Biggest challenge ever! DEFINITION OF MUSIC

Write your definition of music... tell me what music is (for you) or what makes you feel... It must written in English!

The best definition will win a CD and a HUGE SURPRISE!!

Dare to define music and let's ROCK on!! :)

Happy thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday in November. It is a federal holiday, so schools, banks, post offices, and government offices are closed. Thanksgiving was the first holiday celebrated in America. It was first celebrated in the autumn of 1621 when the Wampanoag Indians and the pilgrims got together for a three-day feast and festival of fun.

Today, families celebrate Thanksgiving by eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, corn, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. In 2010, Thanksgiving will be on Thursday, November 25.

New challenge!

Every week there will be posted (in our school) jokes in english or "chistes" in spanish!

Here's a joke:

Teacher: Maria please point to America on the map.
Maria: This is it.
Teacher: Well done. Now class, who found America?
Class: Maria did. 

What's the challenge?

Write a joke in English or Spanish and win this prize :) An original "Gato Fedorento" T-shirt! You can send them to me (pocenglishclub@gmail.com) until the 3rd of January. Hurry up!

Newsflash - Best summer shot Contest

We met today at 11:40 ...and the winners were: Inês Honrado and Diogo Magalhães.

Congratulations! Thanks to all participants :)

Thank you, teacher Luísa and teacher Mariana for all the help and support :)

Past Perfect Continuous

The past perfect continuous tense is used to talk about longer situations that continued up to the moment in the past we are talking about.

Past Perfect Continuous Timeline

No! IT'S EASY!!

For example:

"By the time I left Portugal we had been living Sintra in  for five years."

"Her hand was sore because she had been playing volleyball all day long."

It is also used to say how long something went on for, up to a time in the past.

For example:

"We apologised because we had kept them waiting since lunchtime."

EXERCISES:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-progressive/exercises

Present Perfect Continuous

Nice exercises:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1484

Tempo verbal formado com:

To have + particípio passado do verbo to be + verbo principal no gerúndio (-ing):

I have been doing

Indica que uma  acção ou estado iniciado no passado que se continua a desenrolar no momento presente. É comum, nesse caso, expressar também desde quando (since...) ou há quanto tempo (for...) essa acção se está a desenvolver:

It have been doing my homework since yesterday evening.

negativa:
 

Full Form		Short Form
I have not been doing		I haven't been doing
you have not been doing		you haven't been doing
he she it	has not been doing	he she it	hasn't been doing
we have not been doing		we haven't been doing
you have not been doing		you haven't been doing
they have not been doing		they haven't been doing

na interrogativa:

Full Form have I been doing? have you been doing? has he she it been doing? have we been doing? have you been doing? have they been doing?

SONG:

We must have been stone crazy
when we thought we were just friends,
'Cause I miss you, baby,
And I've got those feelings again.
I guess I'm all confused about you,

I feel so in love
Oh, baby, what can I do?
I've been thinking about you.
I've been thinking about you
I've been thinking about you
I've been thinking about you, shi-pow-pow!

Suddenly we're strangers,
I watch you walking away.
She was my one temptation,
Oh, I did not want her to stay
Deep down, I'm still confused about you

I feel so in love
Oh, baby, what can I do?
I've been thinking about you.
I've been thinking about you
I've been thinking about you
I've been thinking about you, shi-pow-pow!