The City of Tampere Website

[Ritva Paivomaa]

Go onto Tampere's English pages and find out how you can tell about Tampere in English.

Click www.tampere.fi/english/index.html


TASK 1
Can you find answers to the following questions:

1. What is 'Tampereen kaupunginvaltuusto' in English?

2. What is 'valtuutettu' in English? (How many of them are there?

3. What is 'Kalevan lukio' in English?

4. What is 'Adult Education Centre of the City of Tampere' in Finnish?

Write your answers as a 'reply' to this message.

TASK 2

In the same 'reply' write 2-4 similar questions about Tampere in English for other students to answer (they should then in their turn make new questions about Tampere).

Many hands make light work!

Ritva

[Ritva]

1. What is 'Tampereen kaupunginvaltuusto' in English?

The City Council of Tampere

[Ritva]

2. How many valtuutetut are there?

Its 67 councillors and their deputies are elected in municipal elections held every fourth year.

[Rose]

Task 1
1. The City Council of Tampere
2. A councillor
3. Kalevan lukio, Senior Secondary School
4. Tampereen Työväenopisto
Task 2
1. What is "Vakoilumuseo" in English?
2. The Tampere Main Library is called by a name of a bird. What is it?

[One Tamperelainen]

Dear Ritva,

Tampereen kaupunginvaltuusto is the city council with 67 councillors. Kalevan lukio is the senior secondary school and Sampola is the place where the adults can study at their leisure time.

Some more questions...

How many twin cities does Tampere have? (16) Where are they?

What does Tampere Convention Bureau do?

Where is the first open spy museum in the world?

When was Pyynikki Observation tower built? (in 1929)

Best regards

One Tamperelainen

[Irene]

Hello, here are the answers concerning Task 1.

Kaupunginvaltuutettu called "councillor", is the member of the city council.
Kaupunginvaltuusto is called The city council of Tampere.
Kalevan lukio is one of the senior secondary schools.
Adult education Centre of City of Tampere is the building where adults have many possibilities to learn and develope their qualifications.
who was made the monument in Koskipuisto and what is the name of it?