exames de recurso

Those students doing the «recurso», bear in mind that after the written exam you will have an oral, so please read the short stories.

Orals will start at 13.00.

Students sitting only «melhoria» do not have an oral exam.

Melhoria and exames de recurso

Monday 9th July, 10 am-12pm, room 04.

Possible content: be prepared for a listening of news item to be rewritten as a news article ( as the 2nd formal task done in class), as well as one of the following: statistical report, opinion essay or problem/solution essay.

Final Marks

Any work not submitted is given ‘0,’ and the final average of your marks reflects this. This is unfortunate as the final mark does not reflect abilities. If a doctor's note was provided for missing an oral/presentation, the average of your submitted work was considered.

Marks will be posted in the Académicos online today.

oral mark= 20%, final mark in bold

AdrianaHortense 11 13
Ana Marques Murteira 16 15
Ana Rita Faustino 13.75 14
Catia dos Santos 11.5 12
Catia Sofia Ildefonso 14 14
Filipa Correia 13.5 13
Filipa Pedro 13 13
Hugo Melo 13.5 13
Luis Filipe Canadas 12.5 11
Maria João Troia 16 15
Marta Luiz 12.5 10
Paula Frieza 14 14
Rogério Ferreira 17 17
Rui Freitas 16 16
Vanda Boncinha - 11

All the best

Allyson

Class of 07 - adieu

Goodbye, or rather “so long and thanks for all the fish”!! (from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).

The orals will soon be over, the end of the semester is almost here. It's almost time to say goodbye..... so.....

I have posted thoughts in your group blogs. I hope to get your marks up in the next week adn will post them here in the class blog.

I wish you all the very best in your next two years. I have enjoyed working with you this year and seeing your creativity flourish. May it continue to grow with energy, passion and caring. Two more years ahead from which I hope you will look back on this first year with some good memories, some good friends and with some confidence and strength gained in English.

The class blog will remain, though I probably will not look at it too much once you have moved on :-) Keep in touch via e-mail.
All the very best.
Allyson

Orals schedule for Wednesday 20th

This will be available on Monday for you to sign up for a time on Wednesday 20th. You will need to arribve 15 mins before the stated time.

How? Done in pairs - choose who

What? Reading aloud excerpts from short stories in Casa de Folias, and a discussion topic.

Allyson

Get Writing

It is almost time to say goodbye. For those of you would like to fill their holidays with cretaive writing and lots of fabulous ideas, guides and a forum to post your work, check this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/read
thanks to Joana Carlos.

I would also like to build a library of your short story presentations to use as examples for next year's 1st year. Some very nice ideas from you. Well done so far!!

Allyson

A concert in Lisbon - not to be missed 23 June CCB

http://www.ccb.pt/ccb/cgi-bin/ccbnav.php?CurCatId=7&CurTemId=4&CurEveId=2933
Allyson

class written assignment 2 - Monday 4th June

This task involves listening to a news item and transferring this into a newspaper article. We have had practice of this in class.
You will hear the news item 3 times and from the notes you take, will reconstruct this into an article.
The topics will be related to what we have done in class - reignation of Tony Blair adn the planned introduction od ID cards. If you want some further background and some practice, these links may be of interest:
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=ID+cards+UK&recipe=all&scope=all&start=1

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=Tony+Blair&recipe=all&scope=all&start=3

Important

Please access a questionnaire required to be completed by all students - online through virtual secretary:

http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/bolonha2/alunos/inquerito.html

INFORMATION UPDTAE – assignments

Check out the dates below. They are different to those I gave you in class J

Mon 4th June Class written assignment 2
Wed 6th June QUINTUPLET - oral presenataions
Mon 11th June OVER THE RAINBOW - oral presenataions
Wed 13th June Public holiday
Mon 18th June PRIMADONNAS - oral presenataions
Wed 20th June ORALS

class assignment 1 - 16th May

There will be a class assignment on Wedensday 16th as part of your assessment tasks.

Problem/solution discursive essay.

You can bring a dictionary.

Trip to the theatre Lock Up your Daughters

Lock Up Your Daughters is a musical by Lionel Bart. It was based on an 18th century comedy, Rape Upon Rape, by Henry Fielding and adapted by Bernard Miles. The lyrics were written by Lionel Bart and the music by Laurie Johnson. It was first produced at the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959.
In 1969, it was made into a movie starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, and Glynis Johns.
http://www.bayviewrecords.com/bayview/cdpages/lockupyourdaughters.html

Trip to see the musical:
THE LISBON PLAYERS http://www.lisbonplayers.com.pt/
Thursday 10th or Friday 11th May.

ASSIGNMENT statistical report

ASSIGNMENT 1
Done at HOME. Due: Monday 30th April.
A report based on statistics
TASK
Use the attached statistics based on health and happiness in the UK and write a report TO COVER ALL THE GRPAHS. You do not need to report on the details, but on the trends and exceptions.

For further interpretation of the graphs, links are provided to the data sources.
Max: 350 words

ASSESSMENT
Your report will be assessed on the following criteria:

use of English
true to genre
clearly conveys the information

P

EU 'put Portugal wildlife under threat' EU funding helped pay for the controversial Alqueva DamMore than half Portugal's wildlife has come under threat of extinction since the country joined the European Union 20 years ago - and massive redevelopment made possible by EU cash is at least partly to blame, environmental groups have told the BBC.

Do you agree with this article:

http://www2.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6401697044681041174

Confirm group blogs

Please confirm whether these groups reflect your small group blogs. Anyone missing from English at 12?

Quintuplet
http://quintuplet07.blogspot.com/
Rui, Rogerio, Filipe Canadas, Hugo Melo, Tiago

Over the rainbow
http://overtherainbow4.blogspot.com/
Paula Freiza, Adriana, Rita Fustinio, Catio Santos, Marta Luiz,

The Primadonnas
http://theprimadonnas.blogspot.com/
Ana Murteria, Filipa Correia, Filipa Pedro, Maria João, Catia Ildefonso, Vanda

Update

Hello again after the Easter holidays.
Did you pack in as much commercialised chocolate consumtion, search for chocolate in your gardens, hedge rows, homes? Did you hunt for Easter bunnies, follow processions through the village and wonder about the meaning of any religious or heathen tradition and what they are all about? MEANINGS. Or did you enjoy the strength of spring, or the time for a break? Or?.....

Keep in touch with the class blog. See you Wednesday 11th.
Allyson

Article

I found this article very interesting...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html

The boys blog: Quintuplet

The fab 5 are very pleased to invite you to their new blog:

http://quintuplet07.blogspot.com

Feel free to visit and remember that we treasure all your opinions and critiques. Absolutely all comments are welcome (just as long as they are made using the following adjectives: amazing, astonishing, dazzling, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, marvelous, miraculous, outstanding, phenomenal, prodigious, remarkable, spectacular, stupendous, superb, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous, ...).

Quintuplet, now opened 24/7!

Article: "Through the climate window"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6324425.stm