Fun with English

	Highlights of this project
Launch	First message	Portugal-Poland exchange
Voice mail (Poland)	Voice mail (Portugal)	E-cards & singing
Photos Port. / Photos Poland	BaW05-students exchange	Photo story
A low-tech solution	Interactive map / Map	SitePal (voice mail with avatar)
Mystery guest	Port.-Taiwan exchange 1, 2 & 3	Flute videos
Dafne & Dennis video mails	6F & Rodrigo video mails	Voice chats
CALL Lessons 03-04		CALL Lessons 04-05

Dec03	Jan04	Feb04	Mar04	Apr04
May04	Jun04	Jul04	Aug04	Sep04
Oct04	Nov04	Dec04	Jan05	Feb05
Mar05	Apr05	May05	Jun05	Jul05
	Sep05

My presentations about our blog

A Internet na Iniciação à Língua Estrangeira: Blogs e CALL lessons (ESE Setúbal, 27Sep04)

Have Fun with English! (EVO2005 Blogging Workshop, 8Feb05)

Comments to this presentation

Bettina's blog

Tuchodi's blog

Have Fun with English! (eTwinning, 7Mar05; in Portuguese)

Have Fun with English. A blog or a plog? (APPI Conference, 21Apr05)

Blogging as a tutoring and mentoring tool in education (Tutor/Mentor Conference, 8May2005)

Happy Halloween

Hi, kids!

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and see the Halloween e-card I sent you just now. Enjoy!

Your teacher and friend.

31Oct05

Hi, kids!

Take a look at The Learning Edge site. It's a simulated newspaper with clickable articles at two different levels of difficulty, listening exercises and activities. A friend of mine just told me about it!

Improve your English while pretending you're reading a real newspaper! Enjoy!

23Oct05

Subject: Hello teacher!

Hello teacher! I'm rodrigo... do you remember me? i'm sending you a nice mail,take a look, it's very fun...put it in the blog... i hope you like... send me the answer ok? bye-bye... Good luck. Três bruxas olham para três relógios swatch. Qual bruxa olha para qual relógio swatch? E agora em inglês: Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watches which Swatch watch? Agora para especialistas: Três bruxas suecas e transsexuais olham para os botões de três relógios swatch suíços. Qual bruxa sueca transsexual olha para qual botão de qual relógio swatch suíço? E em inglês: Three Swedish switched witches watch three Swiss Swatch watch switches. Which Swedish switched witch watch which Swiss Swatch watch switch? Is it nice? ;-) Bye bye rodrigo s.

21Oct05

Subject: Re: Hello teacher!

Hi, Rodrigo!

Need I say that I will "never" forget you? You were a very special student! And I hope we will be friends forever!

I've seen you at school a few times, but I still don't know how things are going. Do you like your new class, colleagues and teachers? Which subject do you like best?

I've seen this message about the witches, but I have no idea what the answer is. Why don't you tell me??!!

BTW, I'll be updating the blog page (new address) in a few minutes with your complete message.

Well, I hope you take a look at the book I suggested, The Blue Shoe by Peter Reynolds, and tell me what you think. He has other very nice books.

Hope to see you tomorrow. I'll be in BE/CRE all morning.

Hugs from your teacher and friend

23Oct05

Subject: Re: Re: Hello teacher!

Hello teacher! Yes I like my new friends and my new teachers... my favorite subject is french... I had 96 % on the test!!! In English I had 94% ..... aren't good tests? Hugs, Rodrigo

Subject: Re: Re: Hello teacher!

Rodrigo,

Félicitations pour le 96% en Français!! Très bien!!!

And kudos to you for the 94% in the English test! You learned a lot. Guess what? A good student and a good teacher is a powerful mix!!

Are you betraying me (= atraiçoar-me)??!! Wasn't English your favorite subject?

BTW, the other day, in a chat with English teachers in a course I was co-moderating, I showed the video you sent me in the last week of school. Question they asked: "Did he learn all that in class?" "Of course, he did!" was my instant answer. They were amazed. And then I said: "He was an A student!"

Go see me at BE/CRE tomorrow, will you?

Hugs

Subject: your visit

Dear Ana Maria,

I'd like to "thank you" for visiting me at school on Tuesday afternoon. It was wonderful to see you again, talk with you and see how happy you are in your new school. And also to confirm that you are very happy here in Portugal.

It was also nice to have some of your colleagues from last year come and join us for a couple of minutes: Pedro G. and Pedro L.

Remember that little student of mine - another Pedro, from 5.D - who loved it when I asked him if I was a bit crazy in class, and he said: "Yes, a little!". Well, yesterday, after he finished his test, he asked he if could draw. Then he gave me his drawing. He said: "This is a crazy drawing, because you say you are crazy!" :-))

Say "hello" to all my ex-students at Madorna and do visit me again!

A big kiss from your English teacher and friend

Teresa Almeida d'Eça

20Oct05

Subject: Hello

It´s very funny!

I like my new school, I like the teachers, and I love my collegues!

My teachers are nice!...Very nice!

Tuesday I will try to go to school, OK? At 4.30.

Yesterday, I saw the music teacher,and the portuguese teacher.

The sunflower, is my favourite flower. Because it is always with the face to sun, I think it has the face black because the sun burn (queimou) it face.

Of corse they are enjoing English, with a great teacher like you...

See you later!

Bye!

Ana

14Oct05

Subject: Re: Hello

Ana Maria,

I'll be at school at 4:30 waiting for you. Do you have classes in the afternoon?

I'm very glad that you're enjoying everything about your new school. And... thank you for the compliment.

Nice weekend!

Hugs from your teacher and friend

Subject: [none]

Hi teacher!

I have no much time to send you messages, because I have a lot of homeworks, every days!

I was at my ex-school or the school where you teach, many days , but you never where there!

Can you «tell» me when you are available, please?I feel longing.

When you were born,you cryed(chorou)

And everyone laught.

Do your life by a manner, that when the moment reach,

You are smiling, and the oders,crying.

Tradução

Quando você nasceu, chorou

E todos à sua volta riam

Faça a sua vida de tal maneira, que quando o momento chegar,

Você está a sorrir, e os outros, choram.

I saw your comments!Congratulations!

Ana

13Oct05

Subject: Re: [none]

Dear Ana Maria,

How nice to hear from you!

How is your schoolwork going? Are you enjoying your new school, colleagues and teachers?

I have three 5th grade classes. They're very nice and I think they're enjoying English. But there is no blog yet!

I'm at school every morning from 8.30 till one 0'clock and on Tuesday afternoons till 4.30. I'm sorry to have missed you! Did you see any of your other teachers? I also miss my students and the fabulous work we did.

I like the poem that you sent (yours?) and the sunflower. Thank you!

Hope to see you soon!

Hugs from your teacher and friend

Updated on 7Nov05

Created on 28 November 2003

Teresa Almeida d'Eça

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