The Pepperones

2007-12-31T18:53:00.000Z

Happy New Year Glitter Graphics

Christmas 2007

2007-12-24T10:48:00.000Z

From A to Z ... Feelings after an almost two-month-old separation...

2007-09-19T17:38:00.000+01:00

... This year's return is only a return...

No full return...... istance ...... volution ...

riendship regained?

Coming back ... These guys from A to Z

2007-07-16T20:50:00.000+01:00

**amazing**

**bubbly**

**caring**

The end is an OPEN END ...

2007-06-08T22:08:00.000+01:00

I'll be there as ever.... you know that!

I felt really moved this morning!

LOVE YA, guys!

The English Teacher

Loving English, working hard! (LOL) ... Smart kids, These!!! ;)

2007-05-16T23:54:00.000+01:00

That's the Masterpiece of Art I had waiting for me when I got into the classroom this morning!

However...
I came to the conclusion these creepy-crawlies wanted to butter me up in order to have one of my "final tortures" changed!

No way!!!

They will have to go through it!

After a lot of fuss they eventually understood they had to do something worthwile for the coming Friday

because

speaking in English about a topic two minutes long and without getting stuck

isn't exactly a piece of cake!

The English Teacher

Riddle... Who is involved here? What's being mentioned below?

2007-05-04T21:08:00.000+01:00

They all belong there,

They are all blind,

It's hard to make them see

What is behind.

Their team is their team,

Their town is my town,

It's not what they mean,

I've got one of my own!

The English Teacher

A Wonder ???

2007-05-02T21:35:00.000+01:00

Can anybody answer me PLEAAAASE???

Is Diogo GoGo such

a W - O - N -D - E - R

to be awarded so many medals???

Or...

Is it simply my reality???

(LoL)

The English Teacher

Thought of Filipa ... LOL

2007-05-01T21:01:00.000+01:00

In a remarkably "active " class

2007-04-27T20:31:00.000+01:00

Early in the morning today

in the English class:

E.T.:"balblablablablalablablablablablablabla ...

blablablablablablablablabla...

blablablablablabla"

Students:"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

An "oldie" to all the winners and not only!

2007-04-23T22:21:00.000+01:00

Who would say?

2007-04-20T22:11:00.000+01:00

This is just something that must be said:

Every classgroup has their own behaviours.

These kids aren't in a class wroking in groups.

It's break time!!

And WONDER!

These kids stayed in the classroom.

Not for homework or any other class task!

Just a new "addiction"!

They're playing cards!!!

To someone who's fond of horses ...

2007-04-13T21:45:00.000+01:00

On Spring, Poet and Tree

2007-04-10T15:07:00.000+01:00

Daniel
I don't consider myself a poet
But as Spring has come
This time I'll forget that
And will write this like I am one

So I look around me
And I'm confronted with simplicity
Flowers bloom around a tree
Making me feel free

I feel like warming up
The sun shows itself each time more
So I go away, the door is shut
And away I feel better than before

Rita

Joana
When I think about Spring
I feel one thing
Summer is coming
The birds are flying

The bees meeting the flowers
The trees are smiling
The poet has the power
Long live Poetry!!!

Pedro
Spring, Poet and Tree
It's about what must write
In the end it won't be
the poetry it might!

João e Nuno Dias
Spring can come
And Spring may go
The Poet will go
And try to find some.

Some trees kiss me
Some trees hug me
Stand up for their right
Don't give up the fight.

Amadeu
Spring is here
The little birds sing in the sky
The Poet and magic are near
Says a beautiful butterfly.

Flowers win colour
And the trees get all green
There again the ancient party
In which Nature is the Queen.

Diogo Rebelo
The Sun is shining
Spring is coming
Flowers are born on trees
So that everyone sees
The Poet is describing a lake
while eating a cake.

Flávio
Spring is back
The Poet broke his neck
Trees are filled with leaves
The Winter leaves

We're anxious for the arrival of Summer
The carpenters use their hammer
The trees are full of sadness
The fires take them to darkness.

Aline
Be a Poet in Spring
Talk about birds and trees
That is our work today
and we can't run away.

