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BE

ČEJ

Your guidebookSlide2

ContentsSlide3

USEFUL INFORMATION

Have you ever been in

Becej

? If you haven’t, you might find this information helpful.

SOMEWHERE TO STAY

If you are coming to

Becej

and you are not going to stay with a family, there is a big choice of accommodation.

Hotel

Bela

Lađa

is on the riverside, near the centre.

Hotel Fantast

is a castle built almost 100 years ago. It is 15 km away from the town, between Becej and Backa Topola.

CHANGING MONEY

You can change your money at any of the many banks in the centre. Another option is looking for one of the four newsagent’s called ‘Moneta’.

S

HOPPING

Supermarkets

usually open at 6:00 or 7:00 and close at 22:00.

, except Sundays when they close about 7pm.

Clothes shops, book shops are not open on Sundays.

GETTING INFORMATION

You’ll find the Tourist Organization of

Becej in the centre of the town, on the square. It is open: 8am – 1pm.

It is 250m from the centre. Slide4

PLACES TO VISIT

There are a lot of beautiful places to visit in the town. These are all near the centre, so you can walk everywhere.

GORANSKI PARK

It is between the centre and the riverside, just behind the outdoor swimming pool. Local people like sitting and chatting on the benches. It is beautiful.

THE CENTRE OF THE TOWN

There are

a lot of nice old buildings.

THE RIVERSIDE AND THE DAMSlide5

PLACES TO VISIT

There are a few places near our town worth visiting. These might be ideas for half-day trips.

FANTAST CASTLE

It is 15km away from

Becej

, between

Becej

and

Backa

Topola

. You can walk there, see the castle inside, climb the tower-the view from the top is

beatiful

. You can also ride horses or eat in the restaurant.

ARA

ČA

If you are interested in histor

y, you should

definitely

visit this medieval Romanesque church ruin 27 km from Be

čej, between Novi Bečej and Novo Miloševo.

SLANO KOPOVO

It is near

Arača. It is one of the last preserved salt marshes in Serbia. Zou should find a taxi or rent a car to anz of these destination.Slide6

SHOPPING

Our town is not a good place for shopping, but if you are going to stay longer we recommend visiting one of these shopping

centres

.

Serbian people sometimes go to

ARKAD in Szeged,

Hungary. There are

a lot of shops, f

or example:

Terranova

,

NewYorker

, H&M, Office Shoes, Women Secret.

This is BIG in Novi Sad. It resembles the

Arkad

but is smaller and closer.

This is a Mercator in Novi Sad. There are many shops and canteens. There is a playhouse for the kids.Slide7

MORNINGS

During the week the day starts at about 7 o’clock. Families have breakfast in the kitchen. The children often eat sandwiches, milk or cereals.

Parents often have coffee and bread with butter. After breakfast children go to school, because school starts at 8 o’clock. People who work

often go to work very early, at 5 and 6 o’clock or maybe at

7 o’clock. They have breakfast at work. Children finish school at about 1 pm, parents finish work at 3pm, 4 pm or 5pm.

A lot of people here are farmers, so they don’t go to work:

they work at home, they have animals or they work in the field.

AFTERNOONSThe families aren’t together for lunch, they eat when they finish their work or school. Lunch is usually a cooked meal: soup, meat, potato, salad. Most of the children study in the afternoo

n, while parents do the housework. When children finish homework, they like to do some interesting things outside, for example to go for a walk on the riverside, go rollerblading or ride bicycles. Some children have hobbies in the afternoon or in the evenings, like folk dancing, music school, sport activities in the sport clubs like: football, waterpolo, swimming, basketball, kickbox and volleyball.

EVENINGS

C

hildren’s activities finish at about 8 or 9pm

and a

fter that they go home.

F

amilies have

dinner t

ogether n the evenings. Dinner is usually bread, butter, sausage, bacon, salam

i

, pizza.

, with milk or yogh

urt. After dinner children play computer games or chat on Facebook,

while parents watch TV. At about 10 o’clock they have a shower and then they go to bed. WEEKENDSIn our country the weekend is only the Sunday, because people work on Saturdays.

People who don’t work on Saturdays traditionally go to the local market in the morning to get vegetables, dairy products and flowers from the local farmers. On Saturday afternoons or Sundays most of the families visit their relatives and grandparents

, in or out of town. Also, people usually go shopping (to Novi Sad or Szeged, Hungary). Some like to stay at home, watch a film and relax.FREE TIMEOn weekdays in their free time, people like to visit their neighbours, they have a coffee and they chat. Children also like to go to their friends’, the boys play together football or computer games, the girls like to go for a walk, walk a dog,or listen to music.

At weekends people like to go out: to the riverside, or to the centre to have a coffee in cafés or a piece of cake in the pasty shops.

HOME LIFE

If you are going to stay longer, you might find useful to understand the local people and learn about their routines.Slide8

At my school,we usually

say:

Dobro jutro!

i

n the

morning or

Dobar dan

later during the day

t

o

greet the teachers

w

hen

they come, or, if it

i

s an evening class,

Dobro veče

.

You say

Laku noć

w

hen you go to the bed.

When we sit down

at the table to eat,

Then

we say:

Prijatno

.

If you want to kow

w

here

a place is ask:

Izvinite, da li ima banke u blizini?

If you want to apologise,

i

t must be said:

Izvinjavam se.

Žao mi je.

MINI PHRASEBOOK

In our town a lot of people speak some basic English, but it is better if you know a few

words of the

local language

At the shop or a café,

you must remember

t

o a

sk

for something

politely,

for example:

Mogu

li

da

dobijem

jednu

fla

šu vode, molim Vas

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If you come to Becej, you can swim in the

SWIMMING POOL in the Sport Center, there is an indoor and outdoor one. Also, there is an outdoor spa.

At the weekends teenagers in Becej go to the centre or to the riverside to talk, shopping or just for a walk. PASTRY SHOP are also popular, for example ZSERBO. So go out there for a nice cake or ice cream!

ENTERTAINMENT

Our town is not a good place for shopping, but if you are going to stay longer we recommend visiting one of these shopping

centres

.

THAN HOUSE in the centre is a new place where you can try some scientific experiments, solve puzzles and spend 2-3 hours playing interactive games.Slide10

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Lucia Tot, Andrea Šagi, Čongor Ric, Aron Varnju, Aleksandra Milinkov, Doroća Rajšli, Kinga Varnju, Vivien Almaši (

from classes 7B and 7C 2014/2015

PUBLISHER:

Petefi Sandor Primary School

, Bečej, Serbia