Centro Britânico's Corner

A place for Centro Britânico's students and teachers to meet.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mother´s Day Messages


Euridice Fernandes - Teens 1

You are the best mother in the world. It doesn´t matter if you are blond or
have brown hair, but you are fantastic and your choices are the same as
mine. We like to go swimming and to play handball. You are kind and helpful
and this makes you a special person.


Rodrigo Grillo Illipranti - Starter 4

My mother is of average height, She has shoulder-length brown hair. She is
cool and sometimes she gets angry but it is necessary. You are very cool and
that´s why I love you so much. You are the light in the end of the tunnel.
Happy Mother´s Day!!! I love you although I disrespect you sometimes!

Andressa Amaral - Starter 3

My mother is elegant, She´s 35 years old. She has shoulder-length ,
curly brown hair and brown eyes. She likes doing physical exercises and
walking. My mother is very dedicated, important and special for me. I love
my mother.

Isabella Esposito - Progress 3

When the teacher asked me to write a text about my mother, at first, I
thought it was difficult because my mother is a housewife and lives for me
and my sister. But suddenly I realized that the important thing isn´t if she
works or not...the important thing is that she´s a good mother for us.
She´s a special mother. She isn´t the kind that argues, She talks; She isn´t
the kind that judges, She explains; She isn´t the kind that laughs, She
makes me laugh; She isn´t the kind that doesn´t believe, She trusts...and
last but not least, She ins´t the kind that is just a mom...She´s my
friend!!!


Teacher Anna
Centro Britânico
Lapa Branch

Friday, June 22, 2007

Hi!

My name is Giovana, I'm 11 years old. I have dark brown hair and dark brown eyes! I'm from São Paulo, SP.
I study at Centro Britânico- City Lapa I'm in starter 1. My teacher is Gabi, I study with Daniel.

I live on Carlos Weber St. I study at "Colégio das Américas". I love using the computer! My favorite color is green. My favorite team is Palmeiras!!!I love Palmeiras! My favorite sport is Handball. I hate volleyball.

See you in Starter 2!...

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

São Paulo

São Paulo was founded by Jesuits in 1554, as a small village, and it was inhabbited by Indians. The place was chosen because of the two rivers: “Tamanduateí” and “Anhangabaú”. It was the headquarters from where the expeditions left to catch Indians and find precious minerals, and it only developed at the end of the 19th century, when imigrants from many parts of the world came to the city to restart their lives.





Since then, São Paulo has been an international city, the third largest one in the world. Besides that, the city is the third biggest Italian city in the world, the biggest Japanese city out of Japan, the biggest Portuguese city out of Portugal, the biggest Spanish city out of Spain and the third biggest Libanese city out of Liban. Around 40% of the most important national companies have their main office there and around 60% of the international groups are installed there, too.São Paulo is responsible for 18% of the national GDP (GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT).
The city is richer than New Zealand, Ireland, Chile, Venezuela and Peru. It is the most important financial center in Brazil and the address of 10.2 million people. It is a famous business target and the city receives more than 7,000 events per year, attracting over 4 million visitors.
The city offers visitors two airports: “Guarulhos”, the international airport, a little bit away from downtown and the national airport “Congonhas”, which is the busiest one in Latin America. Apart from the airports, São Paulo has one of the most modern subway systems with around 60km. It is clean, safe and easy to use.
This metropolis also offers, the best medical center of Latin America where we can find the largest health complex called “Hospital das Clínicas”.
Besides the fame, São Paulo is not only work, but there are more than 500 cinema rooms spread all over the city as well as over 120 theaters, 71 museums and 11 cultural centers. Some known cultural centers are: “MASP” (São Paulo Museum of Art), “MAM” (Modern Art Museum) and “OCA”, where we have exhibitions. São Paulo is the World Capital of Gastronomy and because of that the food is cosmopolitan, so you can eat anything you want, at anytime, anywhere and at any price.
This huge city is a lovely place to be visited with friendly warm people all around and where you will certainly feel at home.
Project from
Camila Gasparetto Barazetti
Juliana Buono Francoso
Marcelo A. Camarotto
Pablo Lorenzon Coutinho
Fluency
Teacher Maria Silvia
Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch
SPORTS
Your lifestyle can influence your health and sports is the best activity for your life.

The most important events:




























The games have always brought people together in peace to respect universal moral principles.

The Pan American Games began to be prepared for the Olympic Games.This way, intentionally, their organizers decided to mark their periodicity each four years as soon as The Olympic Games.
The IOC guarantees the promotion of Olympism and the smooth running of the Games in accordance with the Olympic Charter. Discover in detail the structures, missions and financing of this prominent institution.

The Olympic Movement includes the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs), the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), the International Federations (IFs), the national associations, clubs and, of course, the athletes.

The current Games programme includes 35 sports and nearly 400 events.
For example:

- Boxing
- Cycling
- Karate
- Tae-kwon-do
- Soccer
- Gymnastics
- Swimming
- Handball
- Volleyball


We will talk more about the last two sports:

Handball is an Olympic sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.The game is quite fast and includes body and contact as the defenders try to stop the attackers from approaching the goal. Only frontal contact by the defenders is allowed; when a defender stops an attacker with his or her arms instead of his or her torso, the play is stopped and restarted from the spot of the infraction or on the nine-meter line, with the attacking team in possession. These are some rules of the handball game.
Volleyball is a Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or rarely other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net.There are six players on the court at all times.Three in the front and three in the back. Each team is allowed three hits to get the ball over the net to the other team. A point is scored if the ball hits the ground in the opponents´ court, if the opponents commit a fault, or if the opponents fail to return the ball properly.
Project from
Bruna Cadacci Monteiro
Ligia Zanetti Fleury da Silveira
Marcelo Gaspar Buso
Vanessa Gisele dos Santos
Steps 6
Teacher Maria Silvia
Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch
BRAZILIAN FOOD


In Brazil there are around 180 million people, and its registered trademark is a race mixture. The Brazilian cooking has the same influence from this race mixture. Brazil exports mainly coffee, cocoa, soy, orange and chicken.