Birds're singing with the sun
Easter'll be coming soon
Nature is incredibly fun
We can't forget trees will bloom

The flowers, the trees, the animals
The Sun, the rain, the wind
Mix all so that we can say
it's the beginning of Spring.

Filipa

Nuno Matos
Today I'm a Poet
Today I can write whatever I want
I can change, mix or add words in a sentence
'Cause today I am peot
And I'm free to do what I want
Today is the Tree Day
Today the Petry rhymes with tree
Today trunks are sentences
And Poets are the leaves
Today is the arrival of Spring
With Spring come the trees
With trees comes inspiration
Inspiration is taken by poets
Who make Poetry
Today Poetry is made by trees
Today Spring is like a leaf
Because
Today is Nature's Day.

Luís
Behind the feeling of a poet
IN a lively beginning of Spring
Happiness is coming along
Time to spread our wings

AQfter a long freezing period of death
When all the life was fading
Another cycle will arise
Time to start sunbathing

Birds are everywhere
Livelihood is all around
LOve is in the air
Everywhere I look around

Quim
Spring is coming
and flowers rise
The sun is shining
and the mood is nice

New trees are blooming
and little leaves have appeared
The green forest is growing
and nature is reborn

A little poet is writing
about this wonderful season
that is our lovely spring

Just open your eyes
to find inspiration
Spring is right by your side

... ... ...
When it comes to Spring
The trees become green.
The imagination of the Poet has wings

... ... ...
When the trees bloom,
when the birds sing,
and the days get more beautiful,
the Poet has more imagination
because a new station arrived
with Sun and Happiness.
It's Spring

E. T.
The Poet sings
Trees of Emotions
in Spring

Spring emotions
Fill the Poet's soul
with renewed sensations
with renewed vibrations

In a poetic ecstasy
Nature celebrates
The Day of Poetry

AT LAST!!!

2007-04-10T15:06:00.000+01:00

AT LAST .. something NEW!!!

Under re-construction

2007-03-25T21:12:00.000+01:00

The template has been changed!

More changes on the way!

On Valentine's Day

2007-02-12T23:47:00.000Z

(Sorry for not posting anything lately but am having problems with my PC which will hopefully be solved soon.)

The English Teacher

Patricia and anorexia

2007-01-16T20:43:00.000Z

Nervous anorexia

I thought a lot about a subject that could reflect a reciprocal feeling and I chose nervous anorexia, because it is an existing problem and very common among youths.

Another reason why I chose this subject for a post was because I recently knew someone who has just gone through nervous anorexia, and consequently was deep in depression.

When I saw that person’s face expression, I wondered!
Her face reflected several feelings: frustration, exhaustion, confusion, intimidation, embarrassment, depression…
One part of me felt straight away a strong relation with it, a strong wish to help…and the other part felt fear and confusion.

Time went by and we started to get along and I encouraged her to try to overcome it all.

That person told me about certain aspects of her life and that even made me more interested in researching about the disease and so I started doing it.

Nervous anorexia can be defined as a deliberate and auto-imposed inanition followed by a constant search for getting thinner and a morbid fear to get fat.
This kind of disease happens particularly in women with an average age of between 14 and 21 years old.
It usually appears due to traumatic experiences or school insuccess, combined with feeling of insatisfaction or even repugnance in relation to the body aspects, sometimes leading to the expression: “I felt bad in front of the mirror”.
The symptoms of this disease are the progressive loss of hunger, leading to thinning and often to death; it also leads to the disappearing of the amenorrhea, that is, menstruation.

Most part of the young people who suffer from nervous anorexiashow a lot of physical activity in the beginning , they are very demanding in relation to perfection, studious and meticulous, qualities that are deceiving, being just an illusion.

Is it worth to reach an aim by these means?
Is it worth to be thin but psychologically unbalanced?
Do people like us just because we are thin or fat?

Many of the young people, who choose that way, do it because they want to become models.

With this article I want to alert all the young people of my age who have been through this, or who are at risk of going through it, to pay close attention to the disadvantages it represents.

Think well before self-destruction and above all remember that you worry the people who really love you.

Don’t forget that anorexia is a fake friend.

