Norway

1st slideshow: We’re going to talk about Norway.

2nd slideshow: This is Norway. It’s located in the North of Europe near the Artic Circle. Its capital is Oslo. Norway is divided into twenty regions. The official’s languages are the Norwegian and the sumi but they speak English too. The official’s religions are: the Lutheranism (86% of inhabitants) and the Roman Catholic Apostolic religion (3% of inhabitants practised it)

3rd slideshow: The Norwegian’s flag started to be used in 1821. Its colours (blue, red and white) represent the freedom

4th slideshow: This is the Norwegian’s shield. It is made up of a red background with a golden lion. The lion has a crown and a silver axe. On the top of the shield there is a royal crown. This Norwegian’s shield started to be used in 1280, in the reign of Erik Magnusson.

5th slideshow: It’s a country with a few inhabitants. It only has around four million people, but it has 324219 square kilometres, a large country.

6th slideshow: Its culture it’s much influenced by its history and its location.

7th slideshow: I’m going to talk about theirs pagan traditions. An important festivity day for the Norwegians is the National Day. It’s on the 17th of May. It remembers the Norwegian’s Constitution established in 1814. The most important event is children parade. It’s very popular to wear the typical costume called “bunad”.

8th slideshow: Saint Lucy’s Day: on the 13th of December the kids take candles in a procession. They sing songs and give flat cakes called “lussekatter”

9th slideshow: CHRISTMAS IN NORWAY: In Christmas it’s very typical to make 7 kinds of biscuits, to put ornaments for the Christmas tree and to clean the house. In Christmas Eve the children open their presents and eat rice with milk. The kids think that an imp lived in their farms. People put plates of rice with milk because if you don’t do it, the imp gets angry with you. “Romjulen” is the period of time between Christmas Eve and New Year Day. On Christmas Day, people go to churches to hear the special mass.

10th slideshow: They eat “lutefisk” on that day. It’s fish preserved in bleach.

11th slideshow: I’m going to talk about Norwegian monuments and institutions.

12th slideshow: This is the Storting: Storting is the Norwegian’s parliament, it is a building built between 1861 and 1866

13th slideshow: It’s the National theatre of Oslo. It’s more than a hundred years. At this theatre are mostly represented Norwegian plays.

14th slideshow: This is the square of the national theatre of Oslo. It has a beautiful fountain.

15th slideshow: This is the Vigeland Park: It’s in the west of the centre of Oslo. It’s very beautiful because it has fountains and sculptures.

16th slideshow: In the Vigeland Park there is a small park called Forged Park. The principal monument is this.

17th slideshow: This is the Urnes’ church: It’s very near of Oslo in the city of Urnes. It’s made up of wood.

18th slideshow: Here you are a picture of Urnes’ church and a detail of it.

19th slideshow: In Norway the gastronomy is influenced by the cold climate and elements like mountains and the sea.

20th slideshow: The most common fish in Norway are: salmon, codfish, trout, shellfish, sardine, mackerel…

21st slideshow: Rakfish is a typical food in Norway. It has fermented trout, backed potatoes, red onions and mayonnaise over lefse.

22nd slideshow: The whale isn’t very common in Norway but it isn’t polemic. Its meat became very expensive last years.

23rd slideshow: The most common meat in Norway is: elk, reindeer and wild birds.

24th slideshow: The most typical forest fruits are: berries, strawberries, apples and cherries.

25th slideshow: I’m going to talk about famous people in Norway.

26th slideshow: This is the royal palace. It’s located in Oslo. It was built in 1828.

27th slideshow: Here you are a picture of the Royal family. The King is Harald V (circle)

and the Queen is Sonia Haraldsen (circle). The throne successor is their son, the Prince Haakon (circle). He’s married with the Princess Mette-Marit (circle).

28th slideshow: FAMOUS PEOPLE: Henrik Ibsen was the most important writer in Norway. He wrote poems and dramatic plays. He was born in 1828 and he died in 1906. Some of his most important plays are: “A Doll’s House” and “An enemy of the people”

29th slideshow: A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN: Caspar Wessel was an important mathematician. He was born in 1745 in Norway. Wessel did a discovery: the geometric interpretation of complex numbers and he made the first exact map of Norway. He died in 1818.

30th slideshow: NOW, TWO EXPLORERS: Roald Amundsen was Norwegian explorer of Polar Regions. He was born in 1872. He was the first person to get to the Antarctica. He died in 1928.

Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer. He was born in 1914 and he died in 2002. He was a marine biologist who did an expedition in a raft for checking his hypothesis.

31st slideshow: TWO FAMOUS ARTISTS: Edward Munch is a Norwegian painter and engraver who was born in 1863. He died in 1944. He’s famous because of his picture “The scream”. Gustav Vigeland was a sculptor who was born in 1869 and died in 1943. Two hundred of his sculptures are in the Frogner Park in Oslo.

BY:

Cristina García Martínez Arturo López Hernández Paula Hidalgo García Mª Carmen Pérez Pérez Clara Mª Pérez Piñero

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