Exercises

Colour the countries belonging to the EU, according to the date they joined the EU. You can either print the picture or save it in your computer:

1958 Red
1973 Blue
1981 Orange
1986 Green
1990 Yellow
1995 Violet

Complete the table with the following information. If you click on the title, you'll get the table in word:

The date the different countries joined the EU
The name of the different currencies and their equivanlent in euros.
The name of the languages spoken in those countries

The European Union
Countries	In the EU since	Currency	Change in Euro	Language
Austria				German
Belgium			40,34
Denmark
Finland
France	1951			French
Germany
Great Britain
Greece	1986	Drachma (100)
Ireland	1973
Italy		Lira (100)		Italian
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Portugal	1995	Escudo (100)
Spain		Peseta	166,386
Sweden			8,5

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Did you know that...

72% of Europeans believe that knowing foreign languages is/ would be useful for them, and
53% say that they can speak at least one European language in addition to their mother tongue?

Europe is and will remain multilingual.
This is one of the messages of the European Year of Languages (2001) organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union. Estimates vary but there are well over 200 spoken indigenous languages in Europe.

The Council of Europe has produced this poster of greetings in many different European languages. It's almost impossible to speak so many languages, but let's see if you can greet in the eleven oficial languages. CLICK ON THE POSTER TO CONTINUE.