Speaking topic 18: The Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is located in Central Europe between Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria. The Czech Republic is landlocked country which consists from three major areas: Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia or from 13 (or 14) regions. CR has more than 10 milion inhabitants and the capital city  is a Prague. CR has four large rivers - the Vltava river which flows into the Elbe river, the Elbe river which flows into the Notrh Sea, the Odra river which floes into the Baltic Sea and the Moravia river which flows into the Danube river and the Dunabe river flows into the Black Sea. The biggest mountains in the CR are the Krkonose on the north. The biggest mountain is the Snežka (1602 meters above sea level).  In the CR is temperate belt - summer is hot X winter is cold.

Politicial system: 

CR is a parlamenty democracy. The highest law is constitution which has 3 branches:

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH:
- parliament which is made from Chamber of Deputies and Senate.
- Chamber od Deputies has 200 members (more than 21 years) which are selected in elections every 4 years. Powers are approving of bills and drafting a bills.
- Senate has 81 members (more than 40 years) which are selected for 6 years.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH:
- The Government of The Czech Republic is made from ministers and in charge of it's prime-minister.- President is the head of our state. He is selected in the direct election.He has several smaller powers.
JUDICIAL BRANCH:
- The court system is made of the Supreme court, Supreme Administrative, Supreme and Regional and District courts.
- Consititutional court is made from 15 judges which are selected from president of CR.

Speaking topic 4: Housing

For my housing topic I chose describing my house and area where I live.

I live in detached house in southern part of Prague 5 in a quiet area which is called "Baně". We have got a big house with a big garden next to the police station. (:D)  We have got living room, kitchen, bedroom for my parents, hall, my brother's room, bathroom, toilet and big balcony. Equipment of our house is like everywhere.
Of course I have got my own room where I spend most of the time. My room is in first floor. In my room I have got my own TV, computer or Wi-fi (:D).

Around all my room are posters of hockey or football players. I have got about 250 big posters but on the walls there are "only" about 100.

Area where I live is for me ideal place for living. It's quiet area, supermarket is about 800 meters from my house, bus stop is 50 meters away and to the  centre of Prague is 20 minutes. Post office, restaurants, tennis courts and other shops are 5 minutes by bus.

I prefer living in house with garden and in my opinion it has a lot of advantages.
In summer I can swim in my own pool, in winter I can bulid snowman or make my skating rink. In house I can make noise or listen to loud music.

Speaking topic 6: Sports

For this topic I want write about one of my favourite sport - about tennis. Tennis is summer and ball sport. Tennis played on a court and players needs racket, balls and net. Tennis is very popular around the world. Tennis play on three different surfaces - on clay, concete and grass.

 Scoring system is very very specific (I write about scoring systems in singles) - one rallye between two players is "fifteen. Fifteens are 15, 30, 40 and "game". 40 because 45 is difficult pronunciaton. When it's 40:40, it's deuce. Next won rallye is advantage for some player and next win rallye is a game. If you are six games you have a set. BUT you must won at least 2 games (6:4 or 7:5). When it's 6:6, players played special game - tiebreak. Tiebreak played to 7 points (player must win at least 2 points).
Men play on three winning sets on Grandslam tournaments (it's four biggest - Australian Open in Melbourne, French Open in Paris, Wimbledon in London and U.S. Open in New York) and on Davis Cup (it's national team competition) and on other tournaments play on two winning sets. Women always play on two winnig sets.



I really like watching tennis on TV and it's usually very emotional bacuse I love bet on tennis matches.
Actually number one is Rafael Nadal from Spain (since monday). I don't like him. I think he is very arrogant and sometimes unfair. And his rituals before every rallye? It's HORRIBLE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxM00GcLKyk

My favourite players are Novak Djokovic and of course best player in Czech Republic - Tomáš Berdych. Novak was number one for 2 years. His best shots are return (shot after serve) and drop shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMOBH9ZKfo