Marks (melhorias and recursos)

Stéphane Bernardo-9 (written 8, oral 9)

Tiago João Martins-11 (written 11,5-oral 9)

Exams

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

Students sitting only for the «melhoria» don't 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.

MARKS

Your marks are now in «secretaria virtual»

For those of you sitting for «recurso» or «melhoria», the exam is July 9th at 10 am.

I'll be going in Thursday to put the marks in the Dept.

Your Final Marks

Atena Sosoi -12

Cláudia Gomes -5

Diogo Carvalho -15

João Paio-17

Luís Pires-9

Madalena Pereira-15

Pedro Mota-11

Rodrigo Pinto-8

Sílvia Dias-1

Stéphane Bernardo-9

Tânia Parracho-10

Tiago João M.-8

Tiago Mendes-14

Tiina Paananen-9

Vendrell Oliveira-2

MARKS-2nd formal written tasks and orals

I am still working on your final marks.

The first mark is that of the written task the 2nd mark is the oral.

Atena Sosoi 12.5-12

Claúdia Gomes 11.5-11

Diogo Carvalho 17-16

João Paio 15.6-16

Luís Pires 9.5-11

Madalena Pereira 14-17

Pedro Mota 12-8

Rodrigo Pinto 8.5-8

Stéphane Bernardo 6.5-8

Tânia Parracho 9.5-8

Tiago João Martins 9-10

Tiago Mendes 15-17

Tiina Paananen 12-

Vendrell Oliveira 4-

Marks 2nd formal written task

Atena S. 12.5

Claúdia G. 11.5

Diogo C. 17

João P. 15.6

Luís P. 10

Madalena P. 14

Rodrigo P. 8.5

Stéphane B. 6.5

Tânia Parracho 9.5

Tiago João M. 9

Tiago Manuel M. 15

Tiina Paananen 12

Vendrell O. 4

Power Points

All of you who have not delivered a printed version of the power points, please do so.

How NOT to use Powerpoint

Enjoy!

My profile

Hi! I'm Madalena Pereira. I'm 26 years old and I'm a worker student. I was born in South Africa, but from age 12 to 21 I lived in Maia, Oporto. I'm currently working for the Portuguese Air Force. It's an interesting line of work, it's diferrent from everything we know. I'm enjoying myself at FCSH, everyone I know is very nice and I wish I were able to attend classes more often.

1ST FORMAL WRITTEN TASK

DON'T FORGET!

1ST FORMAL WRITTEN TASK
WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY

LIVE EARTH-The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis

LIVE EARTH
http://liveearth.msn.com/

Natural Grammar (May)

CLASS TOMORROW

Hi all,

Class tomorrow will be in our usual room as both the laptop and datashow are taken. I'll have to set another date for us to view the powerpoints.

ASSIGNMENT ON STATISTICS

INGLÊS B2.2
2006/2007



ASSIGNMENT 1
HOME

Due: WEDNESDAY 23rd May


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 GRAPHS. 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

The following statistics are from the


in the UK related to HEALTH:



http://www.statistics.gov.uk/focuson/health




OBESITY


















Obesity prevalence among adults: by sex, England

MENTAL HEALTH

Weekly prevalence of neurotic disorders: by sex, 2000, GB

CIRCULATORY DISEASES

Age-standardised mortality rates for selected broad disease groups, 1911-2003, England & Wales .

LIMITING ILLNESS

Prevalence of limiting long-term illness: by age and sex, UK, 2001

BRITISH LIFESTYLE STATS: Top Stats All Stats

http://www.nationmaster.com/country/uk-united-kingdom/lif-lifestyle

1990-2000 View this page with: Just Stats Sources Definitions Both

Cannabis use: 9%
Happiness level > Not very or not at all happy: 7%
Happiness level > Very happy: 38%
Happiness net: 87%
Life satisfaction: 7.2
Not proud of their nationality: 11%
Trust people: 38%
Very proud of their nationality: 53%
Will fight for country: 74%

vendrell

my name is vendrell and i´m 35 years old. i currently live in Loures but i´m originally from Guine-Bissau.I´ve lived in Portugal for seven years now and i´m working as a security guard.I´m also trying to get a degree in Translation on Universidade Nova de Lisboa.In my free time i play with my kids,sometimes when i can i go to the gym and also,of course,spend some time with my wife.Sometimes I also like to go out with my friends to relax and take my mind of the work,Basically this is what i am and what i usually do.If you any questions just ask
Goodbye

Lumsk--Det Vilde Kor

The norwegians Lumsk, are one of the bands that figure on my playlist. And recently they released a new album called « Det Vilde Kor». So I’m going to profit a and talk about their latest album. Since their beginning, Lumsk have made a progressive passage from a metal sound with some folk influences to a style that mixes folk, progressive rock, and now and then some metal.

