HAVE FUN WITH ENGLISH!

5th grade    /    6th grade

2003-2004    /    2004-2005

Links to our blog

Our Class (an Australian blog)

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Nationalities Contest

Oz Quiz

For you and your parents to read

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

Have Fun with English! (8Feb05)

Comments to this presentation

Bettina's blog

Tuchodi's blog

Subject: e-Card fromSusana

(Click the image to see the animated e-Card)

Ther holidays are about starting: In a side is good: there is rest, etc, but in other side is bad because I don't see my friends and the teachers. To me the teachers are our friends, and the English teacher is one of them.

Teacher, do you like holidays?

Good Bye, teacher!

Patrícia (6. G)

Subject: Re: The holidays

Hi, Patrícia! The Easter holidays start in two weeks. Teachers and students sometimes need a rest from school.

Yes, it's nice to have holidays. I love them!    But I don't always rest. I sometimes work too much.

Of course teachers are students' friends! And I'm very happy that you look at me as a friend, Patrícia. Thank you!

Hugs from your English teacher

Teacher I'm sorry.

I like very much your site but I never go to computer. My father is always working in the computer. But today is a special day. I write an email for you.

Bye-Bye.

I'll be back.

Teresa (6.G)

Subject: sorry

Hi, Teresa!

Yes, there was no message from you for a long time (= há muito tempo)!  ;-)  Thanks!

Is it my blog or "our" blog? It's ours, isn't it? 

When your father is working at the computer, why don't you aks him to send a short email? I'm sure he will say "yes"!

Have a nice weekend!

A kiss from your English teacher

Hi teacher...

I was seeing and listening the messages in our blog.I loved it very much
I know that I am late to write you a message and I'm sorry, but I tried before
to send it to you but it was not possible.
I want also tell you that I did almost all the games and activities on the blog,
the last thing I did was "Fire Works" it was amazing...

Its nice to study like this...

Kisses and hugs

Bruno 6ºF

Subject: Re: my message for you

Hi, Bruno!

I'm glad that I finally received this message from you and that you like the
messages in the blog! There are so many this month and from so many
diffferent parts of the world!  :-)

Good for you for doing the activities. Yes, Fireworks is beautiful!

It's very nice to know that you like to study like this. You have made my
day! Thank you!  :-)

I'm going to update the blog with your message in a little while.

See you in class tomorrow at half past eight.

A big kiss from your English teacher

Hi teacher!
I'm sending oyu a message to you say at your coleague...she lives in a
beautiful city!
My favorite place is the municipal theater,because it´s big and very
interesting!!!
Goodbye!
Rodrigo

Hello kids,
I thought you might want to see what Bahía Blanca, the city where I
live, is like. Here are some photos of the city. One is the "Paseo de
las Esculturas" one of our parks.It has a long cycle path and teenagers
meet here at weekends.
The second is our Municipal theatre.
Then you have a city street, early in the morning, that is why it is a
bit dark.
The last is our main Plaza or square.

Regards from Argentina

Mrs Weser

Subject: Re: about Bahía Blanca

Dear Ale,

Thanks so much for such a nice message and the pictures. It's nice that they
know a little about other places.

I'll try upload everything tomorrow. But I'll tell them in class before
that. Whet their appetite!  ;-)

Hugs,

Teresa

Ten days ago, in class, I told Rodrigo and João Vasco about HandyBits, a very simple and easy-to-use program to record voice emails, and then send them to me and your friends in an email.    Let me explain how easy it is.

Hope this works for you! Happy recording! And don't forget to send me a message!

Hi teacher i go to blog and i see the beatiful message from your friend from
canada
give her from me many hugs and kisses and thank her for the message!

hugs and kisses from a student who likes you.

[Pedro L.]

 [from João Vasco]

Here is another message from Rita, a dear friend and colleague who visited me here in Parede last month. Read what she says about our meeting face-to-face and her visit to Portugal.

Read the comments two of my colleagues made about your class message yesterday!

Teresa,
Thanks for sharing!  I think Pedro L. did an excellent job recording
the class's message.  His voice was very clear and his pronunciation
near-perfect. Bravo!
Hugs from cold Canada,
Liana

Dear Teresa,
I have just hear your student's message. What a sweet voice!
Congrats
cris[tina]

Hi teacher!
Our blog is nicer every day.
I want to thank to your Italian coleague for her nice words.
Goodbye.  [Rodrigo]

My 6F students wrote a message for you in class this morning and then Pedro L. was chosen to record it. Click to listen to it! They heard Leanne's and Bee's messages, and saw Bee's Carnival photo taken about 10 years ago! Right, Bee??!!  ;-)

I'd also like to tell you that Rodrigo gave a very good impromptu presentation, mostly in English, for his colleagues and me about his long weekend in Madrid with his parents, sister and godparents. Congrats, Rodrigo! Way to go!

