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Ao longo do 3º período e no âmbito da disciplina de Inglês dos 11º e 12º anos de Inglês, a professora Ana Luísa Lopes, propôs aos alunos diferentes desafios de escrita, que consistiam em completar uma história, dado o início.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Once upon a time there was a young person named Red Riding Hood, who lived with her single mother on the edge of what once was a large wood, but due to deforestation, was now a small wood. Their cottage was threatened by the civil constructors, who wanted to build a huge block of a private condominium. One day her mother asked her to make a visit and take a basket made of natural straw with fresh, biological fruit, gluten free biscuits, no animal protein healthy snacks and a refillable bottle of mineral water to her hippie grandmother, before she went to her monthly spa treatment. So Red Riding Hood put on her red hoodie and her helmet and set off with her basket, riding her electric bike through the woods. On the way to Grandma’s house, Red Riding Hood met a wolf, one of the few surviving species in that place, because all the others were extinct. The endangered wolf asked her what was in her basket, ...

… and she answered that she was taking vegetable products and healthy snacks for her grandmother, who was going to her monthly spa. The wolf accompanied her to her grandmother's house, and he made her aware of the degrading situation of the forest and told her about the threat of the loggers and big businessmen to destroy it. Red Riding Hood felt sorry for the wolf and for all extinct species and took the decision to alert the responsible authorities and write a letter to prevent the construction of the private condominium. After delivering the snacks, by grandma’s advice, she took the wolf to the animal shelter, where they took care of him and gave him food. After a few days, she received a reply to her letter, and she succeeded in avoiding deforestation in that area. Since then all species of animals have been living there happily ever after.

POR Nuno Parreira

… Litle Red Riding Hood looked at the malnourished wolf in sadness, such a proud and noble creature, driven into extinction e famine, for such a petty and greedy reason. She answered that she only could lend him an apple, it wasn’t what they eat, but it was better than to eat moss. He accepted, and asked where she was going: “To my grandmother house, just south from her, she needs these non-GMO foods to make her meals”. The wolf answered that someone has been cutting the trees in mass quantities in the same location, he warned her to be careful.

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On her merry way, Little Red Riding Hood arrived at her granny`s house, she could hear the excavation and machines ever so closer to her. In a rush, she told the grandmother that the workers were throe with negotiation with the local town hall, and the deforestation was continuing. “They couldn’t do that we are citizens, just like everyone in town, this is a violation of our human rights”. Out of chaotic noise of the machinery and motors running, one howl from a wolf stopped the machinery in its tracks, running outside it was none other than the wolf. The startle workers didn’t know what to do, most just ran for their lives, it wasn’t worth their small pay check. Their boss quickly overpowered the beast and put him in a cage, and said “Not one more is going to leave my project, we will build the condominiums, even if we have to burn this entire forest, I think this one would make a fine carpet”. Out of the dead silence of the fight, the roaring sounds of sirens flourished. It was the Forestwatch, they were there to arrest the workers for working without a permit and position of an endangered animal. In the end Little Red Riding Hood lived happily ever after with her family. The wolf went even deeper in to the forest, found a female form his lost pack and his specie is no longer endangered.

POR Hugo Rodrigues

...., she looked at the wolf and the first things she noticed was how tall it was and how sharp its teeth were, he looked dangerous so she just ignored the question, sped up and kept on her way to her Grandma’s house. When she arrived, she immediately told her Grandma about the wolf she saw. Her Grandma didn’t like what she heard and so she called her neighbor who was a lumberjack and told him there was a dangerous wolf on the loose. After a while, the lumberjack grabbed his rifle and headed to the woods. On his way there the little girl started crying and shouting and tried to stop him by telling him the wolf didn’t do anything wrong to her, but it didn’t matter, there was nothing she could do to stop him now. A couple of hours went by, when the lumberjack finally spotted the wolf, he got closer to it and confronted the wolf face to face and without hesitation he shot it, the wolf collapsed to the ground, drew its last breath and asked: -Why? The little girl started crying even more when she heard the shot, blaming herself for what happened, she grabbed her bike and got as far away from her Grandma’s house as possible. When she arrived home, she ran into her bedroom, locked the door and lied on her bed, she realized how cruel and reckless humans are, she realized they don’t care about their actions, that they only care about themselves and so she promised herself to be different from them, to be better.