Although this change, they made it with the elegance of their discs, as for example the latest one «Troll». «Det Vilde Kor»is a special project, where the seven musicians from Trondheim, play a collection of poems with the same name of the album, written by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. In addition to Knut poems, they added folk melodies and some progressive waves.

This new album can be separated in three different parts. The first part (and the most interesting in my opinion) is built and strengthen by four initial songs, where the melancholic power of the poems takes over the music. The violins of Siv Lena Laugtug and the voice of the singer Stine Mari Langstrand evoke the beautiful and sterile landscapes of Norway, and they create in listener emotions, due to the force of the songs.

Then we have the second part that is more progressive and we notice that on songs, «Lad Spille Med Var Over Jorden», «Duttens», being the last song of the second part «Sven Herlufesens Ord».

The last part gains an environment of a cabaret and this by loosing the pop/folk sonority morphing to a jazz/metal sonority, which runs after us and nails our attention till the end of the album!

This work from Lumsk is with no doubt a great example of the folk music, that is emerging.

If you got curious buy their new album, our just tell me something.

Stéphane Correia Bernardo

LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS

For those of you going on Friday 11th : Please be there at 9 pm.

A small map to help you :

Our Next Play will be LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS!OPENING APRIL 20th!!Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 9.30 pm. Matinée at 4pm on Sunday April 22nd

We are celebrating TWO ANNIVERSARIES:

HENRY FIELDING, 300 YEARS 1707 - 2007

THE LISBON PLAYERS, 60 YEARS 1947 - 2007

To celebrate this double anniversary the Lisbon Players is presenting the great comic musical LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS based on Henry Fielding’s 1730 play RAPE UPON RAPE. Lock Up Your Daughters is a reworking of his 1730 play Rape Upon Rape as a musical with lyrics by Lionel Bart and music by Laurie Johnson. It is a harmonious clash of periods: the early 18th century meets the late 1950s – minuets to the rhythm of the cha-cha-cha!The Lisbon Players production is brought to you by the same team that produced the highly successful production of Cabaret last year – directed and choreographed by Keith Esher Davis and produced and designed by Jonathan Weightman. The cast includes a number of talented new performers. Musical direction is by Luís Filipe Almeida and Ana Jacobetty and costumes by Vivi Silveira.

Home

Home...

Are there many concepts of the word Home or are there many people who just don’t understand its meaning? I think, that, nowadays, people are getting further and further away from understanding what is really important in life. Our lifestyle, our jobs, the time we spend on everything else makes us forget what we want from life and from people. At the end of the day when we get back to the place we live, we don’t realize it may be to our home.
For me, “Home” is where I feel really good, where my heart is, where I can cry because someone wiil wipe away my tears, where I can fail because someone will lift me up and give me strength to try again, where I learn that I can’t climb too high too quickly because I will fall quicklier and harder.
But, the real concept of “Home” is learnt when you miss something or someone you didn’t think you would miss. I, once had a marriage that lasted only for two years, and there wasn’t one single day on those two years I felt I was Home. I understood the meaning of the word Home, when I divorced and got back to my mother’s house. There I could breath deeply, I could hear peace and I could feel love from everyone home. That love and feeling has always been there but I felt it only when I passed those two yaers without it. So, for me, the concept of Home it’s easy and simple. Home is where mjy family is, where my daugther is, where I can close my eyes and still trust in everyone around me.
You don’t have to be surrounded by lots of peolpe, family and friends to feel like Home, you just need to be surrounded by the right people to feel it.
To understand the meaning of “Home” all we have to do is stop for a minute and feel the sense of freedom, the silence of peace, the tranquility of rest and then you’ll know you’re HOME.

About me

Hello,
my name is Cláudia Gomes and I'm 28 years old. I am married to a great man and I have a 4 year old daughter named Camila. The moment she was borned all my priorities changed and she is the sunshine of my life. I love listening to music, to dance, to read and go to the cinema, actually I'm a "cinemamaniac". I work in the El Corte Inglés' supermarket for five years now. Two years ago I decide to get back to school. I want to be a translator and want to be recognized in the area as a great one. I love people that are ambicious and tolerant, because that's what makes the world move on, and I hate the ignorance because it slow us down. I don't know what else to say so I'll call it the day. Bye...

powerpoint assignments

Hi all!
I will still accept the power point assignments until tomorrow, after that , as stated in the course description, those of you who have not handed them in will get a mark of 0. You can email them to me and bring the printed version to the next class.

And the Oscar to the worst translation goes to...

EPIC MOVIE

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you probably the worst movie ever made and translated into Portuguese.

