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                                                Activity 2 : Trip in Germany

You want to know more about everyday life in Germany.

Breakfast

In Germany the breakfast is a copious meal : Delicatessen,Cheese,Jam,Honey.

In Germany, the breakfast is a real meal.

As the school begins 8 hours, the breakfast often takes place between 6:30 am and 7:30 am.

The German have «Die Frühstücksdose» ( Box to have breakfast ) for pupils most of the time during big breaks at about 11h am or 00h30 pm because the school finishes at about 1h30 pm and there is no canteen most of the time .

Lunch

The lunch is the most important meal of the day.

He maybe salted: Potatoes,Vegetables,Meats or Fish.

He maybe sweetened: Thick crepe covered with compote or a plate of rice pudding sprinkled with sugar in the canelle.

The lunch includes that a meal thus takes place more quickly than in France

Dinner

The dinner is a light meal where we put various breads, some delicatessen, some jam, some cheese, the salad, the gherkins and each uses as he wants.

We noticed that :

That in Germany we eat many more cream cakes than in France, but that they are generally less sweetened

German Specialities

Ahle Wurst: In the northern region : Specialities of sausage smoked, dried.

Badische Schneckensuppe : In the Southwest region : Soup with snail

Baumkuchen : Centre region : Cake in the shape of cooked fir tree in the brooch of Salzwedel.

You want to be a university student in Stuttgart

The diploma :

Abitur is an examination, sometimes so called " examination of maturity ", who concludes " the secondary higher education " (obere Sekundarstufe) which cross the pupils in Gymnasium .

Gymnasium :It is the name of the high school in Germany, but it is rather a German equivalent of the middle school and the French high school, because we enter it towards the age of 11 years and the best cross their Abitur in 19 years.

Historic origin of Abitur :

The high school diploma as the qualification for higher education was introduced in 1788 in Prussia into the humanist high schools.

The certificate of Abitur contains an evaluation of the performances in the basic class and in the " class of performance ": Grundkurse und Leistungskurse.

The high school diploma is considered as received if in each of three sectors the pupil obtained at least 100 points (on 300 possible points).

There is no single Abitur common to all in Germany :

It is necessary to know that, contrary to the French High school diploma, German Abitur changes Land in Land, city in city, .

Every school has the right to organize Abitur in its way. Rules common to all Abitur exitent, but they are not many

Exemple of abitur :

Le Zentralabitur :Zentralabitur is Abitur among which the tests(events) and the notation are the same in all Bundesland where it is awarded.

La Hochschulreife : Hochschulreife is the proof of the capacity to be followed by higher education .

You want to know more about sustainable development in Germany

The list of the nuclear power plants of Germany contains eight producing nuclear power plants of nuclear electricity in Germany in November, 2014, equipped with a total of nine nuclear reactors in service(department), and 18 nuclear power plants in the stop.

In 2013, the country was situated in the 12th rank of the producing countries of nuclear electricity in the world in number of reactors in service and in the 9th rank for the installed nuclear power.

This electricity production of nuclear origin in Germany amounted in 2013 to 92 TWh, that is 15 % of the electricity production in it country.

In 2011, the German government adopted the bill of exit of nuclear power by 2022. In France, many critics asserted that this decision would raise the problem to cover needs by other not broadcasting sources of energy of greenhouse gas (as the carbon dioxide) . Nevertheless, the federal German agency of the environment communicated on January 15th, 2013 to produce fewer greenhouse gases, with less nuclear energy " .

German opinion: for the exit of nuclear power.

Hugo Alejandro ; Nicolas Buresi