POR Tiago Malveiro

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… and she described all of it, which made the wolf very curious, since he had never heard nothing like that before. They continued to walk through the forest always talking about the most recent news about sustainability and Red Riding Hood even told to the wolf about the fact that her house may be destroyed. She quickly realised that he wasn’t a thread and so they went together to her grandmother’s house. By then, the wolf was extremely impressed by her modern mindset and lifestyle. She was genuinely concerned about the environment just like Red Riding Hood and really believed in a simple and minimalistic way of living. She just had the very essentials in food or furniture. After the mutual presentations, they all sat to eat all the delicious things that Red Riding Hood had brought. They stayed there for hours. The wolf learned lots of things that made him appreciate the fact that he was alive and wasn’t as affected as his friends due to deforestation and Red Riding Hood realised that she could be in a much worse situation than she actually was. After all, they all learned to value what they have and actually need, instead of what they want.

POR Ana Carolina Vieira

Choose an animal and a special feature/characteristic/habit it has ..... Be creative and write a story about why/how that animal got that feature, (Use your imagination).

THE BLOBFISH TALE

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful fish that lived in the most expensive coral reefs. The other creatures called him Bobfish and he was known to be the most gorgeous fish in the world, however, he was also very selfish and overly picky. One day he was swimming to the club and bumped into a dazed and confused electric eel and got shocked. The eel immediately apologized and asked if he needed help, but Bobfish became really angry and started to fight with the eel and calling her everything he knew. In the middle of the fight, the eel warned him to stop hitting her or she would shock him for real. He didn`t listen and suddenly everything turned white. A few seconds later, once he could open his eyes, the eel wasn’t there. He was swimming home and noticed that everyone was looking at him with scared faces. He passed by in front of a store window and he couldn`t believe what happened. It was the ugliest thing he had ever seen. And that´s how, the most beautiful fish became the world´s ugliest one, the other creatures started to call him Blobfish.

POR Bernardo Encarnação

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Choose an animal and a special feature/characteristic/habit it has ..... Be creative and write a story about why/how that animal got that feature, (Use your imagination).

THE BLOBFISH TALE

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful fish that lived in the most expensive coral reefs. The other creatures called him Bobfish and he was known to be the most gorgeous fish in the world, however, he was also very selfish and overly picky. One day he was swimming to the club and bumped into a dazed and confused electric eel and got shocked. The eel immediately apologized and asked if he needed help, but Bobfish became really angry and started to fight with the eel and calling her everything he knew. In the middle of the fight, the eel warned him to stop hitting her or she would shock him for real. He didn`t listen and suddenly everything turned white. A few seconds later, once he could open his eyes, the eel wasn’t there. He was swimming home and noticed that everyone was looking at him with scared faces. He passed by in front of a store window and he couldn`t believe what happened. It was the ugliest thing he had ever seen. And that´s how, the most beautiful fish became the world´s ugliest one, the other creatures started to call him Blobfish.

POR Bernardo Encarnação

ANOTHER KIND OF LEGEND

God Malala was responsible for creating all animals, plants, stones, rivers ... he was the God who created all life, all the beautiful nature. It was a beautiful winter morning and Malala was inspired to create the wolf. In nature there was already snow, so the grey and white tones ran through his imagination. When he was in the creative process, he would imagine all kinds of color combinations ... that's how the northern lights were created! He felt that the wolf was going to be an agile and powerful creature in his habitat, he created his majestic fur that would protect him from the winter weather, gave him ears that allow him to hear from many kilometers away, the paws were graceful and fast which made him run faster than any other animal in the forest and his nose allowed him to smell all the scents that surrounded him. For seconds Malala thought ... what if the wolf had two legs? At that very moment the monkey arrived. He wanted to evolve... he wanted to walk upright in order to be faster, lose his tail and have a smaller jaw. Malala found all these ideas very advanced, it seemed dangerous to create such an evolved and independent species... his instinct was not good! In the middle of these ideas he went back to the creation of the wolf. To his despair the wolf started to run, all his characteristics made him a born hunter and ended up chasing the rabbit. Then he thought of attributing all the characteristics that the monkey asked for, but with one condition! His whole process would be slow, he would have to prove himself worthy of being such a beautiful and advanced creature in the middle of all the nature that Malala had already created. And so, it happened! For years, in his work, Malala wondered what he would call the wolf if he had two legs? Wolf Man? Human Wolf? Werewolf? ... Oh no! That is another kind of legend!

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A MULTICULTURAL WORLD: MULTICULTURALISM AND DIVERSITY

What do you know about other people and their culture? Add some sentences expressing your idea of a Perfect World.