In the Amazonian region, fish is the main dish. There are around two thousand kinds of fish.
The meat of the region brings the most dishes variety: the green gravy chicken, the “tutu” food, made with stewed beans and cassava flour, cabbage and other region specialties such as turtle soup, coconut beans, and “açai” fruit dink.

In the Northeastern region the African mark is strong, specially in Bahia, where we find dishes such as “vatapá”, “caruru”, “acarajé”(beans fried) and “bobó” (beans and manioc) all made with palm oil, coconut milk and chilly, some of dry meat with pumpkin with cassava flour.
In the west of the country, the main dishes are fresh water fishes, “golden fish” and “pacu”, wild animals, “caititu”, partridges and fried alligators.

In the Southwest, the food has the Portuguese influence plus Italian, Japanese and Arabian people’s influence. With the typical food from them, we have couscous, “tropeiro” beans, haunch “à mineira”, piglet “à pururuca” and “feijoada”, the main Brazilian dish.

The “Feijoada” is the most popular dish in Brazil. It’s the result of the merger of the European food customs and the African slave creativity. It originated in the XVII century with the slaves, who took the leftovers of the ‘Big House’. At that time, the food of the slaves was composed of the corn flour, beans and salt. So, the beans mixed with bread flour, before being served, turned to be the main dish of that period. Soon after, it was added meat, derived from the Portuguese cooking, dishes composed of different types of meat and vegetables, cooked all together with the beans, pork fat and flour. The ‘feijoada’ was ‘created’! It is appreciated by all the social classes in all periods of the year (principally on Wednesdays and Saturdays). The ingredients of the complete ‘feijoada’ are: cooked black beans, a mixture of pork meat (ears, tail, feet, etc.), cow meat and sausage. It’s usually eaten with spring greens sautéed with garlic along with white rise, bread flour, pepper dip with cassava flour orange piece and chilly.

São Paulo city is known to have foods from all over the world, you can find all types of domestic and international cooking.

The south region has influence from Argentina and Uruguay because they are near to it and the immigration from German, Italian and Polish people, too. The main dish is the barbecue and “arroz-de-carreteiro”(a kind of rice) , fish and shrimp in the Santa Catarina State.

If you come to Brazil, I believe you will enjoy the Brazilian food.



“Brazilian Food”
Project from
José Paulo Bernardo
Douglas Ramos Scotton
Daniela Eiko Nakazaki
Steps 6
Teacher Maria Silvia

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch
Hello, guys!

Check this out! Teacher Fátima published some of her
students' projects on a very cool international site about
postcards from around the world:

http://www.globaldreamers.org/postcards/brazil/index.html

These projects below are the postcards the students published!
Congrats for all the students that took part in it!






How am I today?


Project made with playing dough using adjectives.


From Raul and Rafael
Kids 6

Teacher Fátima

Centro Britânico
Perdizes Branch

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Animals, animals, animals...




Project from
Arthur, Tomáz, Lara, André, Gabriel and Willian
Junior 4
Teacher Debora
Centro Britânico
Vila Madalena Branch
"The things people can do..."




















Project from
Julia De Bei, Juliana Nascimento,
Lucas de Almeida Prado, Lucas Pereira and Carolina Althman
Junior 2
Teacher Debora
Centro Britânico
Lapa Branch
Space Travel
by Ana Carolina, Stela and Paula.







Project from
Teens 3
Teacher Debora
Centro Britânico
Colégio Angélica
Space Travel
by Alessandra and Luiza




Project from
Teens 3
Teacher Debora
Centro Britânico
Colégio Angélica

Friday, June 15, 2007

Meet the Family of the Future







From the Junior 1 group:
Camila, Bruna, Isabella, Thiago e Luisa
Teacher Fernanda O.

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Hello, guys!
Progress Check II is here!






Tests are coming!
Are you all ready?
Be sure to come to the review classes and study!



Have a nice test day!



Monday, June 04, 2007





Pictures from Kid Koala's trip to Brazil



































Project from
Julia Naccarato
Ana Lia Barbosa Lemos
Felipa Gobbi Gonçalves
Vitor Francisco dos Santos

Junior 1
Teacher Bia

Centro Britânico
Perdizes Branch
The Kid Koala Project
From Australia




































Kid Koala came to Brazil and the guys from
teacher Bia's groups showed him a good time!

He visited different places, met interesting people,
did some sightseeing... it was great!


Check out the pictures!





Project from
Giulia Canato de Moraes Gomes

Lucas Santana
Camila de Almeida Oliveira
Danielly Massola
Fernanda Jampolsky Stufi
Junior 1

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch



Animals
Unit 8 - Extreme Experiences




Project from
Teens 3
Teacher Fernanda M.
Centro Britânico
Colégio Santa Marcelina

Animals
Unit 8 - Extreme Experiences



Project from
Teens 3
Teacher Fernanda M.

Centro Britânico
Colégio Santa Marcelina
Wild Animals


















Unit 8 - Extreme Experiences
Comparing Animals


Project from
Igor Chen Wu
Teens 3
Teacher Fernanda M.

Centro Britânico
Perdizes Branch
Wild Animals


















Unit 8 - Extreme Experiences
Comparing animals


Project from
Luisa Grosso e Silva
Teens 3
Teacher Fernanda M.

Centro Britânico
Perdizes Branch