I actually even enjoyed watching Scary Movie (when I was... 10 or something) and all that nonsense scenes with stupid characters...but this one... It was pretty worse.

We were close to leave the room . I kept waiting for something to worth spending my time and money.

I mean...a girl needs a movie to give a few laughs and... there it was: Epic Movie, probably the worst movie I have ever seen. (I liked the Borat scene in the end, though. lol)

Dear class F, I know you are mostly Tradução's students, please PLEASE do better than the person who translated that movie. It was simply painful.

P.S.: A beaver is NOT a squirrel.

Nikki

Warning for those of you planning to visit China

assignment

Due : Monday 23rd April

OBJECTIVE:

To produce a power point from a text.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA :

clear purpose of power point.
effective adaptation of text source faithful to the original text but does not plagiarise sources cited.
effective use of image and text

Choose one of the following and create a power point:

The cold hard facts:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

Caution urged on climate ‘risks’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6460635.stm

It’s not just about climate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6408789.stm

global warming_ myths and facts
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=274

HOW TO SUBMIT

Keep a copy of your power point on a pen or CD with the file title for eg ‘Ana’s PP’. This will be copied to your tutor’s files. Also submit a paper copy of the slides.

TIPS AND TUTORIALS FOR POWER POINTS
i. Very basic tips http://www.crocker.k12.mo.us/tech/pptrules.htm
ii. Tutorial on making a power point http://www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm
iii. a bit wordy, but a full guideline with FAQ’s ( scroll upwards for easier help)http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm#advance iv.http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/writewithppt.ppt#266,1,Writing

check this link

http://www.epicurious.com/features/culinary_travel/portugal/?mbid=RF

Going to the theater

I jusy checked on the Lisbon Players' site that there is a matinée, so if everyone agrees we could go on the 22nd Sun (this mainly for those who have problems with transportion in the evening. Check the dates.

Our Next Play will be
LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS!OPENING APRIL 20th!!Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 9.30 pm
Matinée at 4pm on Sunday April 22nd
We are celebrating TWO ANNIVERSARIES
HENRY FIELDING, 300 YEARS 1707 - 2007
THE LISBON PLAYERS, 60 YEARS 1947 - 2007

To celebrate this double anniversary the Lisbon Players is presenting the great comic musical LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS based on Henry Fielding’s 1730 play RAPE UPON RAPE.
Lock Up Your Daughters is a reworking of his 1730 play Rape Upon Rape as a musical with lyrics by Lionel Bart and music by Laurie Johnson. It is a harmonious clash of periods: the early 18th century meets the late 1950s – minuets to the rhythm of the cha-cha-cha!
The Lisbon Players production is brought to you by the same team that produced the highly successful production of Cabaret last year – directed and choreographed by Keith Esher Davis and produced and designed by Jonathan Weightman. The cast includes a number of talented new performers. Musical direction is by Luís Filipe Almeida and Ana Jacobetty and costumes by Vivi Silveira.

Today's absence

Sorry for today's absence (bad migraine).

Please email me, those who have not done so yet, your creative writing and please post the links to the articles so that I can choose one from which you will all be working on.

particletree.com/notebook/powerpoint-and-presentation-tips/

www.peachpit.com/articles/index.asp?st=42166

www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/articles.htm

Power point (tips)

TIPS AND TUTORIALS FOR POWER POINTS
i. Very basic tipshttp://www.crocker.k12.mo.us/tech/pptrules.htm
ii. Tutorial on making a power point<http://www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm>
iii. a bit wordy, but a full guideline with FAQ’s ( scroll upwards for easier help)http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm#advance

Course description

ASSESSMENT:
For full details of assessment procedures in the Faculty, refer to "Normas de Avaliação 2006".You are expected to do a considerable amount of study out of class time.TASK OUTLINE COURSEWORK:
40%Written task 1 - 10% March - e.g. statistical report
Written task 2 - 10% March - e.g. creative writing
Integrating technology - 10% March/April - e.g. Power Point for presentations( individual task)
Learner autonomy - 10% -
On-going assessment of personal learning:lexical notebook/language work/creative writing.
RESEARCH PROJECT: - 10% June e.g. Country profile – to be presented in class blogs.
(Group task).
FORMAL CLASS TASKS:
30%Written task 3 (with dictionary) - 15% May e.g. report/news item
Written task 4 (without dictionary) - 15% April e.g. Discursive writing – problem/ solution.
ORAL TASKS: 20%Class presentation - 10% to be programmed e.g. presentation using power point - individual task.
FINAL paired oral - 10% June Reading aloud and discussion topic.

A mark of ‘0' will be given for work which is not submitted within the time given by your teacher. If an assignment is shown to have been plagiarised, you will get zero and run the risk of more serious consequences; if the plagiarism cannot be proved, you will be invited to produce another piece of work of a similar standard under examination.