A Perfect World is where …

Racism doesn´t exist, where homophobia doesn´t exist and people live in peace with the others, without judging or having any prejudice. The food is Italian, when pasta is the main dish, like pizza, carbonara, lasagne and many other things. The workers are German, when they know a lot about cars, machines, and technology. Education in Germany is strict and that is good to prepare students for the future, because of this, Germany is a very developed country. The police are British, when they are always eating a donut, I know this is a joke. British police are well prepared for difficult missions. I think they are the best trained cops in Europe for any mission. The lovers are French, because France is the most romantic country in world, specially Paris, the capital of love. French people are always giving flowers, they are always very fragrant, that is what I see in movies. The party is Spanish, like in Ibiza and in all Spanish islands, because many people in the world go to Spain to celebrate, to go to parties… And in Sevilla there are the famous dancing girls (Sevillanas), who are an important part of the Spanish culture. The Portuguese culture is the most charming culture in Europe or even in the world, but I´m Portuguese, so it is relative. Our food is one of the best in world, this is said by the best world chefs. We have the best seacoast in the world, and we are a small country, but we have the best sports players, the best scientists, and many other good things.

POR André Vieira

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A Perfect World is where …

The Food is Italian The Workers are German The Police are British The Lovers are French The Party is Spanish …………. The Movie Stars are American The Beach is Portuguese The Coldness is Canadian The Pandas are Chinese The Hats are Mexican The Codfish is Norwegian

Reggae is Jamaican Carnival is Brazilian The Kangaroos are Australian The Chocolate is Swiss The Tango is Argentine The Deserts are African The Buildings are Arab The Ballet is Russian

RACISM, XENOPHOBIA and HOMOPHOBIA DO NOT EXIST

Where WE ARE ALL THE SAME!

POR Sofia Gaudêncio

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GOLDILOCKS Once upon a time in a thick wood, lived a traditional nuclear family of bears –a Papa Bear, a Mama Bear, and a Baby Bear. They lived deep, deep in the woods in a lovely little cottage made of ecofriendly materials with solar panels near a still non-polluted river. They did their best to preserve their environment, they recycled, only used natural products, ate berries, …

… One morning they sat down to have breakfast. As they believed in sharing tasks and responsibilities, that day was Papa Bear’s turn to prepare the meals. So, Papa Bear prepared three big bowls of all -natural gluten free porridge with red berries for them to eat and freshly made detox tea for them to drink. But the porridge and the tea were too hot. So, they left their bowls to cool and took a walk to visit their neighbors and ask them if they needed any help, because they believe in living in a friendly community. After the bears left, a young woman emerged from the bushes and got into the cottage. Her name was Goldilocks and she had been watching the bears for days. She was from another wood where the life habits were completely different from the bears’. She was taking a walk one day and found a path that led her to that wood, and she was interested in founding out what was there, so she followed it. Goldilocks was very shocked, because in her wood they were not ecofriendly and they used a lot of plastic and products that are bad for the planet, she was also used to eat only fast food and drink sodas. When she came back home and told everyone about that new place, but nobody believed her, so she knew that she had to get some proof. Her plan was to wait to catch the bears out of guard and steal their food. When they left their cottage, she saw an opportunity and she entered their house and stole their porridge and their tea. When Goldilocks came back home and showed everyone that food, they finally believed her and she was happy, because she wanted to change their habits and she knew that if everyone believed her it would be easier. However, she was a good person, so she wanted to return the things she had stolen and she came back to the Bears’ house, thinking that they weren’t home, but they were hiding to see if the thief would return, and she did. She was really frightened, because Papa Bear was really big and he looked very mad at her, so she thought that they might eat her alive, but they didn’t. They just asked for an explanation and she told them that she just wanted to make her neighbors see that there are other ways to live. The bears were really understanding and told her to bring everyone to their place in the next day. She did, and they got to talk, and the bears taught them a lot of new things like how to build solar panels, how to cook healthy food and to live without needing any plastic. And they also taught them how to plant vegetables without any pesticides and chemicals, so they could have biological vegetables that don’t harm their health and wellbeing, and by doing that they could also reduce their fast food habits. At the end of the day they were all friends and started to hang out more and learning more about each other’s habits and traditions. POR Alice Duarte

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LETTER FROM THE QUARANTINE TIME

Write a letter to your future grandchildren telling them about this pandemic situation and your quarantine experience.