It pretends to be our friend, giving us a feeling of false power

and afterwards it leaves us in a hole sometimes with no possible return.

Patricia Araújo

To Lord Quim

2007-01-10T21:35:00.001Z

A surprising attitude

2007-01-05T23:39:00.000Z

He was there ...

Despite being late,

he came and found the E.T. who would never think he'd be there when the rest of the Pepperones would be on a school visit with the Biology teacher who also is the class teacher...

He was there ...

and even WORKED in English for a little while!

Actually ... he's started a post!

When will he end it?

How will he end it?

Let's allow him the chance to surprise all!

Wishing you a

2006-12-30T21:45:00.001Z

The English teacher

Have a

2006-12-24T09:49:00.000Z

Playing with Christmas vocabulary - 3

2006-12-23T22:02:00.000Z

Christmas Tree

Holidays - holly

Reunion of the family

It's the time for Santa Claus

Snow

Turkey

Mid-night to open the presents

An absolutely wonderful season

Santa Claus

Lígia

Cod

Holly

Turkey

Reindeer

Presents

Stories

Midnight

Star

Christmas Carol

Octopus

Roast Turkey

Sweets

Santa Claus

Advent

Snow

Toys

Sledge

André

December is a month

Twnty-fifth is the day

Freezing is the weather

But for people it's ok.

Presents are almost here

Santa is on his way

Midnight is near

Advent has gone away

Cheerfulness is the feeling

Darkness will disappear

Stars are twickling

You are a dear

Filipa

Caroling
Holly
Remember
Ice
Sock
Toys
Marvellous
Angels
Santa Claus

Try to do the best you can
Reindeer
Elves
Eve

*
Simão

Christmas
Holly
Reindeer
Ilummination
Snow
Toys
Midnight - the families open their gifts
All the families get together
Santa Claus

Elf
Very nice
Everything is good
*
Ana Sofia

Chimney
Happiness
Reindeer
Imagination
Santa Claus
Twenty-fifth December
Midnight Mass
A lot of homeless children who don't get presents
Snow

Day with the family
A celebration - Jesus's birth
Young people sing Christmas carols in the street

*
Aline
Jesus Christ was born on the 25th December.
However many people don't believe in Him.
Reindeer and bells are two symbols of Christmas.
If Christmas threes weren't decorated, it would be a sad Christmas Eve.
Streets are decorated with colourful lights.
Turkey and codfish are usual foods.
Many people travel to spend the day with their family.
More than a million people receive or give presents to one another.
Snow is the typical weather in many countries.
December is the month for this celebration.
There's always someone telling some stories
You have a wonderful Christmas!
*
Ana Luísa
Come and visit "Christmas Land"!
Here you can find
Reindeer
Imagine you're at
St. Nick's place,
Touching his
Magic
And wonderful
Sledge
Play with snow and
Run after the elves,
Smile and laugh,
Eat sweets, chocolates
North pole arrived
To the city.
Silence is over. It's Christmas!

Playing with Christmas vocabulary - 2

2006-12-19T20:17:00.000Z

Sunday
Angels
No sadness in our heart
Tree
Anti-racism

Christmas presents
Love
All the children love him
Unforgettable moment
Snow

Joana

Class work on Ecotourism

2006-12-11T20:41:00.000Z

What the students of the two classgroups - 11º A and 11º B - did on Ecotourism is to be seen at school!

Such interesting leaflets couldn't be hidden from the public eye!

Here are the pictures of the little exhibition that is worth at least a glance.

Playing with Christmas vocabulary

2006-12-06T17:22:00.000Z

As Christmas is near and we are living Advent time,

I gave the Pepperones some pleasant (at least I take it as such!) task like playing with words related with this Season.
I divided the classgroup up to the way they're sitting in the classroom and gave them words whose letters they would have to use to reach other words or to begin a sentence.

There are very nice productions

and

although they tend to be repeated, I'll publish them all.

Flávia will be the very first:

Children

Halleluia! Christmas has arrived!

Rudolph is the best reindeer Santa Claus has

It 's a day of dreams

Surprise

The Christmas Star

Manger

Almost all children are happy

Santa Claus

Peace

Reindeer

Elves

Solidarity

Everybody is happy

Not every child gets presents

Twenty-fifth of December

Snow

João Pedro will be the next one.