Council of Europe Common European Framework of ReferenceLevel B2 – Independent UserCan understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

Inglês B2.2 Língua 2006/2007 programme
Level: Council of Europe Level B2 – Vantage/Independent UserThe course aims to extend students’ grammatical and vocabulary range and knowledge with particular emphasis on developing lexical awareness through the use of dictionaries and grammar resources, focusing on strategies and techniques of self-evaluation and skills of reflection. The analysis of literary and journalistic texts, as well as TV programmes and films which focus on socio-cultural and historical aspects of the English speaking world, facilitate reflection on and discussion of the similarities and differences between cultures. Learning and assessment tasks will provide regular opportunities for student written expression and will also focus on themes presented during the semester as well as on other contemporary Anglo-American, Portuguese or international areas of interest to the students.
CONTENT

• The course continues to explore English as a way of expressing your identity and culture. Topics broaden out to include cultural and social issues within both Portugal and English speaking countries.

METHODS OF LEARNING

• The coursebook, Natural Grammar, will help you to develop your language learning skills and to focus on key patterns of language. The idea of Natural Grammar is that grammar is organised around key words. You will need to keep a record of your language mistakes and research.

• As part of developing your learning autonomy and ability to evaluate your learning needs and progress, you will be comparing your strengths and areas needing improvement with examples of natural language used in a variety of genres. You will also be expected to keep your personal lexical notebook.• You will be working in pairs and small groups, both in class and in the preparation of certain assessment tasks. You are expected to take active part and to contribute to your class blog.

LEARNING RESOURCES

• Many of the learning materials used in class will come from Internet sources, which you can download and add to your course portfolio. You will need to keep a record of all materials
• PORTFOLIO OF SHORT STORIES

Some short stories and extracts are available from Casa das Folhas. Give the course code - Inglês B2.2.4.

INTERNET ACCESS

You need an e-mail address, which you can get from the Centro de Informática if you do not have one.

Assignments

Hi all,

I hope you have all enjoyed your Easter break, now it's back to work!

In case you have forgotten, you had an assignment, well 2 actually, to write a creative essay around the word «home» and to look for articles that might be turned into power point presentations. These assignments have deadlines. The deadline was,for the creative writing, the last day of classes before Easter break, the articles could be sent during Easter break to my email: joanar@fcsh.unl.pt.

If you wish you might also post the link to the articles on the class blog.

Home, where real friends are!

Home is where we feel really us, where we want to be no matter what. Formerly, I used to think I didn’t have a real home, because where I lived, Benavente, I didn’t felt right. I didn’t want to be there and all I ever thought was to come to university and stop living there. Finally, I got here. I convinced my parents to let me stay in Lisbon during the week and I started to stay here with a friend. But now I miss my town, I miss my older friends, my family and specially my niece. I want to go back there even during the week.
I realised there was my real home, where I made really good friends, the kind of friends that will stay with me forever and I know I’ll never make friendships that easily or that stronger. Because I don’t know how they got that stronger, that just happened. I have a group of friends that are my “sisters”. We see each others as family and I think that’s really beautiful and sometimes very hard to find.
I miss them, I miss my parents, even although I didn’t use to spend many time with them. And the love of my life, my niece, is one of the things I miss the most. She was always like a daughter to me and until today she was the only person with whom I cried at the phone when I first came to Lisbon, because she was crying and saying she missed me.
Benavente is like the “end of the world”, a small town with nothing to see and nothing to do. But now I miss some places there, where I used to go for a walk, near a small river, in the little bridge, where I’ve had very good moments. I remember a night, in summer, when I walked out of the bar, I decided to go to that little bridge with my cousin and his girlfriend and with my boyfriend, where we could sit and talk, and we just stayed there talking and watching the sky and the stars ‘till 4 a.m., I think. I didn’t think there were good landscapes, but now I’ve changed my mind.
And yet, there is where I have my boyfriend and where I have all my good memories of my life and all the important moments were there.
For me, home is where I want to be twenty four hours and where my heart is. And my heart is in Benavente, with my friends, friends I’ll never forget and I’ll love forever and ever.

ME...

Hi..I'm not very good at talking about me but I'll try...
My name is Tânia Parracho and I'm from Benavente, near Vilafranca de Xira..I live with my parents but during the week I stay in Lisbon with a friend.. I have a sister and a niece. Her name is Bianca and she's everything to me...She's the one I miss the most... The little girl with me in this picture is Bianca.

I love going out with my friends on the weekend and my real passion is music... I love everything that's related to music and dance.. I always loved different languages and that's why I went to translation...

Bye...and kisses

Quizz

If you feel like testing your knowledge on extreme weather conditions take this quizz:

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/education_1/?page=quiz211&Quizid=211&GT1=9145

Home = old friends?

