Message from the teacher

School year is over and I would like to say that I enjoyed having you all in my classes, that I did my best and wish you are glad too while being part of my classes.
The demands and disappointments of the year can`t stop us. We`ve got to go on!
Everthing one acquired during this school year will be, in some way, a tool for the future.
I think that`s all for now. I hope you liked our blog. Don`t forget to use the English language while talking or reading.
Have a Great Summer.Bye.
Your Teacher.

The Video Games!

The Video Games are a very good hobby!

Evaluation of my progress this year

Think about these items while a student of English and try to answer them, even if it's just in your mind.

In class, we learned...

In my opinion, the most interesting thing I learned was....

I had difficulty with...

I would like to learn more about...

End of school year

School year is over.
It has been a wonderful year.we' ve learned interesting things, shared knowledge, grown up, interacted and we are different now.Our blog was something special. It was new to us.We enjoyed doing it. We hope you saw and enjoyed our blog too.
We'd like to wish your a nice summer and don't forget to speak English whenever it's possible.

Video Games

Positive Aspects:
-One of the positive aspects is that some games are good to improve our English
-We can enjoy ourselves with some games, and forget about problems and other negative things in life.
-In some kind of games we can learn, this happens more with children
-Stimulating our reasoning is another good reason to believe that games are not so bad things. In fact nintendo gave the game “brain age” to George W. Bush


Negative Aspects:
-Violent games can encourage violence
-Games can lead to misunderstandings between people. In England some couples separeted themselves because of the game FootBall Manager.
-The abuse of the games can lead to health problems.

Answer

"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock and roll."

Do video games make kids violent, stupid and sick?

What is your opinion about video games?

Teleworking

"Teleworking is a phenomenon consistent with the changing world of work and perfectly in line with the demands of modern man".

By:Jacinta Sousa

teleworking

Teleworking
I liked the way teleworking is presented.

Movies

"Transformers" is an action film based on the number of design and Transformers toys. Directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg, was released in July 2007.

Your generation is going to lead the world

Mentalities

People of today don´t care about each other, they don´t even seem to understand what really means the word "society", each one lives for himself and nobody cares about their neighbours. Can adults change the world? No, because we, their children, we're the future, so the change depends on us and for that reason it's important to fight against this mentality. It's important that tomorrow everybody live together, only that way we'll truly evolute.

by Pedro Barbosa

Quotations by Author

- "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
- "Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."
Thomas Paine

3rd term

Hello everbody!

We're back to school after Easter holidays. We hope you all ate Easter eggs and had a happy Easter!

At the moment, we are doing research work about our last module:" The Technogical World." We have many themes (video games, Teleworking, the future on film, your generation is going to lead the world, ...).
When research work is over we'll make our presentations.

Some tips for making effective Presentations:
Keep your classmates and teachers interested:
-Make eye contact.
-Use body language.
-Show you're happy to be there.
-Move around.
-Don't read notes, present.
-Use visual aids.
-Get your classmates involved.
-Be yourself.

WATER DAY 2010

Celebrate Water Day on the 22nd March 2010.

Save water, save life, save the world.


"On World Water Day,we reaffirm that clean water is life, and our lives depend on how we protect the quality of our water."
World Water Day 2010

Cultural Corner

Did you Know that...
Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice?

Broken clocks are right twice a day?

The cigarette lighter was invented before matches?

The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939?

The electric chair was invented by a dentist?

The Technological World

We are already on the 3rd module: "The Technological World"

Our Themes:

1. The Computer Age

2. The future on Film

3. Social Changes

4. Teleworking

5. Video games

6. New Worlds

7. Space Tourism

Grammar:

• The future: simple and be going to;



• If clauses:

- First conditional;

- Second conditional;

• Countable and uncountable nouns;


• Past Perfect;

The symbolism of a picture

Different cultures/different people living together.

English Proverbs

Opportunity Makes---------------------------

Finders----------------, losers weepers

If you ------------, you lose

The last will be the --------------------

Keepers First Theives Snooze

An Englishman In New York

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

By Sting

Time for an activity

a) What does the title of the song suggest?

b) Which of these two sayings do you agree more with and why?

- "Be yourself no matter what they say"

- "When in Rome, do as Romans do"

c) What are some of the challenges of being yourself in a foreign country? Why is it good to be yourself sometimes?

Introduction

Welcome to our blog! We belong to Escola profissional Amar Terra Verde- Amares, we are on 10th grade and our course is Gestão de Programação de Sistemas Informaticos. Our blog will be in English because our subject is English.

In this blog we'll talk about different things: our modules, proverbs, questionnaires, national holidays, jokes, sayings, opinions, everything connected with our subject.

Our aim is to improve our English, learn more about the English language and people and at the same time share information with the ones who visit our blog.

At the moment we are studying the 2nd module "A multilingual world". Getting to know other languages and cultures; mobility, young people and languages will be themes for reading and listening.
Our vocabulary:
. Free time activities and hobbies
. Types of music
.Types of films
.People in films
.Reasons for learning English
.Polite phrases
.Rail travel-Symbols

Grammar can be fun!
.Linking Words
.Past simple
.Degrees of adjectives
.Present perfect
.Modal verbs

"The only limit to our

realization of tomorrow

will be our doubts of today"

Franklin D. Roosevelt