Halina's Welcome Speach 2012

1. WELCOME TO
Wroclaw University of Technology
Department of Polish Language for
Foreigners

2. We are glad that you have decided
to undertake learning Polish
language at
THE DEPARTMENT OF
POLISH LANGUAGE
FOR FOREIGNERS

3. The Department of
Polish as a Foreign
Language was
established in 1985 .
The Department of Polish as a Foreign Language was
established in 1985

4. Courses take place in an
attractively situated
modern building

5. Teachers

6. Our staff

7. Wrocław, pronounced VrotsLove
Budorgi
Boroszló Vroclav
Vratislavia
Bressla

9. WROCŁAW 1945

12. BEFORE AND AFTER

13. Wroclaw - Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist at Ostrów Tumski.

15. THE WORLD CONGRESS OF INTELLECTUALS
IN WROCLAW 25th of August 1948

16. Paul Eluard, Pablo Picasso, Irene Juliot- Curie, Michaił Szołochow and Julian
Huxley

17. Congress posters

18. Wrocław has…
- a history that goes back 1011 years;
- 200 bridges;

19. Wroclaw has 25 islands
formed by more than 20
rivers and 200 bridges;

20. Wrocław historic City Hall built in a
typical 14th century Brick Gothic

21. Centennial Hall after renovation in 2009

22. The Japanese Garden

23. Apart from learning the language,
students have an opportunity to get
to know Polish history and culture.

24. Thanks Jimi Festival – guitar-playing
Guinness World Record

25. Jerzy Grotowski (11 August 1933 - 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre
director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory"

28. Aula Leopoldina

29. WROCŁAW – The Meeting Place
• Wrocław co-hosted the EURO 2012 UEFA
European Football Championship;
• EU Congress of Culture 2011 was held in Wrocław,
Poland (September 2011)

30. EU Congress of Culture 2011 was held in
Wrocław, Poland (September 2011)

31. Zygmunt Bauman - he is one of the best
storytellers in contemporary culture.

32. Collaboration Between Krzysztof
Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood
in 2012

33. Wrocław is the Place to Be a Student

34. The European Capital of Culture 2016

35. EU Sumer Course 2012

36. „We are the world, we are
the children
We are the ones who make
a brighter day ”
Michael Jackson

39. Halina’s Polish
class

44. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
HOPING TO SEE YOU ON
•POLISH HISTORY AND CULTURE LECTURES
AS WELL AS
•POLISH CLASSES
HALINA OSTAOKOWICZ - BAZAN