Returning to Lisbon from my bestfriend's wedding

"When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."

- Sam Ewing -

home (Creative Writing)

I, once used to know a girl who never knew the meaning of the word "home". She lived in a house near to me, but I never knew what her life was like.

Everyday I used to see Marie at school, and she wasn't someone that particularly stood out from the crowd. But, still, I sensed something missing about her, but I didn't quite know what. Then, when it came to Parents' Day, when everyone's parents came to talk to their teachers and find out how well (or in some cases bad) they were doing at school, Marie came alone. She didn't come with a Mum nor a Dad. It was then I realised that the missing part of Marie was her family. Maybe her parents didn't live with her or didn't care for her like mine did, but whatever the situation was, I knew I had to make her feel like she had a home.

The next week, I invited her to come and join my family to have dinner with us. She seemed to reluctantly agree, perhaps out of shock for someone showing a caring emotion towards her. Whatever the case, she did arrive that night and she did eat with us, and I did notice a difference in her - she appeared to be happy for the first time that I had known her. From that day on, she became a part of my family in the metaphorical sense, and she learnt what a home truly means.

TiagoMendes Nº19893

home... our safe haven

“Home sweet home”… I think there isn’t a single man or woman in the whole world who hasn’t muttered or at least thought about these words when arriving somewhere at least once in their lives. By “Home” I am not referring exclusively to that material place built out of bricks and concrete where we sleep in, or store our personal belongings… In my opinion, “Home” can have a wide variety of meanings according to different situations, but in the end they all tend to mean one specific thing: “safety” and comfort. For example, for a group of immigrants working in a faraway country, “home” can be their native country or city, and not only the place where they sleep in. Different situations, like distance, can provoke on individuals a different feeling of what they consider home. When we are growing up, our home is the place where we live in, where our parents and friends are. But inside our house there is usually a special place: our bedroom, the ultimate sanctuary inside our home. Of course, the whole house is our home, but while we don’t have a house of our own, our bedroom is usually the “home” inside our home. It is where we keep our little secrets, the things we like the most and the place where we spend the majority of our time. Basically it is “us” reflected upon those walls. But things get a little different after we grow up and have our own home. The sanctuary that was once our room extends to the other divisions of the house, and every single one of them become as important as the other, mainly because it is something that belongs to us, that was “built” and decorated accordingly to our own personality and desire. But if “home is where our heart is”, that doesn’t mean that just because we move into a luxurious house that place will immediately become our “Home”. Some people would never trade their humble houses and belongings for a bigger and lavish house, just because it’s better, simply because the other place contains a handful of powerful memories. Yes, memories can also be our “home”. Everyone one has a little arc of memories where they keep their good, and sometimes times not so good moments. These moments are things that help us through bad times or help us growing up, so, it is really hard for someone to move out of a place where most of those memories are stored. For most of us, “home” is not only our house, city or country, just because we live in or were born in it, but mainly because it is the place where our treasured memories are stored in. So, the opinion I want to share with you all regarding the expression “home” is that no matter how many shapes that expression may acquire accordingly to different people, in the end the synonym of the expression “home” is haven, a place where we can be happy, sad, but mainly ourselves in peace.

Class tomorrow

Class tomorrow will be in room 03.

See you all there!

hi!

Hi everyone I’m Tânia, I’m 21 years old and I’m in “Línguas,Literaturas e Culturas – Variante estudos Ingleses e Franceses”.
I’m from the Azores, from the island of Santa Maria. Yes, I’m “neighbour“ of Pauleta! :)
For 2 years I lived in New Caledonia, witch is an island in south Pacific near Australia. It’s a very beautiful island, actually, it’s not only beautiful, it’s a paradise! I hope, one day, you will have the opportunity to see what I saw. I was lucky to have this experience that allowed me to see our world in a different way.
I love to dance! In New Caledonia I had brazilian dance classes and I made part of my teacher’s group of brazilian dances. It was a great experience since I could learn how to dance and make some very good friends! Maybe one of these days we could go out to dance!
Well, I think it’s enough for know... Bye! see you all at 10!

Classroom

The Monday class will be always in room 311, for the Wednesday class we meet outise my office in the 2nd floor as we don't have a classroom yet.

I forgot to present you my nephew...So,here is Denis!

he is just a week old...

Atena Sosoi

Hello,everybody!My name is Atena Sosoi and I am an Erasmus student from Romania.I came here,in Lisbon in September to do the first semester,but I fell in love with this country and here I am again for the second one!What can I say about me?I am 22 years old,I'm studying English,Portuguise and Spanish.I like to think about myself as being a friendly and nice person,I enjoy spending time with my friends in Bairro Alto(hope to meet you there...)and I love movies!But I don't like to talk a lot about me,so I will finish now...Bye,everyone,see you in class!

