, blue
•80% of world’s amber - Balkans
Northern Europe: Iceland
Northern Europe: Lithuania
Composer: Edward Greig
6/15/1843 – 10/4/1907
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
The Little Mermaid
•Statue of Little Mermaid that
sits on a rock is Copenhagen's
(capital) main attraction.
•Fairy tale by the Danish poet
and author Hans Christian
Andersen about a young
mermaid willing to give up her
life in the sea and her identity as
a mermaid to gain a human soul
and the love of a human prince.
•Translated to many languages
•The ending of this tale is very
controversial: added later?
Northern Europe: Denmark
•Norwegian Romantic composer
and pianist; family very musical;
best known: Piano Concerto in A
minor, music to Ibsen's play
Peer Gynt, piano miniatures
•Studied in Leipzig Germany
Conservatory – best in Europe
•Great pianist, giving concerts
all over Europe. But every
summer, back to Norway to
compose. Became a champion
of N. music, art and theater,
Northern Europe: Norway
30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890
•Great Dutch Post-Impressionist
artists of the 19th century
•Never had formal training in art.
•Began painting because of his
brother Theo's encouragement.
•In 10 years Van Gogh made
approximately 900 paintings!
•Only sold one painting during
his lifetime and only became
famous after his death. Now his
paintings are sold for millions!
•Was very sad, ill & depressed
Alfred Bernard Nobel
10/21/1833 -10/12/1896
French Republic
•(capital: Paris) is in Western
Europe with several of its
overseas territories and islands
located on other continents and
in the Indian, Pacific, and
Atlantic oceans
•7 mountain ranges, 5 big rivers
•Love cheese: 350-400 different
French cheeses, 1000 available
•Channel tunnel connects UK
and France underground
•Tour De France: world famous
bicycle race runs in France
•Statue of Liberty was
presented to US by France
The Great Dune of Pyla(t)
•largest sand dune in Europe.
•Located 60 km from Bordeaux,
in La Teste-de-Buch in the
Arcachon Bay area
•Measures 1,640 feet (500 m)
wide & 1.86 miles (3 km) long
•Height: 328-383.8 feet (100 to
117 m) above sea level
•At this summit, the view is
spectacular: ocean coast, inlet
of the Bay, large pine forest
and, when the sky is very clear,
the Pyrenees Range.
Landmark: Eifel Tower
•Nicknamed La dame de fer, the
iron woman, is 1889 iron lattice
tower on Champ de Mars, Paris
•Became both a global icon of
France and one of world’s most
recognizable structures
• tallest building in Paris, 324 m
(1,063 ft) tall, about the same
height as an 81-storey building.
•Named after its designer,
engineer Gustave Eiffel, it was
built as the entrance arch for the
1889 World's Fair.
•Elevators take to different floor
French Republic
Animal: Mouflon
•Subspecies of wild sheep
•1 of 2 ancestors of all modern
domestic ship
•have a red-brown short-haired
coat with a dark back-stripe, light
colored saddle patch, 'socks'
and underpants. The males and
some females are horned
•is featured on the Euro coins,
and historic flag of Armenian
kingdom Syunik,
•In 2001 successfully cloned
French Republic
French Republic
Napoleon
08/15/1769 -5/5/1821
•Extraordinary military & political
leader, actions shaped E politics
•Declared himself Emperor
•Mathematical formula, chess
move and a cake named him.
•Masterfully rewrote feudal
confusing laws (Napoleonic
code), returned France stability
•Conquered most of Europe, but
defeated by Russia, and later –
by British admiral Nelson
•Spent the end of his life in exile
French Republic
Fan
•Ladies used for cooling
•Used since Ancient Greece
•Didn’t exist in Medieval Europe
•Then used for religious
ceremonies: keep insect off food
•Reintroduced in 13cent by
Crusaders; Portuguese brought
more fans from China & Japan
•All high-born women carried it
•Decorated with stones, jewels,
ivory, gold, artistic paintings
•Ladies used “Fan language” for
sending secret messages
French Republic
Composer: Jacque Offenbach
Claude Monet
06/20/1819 – 10/5/1880
11/14/1840 – 12/5/1926
•Brilliant French cellist &
composer of Jewish descend;
called Father of the operetta.
•An operetta: type of opera that
has spoken dialogue and
sentimental themes mixed with
dance, music and songs.
