Oral assignments – 10th F
Posted on: 26/04/2015
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Dear students,
These are the topics for the oral assignments. Sign up by making a comment to this post.
Please check the comments before you choose the topic, in order to see if they have been already chosen.
1. Technology affects our life in many ways.
1.1. Show how technology affects family life, positively and/or negatively baring in mind the household chores (cooking, dusting, cleaning…), the free time, family relationships, travel… (4th May-2 groups)
1.2. Analyze the benefits and/or drawbacks of technology in education and the effects of computer-based lessons and other technological resourses, digital devices in class (cell phones, minidisc players, portable games…), the student-student relationships, research, students’ autonomy… (6th May – 2 groups)
1.3. Analyze the social changes brought by technology and its impact in community life in what concerns the way people experienced life about 10 years ago (talk to your parents), the way people behave and/or interact with one another, the way people spend their free time… (11th May – 2 groups)
2. Space exploration: Should so much money be spent on space exploration? Present your opinion on this matter, baring in mind the general information about space exploration and present some arguments for and some arguments against (13th May – 1 group)
3. TV plays a very important role in people’s lives. Present your opinion on the way or ways it can affect social and family life. (13th May)
4. Internet was one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century changing our life in many ways. Present the social consequences of the Internet use. (14th May – 2 groups)
5. The world is divided by the Internet use. Make a research, present the consequences of the called “Digital Divide” and point out some solutions for this problem. (20th May)
6. Think about the dangers of cyberspace and present some problems people may have when using the Internet (e.g. loss of privacy, hacking, virus, spam, security…) (21th May- 2 groups)
Good work!!! 😉
3rd Conditional
Posted on: 26/04/2015
Dear students, as promised, here is some information and exercises on the 3rd Conditional.
Third Conditional: no possibility
The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming true.
Last week you bought a lottery ticket. But you did not win. 😦
| condition | result | |
| Past Perfect | WOULD HAVE + Past Participle | |
| If | I had won the lottery | I would have bought a car. |
Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition.
We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.
Look at some more examples in the tables below:
| IF | condition | result |
| past perfect | WOULD HAVE + past participle | |
| If | I had seen Mary | I would have told her. |
| If | Tara had been free yesterday | I would have invited her. |
| If | they had not passed their exam | their teacher would have been sad. |
| If | it had rained yesterday | would you have stayed at home? |
| If | it had rained yesterday | what would you have done? |
| result | IF | condition |
| WOULD HAVE + past participle | past perfect | |
| I would have told Mary | if | I had seen her. |
| I would have invited Tara | if | she had been free yesterday. |
| Their teacher would have been sad | if | they had not passed their exam. |
| Would you have stayed at home | if | it had rained yesterday? |
| What would you have done | if | it had rained yesterday? |
Source: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional_4.htm
Here are some links to online exercises:
Exercice 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
And REPHRASING exercises!
And More!
Good work!!!! 😉
Dear students, Here are some links to online exercises where you can practise your vocabulary skills in the topic “Media”:
Newspapers vocabulary 1
Newspapers vocabulary 2
Newspapers Vocabulary 3
A worksheet
Enjoy and learn! Good work!!! 😉
Objectives for the test – 10th form
Posted on: 06/03/2015
Dear 10th form students,
For the English test next week, you should be able to:
Group I – reading comprehension
– understand the message of a text about the Media;
Group II – Vocabulary and Grammar
– recognise vocabulary related to the media, especially to newspapers;
– use the definite or indefinite articles (a,an,the, zero article);
– distinguish the use of the past perfect and past simple;
– distinguish and use the modal verbs;
– distinguish and use the different conditionals (type 1, 2 and 3);
Good work!!! 😉
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Dear students,
As promised, here are the dates for the oral presentations for this term:
– March 2nd – Rodrigo, Tomás and Alexandre / Raquel António and Maria Sousa;
– March 4th – Carolina and Joana;
– March 6th – Sofia and Mariana Rodrigues;
– March 9th – Beatriz and Daniela / Diogo, Cláudia and Gonçalo;
– March 11th – Felicia and Maria Teresa / Raquel Neves and Mariana Alves;
– March 16th – André, Gustavo and Francisco / Ana and Daniel;
– March 18th – Márcia, Rita and Catarina / Maria Beatriz, Tatiana and Samuel.