Yesterday afternoon I gave a presentation online (= fiz uma apresentação na Internet) for a group of English teachers that Mrs Dieu / Bee is working with. I told you about it in class, remember? It's about "our" work with this blog. Everybody liked it very much!

The presentation, called "Have Fun with English!", is on the Internet (link above, on the left). [It takes about 30 seconds to download.] Take a look at it and tell your parents to look at it, too. I'm sure they will like to see your teacher talk about their children's work! I'm so proud of you all! "Thank you all" for making this possible!!!  

...I heard Tere's student (Rodrigo?) in his voice message...he is an international "personaggio"!!

talk to you later
Susan in Florence

Hi teacher!
Madrid it´s a beautiful city.
But I go to tell you more on next class.
I'm so happy to tell you something of Madrid.
Goodbye.
[Rodrigo]

VImP: I will include the text a.s.a.p.

Dear Rodrigo,

Thanks for sending a voice message as soon as you arrived from Madrid.
Listen to my voice mail to you and the suggestion I make. Will you accept
it? I hope so.  :-)

Hugs,

Your English teacher

Below is a voice email from Mrs Barbara Dieu, an English teacher in São Paulo, Brazil.

She is a friend of mine and also a Webhead in Action, as I am. Listen to it very carefully. See if you can understand everything. She also sent a very cute picture and she talks about it!

Have fun!  

Hi Tere,
A hug to all the kids in your class. Here goes a    message and a photo to
include in your blog :-)
Beijinhos do Brasil,
Bee

VImP: I will include the text a.s.a.p. (as soon as possible)

Dear Bee,

Thank you!!!! What a wonderful voice message and picture of you! How very
cute! My kids will love it!
I will try to have them record a message for you and another for Leanne in
class on Thursday. It's going to be lots of fun!  :-)
I'll also try to upload everything tomorrow, because I must go to bed now.
It's been a long day!
...
Aquele abraço! Fiquei muito sensibilizada!

Teresa

What an exciting day this has been! I received 3 voice messages in my mail. One is from my colleague and friend Leanne, in Canada, and it's for you, my dear students! The other two are for me from João Vasco, in 6F. I sent him one, too!

João Vasco also sent a very nice animated song that you all know, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

Everything is below. Enjoy! I did!!!

I hope you are having a nice and fun Carnival break / holiday! Well, I'm at home, far away from all the Carnival confusion. I liked Carnival when I was your age, but I don't like it very much today. Maybe I would like Rio de Janeiro Carnaval!!! 

I have a short video to show you! It's about Piodão, a beautiful small village located in a valley (= num vale) surrounded by Serra de Açor (1.340 m), a very high mountain. It's very close to Serra da Estrela (2.000 m), the highest mountain in our country.

I went there with my husband and two sons in August 2003.

Click the picture below and then... be a little patient! It doesn't start immediately.

I'm sure you will enjoy it!

VImP: You need Windows Media Player 9 or 10!

Kids, here are the first messages to you, 6F, from colleagues of mine. "Where in the world" are these teachers?

Alejandra Weser

Hi Kids,
I am a teacher of English living in Argentina. I am doing a course with
your teacher, Tere, and she invited us to look at your work. I wanted
to tell you I think it is FANTASTIC! All your messages are really nice.
In Argentina we are starting classes in March. I will invite my students
of 6th grade to visit this page then and leave comments for you.
Congratulations and keep on having fun in English.
Mrs Weser
Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Dafne Gonzalez

Dear Tere,

I have just listened to Rodrigo's voice messages, isn't he cute? I
love them, he sounds so enthusiastic that I am sure others will
follow his lead after listening to him.

Keep it up, girl!!!!

hugs,

Daf :-)  [Venezuela]

Leanne MacKenzie

Linda Wettlaufer

Ms. Linda in Kuwait    

Teresa,

... 

I really was impressed by your teacher-student blog. Your students' posts reminded me of happy days when I was teaching children only a little older than that in Greece.  They were so open, so enthusiastic, and made me laugh every day. 

Best regards,

Linda

As an introduction and possible motivation, I told them about yesterday's blog presentation for BaW 2005 by Barbara/Bee Dieu, and also about the presentation I will give next week for Bee's Weblogging group, where I will be talking about our teacher-student blog to teachers from all the world! So... it would be very nice to have some newly-written messages.

I told them that they could write about anything they wanted and could clear any doubts they had. Believe me, there was little real help from me. They found most answers to their doubts with only very small hints from me!

It was very exciting to see how motivated they were, since they hadn't had one of these lessons in some time,  nor had many of them sent me any messages since last June.