•one of the most influential
composers of popular music in
Europe in the 19th century, and
many of his works remain in the
repertory (including Can-Can)
• One of the creators of
Impressionism, best known for
his mastery of landscape
painting, his paintings of his
garden at Giverny, and for never
wavering from impressionistic
ideas: expressing perceptions
•The term Impressionism is
derived from the title of this
work, Impression, Sunrise
•continued to paint even as his
eyesight failed
Cinderella
•Best known tale by Charles
Perrault , French author who in
16 century founded a new
literary genre, the fairy tale
•Thousands of variants are
known throughout the world.
•Theme may well have
originated in classical antiquity
•Appears in Herodotus writings:
Eagle drops a sandal of a girl
Rhodopis from Thrace on king’s
knees, who then decides to find
and marry her
French Republic
French Republic
French Republic
Đavolja Varoš
•Translated "Devil's Town"
•Exotic rock formation at the
south Serbia, Radan mountains
•Comprised of 202 different rock
pyramids or towers, 2-15 m tall
and 4-6 m wide at the base
•Created by strong erosion
•Has 2 different natural springs.
•1st: Djavolja voda ("devil's
water“) is highly acidic and
possesses a significant
concentration of minerals.
•2nd: Crveno vrelo ("red well“)
Natural Wonders: Serbia
White Cliffs of Dover
•Coastline of England that faces
France & the Straight of Dover.
•Composed of white limestone
and chalk and black flint which
give them their unique look.
•Impressive as the reach 350
feet (170m) above the ocean.
•Natural barrier from invaders
•On a clear day the cliffs are
visible from the coast of France.
•Face narrowest part of English
Channel: before air travel cliiff’s
white line was first/last UK sight
Mount Etna
•Largest volcano in Europe, one
of the most active in a world
•3,329 meters (10,922 ft) high
•stratovolcano on Sicilian coast,
close to Messina and Catania.
•Sicilian name: Muncibeddu
(beautiful mountain); Arabic:
Jebel Utlamat (Fire Mountain)
•In Greek Mythology, the deadly
monster Typhon was trapped
under Etna by sky god Zeus
•fertile volcanic soils support
agriculture: vineyards, orchards
Jägala Waterfall
•Called Niagara of the Baltics,
waterfall in Lahemma National
Park in Northern Estonia on
Jägala River; highest in Estonia.
•Measures 25.5 feet (7.8 m) high
•The falls created a 984.2 foot
valley, 39-46 feet (12-14 m) high
•In winter the water mass is
frozen and becomes a glistening
ice wall with large icicles.
•Lower coarse of the river is one
of the most valuable Estonian
fisheries: trout & salmon
Rock Gibraltar
•monolithic limestone
promontory in Gibraltar, off the
SW tip of Europe on the Iberia
Peninsula, 426 m (1,398 ft) high
•Name: from Arabic, Jabal al
Tariq ("Rock of Tariq")
•The Rock is Crown property of
the UK and borders Spain.
•Most of the Rock's upper area
is a nature reserve, home to ~
250 Barbary Macaques
•one of the Pillars of Hercules,
marked limits of known world
Natural Wonders: Italy
Natural Wonders: Estonia
Natural Wonders: Gibraltar
Eisriesenwelt Cave
•World’s largest ice cave
•Natural limestone ice cave
located in Werfen, Austria, ~40
km south of Salzburg.
• inside the Hochkogel
mountain in the Tennengebirge
section of the Alps.
•Extends for 42km; yearly
visited by 200,000 tourists
•created by the Salzach river as
it flowed through the mountain
eroding into the mountain
creating passageways.
Azur Window
•Natural arch in the Maltese
island of Gozo featuring bridge,
table-like rock reaching across
the sea to an eroded pillar.
•In winter the crashing waves
create a tremendous show
•The sea has worn a hole
through a narrow headland
forming "the window" called itTieqa in Maltese
•Dangerous condition: pieces of
rocks falling, will dissappear
soon, can become pinnacle
Natural Wonders: Austria
Natural Wonders: Malta
Glacier: Vatnajokull Glacier
•largest glacier in Iceland,
located in the SE of the island,
covering > 8% of the country.
•Largest ice-cap in E. by volume
•Under ice: few active
volcanoes
•world's longest sight line,
550 km from Slættaratindur, the
highest mountain in the Faroe
Islands (Guinness record)
•Average thickness: 400m; max:
1000m, area 8100 km2
•Fun: ice climbing, snowmobile
riding, trekking, and sailing
Mount Olympus
•Highest mountain in Greece:
9,570 ft (2,919 m) & one of the
highest elevations in Europe
•Ancient Greeks believed in
many different gods and
goddesses who controlled
everything in their lives and
environment; 12 most important
lived on the top of this mountain
(they were called Olympians).
•It is often so cloudy, that
nobody can see the summit
•80% of Greece: mountains
Natural Wonders: Greece
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