(I'm surprised with this one as he is not so ... how can I say it? ... so childish any longer as I thought he'd go on being! Perhaps because I started my own sort of "buttering up" and he let it go! Perhaps!... Or it's just apparently for the marks! We never know!)

Christmas Eve is an important night
Happiness
Receiving some presents
It's a calm moment for the whole family
Snow is falling
The Christmas tree is twinkling
Midnight Mass
All the family is together
Sharing that moment with our parents, that's good.

Eating some fries
Very enjoyable evening
Eating turkey

Flávio's turn now :

Snow
Angels
Non-violence
Turkey
All presents made by him are fun

Christmas Eve
Love
Anti-racism
Universe - Santa Claus is known all over the world
Sunday - Christmas Eve is on a Sunday this year

Praising - 8

2006-12-02T15:45:00.000Z

Simão is the brat!

This year he's just going through a naughty adolescence crisis.

He enjoys a good laugh and he's got a clumsy way for the time being.

He's very nice in his way of doing things...that actually shouldn't be done where he tries them and he knows how to melt stone hearts !

Opposite to this misbehaviour he is fighting hard for keeping up with good grades

and I know he understands the real meaning of responsibility.

I don't think his classmates would be able to survive without him.

Well.. at least I wouldn't do without him although I keep telling him off.

People say when there's love, there's grumbling too.

And I do agree with it!

He knows well enough the sort of feeling I have for him!

The English teacher

Diogo "go-go" opens his heart

2006-12-01T21:29:00.000Z

Falling in love in adolescence

On one hand, love in the adolescence is very good to teenagers,

but

on the other hand it is bad,

specially when teenagers are in love

because

they only think about love or their girlfriend or boyfriend.

During classes when teenagers are in love,

they are always on the moon,

they don’t concentrate themselves on the studies and classes,

their grades get down.

But being in love at this age also has a positive side.

Adolescents feel happier and their life is complete.

This is the best feeling a teenager can experience.

However when a relationship is over, they feel very bad psycologically,

as it happened to me.

At first life was terrible

but at the moment

I’m feeling better.

Praising - 7

2006-11-29T21:03:00.000Z

I was going to use somebody else for this praising .. but ... I made up my mind about doing it right today with this very one .. . because

I think she needs it BADLY!

Today I'll be praising Rita!

Praising Rita! Yes!

TRUE! I'm praising HER!

I LOVE this one!
However I don't understand why we keep on having rows!

Actually ... let's put it straight and be honest about this issue ... she gets mad at me I don't understand why and she doesn't often understand my joking way because my humour is my humour and it's said to be weird... Oh well...

On the other hand there's something I DO APPRECIATE in her : her way with school stuff and her sense of responsibility. However... she makes me breathless when her stress gets hold of her and she just stops any possible rationalising action.
She is a friend of her friends and cares about you if she is aware you're sad or disturbed by any reason.
She is A VERY GOOD STUDENT and needs more self-confidence and calm to reach the target I know she can reach and she deserves : to get to excellence as far grades are concerned i.e. to get a 20!That won't be difficult as she's almost there. She's already reached 19!

The English teacher

PS: RITA told me I had forgotten to call her "irritating Rita"! I personally like calling her that because I find the alliteration just great!

Ana Luísa also wanted to have a say about MUSIC

2006-11-26T16:34:00.000Z

Hello!!

Well, I’m Ana Luisa, a 15 year-old girl that doesn’t know what to post about!
I don’t want to do a boring post nobody will have patience to read!

Thinking well, I guess I’m going talk about one of my favourite hobbies: music.
I’m not one of those people that is always listening to music, with the phones on their ears and don’t hear anything else. That’s irritating!

No, I don’t need to be always listening to music: music is always in my mind, and it is music that is with me when I’m alone, it is music that helps me when I’m sad… One of the things that cheers me up when I’m down is singing. To tell the truth, I’m almost always singing…and people tell me to shut up! However I don’t care if they say I’m crazy!
Hip hop, R&B, pop, reggaeton, rock…for me, that’s not important, the important thing is the way it makes me feel: good...