I was very pleasantly surprised, because the messages are very cute and quite varied. But... I was in for a second surprise. In class I had told Rodrigo and João Vasco about HandyBits, voice email software that they could download very easily and send voice messages to friends. Well, when I got home around 4 pm this afternoon, I had Rodrigo's very first message in my mailbox. What a treat! But it was also very moving! I had tears in my eyes while listening to it. I must have listened about six times!

Hope you enjoy these messages from my second year EFLers (11 is the average age) as much as I have. Both the messages and Rodrigo's voice mails (a second one has arrived since I started keyboarding all these texts) have made my day!!!

Congratulations, kids! I'm very proud of you! 

P.S. - Messages to my students are very welcome, preferably in simple language that they can understand!

This is Rodrigo's "first" venture into voice mail!

Hi teacher this program is very very fun.
Listen to it.

[Rodrigo]

Subject: voice message

Hi, Rodrigo!

I now now I´m very flat but I like it!!!
It's so fun!!!
Listen to that small message!!!!
Goodbye

[Rodrigo]

I mean: Eu sei que sou "chato" mas eu gosto de lhe mandar as mensagens de
voz. [I mean: I know that I'm "a pain in the neck", but I love to send you voice messages.]
Agora a minha mãe já me explicou que "flat" é chato de "achatado" [Just now my mother explained that "flat" is a level surface.]
> Sorry about the mistake.
> Good bye.

[Rodrigo]

Subject: Hi teacher!

Dear Rodrigo,

This happens very often with bilingual dictionaries (Port-Eng, etc). It's
really not your mistake!

To be "chato", as you mean it, is to be "a pain in the neck"! You never are! :-)

You can send me all the voice and text and messages you want and I will love
each one. I love to hear your lively, happy voice, because I see your
smiling face in front of me.

I have everything in the blog page already. Have you seen it? And I told all
my coleagues in the course about it! I am very proud of you all!  :-)

I hope to see you at school tomorrow!

Hugs,

Your English teacher

Dear Tommy and Wojtek,

Our class misses you!

We want you to send us some photos of your Carnival costumes, please!

Goodbye!

Pedro G.

Hi, teacher! How are you?

We like very much the Englis classes. We learn a lot of things and it's very fun.  :-)

We're almost in Carnival, so we wish you a very good Carnival.  :-))

Goodbye!

João Filipe, Pedro L. and Jorge

Hi, teacher!!!

How are you? We are fine.

Our costume is a witch. And the teacher?

We will do many tricks.

Good Carnival!!!

Mariana D. and Verónica

My name is Hugo. I like English, but it isn't my favorite subject, my favorite subject is Ciencias [Science].

We don't talk to our friends from Poland for a long time. When do we start?

!!!!!! Carnival !!!!!!

Hi teacher!!! We are here to sepak about Carnival. Do you like Carnival? We like Carnival very much. In this year some of us will have a costume. Andreia S. will be a baby, Catarina will be a Queen, Andreia P. will a mummy [from Egypt] and Ivânia will be a Maths teacher. We love Carnival tricks. In Brasil people have differents costumes. They go to the street and stay there dancing all day.

We sen a kiss to you, and to all the teachers [meaning my BaW friends!  :-) ].

Andreias (2), Ivânia and Catarina

Hello! How are you? We have a cold. The weather had been cold, but we always come to school in warm clothes.

Carnival is at the door, next week, and we don't have to go to school. Yuuppeeee!

Do you open the door to Cranival? It's a play on words!  ;-)

Goodbye. A kiss from Ana Rita,Ana Maria and Susana

Dear teacher,

Hello. Our names are Joana and Mariana C. We like you very much, because you are very fun. And very crazy!!!  ;-)

My favorite subjects are Science and English, and Mariana's favorite subjects are the same.

In Carnival my costume will be Cleopatra and Mariana's costume will be a pirate. What will be your costume?

Kisses,

Mariana and Joana

Dear Teacher,

Hello! My name's João A. and I like very muc English. I'm eleven years old and my favorite subject is English. English is fun.

My favorite times of the year are Carnival and Christmas. That's all.

Goodbye.

The Carnival it's funny and fun. My costume is a ghost and I like very much Carnival tricks. My father's costume is a pirate and my mother's costume is a cook. My brother doesn't like Carnival, he prefer's playing the computer.

Diogo

Hello Teacher!

My name is Bernardo, I'm eleven years old and I like English.

My favorite sibject is English, Math and Cience.

I love Carnival treaks, and I love Christmas.

Goodbye, Teacher.

The Carnival it's funny and fun, my costume is a monster.

I like many Carnival tricks.

In English we studied... [I asked if they would report on this! :-) ]

The verb have got and have;

The S. Present and the 3rd person singular;

The Gerund;

The jobs;

The Present Continuous and the S. Present.

André  :-)

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