On December 7th we had our first meeting on the topic of Language. Our Language teachers (Mr. Kyrailides and Ms. Koutroupa) made some very interesting presentations on the history of the Greek language and the story of the writing systems.

We read the speech of Mr. Zolotas (former Greek Prime Minister) given in Washington in 1959. In this speech all content words are solely of Greek origin. This showed the great influence that the Greek language has over English.

Your task for our next meeting is to choose a Greek word from the speech and try to find its definition. We will then vreate a crossword puzzle with these words and their definitions. You can find Mr. Zolotas’ speech here: Part 1 & Part 2.