PS: I guess I wrote a very boring post. I don’t care, I wrote about what I like!
If you didn’t like the text, watch the picture. I love it!
A beautiful sunrise…

Praising - 6

2006-11-22T20:43:00.000Z

It's easy to guess who'll be praised today!

Yes... There is a "ladybird" in this classgroup too.

Joana is today's post main character.

Our first contact wasn't an easy one.

She was shy, very shy

introverted,

she even feared me.

One school-year has passed

and

Miss Ladybird

became a nice young lady,

a more daring student,

taking much more active part in class activities.

Why so?

Well... I think she is now really aware

she can take advantage out of the other students' knowledge to improve hers

and she can also progress

doing pleasant things with a foreign language

she doesn't seem to be very keen on.

She has eventually understood learning English also means fun

and I'm very happy for that.

Miss Ladybird, I am PROUD of YOU!

The English teacher

Praising - 5

2006-11-21T21:55:00.000Z

Lord Quim's turn!

He's got nice manners,

is right in front of me in classes.

He's a hard working lad, does every single homework I give to this classgroup.

I used to call him "Little Lord" because he reminds me of the actor in the film with the same name, film I saw ages ago.

He is really tall now

and

he's got a brand new voice...

which is very nice

his classmates nicknamed him

"The Voice".

I like having him where he is this year.

He is more attentive.

However

he enjoys playing the medieval knight

to help the maiden in need.

And... of course he is another one of my "pets" in this classgroup.

They ALL are!

The English teacher

Praising - 4

2006-11-17T20:38:00.000Z

We must be really VERY PATIENT with this one!

He tries every single device to make me (and everybody else) pay attention to him.

He enjoys bugging anyone

but

if I come to think of him and analyse his reactions more in detail

I realise

I am before a nice lad

who's eager to do something worthwhile at school and out of it.

He's got nice manners,

he's even good-looking (I know he's well aware of that!)

and if he could concentrate his energies on studying a bit more,

he'd surely be a much better student.

He promised he'd try to work more this school-year and I know he'll try hard to keep up to his promise.

I'm very fond of him and looking forward to seeing his scuccess.

Today's praising goes obviously toDiogo (Go-Go) Rebelo

The English teacher

Praising - 3

2006-11-16T15:55:00.000Z

For today's praising I've chosen Patrícia

but

I don't really know whether I'm doing the right thing.

Perhaps.

I'll have to face myself with the effects of my attitude if I'm not.

Anyway... I'll try it!

This is the second year she's been having me as a teacher of English

but...

she often forgets she can do a lot if she's up to that.

She loves reading about psychology and talks about it as if she were an expert.

She is nice and easy to handle when she's in a good mood.

However she gets touchy all of a sudden

and drives you round the bend easily.

It's really a shame she doesn't trust herself

because she can do lots of positive things if she wants to.

I wish she could look at herself in the mirror!

The image I see of her is of a pretty young lady

with many talents she hasn't dared explore yet.

In spite of all the rows we've been having (specially lately)

I love her dearly.

The English teacher

Praising - 2

2006-11-15T16:38:00.000Z

Who's Diogo "Varejinha" anyway?

This one is a very shy guy!

This school year even worse as one of his friends stayed in the 10th form.

He is usually TOO quiet in my classes

but

this year even quieter as learning stuff got even more difficult than last year!

We don't talk much because he isn't very talkative.

I hope he realises I am there also for him

although

I am aware of how stressing my classes can be for him.

He is the tallest one of this classgroup.

Let's put things straight:

I think he's the "good giant" in 11ºA

and

I like him really!

The English teacher

Praising - 1

2006-11-14T16:57:00.000Z

This is a post chain I'll be doing perhaps every day.

We all know praising is motivating.

That explains

why I am doing it.

André is the youngest one of this classgroup.

He is also the one I seem to tease more

but...

sometimes he really deserves to be told off!

However I don't forget

he is

a nice guy

and

he seems to have calmed down this year.

He's grown up not only physically

and

surprise, surprise!

He gave up being too touchy

when I am there to make him do what he must do

or just to pick on him

because he just isn't paying attention to what is going on in classes.