I’m Sorry

(Warning, this story may be a bit morbid) Well, how do I begin this, first of all, I’ll introduce myself, not even a casual or formal introduction, just small little facts about me that I point out to whoever is reading this, through a piece of paper ... Throughout the years, I’ve been... a “lazy dreamer”. I had a handful of abilities that I could use and develop to build my future, but I didn’t feel like doing any of that, I just sat in front of a dull, empty, computer screen and texted, played, watched videos, posted memes on social media and so on. My definition of socializing was somewhat disrupted and... Wrong. I wasted most of my time in front of the computer screen instead of going out, enjoying the view and the wonders of the world. I’ve never partaken in any activities outside my house. I stayed home “24/7” as we used to say back in those days. That led to my current reality, that is, the one I'm writing this letter in. I’m currently unemployed, living alone in a cold, empty apartment. My last job was at a small hotdog stand, where I sold hotdogs on the streets, it wasn’t even my stand, I was working for somebody else. The salary was... Bad, the schedule, even worse. Plus, the world doesn’t feel like the same anymore, it was way better a few years back, around 2018 and 2019, but that has changed. Now we find ourselves in 2060, and everything is different. The economy never recovered from a monstrous pandemic that started back in 2020, what our world leaders deemed to be the peak of it, was simply the beginning. We ended up losing 30% of the world’s population. I felt, and feel, sad, broken, shattered inside. How something that could be solved by simply following instructions, easy, simple, instructions had developed to become humanity’s greatest enemy. People ignored the warnings, they ignored the instructions, they ignored the advice. Everyone seemed to just enjoy leaving their house all the time, going to the beach, going to the supermarket two, even three times a day. None of it was necessary, but it happened. Now I understand that the world we live in is big enough to satisfy our need... but not our greed. Moving on, I spent my days roaming around the streets, the empty, cold, fear engulfed streets, as I was looking for a job, I was desperate. I had no one to turn to in my family, they were long gone, sadly. Before the pandemic, my life was great, I was 16, I had plenty of friends, I had a normal, healthy, life. I miss all of it, the moment it changed. I was already scared to leave high school, due to the fear of never seeing my friends again, but now I realize, I’d rather have to go through that than having to go through my current situation. If anyone related to me, if anyone at all, sees this letter, please read this last part. Heck, I don’t know if there will be anyone living on Earth by the time, they read this, but I’m sorry. I’m apologizing in the behalf of humanity, we ruined planet Earth, our planet, our home. And I’m sorry.

POR Eduardo Freitas

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Hi, kids! You are probably familiar with the situation I am in, the COVID-19 pandemic, since pandemics are a common part of the human history and it’s likely that you’ve talked about this at school. While we know this is something that has happened to Humanity several times, it’s still weird to experience it by ourselves. Fortunately, I’ve been feeling alright throughout this whole thing! While it can be extremely scary, especially worrying about my grandparents, I’ve been taking all precautions and I’ve been careful about everything, so I feel safe. I’m not someone who gets bored easily, so I’ve been doing alright to keep myself entertained. My priority is to study since I have extremely important exams by the end of my school year. Of course, I’m taking this opportunity to rest too! I’m all caught up on my favorite tv shows and I’ve already seen tons of films! I have finally finished the book I’ve been wanting to read for so long. I have also been playing a lot of video games on my Nintendo so, considering everything, it has been nice. A lot of things have changed in my life. I can’t go outside whenever I feel like it, I can’t visit my grandparents, hang out with my friends and I can’t go to the cinema to watch a film. If I want to buy something, I have to order it online and wait days until I can open it. While this is all weird and extremely scary, there are a lot of things that can be comforting. Since everyone is in the same situation, being on social media can be fun. People have been making a lot of creative jokes and art, since everyone is just trying to cope with this pandemic. I hope I can get back to my normal life soon, I miss everyone and everything. Hopefully, you’ll never find yourselves in this situation but if you do, just keep calm and alert, not anxious. I also hope you enjoyed this letter, it’s nice to share this experience with you!

Thank you for reading, Inês Batista.

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DAY 90 OF QUARANTINE

The government finally said that we could start going out to the streets, seeing each other with some precautions, it seems like our lives are getting back to normal. But right now, I don't even know the definition of “normal”, for real, after being closed at home for ninety days without seeing my dear friends, without playing football….and only leaving my house just for a couple hours per week to do some physical exercises. In my head, ninety days after the beginning of quarantine, I still don't know how this pandemic started. Natural Mutation? Created in Lab? A simple Chinese man that ate a bat with this disease? I really can’t find a reason for this, but my only job is to stay at home and stay safe, so I'm leaving that to the professionals. When all this started, and the first time I heard about this pandemic disease, I wouldn't imagine that it would be like it actually was, but I think that it made me grow as person and as man. All the “small” things that I didn't care much about, today I look at them from a completely different way: The taste of freedom, all the schoolwork, saying “Hello” or “Good morning” to my colleagues and to the school staff… Having “the ball at my feet”…That was the worst part, but it showed that people in general, in difficult times, can do the right thing to help, and if we overcome this, we can thank to all the professionals of health care, but also to all the people who stayed at home as well. Starting from today, I will look at my “normal routine” in a different way, appreciating all the things I can do, because I can't live without my busy life. POR Marco Espada