Home

At home I’m never alone, even when I am.

At first we were four. We seated around a round table.

My mother, my father, my sister and I.

Later my sister got married and left home.

Around a small round table we keep being four.

My mother, my father, my sister that is at her house and I.

Later my mother passed away, but we kept being four around our small round table.

My dead mother, my father, my sister that was at her house and I.

Later my father also passed away, but even alone we kept being four around our small round table.

My dead mother, my dead father, my sister that was at her house and I.

We kept being four around our small round table at our home.

There's no place like home

When we are really young and all we know is the place where we live and the ones we get to meet when our parents take us on vacation, it's easy to believe that home is where our parents are. That's where we feel safe (or we should feel safe), that's were we belong, no doubts about that . Then the stories and the tv show us that the world is further more than the street where we live and Sesame Street looks a better place to be. The dreaming starts and after that, God knows where each person's home is.

When people talk about the idea of home I usually remember those who lost their homes in desastres like the huge fires in Portugal or Hurricane Katrina in USA. People had to run away and saw all the work of a lifetime got destroyed, still they feel the need to return, because despite all the damages, that's where they belong, that's where they belong in.

We tend to call home to the place where we live. Maybe that's because that's where all our personal stuff is, our identity is connected to the material things we have. (I'm not talking about expensive things). All our memories, the things we work hard to get are there, in that place where we come back at night and say: "Home sweet home". I sure can do that. But I do not know where my home is.

I'm from Lisbon, that's where I was born, Lisbon is the closest definition to home as a place that I can find. I love Saint Jorge's Castle and Tagus River, I love the chestnut sellers and the birds on the street.But eventhough it sometimes feels like home to me, I do know that's not really where I belong in. I often feel like an alien, due to not understanding this world. Can we can call home something we do not understand?

Maybe the concept of home to me means my individuality, my identity, who I am.

I do not have rubi shoes, I'm glad I have a place to live and call home, but I am a dreamer and a traveller-to-be. So I am still looking for my own concept of home, while I keep on searching for myself.

(From the Wizzard of Oz, rubi shoes - "There's no place like home" scene)

Profile

Hello, my name is Nadine but you can call me Nikki, that's what everybody does.

(I'm sorry I could only post my profile today, last semestre I posted a lot of stuff on the blog.
I don't really know what to tell you about me, probably it would be better for those who want to know more to find it for themselves. I guess it's easier to go for the usual introduction around here: )

I'm Portuguese, I was born in Lisbon but spent 4 years in a small town between Coimbra and Viseu where I got to see how life is in smaller places and discovered I really am a city girl. I enjoy horseback riding, picnics and a little bit of peace from time to time but I can't live without some things only a "big" city can offer.
Eventhough I love traveling, I do not know more than Portugal, a little bit of Spain and a little bit of Ireland. I'm looking forward for more.
I'm studying Linguas, Literaturas e Culturas, I don't know what I will do when I end up studying but I guess if I figure it out later it won't be too late. I always knew I would go to "Humanities" and this course was my first choice of six which included Modern Languages and Philosophy. I will probably get my Minor in Philosophy, I'm not sure yet.

I guess this will be enough for now. If not, feel free to ask.

Have a nice semestre,

Nikki

Home

What is home?

During my time as receptionist I get to know some nice people from the U.K. that were working here in Portugal for the week and at weekend’s they went back home, to their families.
They do it for months, so were it is really home for them? The hotels were they live 5 days a week or their houses back in the U.K. were they only stay the weekend?

Some of them, a few months after living like this started to look different to our country, and started to feel at HOME, I knew some that left the hotel because they bought their own house (home) here in Portugal and their families moved to Portugal as well, others bought houses here and started a new family with Portuguese people and a few went back to the U.K.

Home is were the heart is, is were you feel comfortable and welcome, were you can live in peace with love and feel good, really good in it!! It may be a house, a city or a country...doesn’t matter if you spend the whole week or only the weekend there. These people that I’ve got the chance to know they just follow their heart and settle down, or moved back home because…HOME IS WERE THE HEART IS!!!


Let me say that some of those that are living here in Portugal used to come back to the hotel to go to the bar, to do their laundry or to eat at the restaurant, I think that is because during the time that they spend there, they feel at home and it was like if us , the employees, were like family to them…that is just why I’m going to come back to work at the hotel, because there is this connection between the employees and the guest which is great!!



silvia d.

