FALSE FRIENDS

I am not talking about friendship or friends who will betray you. Instead, I am simply reminding you of some basic points about the so-called “false friends” or words that tend to be more of a headache for Portuguese students of English.

These words are also known as “false cognates”. In general, they have the same etymological origin, but phonetically evolved differently.

Take notice:

1.       Café = café (loja) – café (bebida) = coffee

2.       Beef = carne de vaca – bife = steak

3.       History = Historia (disciplina) – conto, história = story

4.       Journal = diário, revista –  jornal = newspaper

5.       Library = biblioteca –  livraria = bookshop

6.       Miserable = triste, infeliz – Miserável = very poor

Find more false friends here.

"Spelling Contest" 4th Grade

A Beantime Story - "Two brave pixies"

Visit "Beantime stories" whose mission is, among others, 
to share the characters and stories of the island of Meddybemps.

'READING CONTEST' RESULTS

This year the 'Reading Contest' was held on 28th March to encourage the love of books
and boost children's literacy.  The contest, for the sixth graders, had its focus on the story:
Frogwarts and the Easter eggs by Jerry Jindrich.

 

The 'Reading Contest' team winner is (from left to right):
Beatriz Esteves, Sara Guimarães and Maria Silva.





The participants received Certificates and the winners received an adventure book in English and small tokens.
The teachers of English didn't forget that: "Children should always have a book on the go.
[...] The difference in achievement between children who read for half an hour a day in their spare time
and those who do not is huge" (Gibbs, 2012)



'Spelling Contest' - 2nd Term Winners



Our School held the 2nd Term 'Spelling Contest' on 28th March 2011, under the theme: Countries and Nationalities.
The teachers Ângela Gonçalves (on the left) and Ana Ferreira ( on the right) were the jury.





THE CONTEST RESULTS

5th Grade

Ana Carolina Silva

Beatriz Machado

Gustavo Mendes

Iara Costa

6th Grade

Beatriz Esteves

Beatriz Silva

Francisca Weber

Maria Inês Oliveira

Sabrina Raposo

Vasco Leonardo






  

Degrees of adjectives

Hot Cross Buns - Nursery Rhyme song

Easter Chocolate Eggs

On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early ninettenth century and came to Britain in the 1870s. Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small chocolates inside; some are very small, some very big.

Easter Egg Hunt

Some parents tell their children that the Easter Rabbit hides the eggs in the garden. 
The chidren must go outside and look for them.

Easter eggs

"Eggs are an important part of Easter because they mean spring and new life. One Easter tradition is ‘egg-rolling’. People decorate eggs with different colours, then take the eggs to the top of a hill and the eggs roll down. The first egg to get to the foot of the hill is the winner."
Jackie Maguire - Seasons and Celebrations. Oxford: University Press, 1997, p. 7.