Dear future grandchildren, You probably weren't expecting to read this message, but I'm your future grandfather and I'm writing you this letter while I'm quarantined due to covid-19, a new virus that has already killed many people in the world. We have food and everything we need to "survive" here in my grandparents' house, which is where I am, because my mother is a nurse and living in the same house with her is a risk for me and my brother. At first it was difficult to adapt to this life, but, after a month here, I got used to it and I feel good. I spend my days playing some videogames, doing school stuff and sometimes I go to the street just to run or walk. It is hard to be this long without seeing our friends or being able to be with the rest of the family, but for now that's how it has to be. What costs me most is not being able to play football, which is what makes me happy and is a good distraction, when not everything in my life is going well. I hope to be able to return to the pitch very soon. So goodbye, Grandpa Rodrigo Dias

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Grândola, 23rd April 2020

Hi there! I am writing this letter so I can share with you the way I feel during these different times. Today’s Thursday, but I don´t really know anymore what that is. It could perfectly be Saturday, that I wouldn’t feel any difference. The good thing about not feeling the weekdays the same way as I did before, is that Mondays now feel so sweet as a pancake syrup, which is actually what I eat on Mondays breakfast… but I wouldn’t mind to abstain of that, just to go back to the morning rush that used to make me feel alive. Nothing feels like the way it did before. I miss all my friends, and they say they miss me too. It’s a very difficult task having to deal with this new kind of sensations: It’s not about being alone anymore, it’s about the loneliness that involves us. At the beginning of the pandemic, when we were told to stay at home so we could be safe, it felt like a challenge. I was ready for that! I wanted to do the best that I could, just by doing my part, the easiest part: staying inside. I thought that, if we all could see this situation from that point of view, it would all be easier to overcome, and this would be gone much sooner. But, as times change, our mind and thoughts do to. Now it doesn’t feel like a challenge anymore. It feels like a prison. With only seventeen, they say we have all our life in front of us, and we should do everything we can to overcome any obstacle that appears in our way. That is pretty much impossible to do since we can do nothing about our life right now. These are important times of change, for everyone, in every single part of the world. No one can escape this, and with this I’m not referring to the virus itself, but to its consequences, some of them devastating, in an economic way, for example, some other actually good, in environmental terms, since all the factory workers are confined to be at home, for example. Another less bad way to see this situation, is thinking about all the good things we can learn with ourselves. We now have time to listen to our hearts and our thoughts as the first thing we do in the morning, by not feeling the rush to find something to dress, because I don’t have anywhere to go yet. Staying at home, for me, it’s not just protecting my body from the virus. It is also giving me the opportunity to educate my mind and control my thoughts in these hard times of missing other people. I’m learning to live with me. Wishing you the best greetings and hugs,

Maria Borges

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Well, this is not really an easy situation to live nowadays, especially at our age, when we are highly active in terms of friends and physically in our sports that we love to play so much. It all started in China with a supposed bat that a certain person ingested and gave rise to the corona virus, more specifically covid-19 (in my opinion that is not what happened, but continuing), which at the beginning practically nobody gave great importance to. The majority devalued the situation and devalued it in such a way, that we got to the point of having to stay indoors for two months in a row without being able to contact anyone other than the people we live with. After being quarantined and a state of emergency declared, everyone started to comply with the rules that should be taken, which helped us to fight this virus much more effectively, with Portugal being spoken around the world for the quality and effectiveness of its health professionals in the treatment of this covid-19. With the appearance of this virus, in spite of many bad things, there were things that improved on planet Earth, such as the decrease of pollution and the decrease of ice melting at the North and South poles and even the decrease of the intense destruction of the ozone layer, that it is essential for us to filter the sunrays, so that they are not harmful to us. I think that with this virus, future generations will have a better future, because nowadays people were already somewhat out of control, in such a way that they didn't even think about the very planet where they live. So I think that my children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, who I hope I will have the opportunity to see grow, will have a healthier life, with less pollution and a more careful population with what concerns planet Earth, because we are the ones who make our planet. And this may only have been an alert for a greater good. It is really bad that there are so many deaths, but the truth is that it owes much to the way society, in general, reacted in the beginning of this pandemic. With this, I want to summarize that we can see a much brighter future for the lucky ones, who will be born in the future and for us who will be here to confirm that.

Tiago Pereira