Good work!!! 😉
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Dear students,
As promised, here are the dates for the oral presentations:
– March 4th – Tiago and Rodrigo;
– March 5th – Carolina and Sara;
– March 9th – Donovan, Francisco and Simão / Duarte and Pedro;
– March 11th – Beatriz, Mariana and Rita;
– March 16th – Mariana, Cristiana and Ana Rita / Sandra, Inês and Beatriz;
– March 18th – Diogo and João / Frederico and Iuri
Good work! 😉
Hi!!!
Posted on: 24/02/2015
Dear students at Escola Secundária Madeira Torres,
Welcome to “Teacher Elsa’s Blog”!
This is a great tool to support the development of your English classes for this school year!
You will have access to lots of information, worksheets, some homework, and, most important, the “Preparation for the test” worksheets! These will help you to prepare your English tests and work on your difficulties or problems with the English language! It will be great for your learning abilities!
I wish you a great school year!!!!
St. Patrick’s Day
Posted on: 17/03/2012
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Dear students,
Today the Irish people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17, the saint’s religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast-on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.
Corned beef and cabbage is a traditional St. Patrick’s Day dish. In 2009, roughly 26.1 billion pounds of beef and 2.3 billion pounds of cabbage were produced in the United States.
Irish soda bread gets its name and distinctive character from the use of baking soda rather than yeast as a leavening agent.
Lime green chrysanthemums are often requested for St. Patrick’s Day parades and celebrations.
If you want to know more about these traditions, go to this page:
Here are some Irish songs played in St. Patrick’s:
There are some symbols allied to St. Patrick’s Day:
The shamrock:
The shamrock, which was also called the “seamroy” by the Celts, was a sacred plant in ancient Ireland because it symbolized the rebirth of spring. By the seventeenth century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism. As the English began to seize Irish land and make laws against the use of the Irish language and the practice of Catholicism, many Irish began to wear the shamrock as a symbol of their pride in their heritage and their displeasure with English rule.
The leprechauns:
The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.”
Belief in leprechauns probably stems from Celtic belief in fairies, tiny men and women who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. In Celtic folktales, leprechauns were cranky souls, responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies. Though only minor figures in Celtic folklore, leprechauns were known for their trickery, which they often used to protect their much-fabled treasure.
Leprechauns had nothing to do with St. Patrick or the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, a Catholic holy day. In 1959, Walt Disney released a film called Darby O’Gill & the Little People, which introduced America to a very different sort of leprechaun than the cantankerous little man of Irish folklore. This cheerful, friendly leprechaun is a purely American invention, but has quickly evolved into an easily recognizable symbol of both St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland in general.
Here is some vocabulary related to St. Patrick’s Day.
And an exercise
Enjoy!!! 😉
Goodbyes
Posted on: 09/02/2012
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Dear students at ES Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro,(8.º A, 8.º B, 9.º OSI and 3.º Turismo)
After about five months working with you, now it’s time to say goodbye…
Let me just say it was a pleasure working with you in this school.
I hope the school year will be great and that you’ll have plenty of success!!!!
A big kiss from your teacher!!! 😉
Dear students,
Today the Queen, Elizabeth II, celebrates 60 years since she ascended to the throne.
This year will have great celebrations concerning the “Diamond Jubilee”
Here are some of the celebrations.
What do people do to commemorate this date?
Celebrations will be held across the UK during the first week of June in 2012. Many people have a day off work or school to celebrate the bank holiday on June 5, 2012. Other planned events for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee include:
A Diamond Jubilee Medal to be commissioned.
A UK-wide competition, planned to be launched in spring 2010, for towns to bid for city status.
Royal Borough status to be granted to Greenwich, which has a long-standing association with the Windsor family.
Buckingham Palace is organizing many events centered on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, while the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is coordinating government-led activities in celebrating this special occasion. The department is working with the Scottish government to help ensure that a single date for a bank holiday across the UK can be held to allow for communities to join in celebrating the jubilee.
And you’ll find more information here (click the picture):
Long live the Queen!!! 😉
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