In spite of all these little bad sides

I am really fond of him! (although he thinks I am not!)

The English teacher

Filipa and her passion: Music

2006-11-11T21:50:00.000Z

" The word music comes from the Greek word "mousike" and from Latin "musica".

First I would like to say that there isn't a Music for everyone or for all occasions. There are different kinds of musics like the music of the people od Europe, Africa, America, etc.

But ... what is music ... and when did it appear?

Well... There isn't a unanimous definition for music because it depends on how you consider

music. We can say that language or some kind of sound is music for us because everyone has their own definition.

We all agree that music is a form of Art and entertainment. It is expressed in terms of melody and harnmony, rhythm, and the quality of sound (timbre, dynamics, texture, etc). Music can also be an expression of human emotions designed to manipulate or transform the emotion of the listeners.

The History of Music predates the written word andis tied to the development of each unique human culture.

There are music genres which are determined as such by tradition and introduced as music by the actual music coming from different cultures.

Summing it all up music has made us into what we are."

Filipa

(For this one Music is her life!
The English Teacher)

Does someone remember ...

2006-11-06T21:34:00.000Z

... what must be done for the E. T. to allow to be buttered up? ? ?

Trick or Treat?

2006-10-31T19:55:00.000Z

Happy Halloween!

Another homework - Contextualising interjections and onomatopoeic words

2006-10-29T15:49:00.000Z

A day in the life of Miss Pepper

“Zzzzzzzzzzzz” …The teacher was sleeping.

At 7 o’clock, her alarm clock rang, and she woke up. The first thought that came to her head was: “Thank goodness it is Wednesday…Today I’m having classes with my favourite classgroup: 11ºA! I’m really looking forward to it…Baaah!”
She got dressed and had breakfast. As she was walking outside her house, Brrrrr…it was really cold. She went back to her closet, in order to pick up a warmer jacket. Then she called a taxi and went to school. When Miss Pepper arrived at "Alex. Herc." school, 11ºA was waiting for her. Muahh, she kissed Filipa, her favourite student in the class. As she was greeting all the other students, Grrrrr…it was Rita – the student Miss Pepper liked annoying the most.
They all went to the classroom. As the teacher was writing down the missing students, Yuupeeee…she realised number 14 was missing, but five minutes later, someone knocked at the door…”Halleluiah, Daniel has arrived; He is late again!” But she was wrong. Simão opened the door and…”Dear me! I thought you wouldn’t be coming today, João Pedro!”
The class went as normal, and when the school bell rang…"Impossible! I thought we were just at the beginning! The class was so interesting that time run too fast!”
Miss Pepper had two more classes during that morning, but far less interesting than the first one.
At lunch time, the teacher went to a near restaurant. She ordered what she wanted to have and…”Yuck! This food is horrible! I won’t eat it” - she said.

During the afternoon, she posted some assignments in the classes’ blogs and then it was dinner time. As lunch had been miserable, she cooked herself her favourite dish. She set the table and…”Yummy! It is really delicious!” she said.

After dinner, she turned on the television and commented: “Hurray, Boavista is winning!”, but when the match finished, Boavista had lost. She went to bed in a bad mood because of the football match, and by the time her head hit her pillow, she felt asleep…Zzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Luís

This is a very funny day my best student imagined I could have!

The English teacher

Do you care for a comment?

2006-10-27T23:11:00.000+01:00

Is it that

**when the cat is away, all the mice will play?**

Rita made up her mind about saying who she is and what her likes are

2006-10-23T23:07:00.000+01:00

"Hi there*
My name is Rita, I’m 16 and I live in Porto.
I’m a very motivated, amusing and strong-minded girl!
In the future I’m not sure of what I want to be, but perhaps something to do with animals. I can’t see an animal misplaced or injured – I always get sad and worried.
I’ve been practising karate since I was 5 and I’m part of the karate national team. But, my true passion is horse riding! I’ve been practising it for 4 years and I want to keep practising it for a long time! I really... really... really love horses**
In my free time I like listening to music, practising lots of different sports and spending precious moments with my friends!
So…this is me!!!

