English - 7th, 8th and 9th Grades

Celebrating Affection/ Valentine's Week...

WE ARE PREPARING VALENTINE'S WEEK!!

As part of Affection Week, our classroom boards were decorated with sentences starting with “If I were an angel, I would…”. Through this activity, students practiced English while expressing kind, caring, and creative ideas inspired by the spirit of Valentine’s Week. 💗

TEN MINUTES READING

During our 10 Minutes Reading Project, students in English classes take a few minutes each lesson to read quietly and enjoy their books. These moments help build confidence, vocabulary, and a love for reading in English. The photos show our students fully immersed in their reading time.

Celebrating CHRISTMAS at Silvares school

For the Christmas English activity, the 7th, 8th and 9th grade students decorated the classroom doors with Christmas wishes written in English. Each door was colourful and creative, spreading the spirit of Christmas around the school. The decoration also included a class photo placed inside a festive frame, celebrating friendship and teamwork.

Wishing all my wonderful students a joyful and relaxing holiday break!

May this Christmas holiday time bring you the rest and joy you’ve earned throughout the first term!

Enjoy the Christmas festivities, recharge your spirits and come back refreshed!

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving is an annual holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November. It began hundreds of years ago as a harvest festival, when early settlers and Indigenous peoples gathered to share food and give thanks for a successful growing season. Over time, Thanksgiving has become a tradition focused on gratitude, community, and spending time with loved ones.

Today, families and friends celebrate by coming together for a special meal, which often includes turkey, stuffing, vegetables, and pumpkin pie. Many people also take part in activities such as watching parades, enjoying football games, or volunteering to help those in need. Although traditions vary, the heart of Thanksgiving remains the same: it is a time to reflect on the good things in our lives and to appreciate one another.

Guy Fawkes Day

Guy Fawkes Day, also called Bonfire Night, is celebrated in the United Kingdom on November 5th. It remembers the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his group tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament to protest against the king. The plot failed, and Fawkes was caught and punished. People celebrate the day by lighting bonfires, setting off fireworks, and sometimes burning an effigy (a model) of Guy Fawkes to remember the event.

🕸️ H💀ll👁ween

Halloween is celebrated on October 31st. It began as an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain, marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, when people believed that the spirits of the dead returned to visit the living. Later, it mixed with Christian traditions and became known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” which means the evening before All Saints’ Day. The word “Halloween” comes from this name—“Hallow” means holy person or saint, and “Eve” means evening. Today, Halloween is mostly a fun celebration with costumes, pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, and parties, focusing on creativity and spooky fun.

HALLOWEEN

Silvares school held a Lantern Halloween Exhibition that was full of fun and creativity. Students from 7th, 8th and 9th grades made their own bright and spooky lanterns in all shapes and sizes, like pumpkins, bats, witches and ghosts. The school hall was filled with lights, Halloween vocabulary and decorations, creating a fun and memorable celebration of imagination and teamwork.

Thanks for being so boo-tiful!.. 🧛 👻 🧟

You’re simply gourd-geous! Thanks for making Halloween so special! 🎃

Halloween at CTX

Thank you to all our students who did such a great job!!

Be scary!!

Be careful!

Vídeo Halloween.mp4

Take care!

European Day of Languages 2025

at Silvares School

Hi there!

Here we go again for a new challenge!

On a paper, answer the questions about the school and deliver them to your English teacher.

Due date 4th of April

Where is the cafeteria?
Where can you find a volleyball net?
What is the name of the school Patron?
What is the name and surname of your English Teacher?

Do you accept the challenge?

Just give it a try!!

What goes up and down stairs without moving?
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
What can you catch but not throw?
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
What gets wetter the more it dries?
The more there is, the less you see.
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.

Hello There Boys and Girls!!

Here are some Tongue Twisters that you can try and repeat.

Let's see who can learn them fast! We will find it out in classes!!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood

Try it😂

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

Christmas is coming! And Santa Claus too!

How have you behaved?

Hello fellows!

Check out this very interesting posters some Teacher Silvia's students have done!!!

GUY FAWKES DAY /BONFIRE NIGHT

Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every year on November 5th. It started in England and later spread to many other places around the world, including Canada, South Africa, and Australia. The event is also known as Bonfire Night.

Guy Fawkes Day celebrates the failure of a plot against the English government in 1605. Several people, including a man named Guy Fawkes, planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. However, the government found out about the plot before the attack could take place. The government arrested Guy Fawkes and his conspirators. This brought an end to what became known as the Gunpowder Plot.

Guy Fawkes and the others were convicted of treason. The Parliament then announced a national day of thanksgiving to celebrate their survival. The observance was set for the day the attack would have taken place, November 5. The first celebration was held on November 5, 1606.

Today, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated with feasts, bonfires, and fireworks. Straw men designed to look like Guy Fawkes, called “guys,” are often burned as well. Children often make their own guys and then take them around their neighborhoods asking for “a penny for the guy,” or a small bit of money that is supposed to help pay for the big party.

from, https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Guy-Fawkes-Day/490036