The document contains personal information about several students in Portugal: Daniela Silva is a 13-year-old student who attends Inês de Castro School in Coimbra and enjoys cooking, reading, surfing the internet, and going to the cinema. Ângela Cachias is a 14-year-old student who also attends school in Coimbra and likes singing, dancing, and going to the cinema. Carolina Cunha is a 14-year-old student from Coimbra who studies English and dreams of becoming an archaeologist and traveling to help people in Africa.

1. Escola E. B. 2, 3 Inês de Castro
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École Crécy-la-Chapelle (France)
Clube Europeu
Projeto eTwinning
“Discover your City”

3. My name is Daniela. I’m 13 years old.
My hometown is Coimbra. I attend Inês de Castro School.
I like cooking and reading. I also like surfing the net and
watching TV. I love going to the cinema and watching
Portuguese films.
I would like to learn how to play badminton.
I play the piano in the music lessons.
I like pop and rock music. My favourite band is Imagine
Dragons.
I’m studying English because it’s a very important language
all over the world. I need English to search for information, to
get a good job in the future, to travel…
I don’t travel a lot but I’d like to go to Paris.
I would like to be a manager.

5. Personal Information
My name is Ângela Cachias. I´m 14 years old.
My hometown is Coimbra.
I like singing and dancing. I also like romantic and pop music.
My favourite band is “Amor Eletro” (Electro love).
I love going to the cinema and watching musical films.
I would like to learn drama.
I haven’t got any pet.
I’m studying English because it’s a very important language all
over the world. I need English to search for information, to
get a good job in the future, to travel…
I haven`t travelled a lot but I would like to go to Brazil.
I would like to be a hairdresser.

7. Carolina Cunha
European Club
October/2014

8. About me
 My name is Carolina Cunha. I’m 14 years old and I live in Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal.
 I study English because I like it - I learn very much in my classes. I need English for
studying and for any job in the future, for travelling…
 I don’t travel a lot but I would like to go to Africa in the future, to help people who need
the most.
 I don’t know what I want to be in the future, but one of my dreams is to travel to other
countries and be an archaeologist.
 I would like to practise tennis but I`m not doing it because I don’t have time (my studies
come in first place) and because it is expensive.
 My favourite food is pork and beans.
 I like pop music. I also like comedy/funny movies (I laugh a lot).
 In my free time, I like playing Minecraft with my cousin and I really learn English with
that.
 My favourite animal is the dog because it is the kindest animal I know.

9. About me
My name is Francisco Monteiro. I attend grade 8
in Inês de Castro School, in Coimbra. My hometown
is Coimbra.
I like watching comedy/funny films. Though I love
painting, I prefer playing hockey.
My favourite kind of music is rock.
My favourite food is codfish with cream in the
oven.
I would like to be a Maths teacher in the future. I
wouldn`t mind being a football coach...
I study English because I like learning new
languages and English is the language of
communication in the world.

12. Escola Básica de 2.º e 3.º Ciclos Inês de Castro
Hello! Welcome
to my School!
My name`s
Daniela Silva,
I`m 13 years
old and I am
in grade 8.
Today I`m
going to show
you my school.

13. My School and I…
 I love my School! The teachers are very helpful and
friendly. My classmates are also nice.
 It has an excellent library where we can find a wide
variety of books.
 It also has a stationary, a canteen, the staffroom, an
office, a playground…
 The caretakers are very supportive and nice, too.

14. Some photos of some exhibitions in the school
buffet.

16. The playground: my favourite
places in my school!

17. I
hope
you
like
my
school

Bye!

19. Daniela Silva, nº5, Class 8B

20.  Tentúgal is a village near Coimbra.
 We visited a bakery and pastry house there, which is called
“Pousadinha”. It was very nice to see the confection of the most
famous sweet in Tentúgal:
 “Pastel de Tentúgal”, which is a traditional small cake with monastic
origin - a confectionery recipe from convent of Our Lady of Carmo (in
Tentúgal). Its confection was already known in the nineteenth century.
 The popular features of “Pastel de Tentúgal” are the thin and flaky
pastry filled with a cream made of egg yolks.
 Only Portuguese bakeries in Tentúgal used to make this kind of little
cakes. Now it is spread all over the country.

22. Francisco Monteiro
Class 8B
Inês de Castro

23. The students who attend the European
Club, in Inês de Castro School, went on a
school trip (on 26th
November 2014 ) to
visit a factory that makes delicious cakes,
for example: the famous «Pastel de
Tentúgal», which is a traditional
conventual little cake. It’s made with a
thin flake pastry and filled with a cream
made with egg yolks. It’s delicious!

25. Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery

26. The Monastery
• The ruins of Santa Clara-a-Velha (St Clare-the-Older) Monastery are located in the
city of Coimbra, in Portugal.
• The Monastery was built in the 14th century, on the left bank of the Mondego
River, but had to be abandoned in the 17th century due to frequent floods.
• The well-preserved Gothic ruins of the Monastery were excavated in the late 20th
century, more than 300 years after being abandoned by the nuns.
In the Height of excavations

27. • I hope you have enjoyed knowing more about
the Monastery and about Coimbra!
Carolina Cunha
Coimbra, Portugal

28. “Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery”
Francisco Monteiro, Nº6 – 8.B

29. The History of “Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery”
The history of Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery begins with the
building of a Clares` House for Lady Mor Dias.
On 13 April 1283, she had a license to build the Monestery on the
left bank of Mondego River.
The Monastery was rebuilt in 1314, by the Queen “Santa Isabel de
Aragão”, wife of King D. Dinis.
In the XVII century, the Clares had to build a second floor
because of the river floods.
In 1677, the Clares left the building.
The Monastery was restored in the XX and XXI centuries.