Aren’t they fantastic animals??
=D "

Thinking ... in the English classes as preparation of a HOMEWORK!

2006-10-21T20:47:00.000+01:00

Three minutes in students' heads during an English lesson.

Pedro did this:

**Thinking**

"On the 11th Ocotber, our English teacher told us to think. Hearing that we asked 'about what?' and she answered 'just think!' So we were there three minutes thinking.
During that time I thought of basketball, the weather, my lunch and I also thought of the new game that is coming for Playstation 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 6.
But I thought of all of this in 1 minute. It was surprising. In the 2 minutes left, I looked outside, I laughed a little bit and I looked at my partner. I did everything except thinking. These two minutes seemed to be much more than what they really were.
So this exercise made me think that time passes faster when we are doing something. "

Ana Luísa came to these conclusions:

**To think, thought, though **

"Well... when you said 'start thinking', the first thing I thought of was the aim of these 3 minutes of thoughts.
As I had 3 minutes to think about anything, I decided to try to imagine what my classmates could be thinking about. I looked at you and I thought : 'Hmmmm ... She is thinking we are all crazy but I think she is crazier than us all together.!' And looking at you I remembered that lesson where we had to write about nothing and I had an idea. I was going to think about nothing! However after some seconds I thought that thinking about nothing would be boring and I decided to think about something. But... I didn't know what to think about! ... Family? No! I think about them all the time ... Friends? No! They are almost all here!...

That's it! I'll think about ... ... 'Time is over!' you said."

Nuno "Sopinhas" wrote:

**3 Minutes**

"It was 3 minutes thinking about what to think.
Did we lose 3 minutes in our life in such a stupid way? Maybe not because we were in the English class (and in the English class everything is possible.).
What I can remember of this moment is that I found myself thinking about what the other students could be thinking but I didn't manage to get to any thoughts. Maybe that was a good moment to sleep but it was only three minutes so what for was the teacher thinking to give us this mental exercise to go through? Possibly for nothing. ... Maybe the English teacher just wanted to have us to be thinking, something we are not used to doing in the English classes ..."

Nuno Matos imagined this:

"During the three minutes the teacher gave us to be thinking, I could think of four things: school tests, computer games, football and lunch time.
Computer games and football are probably my favourite interests, I like playing both and I also like to know a lot about them, especially about football.
I also thought about lunch because that English class which had started at 12:00 would be finished by 1:25 and ... I was starving!
I wish my teacher could give us a little more time to think, just like 90 minutes. Then I could think of more things but this time was very good although it was very short."

Wishing you ....

2006-10-20T22:45:00.000+01:00

A GREAT WEEKEND
in this

wet AUTUMN weather!

Will upgrade this blog during th weekend!

Filipa's Autmun

2006-10-14T00:03:00.000+01:00

This is Filipa's Autumn graphism.

Giving Rita some attention ... ;) It's her Autumn start!

2006-10-11T22:29:00.000+01:00

The first day of autumn

Katy woke up knowing that this was going to be a special day – the 21st of September, when Autumn begins!
She went running to the garden…
Silence.
It was beautiful! Katy stayed there… just looking. All those leaves with fantastic colours falling down from the trees, covering the ground. Each leaf looked so perfect that it seemed to have a life of its own, with a story to tell.
The weather was perfect – not too hot, not too cold. A nice smell came to her – roasted chestnuts!
Katy didn’t think twice before lying down onto that carpet of beautiful leaves. She stayed there for long minutes looking at the sky, thinking… it was the part or the year when magic happened, when everyone is happy, when everything looks perfect!
It was autumn!

by Rita

Quim felt like posting about the 11th September

2006-10-07T14:23:00.000+01:00

Hi, everyone.
My name is Joaquim, I´m 16 and I live in Oporto.
I´m an ambitious boy, who works hard at school to have the best grades I can.
I´m not sure of what I’d like to be in the future, but perhaps a genetic engineer or I would like to do medicine.
I’ve been practising swimming for 8 years now and I’m an athlete of the FCP competition team.
In my free times I like going to the movies, listening to music and playing computer or board games.

And I’m proud to be one of The Pepperones!!!!!

