Dzień Kultury Języka - gettin' it ready!

This week we continue our preparation. Tomorrow we'll be back in computer room (112) so those of you who write the online quiz will have a chance to work on it in class. I'll bring in some paint, markers and paper, so the rest of you will be working on posters and anything else we need for Dot Painting workshop.

Dzień Kultury Języka 2019

Dear all!

Tomorrow we'll start working on our program for the open days. So far we've established that we'll be doing Dot Painting workshop in one of our rooms. We need to brainstorm ideas for our second room. We need to come up with something interesting that is actually doable and will take about 20 minutes for our guests to complete. Think quizzes, games, escape room, treasure hunt around the building of the Institute, a play, cosplay competition...

Hope you'll have some ideas ready tomorrow.

I created a group on Facebook. You are welcome to join by clicking on the picture below:

S (part 3): Sport and Science

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 1. Sport

"Australian sport deserves quality piss taking or none at all."

Australians are a nation of active people and they like to joke that they spend more on excercising than on education, but it doesn't mean that they are going to worship their sportsmen and sportswomen blindly. They always retain a healthy dose of irony and humour.

Asked about cricket, they would say something like that:

Cricket is a game that moves about as fast as a Jamaican on valium. It involves watching 11 men in white clothes stand around a field for a few hours, then break to have lunch, stand around, then break again to have a cup of tea, stand around, then go home. The same thing occurs for another 4 days, and then after all that effort, both teams call the whole thing a draw...

Remember, "Australian sport deserves quality piss taking or none at all." So true ;-)


Australians pride themselves on inventing football. That's correct. Football. (see the link under science). However "footy" may mean different games in different states. More on that here.

Some of you know already that I'm hopelessly in love with AFL

*** We'll watch the video below together in class




Click HERE to watch an episode of Australia’s Heritage – National Treasures which explains the story behind writing the rules of AFL (this is something you'll need for the test).

Talking about sport, we can't possibly forget about Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.















Sydney was the second Olympic Games organized by Aussies. The first one was in Melbourne in 1956.

That date also marks Aussies' love affair with swimming.

Another sport which is synonymous with Australia is surfing. Click HERE to re-watch the video we used in class.

Surfing was also important for local industry. In class we watched a trailer for a movie called Drift. Filmed on location on Western Australia's spectacular and rugged coastline, it is a story of two brothers and the birth of modern surf industry in the early 1970s.

Still, whether you are a professional athlete or an amateur, the main point is to be able to have fun.

Have a listen to this commentary. Pay attention to how Polish audience react to Aussies scoring goals, and how the Australian commentators react to the goal scored by Poland (first two minutes). A bit eye-opening, eh?




2. Science and the inventive Australian mind.

Have a look at the long list of Aussie inventions.

Here is the history of one of them:



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The letter R - your presentations

RACES AND ETHNICITIES IN AUSTRALIA (Goats)





ROCKS AND MOUNTAINS (Unicorns)




RIVERS (Crocks)





RELIGION (Ladybugs)

Alexander Pearce - the cannibal convict

Do you remember the story of Alexander Pearce who escaped from Sarah Island and ate 7 of his companions?

Here you can READ an article about him, published by News.com.au on the 197th anniversary of that chilling event.

‘We ate each other one by one’: The gruesome story of Alexander Pearce the cannibal convict