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1. Questions and answers about Greece.

2. • Where are you from?
• We are from Greece.
• What’s your nationality?
• We are Greeks.

3. • Where is your country?
• Greece is in the south of
Europe.
• What countries are next to
you?
• Albania, Fyrom, Bulgaria and
Turkey.

4. • 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

5. What is the name of the capital?
Athens

6. • 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

7. 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

8. • 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.

9. • That is the symbol of our country.

10. • 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.

11. • 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.

12. • Do you have famous national
monuments? What are their
names?
• The Parthenon in Athens
• The Irodion theater in Athens

13. • What is your favourite
monument?
• The white tower in
Thessaloniki.
• Meteora, a complex of 6
Eastern Orthodox
monasteries, built on the
rocks.

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

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

16. 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)

17. • What are the national sports?
• Football
• Basketball

18. • Who are your national football
players?
• Kostas Mitroglou
• Giorgos Karaggounis

19. • 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.

20. • Do you have a uniform to go to
school?
• No, we used to but since 1982
we don’t have.

21. • How many lessons do you
have per day?
• We have 5 or 6 lessons per
day.

22. Main means of transport?