Here is my contribution to our blog:

11th September 2001

I know this post is late but I feel like posting about it even some time after.

Last weekend I went to the cinema to see the latest movie “World Trade Center” with Nicholas Cage, and that movie made me think about the 11th September and the suffering of the victims and also of the families who lost someone…
So for those people I will post the picture underneath dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001 tragedy.
We shall never forget that day and the people

SOME NUMBERS OF VICTIMS

Lawyers (For any reference to attorneys or lawyers.) - 8

Firefighters - 319

Police officers (Sworn law enforcement officers, including people such as sheriff's deputies) - 50

Dispatchers (Civilian dispatchers in fire or police departments who were not sworn firefighters or sworn police officers.) - 1

Flight attendants - 26

Captains (pilots) - 5

First officers (co-pilots) - 4

WE SHALL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY AND THE PEOPLE WHO DIED!

What about that?

2006-10-06T23:51:00.000+01:00

I thought you might like some sort of nice sentence to think about during the weekend.

Here you have it:

Great weekend !

See you on Monday.

Your E. T.

The English teacher's space - Advice nr. 2

2006-10-03T22:23:00.000+01:00

Put a smile on your face when you're required to talk in the English classes.

Why fear a foreign language when it really means an open door to experiences of many kinds ?

Two "Autumn/Fall" creative texts

2006-10-01T23:02:00.000+01:00

SeAson between Summer and Winter

It is Usually cold and raining

Trees have no flowers

ChestnUts are traditional

SepteMber is the month when Autumn starts

WiNd doesn't miss this time

Hot Food becomes more usual

People Are melancholic and sad

YeLlow, red, orange and brown are the colours

Leaves fall.

Aline

In the end of Summertime
There will be changes to the weather
The Autumn will come
I hope this season will make us feel better

There will be leaves falling
And the clouds may cry
To make the plants grow
Into an infinite sky

We will need protection
From the cold we may feel
Putting on warmer clohtes
Will make that cold unreal

We must try to enjoy every day
Like it was the last
Because time goes on so quickly
That Autumn is almost past
Daniel Carvalho

"Autumn/Fall" creative writing

2006-09-29T21:23:00.000+01:00

My "Pepperones" handed in their creative writing assignments on "Autumn/Fall" ...

In spite of being a Science class, they could produce some nice stuff!

I'll be posting some of it throughtout the week .

The English teacher's space - Advice nr. 1

2006-09-25T22:45:00.000+01:00

Advice nr. 1

~ Learning a new English word a day makes bad marks fade away! ~

2006-09-23T20:58:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone,

The best blog the net has ever seen has just been created. It is done by “us”, Portuguese students from “Escola Secundária Alexandre Herculano”, with the precious help of our English teacher. The blog will be upgraded every week, and it will be kept at least during this school year, as it is a school project.
“The Pepperones” is intended to show a little more of ourselves, so that everyone gets to know us better. We are going to talk about our school, hobbies and much more.
Throughout the first months, students are going to write about themselves individually, but then… keep visiting this blog to know more.

My name is Luís, I’m 16 and I live in Porto.
I’m a hard-working and ambitious boy, and my goals are reaching everything I can.
In the future I’m not sure of what I’d like to be, but perhaps an astronomer or a scientific researcher.
I’ve been practising Karate for 11 years and I’m part of the Karate national team. I also study English outside school.
In my free times I enjoy practising sports, reading and playing the piano.

2006-09-23T20:37:00.000+01:00

Here are they!

A nice bunch!

*The Pepperones*

11ºA - Escola Secundária c/ 3º Ciclo Alexandre Herculano

2006-09-20T22:56:00.000+01:00

This is just a quick introduction to a class project I'd like to see successful.
I know it'll be fun to work on it once students and English teacher enjoy interaction and challenge.

We'll be very happy if we ever get visitors, namely English speaking ones, what we take as not very difficult to find here in the virtual world. However, we all know we'll have to struggle for a bit of popularity.

That's the beginning of a team work that'll last till the end of the school-year but can go beyond that time limit if we are all motivated not to let it die.

We'll see...

Miss Pepper ( The Pepperones' teacher of English)