The Student Formerly Known As Diogo

How´s it going people. My name is Diogo Carvalho, and unless you live with your head in the clouds you know me. For those of you that didn´t have the pleasure of being my classmates last semester, allow me to provide a brief description of myself. I am 23 years old and was born here in Lisbon, Portugal. When i was eight, my family and I moved to the United States of America. In the U.S., I lived in the cities of Newark, Hillsborough, Kearny, Atlantic Beach and Miami. I studied there from grades 3 to 12, and received my high school diploma from the state of New Jersey. I came back to my country of birth in 2004 and have been here in Lisbon ever since. I enjoy playing video games, going out with friends, watching sitcoms and playing soccer(football in Europe). I am an insane fan of Sporting Clube de Portugal, and try to attend one home game a year. I´m looking foward to a great year and getting to know those of you I didn´t have classes with last semester.

P.S. don´t have any pics yet but I´ll upload one a.s.a.p.

Classroom

Hi all,

We have now, hopefully, settled in room 104. So meet you there on Monday.

Idioms with HOME

An Englishman's home is his castle.

at home

be home and dry

be nothing much to write home about

bring home the bacon

hearth and home

a home away from home

Charity begins at home.

until the cows come home

Home is where the heart is.

make yourself at home

keep the home fires burning

chickens come home to roost

My second home

Home is where the heart is, where we feel safe, confident, where you grow up and where you fell welcome.
This is what I feel in my home and also in my second home. The place that I call “second home” is my team and all the organization and things that surround us. My second home is Fisica de Torres Vedras, a small but important basketball club of my town. I love the game of basketball and I play since I was twelve years old and I’ve always played for Fisica, training almost every day spending most of my afternoons and evenings with my teammates and also our great weekends when we play and when we watch the senior team play. My basketball team is a very special “place” for me, the trips to the games, the practices, the ups and downs; they are part of my life. There, was where I found one of my best friends, and great part of my friends are my teammates that are also my family.
Going every day to practice knowing that they are always there to help you no matter what is priceless, they are the ones that make me love this game so much and that make me want to keep going and playing even when things aren’t going so well, and they are also the ones that cheer me and celebrate with me when things are going well. I will only stop playing basketball when I really can’t play no more, but I will manage to be part of the club and part of my teammates heart forever.
I love this game! And I love “my family”.

João Paio

Hello everyone!!

I’m sure that by now almost everyone of you in our class know me, but for those who haven’t the slightest idea of who I am, I will try to describe myself in a small profile. So, here it goes: My name is João Paio (Oh boy, you can’t even start to imagine how many people make fun of my last name...) I am twenty three years old and I have lived in Lisbon all my life, but hopefully, one day I will have enough money to buy a house in the country where I can live a peaceful life, surrounded by nature, and especially with a lot of dogs. As I already told you all in the first class, I am a huge “dog lover”! I simply love those animals. They are extremely friendly, and they seem to be always happy! I wish I could keep every dog I see abandoned in the streets, but unfortunately that’s not possible… Ups… I’m sorry, I started rambling (this usually happens to me when I start talking about things I love. Well, back to my profile: My hopes about this degree course are very, very high, especially because this is the second one I’m taking here at our University (the first one was in Anthropology). In other words I mean: this is my last chance to fulfil the dream of becoming a teacher. When I first started my anthropology degree course I thought I would be able to become a history teacher, but unfortunately, thanks to the changes that the “teaching laws” have gone through, by the time I finished my degree course I was no longer able to teach. So, since I always dreamed of becoming a teacher I decided to embark on this new adventure. “Yep”… I must be out of my mind!
Besides my family, friends and dogs (here I go again), my other favourite things in the whole world are what you can call a typical cliché: listen to music, watching movies (I love cinema so much that I almost went to a movie directing degree course), reading and playing videogames, being “Silent Hill”, “Resident Evil”, “Final Fantasy” and “Tomb Raider” my favourites.
Nowadays, I no longer live with my parents. I established a new home with the person I love, and we have been living together for a year now. We have been together for 5 years and met for 12 now. A year ago, with everybody’s support we took the decision of moving in together and things couldn’t be going on any better.

Well, I guess this all I remember to say, for now at least. I sure we will all get along just fine and that this will be an amazing semester.

See you all in class. J

Home is where everything is!

