Awareness and action for environment ...eeas.europa.eu

Classes 8th year

The environment 

Vocabulary check

(Cambridge English Dictionary)

-environment: 

EARTH SCIENCE -

the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live:

We’re trying to protect the environment from pollution.

-global warming: a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbondioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space.

-acid rain: rain that contains large amounts of harmful chemicals as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil. 

-greenhouse effect: an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere (= mixture of gases of around the earth), that is believed  to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the earth.

-ozone layer: a layer of air containing ozone high above the earth that prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the earth.

-oil slick: a layer of oil that is floating over a large area of the surface of the sea, usually because an accident has caused it to escape from a ship or container.

-glacier: a large mass of ice that moves slowly.

-hurricane: a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean.

Glacier | National Geographic Societynationalgeographic.org

How Acid Rain Works | HowStuffWorksscience.howstuffworks.com

Hurricane Lorenzo: how climate change …greenpeace.org

Global Warming vs. Climate Change ...climate.nasa.gov

Computer generationsslideshare.net

Classes 9th year

Technology - Vocabulary check

(Dictionary Cambridge; Dictionary Oxford; Wikipedia )

-bleeding-edge (adj) technology : it is a category of technologies so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of them. The term bleeding edge was formed as an allusion to the similar terms "leading edge" and "cutting edge".

(Click here to find out more)

-state-of-the-art (adj): the most recent stage in the development of a product, incorporating the newest ideas and features - "a new state-of-the-art hospital".

-cutting-edge (adj): very modern and with all the newest features: cutting-edge design/technology, the newest and most advanced area of an activity.

-fifth generation: thanks to the forthcoming 5G standard, digital networks are about to get even faster. 5G is the fifth generation (thus, the "G") of mobile wireless systems, a way for devices, both mobile and stationary, to send and receive data without being plugged into a wall in your home or at the office. Fifth generation computers are in designing mode with Artificial Intelligence technology.

-high technology: High technology, or high tech (sometimes also called frontier technology or frontier tech), is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology available. The opposite of high tech is low technology, referring to simple, often traditional or mechanical technology.

-labour-saving (adj): A labour-saving device or method is one that saves a lot of effort and time.
-outdated (adj): out of date; obsolete.

-advanced (adj): having the most modern and recently developed ideas, methods, etc.; (of a course of study) at a high or difficult level.

-digital divide : it is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology, and those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone, television, personal computers and the Internet. The major cause of the digital divide is access. Although this is the major contributing factor, there are other factors that contribute which include the following: cost of technology, access for the disabled, lack of skills, lack of education, lack of information, and lower-performance computers.

The Digital Divide Concept Map ...wiki.uiowa.edu

Store Sensor Technologies ...retailnext.net

ORAL PRESENTATIONS - 2nd term
7th, 8th and 9th years

1-Escolhe uma imagem para descrever na aula (relacionada com as unidades do manual: já trabalhadas ou que estão a trabalhar). 

Envia a imagem para o mail que o(a) teu/tua professor(a) indicar.

2- Faz também uma pesquisa sobre os 4 patronos do Reino Unido: (St.Andrew, St.David, St.Patrick e St.George). Serão feitas perguntas sobre eles na aula. 

3- Revê o Simple Past dos verbos (7º e 8º anos)/ 

Revê o Simple Past dos verbos e o Past Participle (9º ano).

Nas datas que o(a) teu/tua professor(a) marcar para estas atividades de expressão oral tens que estar preparado(a):

-terás que falar sobre a imagem que escolheste, trazê-la e mostrá-la;

-terás que responder a uma pergunta sobre um dos patronos;

-terás que responder a uma pergunta sobre verbos. 

Prepara-te bem! 

Class 8th C

Contents for the test 

CONTEÚDOS/CONCEITOS	TIPOLOGIA DOS ITENS
Unit 2 “Fashion and body image.” Unit 3 “Healthy eating habits” Unit 4 “The environment” -Listening comprehension -Reading comprehension -Lexis and Grammar -fashion (clothes/accessories), body image (adjectives); food, containers, eating habits; the environment -adjectives with the suffixes; relative pronouns; countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers, verbs Do and Make -Writing	-Multiple choice; gap filling -R/W; Answering questions; Synonyms or opposites; Asking questions -Sentence/Table completion; Multiple choice; Matching Written production (around 80 words)

Classes 9th A, 9th B, 9th C

Contents for the test 

CONTEÚDOS/CONCEITOS	TIPOLOGIA DOS ITENS
Unit 2: “Heal the world.” Unit 3: “Make a difference.” Unit 4 “The evolution of technology.” -Listening comprehension -Reading comprehension -Lexis and Grammar -health problems; Volunteering, volunteer work, organisations; Technology, inventions, technological abbreviations -verb tenses; if-clauses (I and II); Idioms; verbs followed by TO+Infin. or -ING; relative pronouns -Writing	-Multiple choice; gap filling -R/W; Answering questions; Synonyms or opposites; Asking questions -Sentence/Table completion; Multiple choice; Matching written production (around 100 words)

Exames E Provas Para 2019/2020 ...comregras.com

Students from 8th year classes

Read HERE the information about "Prova de aferição de Inglês, 8º ano". 

Pay special attention to the document, please. It will help you understand this assessment. (on 9th June 2020, at 9:30 am)

Set of St Valentines day greeting cards ...vectorstock.com · In stock

14th February, 
St.Valentine's day

Love, friendship, affection, healthy relationships, non violence, RESPECT …

All we need is this and all we need to share with others is this.

"Love is respect, it is not violent."
(https://blogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/17-02-14-st-valentines-day-celebrating-healthy-relationships-challenging-violence/index.html)

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer (1900-44)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
–William Shakespeare, English playwright (1564-1616)

Click here and here and listen/watch. 
(Love of my Life, Queen)
(Woman, John Lennon)

Relative Clauses - Trek Through Englishsites.google.com

Relative clauses, 9th year

Do you want to practise and do some exercises?

Try here.