Nome: Pedro Silva Nº: 13

Turma: SD-R / SD-G

Área: Inglês - Continuação

Formadora: Maria Teresa Meliço

Mediadora: Maria Eduarda Luz

Curso: Técnico/a de Informática - Instalação e

Gestão de Redes.

Famous

Portuguese and

their professions

Actress

Fernanda Serrano was born in Lisbon

on November 15, 1973. She is a

Portuguese actress and model. She

has been a model since the age of

fifteen, and debuted as an actress in

Barcelona in 1996, participating in the

film Muere, Mi Vida. She is known as

being the protagonist in several soap

operas.

Artist

Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris

on November 8, 1971. She is a

contemporary Portuguese artist and

she is considered one of the most

striking artists of the last decade.

Having taken her degree in 1996, she

often works with sculpture and

installation. Her most famous work,

“Nectar”, belongs to the Berardo

Collection and is exhibited at the

Berardo Collection Museum, in CCB.

Athlete

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, born in

Funchal on February 5, 1985, is a Portuguese

footballer who plays as a midfielder and on

the wing at Real Madrid. Ronaldo began his

career in the Andorinha de Santo António

Football Club. He is currently one of the best

paid football players in the world. In April

2012 he was considered the most valuable

football player in the world, after a study that

attributed gains of 40 million euros annually

to the Portuguese player.

Chef

José Avillez was born in Lisbon on 24

October 1979. He is a Portuguese chef and

entrepreneur. He is one of the most

respected chefs in Portugal and was a chef at

the Tavares Restaurant from 2008 to 2011.

This restaurant was awarded a star by the

Michelin Guide in 2010. The technoemotional

type of cuisine has already made him won

several international awards, including the

Chef of the Future in 2005 by the International

Academy of Gastronomy.

Doctor

Manuel Vicente Alfredo da Costa was a

Portuguese distinguished professor and

surgeon . He was born on February 2, 1859,

in Margao (Portuguese India), but it was in

Portugal that he completed his academic

career. The recognition he received

resulted especially from his studies and

initiatives in the field of obstetrics. He died

on April 2, 1910, without having achieved his

greatest dream - the construction of a

maternity hospital. Finally, on December 5,

1932 his name was given to our still known

maternity.

Journalist

Julio Magalhães was born in Porto on

February 7, 1963. He is one of the

most recognizable faces of Portuguese

journalism. Former Director of TVI

Information, editor and anchorman of

TV news station at the weekend, he is

currently managing director of the

Porto Channel. It is also noteworthy

that he also began publishing books in

2003.

Lawyer

Antonio Marinho Pinto de Sousa was born in

Vila Cha Marão, Amarante, on September 10,

1950. Having taken a degree in Law, he began

his career as a journalist, having held

leadership roles at ANOP - Portuguese

News Agency. This lawyer was a member of

the General Council and president of the

Human Rights Commission. He delivered

several lectures, wrote articles in the

Expresso, in the Bulletin of the Bar Association,

in the Diário de Coimbra and published some

books: Faces of Justice in 2003, Dura Lex -

Portraits of Portuguese Justice in 2007, and An

Unequal Combat in 2010 .

Racing driver

Tiago Monteiro was born in Porto on 24 July

1976 and is a Portuguese famous racing

driver. He debuted in this category at the

service of the Jordan team in 2005. In 2006,

he competed with the renamed Midland F1

Racer, the Russian naturalized Canadian Alex

Schneider. In the middle of that year, the

team was sold to the Dutch company Spyker,

manufacturer of cars. In 2007, because he had

not achieved a place in a Formula 1 team, he

joined the WTCC championship by Seat

Sport, where he still races. That year, he won

his first two victories at WTCC in the 2nd

heats in Puebla and Estoril.

Scientist

Alexandre Quintanilha was born on August 9,

1945. He is an internationally renowned

Portuguese physicist and professor at the

Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar. He

took a degree in Theoretical Physics in 1968, and

a doctorate in Solid State Physics in 1972. In

1991 he was appointed director of the Centre for

Experimental Cytology and professor at the

Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, at

the University of Porto. He is also the

coordinator of the Institute of Molecular and Cell

Biology, also in Porto.

Singer

Ana Moura was born in Santarém in

September 1979. She is a Portuguese fado

singer that is internationally recognized. She

debuted with Keep my life in hand (2003), and

then released It happened (2004). She sings in

several places in the evening and became

known on television with Antonio Pinto Basto

in Fado of Portugal. She managed to achieve

the Triple Platinum for sales exceeding 55,000

units, and the remaining 120 weeks in the Top

30, Portugal.

Writer

José de Sousa Saramago was born in Golegã on

November 16, 1922 and died on June 18, 2010.

He was a Portuguese writer, screenwriter,

essayist, journalist, dramatist, novelist and poet.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

in 1998. In 1995 he also won the Camões Prize,

the most important literary prize of the

Portuguese language. Saramago was considered

responsible for the international recognition of

effective Portuguese prose. On August 24, 1985

he was awarded the grade of Commander of

the Military Order of St. James of the Sword

and on December 3, 1998 he was elevated to

the Grand Collar of the same Order.