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

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.

Love is in the air!

Today we have asked our students to define love.  
Here you can find some of their suggestions:

"Love is the most beautiful feeling in the world.
Love should exist in the life of everbody.
Without love there's no life.
In love there are no limits, everything counts". 
Vera and Carolina

"There isn't a unique definition for love.
Love is something we can't see, however it can be immensely felt."
João, Pedro and Patrícia

"Love isn't anything that we can experience in a lab
by finding out the mysterious formula."
 Íris and Catarina

" Love is an expression of strong affection.
As time goes by, we keep all the memories of the times we had together,
and whatever may happen we will still be FRIENDS FOR EVER.
We all need friends to support us, they are really special!"
Sofia, Ana, Luís and Rui.

"Love is a state of mind.
It makes you feel the luckiest one on Earth.
But when it is not reciprocal, you feel as if you were in hell.
But you know what? It's worth loving ..."
Marcelo, Adriano, Diogo and Rui

"Love is something ...
 for someone special.
When you are in love,
your heart beats faster,
and your days are better
and your life is meaningful."
Pedro and Sara

"Do you remember that place between sleeping and being awake?
That place where you can still remember dreaming?
That is where I'll be waiting,
That is where I'll always love you".
Joana, Paulo, Ricardo and José

"How can we describe such a personal thing?
Love's definition varies from person to person:
An indescribable deep feeling of happiness and concern about someone else" ...

Or

as Camões wrote: "Love is a fire that burns without being seen".
Filipe and Ana Sofia
" Bros befores hoes" ( Bro code) 
Mário, Pedro, Francisco

Choose your favourite definition or add one of your own (comment section).

Carnival is coming ....

Carnival 1

View more presentations from ESCCB.

Have a look at this powerpoint, which was done by your fellow students.

VALENTINE'S DAY

Picture of Anne Hathaway on "Valentine' s Day" (film)

Hi everybody! Valentine's day is coming! What about writing some Valentine's poems/ messages?
Write your poem/message (indicating your name, class and number) in the "comments" below and we'll publish it in the blog. Dare!

Happy New Year!

New Year's Resolutions are popular year after year.

Find examples of some funny and serious resolutions and create a list of your own.
Don't ever forget it!!!

New Years

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING... Let´s sing with him!

Halloween Quiz.Try it!

Halloween- Time to scare is almost there

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is celebrated in many different countries and takes place on October 31. It is commonly associated to trick-or-treating, costume parties, jack-o'lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, haunted houses, haunted attractions, pranks, scary movies, and horror films.

Halloween in Britain


Halloween in the USA


Try this Halloween Quiz

A Carnival quiz

Carnival is synonymous with joy, fun, laugh, trick and satire. People throughout Portugal celebrate it with great enthusiasm and good-humour. There are great parades in many Portuguese cities. However, each city has its own traditions and customs, which make part of the country's history.

People often dress up or masquerade during the celebrations and pretend to be someone new and different. In many street celebrations, lots of floats with political or social message can be seen.



Test you knowledge and try this quiz on Carnival.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is a festival that cherishes love and romance. The festival falls on February 14 every year and is celebrated in several countries across the world including US, UK, Canada, Japan, France, China and India. Though the festival commemorates the martyrdom of a Christian saint called St Valentine, the festival as it is celebrated today has little religious significance. In present times, Valentine's Day has assumed a secular and global flavor and is celebrated by people of all ages and races.

Another noticeable factor in Valentine's Day celebration of present times is that the festival celebrates love in all its forms and is not just restricted to romantic love. People therefore exchange Valentine's Day greetings with their parents, teachers, siblings, friends, sweethearts or anyone special or close to them. The commonest way of expressing love on Valentine's Day is through exchanging cards, flowers and chocolates.

Valentine's Day History and Legends
The romantic festival of Valentine's Day is said to have originated in pagan times in Rome when people celebrated annual fertility festival called Feast of Lupercalia in mid-February. A unique custom of the festival was the mating of young boys and girls for a year through a lottery system. Quite often the couple would fall in love and marry.

http://www.stvalentinesday.org/valentines-day.html

Christmas is coming...

Christmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature. Christians celebrate Christmas Day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Popular customs include exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, attending church, sharing meals with family and friends and, of course, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive.

Source:http://www.history.com/topics/christmas

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday in the United States and Canada; it is closely related to European harvest festivals. In the United States, Thanksgiving lasts four days now because most people also get the Friday off. The holiday is celebrated with family and friends, and a huge dinner is served in the early afternoon or evening. The traditional Thanksgiving dinner is a roasted turkey served with stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans and various pies for dessert.
In Canada, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1710. For about 200 years, it was held for example when a royal child was born or when a battle was won. It became an annual holiday in 1931 and is now celebrated on the second Monday of October. 

http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/holidays/thanksgiving/history