If you give a moose a muffin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPFVSiB5uQ

"If you give a..." series by Laura Numeroff.

Happy Easter!

The rabbits were preparing the Easter Egg Hunt... but in the end there were no eggs. Just funny colourful chickens!


And we hunted as well... and found delicious chocolate eggs in our English Club room! Happy Easter!

The April Rabbits

There was a boy called Robert.
On the first day of April he saw a rabbit.
On the fifteenth day his mom took him to the doctor because he saw more rabbits each day.
He saw more rabbits as time went by.
On the thirtieth day he didn't see any more rabbits.
That night, a hippo followed him home.

The English Club

The April Rabbits; David Cleveland; Scholastic Inc.; 1978

Froggy's First Kiss

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day?

Jonathan London; Scholastic; 1999



Will Froggy give his valentine heart to Frogilina? All the clues suggest so, but who is his true love? Read the story and find out!

Yummers Too

Yummers Too, James Marshall; Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books; 1986



A pig named Emily was settling down for a long siesta. A turtle, Eugene, arrived selling Popsicles. Emily ate three, thinking it was a gift from her friend. They cost 60 cents, but Emily hadn't got any money.
Walking by the street she found Uncle Fatty Pig and asked him for money but he hadn´t got any. Uncle Fatty suggested that Emily should help Eugene to sell Popsicles. Emily took the cart and Eugene's cap.
Her first customer was Connie but it was difficult to choose a flavour without trying them first. So they were busy tasting the popsicles and didn't notice that the car was going down the hill and crashed against Harriet's Healthy Food Shop. Harriet was mad. Emily had to pay for the damage but she didn't have money.
So Emily started to work at Harriet's, but she ate a lot of food there and Harriet decided that she couldn't stay in the shop. Emily would advertise the shop. At a corner there was a strong wind that made Emily airborne. She began to descend and down below there were two bad dogs stealing a cake.
Emily crashed on them. The bakers thanked and offered a reward. She could choose money to pay her debts or...chocolate éclairs.
Eugene was waking up when Emily arrived and she told him everything that happened. Eugene stated that the choice was difficult between the money and the éclairs. Emily agreed and offered Eugene an éclair!

Maria Inês, Rúben


Once upon a time a little pig called Emily was sleeping a good siesta. Emily heard a voice saying 'Popsicles!' Then Emily went to Eugene, a little turtle who sold popsicles. Emily didn't have money to pay the popsicles. She asked for help to her Uncle Fatty Pig but he didn't have money too. Eugene said to Emily that she could pay the popsicles working for her. The first client was her friend Connie. She stopped to talk to her friend and... BOOM. The cart fell into Healthy Harriet's shop. Harriet was very sad about that. Harriet said that Emily could pay the damage if she worked for her. Emily wasn't very good at the job so she went out to promote the shop. The wind was very strong and Emily flew away. She fell on two bad dogs who were stealing a wedding cake. The cats of the bakery wanted to pay Emily with money or éclairs. Emily went to Eugene and gave Eugene some éclairs.

Inês Dias, Inês Moura, Carolina, Filipe

Recipe: Chocolate éclairs (Pérola da Prelada)

The Gingerbread Man

We listened to the CYP Children's Books edition
Picture: "The Gingerbread Man", CYP


There was once an old couple who lived in a nice house. The old man loved gardening and the old woman loved to cook. Then she had an idea: she decided to bake a gingerbread man to offer the old man. When the cookie was almost ready, they heard a voice saying: 'Let me out! Let me out!'
They went to see what was happening and a gingerbread man jumped out of the oven and started to run across the farm.
He found a huge cow that started to run after him, she was very hungry.
He run faster.
Then, he found a horse that also started to chase him, but he managed to escape.
Later he found a fox that also wanted to eat him, but to mislead him, the fox decided to offer a ride across the lake, because the biscuit was made of flour and sugar. So the biscuit climbed to the head of the fox and when he reached the middle of the lake the fox raised its head and ate the cookie! 

The English Club Students, Sofia 6ºB

 

Recipe:         Gingerbread Man

Ingredients:    

125g butter

1/2 C sugar

1/2 t ground ginger

2 1/2 t cinnamon

1/4 C  sweetened condensed milk

1 egg

2 1/2 C flour

1 t baking powder

Cream the butter and sugar, add in the ground ginger, cinnamon, condensed milk and egg, and beat until fluffy. Sift in the baking powder and flour, and mix well to form a stiff dough. Refrigerate for 15 minutes in gladwrap. Roll out to about 5mm thickness – we do this in between 2 sheets of cooking paper.

Cut out gingerbread men and place on lined oven trays using baking paper. You’ll easily get a couple of trays of biscuits out of the mixture by rolling out the scraps again after each cutting. Bake in a 180 degree C preheated oven one tray at a time until the biscuits are light golden brown (for about 8 minutes per tray).

Decorate!

The Story of Thanksgiving

O Thanksgiving remonta a 1620 quando um grupo de ingleses partiu para a América em busca de uma nova vida. Nessa altura, a América era habitada por 'índios'. A vida na América era muito difícil: estavam longe de casa, não tinham muita comida e não sabiam muito acerca de como construir casas. Era muito difícil sobreviver aos Invernos, muitos ficavam doentes ou morriam.
Algum tempo depois, os nativos americanos decidiram ajudá-los. Eles ensinaram a cultivar comida, deram-lhes medicamentos naturais, ensinaram a construir casas e a caçar animais. 
Em 1621 esse grupo de ingleses decidiu retribuir a ajuda com um jantar especial de agradecimento. Foi assim que se iniciou a tradição do Thanksgiving. Esse primeiro jantar durou três dias! 



Recipe:     Apple Tart


Ingredients:   300gr flour
                     150gr margarine
                     100gr sugar
                     a touch of cinnamon
                     1 egg (switched)
                     1 tablespoon milk


            Filling:   6 medium apples
                         75gr raisins
                         
Method:
Steam apples and leave to cool. Crumb flour and margarine, add dry ingredients. Add liquid and mix to a stiff dough. Divide the dough ball into one third + two thirds. Roll on one third for bottom of tart, take necessary amount from two thirds to roll out tart rim. Spread raisins, plus apples on tart bottom. Roll out the remaining dough for 'lid'. Pinch edges with fingers. Brush with remaining liquid. Bake at 200º for c. 30 minutes.

Result/opinion:
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