With this blog we intend to motivate our students to learn the language and, at the same time, enhance their English skills.

26 Nov 2012



HI EVERYONE!

CHRISTMAS IS COMING AND, ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT BE EASY TO GET THE PRESENT WE WOULD LIKE THIS YEAR, WE STILL CAN DREAM AND...

MAKE A WISH!

HERE IS OUR CHRISTMAS WISH TREE.
Let’s “decorate” it with all our wishes. Let’s hope some of them come true!!!




This tree will be decorated with all your wishes, which will appear below it.
For that, write down your wish (individually or in group), ask your english teacher to have a look at it (if necessary) and then ask her to give it to the teachers responsible for the " English Corner".

Here are some of our students' wishes.
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I would like to receive clothes, a mobile phone and  have a year full of love, friendship and peace. But what matters to me are not the gifts but having a happy Christmas with all my family.
Filipa, 7th grade 

My Christmas wishes are to go to London with my best friend and attend a concert of our favourite band. I would like to have a Iphone too. 
Cláudia, 7th grade

This Christmas I woulf like to be with the people I love, receive presents, spend time with my family, enjoy myself and eat until I have enough. Christmas means reunion and  peace. 
Ana Catarina, 7th grade

I wish peace, love and the end of this crisis.     César, 10th grade
I wish everyone love, health and peace! I want this crisis to end so that we could be happier.    Pedro
For Christmas I wish peace, love and happiness for everyone.   I wish the economic crisis would go away. I wish that the world would become a better place and that bad people would turn good.  I wish much love from my family and friends.                Ana
I wish all people a happy year with much peace and love.      Miguel
Next Christmas I wish all families to be together. I wish much happiness and love for everyone. No more tears, just smiles.     Andreia
I wish love and peace. I wish everyone happy days. I want health for me and my family.   Ana
I want this Christmas to be special. I would like to receive a camera and have my family around me. I wish the war would finish.   Ângela  and Cristiana
I wish I would receive a box with the elements of the band “One Direction”. I wish every family in the world to be happy. Besides,  I wish much hope and faith for everyone.    Ana and Juliana
If I had the power to make a wish come true, I would make the world a better place.  Be happy in everything you do.      Inês and Sarah
I expect to receive many presents and more intelligence.   Filipe
Above all I want love, tenderness, friendship and health. Merry Christmas and a happy new year for all!     Diana
Above all I want to be happy.   Cláudia
Make someone happy so that the world becomes a better place.      Marisa
For Christmas I expect to receive a lot of presents. I want everyone in the world to have a very happy Christmas.         André
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I hope you get many presents.   Ana Catarina
I hope to get many presents. I want to be happy.     Cristiana and Ângela
I wish happiness, peace and love to everyone.    Cristiana
I hope everyone would have food this Christmas.   Diana
I want more peace and less poverty.      Bruno

For Christmas our wishes are:
We need and want joy, love, peace and happiness for the World; We want to be with our family,decorate our tree, follow our traditions; We want to dress up like Santa Claus and surprise kids with a lot of presents.                ANA ARAÚJO E ANA RITA, 11G

We wish everyone to love the others as we do; tomorrow let's love more than yesterday, as we know that today we've loved less than the day that has gone away.
ALEXANDRA SILVA, DIANA OLIVEIRA AND NUNO PELITEIRO, 11F

At Christmas I wish people to live in peace and with all their basic needs. André Alves, 11F

I wish a big, fat bank account and..a slim body. (Please, don't mix these two!)
SARA CARVALHO, SARA SILVA, SARA CARDOSO, 11F

 This Christmas we wish everyone to spend that special day with the people they love. Don't mind the gifts, but, first of all, enjoy the big, love "gestures"

FRANCISCA SILVA E RAFAELA, 11F


If Santa Claus exists, I would just ask for a little bit of peace in this world and wish all the school community a happy Christmas.
NUNO ALVES, 11F
I wish people would stop war in the world.
CRISTIANA FIGUEIREDO E ANA AZEVEDO, 11F

We wish you a Merry Christmas with a little bit of mistery.
We want to see everyone with a smile,
so see you later crocodile :)

ALIGATOR AND CROCODILE, 11F

XMAS!
This Christmas we all wish that someone would make us happy, that would make us dream forever and ever and make us "fly" with love in our heart.

NUNO MARQUES, RICARDO ASCENSÃO E JOÃO CARLOS, 11F

We wish you to have a great future, full of great things.

SARAMAGO, NAMORA AND WOLF, 11F

I wanted to be Santa Claus     
And have a car with reindeers
To land on rooftops,
Next to people’s aerials.

With my bag
I would go down long chimneys
Loaded with toys and clothes,
tiptoeing.

In each house
I would change
a dream for a gift.
Which job could be prettier
 than make people happy.

Ana Miguel, 7th grade



22 Nov 2012

Thanksgiving

"Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Because of the longstanding traditions of the holiday, the celebration often extends to the weekend that falls closest to the day it is celebrated."  Source: wikipedia

Now watch this video and do the following quiz.

8 Nov 2012


Many of our students have difficulties with elementary grammar topics; consequently we have decided to dedicate some of our time to topics, such as: personal pronouns, possessives, present simple, present continous and articles.

On the internet we can find all kind of exercises so that you can practise these topics. Below you can find some examples.

5 Nov 2012


Comparatives and Superlatives

















Hi! Sometimes you still  present difficulties in using comparatives and superlatives.
Use the following link to help you understand this subject better and do some exercises to check your knowledge.

http://www.eflnet.com/tutorials/adjcompsup.php