New Projects - JOLE CIC

The new projects for the JOLE CIC are coming up!

The 6th years are going to write and describe their daily routine through a personal illustrated diary!
The students from 8th years are going to present their plans for their future! It's going to be incredible. The teacher will record some of these presentations to put at the JOLE!

Wait and you will see!

6th Year - New Topic - Present Progressive/ Continuous

What are these people doing? Look at the pictures 1 to 5.

1- They are working

2- They are meeting

3- He is eating salad

4- She's dancing

5- He's crying while he's cutting the onion.

O que estas sentenças têm em comum?

a- todas representam uma ação que vai acontecer

b- todas representam uma ação que está acontecendo

Se você do 6º ano escolheu a alternativa B você acertou!

O Presente contínuo ou progressivo é isso! É um tempo que descreve a ação que ocorre no momento da fala, ok?

Formação:

(+) Subject + Be + Main Verb + Ing

(? ) Be + Subject + Main verb + Ing?

(-) Subject + Be + not + Main Verb + Ing

* Be= Am / IS/ ARE

Obs:Fiquem ligados nas próximas aulas para maiores informações!

8th Year - New Topic - Conditional Sentences

GRAMMAR – CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

PART I – Concepts

· Sentences which express a condition;
· Two linked sentences to express condition and consequence;
· Sentences formed from a condition;
· If - The particle which expresses/ represents the condition;

PS: Conditional sentences can appear in two situations:

* If +Subject + Simple Present, Subject + modal + Main Verb

Eg: If I have a lot of money, I can travel to Japan

* IF + Subject + Simple Past , Subject + Would/ Could + Main Verb

Eg: If I had a lot of money I could travel to Japan

To form conditional sentences you should know the MODAL VERBS:

- Can/May/ Must/ Should/ Will /Could/Might/ Would

- Present Simple

- Simple Past (Regular and Irregular Verbs)

Important Irregular Verbs:

INFINITIVE

PAST
BECOME
BECAME
BUY
BOUGHT
COME
CAME
DRINK
DRANK
EAT
ATE
GET
GOT
GIVE
GAVE
GO
WENT
HURT
HURT
LEAVE
LEFT
SEE
SAW
SLEEP
SLEPT
TAKE
TOOK
TEACH
TAUGHT
WAKE UP
WOKE UP
WEAR
WORE
WRITE
WROTE

Exception: In the conditional sentences the verb Be assume only one form: WERE

Eg: If she were a doctor she could work in a big hospital.

If you were a teacher you could teach at Damas school.

Have fun!
The textual genre of the text above is: Strips

It's a kind of a textual genre which has the function to entertain the reader with pleasure. So this way when the reader reads this kind of text he will have a lot of fun.

6th Year - Seasons Pitures

8th Year- Progressive Future

Progressive Future is the same of Future Continuous. The verbal tense formed by Subject + Will Be + Verb + Ing. We use it to describe an action which will be happening during a period of time in the future. Eg: I'll be working in a big company in ten years.

6th Year - Vocabulary Review - Temperature, Seasons and Months

Scale of Temperature:
Below 0ºC (-1ºC, -2ºC, ...) : Freezing
From 0ºC to 14ºC: Cold
From 15ºC to 19ºC: Cool
From 20ºC to 29ºC: Warm
From 30ºC to 39ºC: Hot
+ 40ºC: Boiling

Seasons of the Year:
Summer: The season of the sun
Winter: The season of snowing and raining
Spring: The season of the flowers
Fall or Autumn: When the leaves of the trees fall down

Months of the year/ Celebrative Dates & Events
January : The New Year's Day July: School Holidays
February : Carnival August : Father's day
March : The International women's day September: Brazil Independence day
April : Easter October: Children's Day
May : Mother's day November: The Republic Proclamation of Brazil
June : Saint John's December: Christmas

6th Year - Vocabulary Review for the Partial Test

Sunny / Rainy / Partly Cloudy/ Foggy

6th Year - Text Comprehension Class- Theme: Pollution

On August 6th The students from the 6th year C and D had an important lesson about the theme Pollution. The Teacher Francilene asked them to answer some questions about the theme in discussion. They should answer some questions which tested their abilty in understanding texts in English. They should answer all the questions in portuguese according to the text at the page 72 from the text book. It was very good and they had a lot of fun, although they were so concentrated on the questions!

8th Year - Pictures of Japanese Immigration

Did you know that?



Japanese families which came to work on Brazilian farms lived in Brazi like prisoners. They had hard work and they didn't get money enough to survive or return to Japan. Only few Japanese people could come back to their country at that time.

8th Year - Centenary of Japanese Immigration

If you are interested to know more about the History of Japanese immigration click on the links below! You'll discover many interesting things about it.
http://brownvboard.org/brwnqurt/03-4/03-4a.htm

http://gobrazil.about.com/od/culturehistorylanguage/a/kasatomaru.htm

8th Year - Contents for the Test

- Text Comprehension
- Themes: Careers / Japan;
- Genre, Area, Function, Typographic Elements and Main idea of the texts;
- Would Like to;
- Progressive Future;

6th Year - Contents for the Test

- Weather & Temperature
- Months of the Year
- Seasons of the Year
- Commemmorative Dates/ Important Events
- Kinds of Pollution
- Text Comprehension

My special group at Damas

Would you like to take part in our group? So come and enjoy it! I'll be here waiting for your comments!
Teacher Franci