My home is my sanctuary, my shelter from real world. The place where I live is the place where my true personality is and where it shall remain...ok this sounds silly but it's kinda true. Everyone says "ohh, I wanna leave home as soon as I can" or "I can't stand living with my parents" and try by any means to get out of there...leave "HOME"?? not me, when I feel like it I will do it, but the day I do that it will be when my mind is ready not when my head is ready. It's not like I'm leaving home when I'm 35, nothing like it, it's just that home is where I feel safe and confortable...and...it's where I feel home. It's not much of a neihbourhood...but it's home anyways.

my profile

hi there.
i'm Luis Eustaquio (it's my name)...well actually it's my middle name. MY last name is Pires but I prefer Eustaquio. It's catchy. As I said last semester, I am a big fan of skateboard and also skimboard (which is that thing kids do on the beach with the thin boards by the seashore) except I am not a kid and my board is not thin...that's pretty much the difference between skimboard and skimming. Well, after this short explanaition all I can say about myself is that I really like to just hang out and laugh all day if possible. I love music...all music (clichet) no really, I often consider myself not only a person who likes music but also the music itself: punk, alternative, rap, britpop...bla bla bla, yadah yadah yadah. Last but not least, there is another thing that I love: Superman...clark Kent...I just love the character, the concept...the clothes, the movies, the toys, everything!!!! I think i've said enough : c ya

Home is where the family is

Home is a place we should look forward to after a hard days work.
It is almost considered a place of worship for our family and even friends when they are invited.


It keeps us warm from the harsh winter and cool in the hot summer.

Home is a part of our heart and whenever we are far away we can remember the home that has always made us happy.

Home or where the heart is...
Home,in my opinion is the place where we want to be.But where is in fact "home" for each one of us?We think we decide what "home" means to us,but is only partly true because it is a feeling that develops by itself...For some of us is the place where the protection and comfort is,for others is the place that has their belongings and memories.I think that "home" may not be a place,but a person or a memory.For example,for me,my home is not there in Romania but neither here in Lisbon,home is where my friends are.On the other hand,nothing compares with being at my grandfather's house,the place where I grew up.When I'm there I feel that all the bad things dissapear and that nothing wrong could happen.I simply adore that house!So,I could say that I had had always two houses.But I am just a lucky person...Atena
Posted by atena at 3/19/2007 01:23:00 PM

assignment

Don't forget your assignment on «home»!

hey!
i'm silvia, 23 years old...i guess that everyone already knows me but well...here it goes a little bit about me..
i just leave the school a few years ago and started work in a supermarket, then in an hotel as an "operator" (someone that only aswers the phone!!very boring!) then i moved to another hotel and was a recepcionist until the time that i apply college and started the studies again...i thought that was easy to get a part-time job but once i didn't got any luck i'm going to study and come back to the hotel were i was before college...it is going to be hard for me but in another way there i can practise my english and spanish and it is good to know people from all over the world and to see the SLB team every 15 days :P
the first semester was good for me and i'm enjoying the course..translation buy the way!!
i'm sorry for my english mistakes but for me it's a little moore easy to speak than to write because a big part of my english was improved in hotels,speaking with people...we can learn a lot, but people..they understand you eighter if you speak good or bad english..they always stay impressed with the portuguese people that knows how to speak english that they don't care if you speak it good or bad...
well...that's all for now!feel free to speak with me...if you'd like to.

cheers

silvia d.

My Profile

Hi class many already know me but some don´t so let meintroduce myself:

My name is Tiago Mendes I am in the first year of Universityand I am studying English and North American Studies.

I was born here in Portugal, more precisely in a smallisland in the Atlantic Ocean called Madeira.When I turned 4 years old my parents and I moved to SouthAfrica where we stayed for 11 years. South Africa is a verybeautiful country only marred by the wave of crime that hasbeen happening over the past decade.
These were one of the reasons why we had to leave thecountry in 2000, at first I was really sad that the countrywas in this situation, but 1 year ago I returned to thecountry on holiday and was very happy knowing that SouthAfrica´s crime rate has decreased which is very goodconsidering it´s going to host a very important footballtournament in 2010.

So this is my small profile not great but simple

See you at 10

Tiago Mendes

Hi!
I am Pedro Mota
I think that most of you already know me but here it goes:
I am from Torres Vedras and I’m in translation, in the first year. I come and go every day which is very boring, but until now I’m managing to do all of my hobbies and things that I used to do. I’m still playing basketball in Fisica de Torres Vedras and this year we are going pretty well, we are in the finals of the Juniors A national cup!!! And the coach says that we are capable of winning the cup.
Besides playing basketball I also love computer games, cycling, workout, TV, football, internet and I’m a sports fan in general. And of course I love to be with my friends.
Until now I’m loving the faculty, except some organization problems. Last semester I was in the class of Professor David and I loved it. This semester I think that will also love the English classes, mostly because I already know my classmates and I’m more relaxed.

Well, I think that’s all.
Good luck to all of you.

Profile....

First one posting..... :D

Ok.......what should i say.....almost everyone in the class already knows me!!

Let's get started......I'm stephane, I'm 19, i have in France in a small town called Clamart (it's kind a near Paris).

Things I like???? Well I like manga ( japanese comics), japanese culture, Judo, music ( metal, techno, trance, goth), I love to read, to draw and anging out with my friends. Don't know what else to say.....

see ya later....