I miss you

by Judit Jekkel

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I Miss You

(Dam Dubi Dam)

Watch the video and do the following exercises.

Write in the missing words in the Chorus. The images may help.

Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I miss you like the 
Are missing the 
Oh nane nane Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
Oh  is here and now you’re gone (now you’re gone)
Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I miss you like the first time
I like   the song
Oh nane nane Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I need you more than anyone
Unscramble the following lines.

 I live my dreams and some lies are true

 And in your arms, I’m feeling so excited

 Oh hand in hand, I’ll go with you

 Till eternity – can’t get enough

 And every thing reminds me, of your love, boy

 Oh stay with me – I need your love

 You’re the one for me

 You’re the one for me

Chorus:
Dam Dubi Dam
Dam Dubi Dam

Choose the correct words.

Please talk to me, don’t liveleafleavelife this way
Oh can’t you seaseeseemshe, what words can’t say
Oh in my dreamsteamstrimstears I’ll tell you secret storeysstorysstories
You’re the one for me
We had it all, don’t let it andendlandlend
Oh you can’t win, with a loosinglosinglooseingloseing hand
Can’t put my armarmsharmharms around a memory, boy
You’re the one for me

Write in the missing words.

Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I miss you like the 
Are missing the sun
Oh nane nane Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
Oh love is  and now you’re  (now you’re gone)
nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane
nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane
nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane nane
I need you more  anyone

Write in the missing vowels.

Dubi Dam
I miss the sun
Dam Dubi Dam
Dubi Dam
I miss you like the sn

Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I miss you like the flwrs
Are mssng  the sun
Oh nane nane Dam dubi Dam Dubi Dam
Oh love is here  and now you’re gn
Dubi Dam

Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I miss the sun
I mss  you like the sun
I miss vr  like here the sun
Dam Dubi Dam Dubi Dam
I need you mr  than nyn
Dam Dam Dam Dubi Dam

Barbados

Language Level: Basic

Standar Accent: British

Source: Speak Up

BARBADOS!

Barbados is the perfect destination for a winter Holiday with its golden beaches, relaxed resorts and friendly people. Barbados is a part of the West Indian archipelago and, while its rocky, eastern coast faces the wild Atlantic Ocean, the Southern and Western coasts offer sheltered beaches, transparent water and average temperatures of 28º centigrade. Each year thousands of tourists arrive at the island’s international airport, near the capital Bridgetown.

LITTLE ENGLAND

The island is nicknamed “Little England” and is a wonderful mixture of English tradition and African spice. Here you can enjoy exotic dishes such as spicy pork stews and flying fish, alongside the typically English baked beans on toast. The official language is English, although Barbarians, or “Bajans,” also speak a Creole dialect which uses English words with African grammatical structures. Visitors will be surprised to find Bridgetown’s Trafalgar Square and its imposing statue of Lord Nelson. Places names are also strangely familiar. There’s a stretch of rocky coastline called Scotland, while there are resorts with names like Brighton, Worthingt  and Hasting.

RUN AND FUN

Visitors can tour the island’s many historic sites, visit pirate caves and enjoy short cruises around the island. The more adventurous can take a submarine tour and see the island’s incredible coral fauna. There are bus services to most places, or visitors can rent a car or motorcycle. Drivers should avoid another of the island’s attractions: Bajan rum – through a visit to a distillery, such as Mount Gay, not far from Bridgetown, is recommended. Finally, as the sun sets, everyone goes to the colourful rum shops, The Barbarian equivalent of the English pub, to enjoy a pleasant evening among friends.

Curiosities (no audio available)

Island Culture

Amerindians, the first  people to inhabit the island, travelled from Venezuela in canoes around 1600 BC. The first Europeans to reach the island were the Portuguese explorer Pedro Campos named the Island Los Barbados beard-like roots of the island bear-likes roots of the island’s fig trees.

English settlers arrived in 1627 and later brought 70.000 African slaves to work on sugarcane plantations and the island became the world’s top sugar producer. In 1930s all Barbadians won the right to vote in free elections and the island itself won freedom from Britain in 1966. The British influence, however, remains evident Victorian houses on the island, and in cricket, the Barbados’ national sport.

Podenglish, lesson 55 Behavior

Introduction Part I

INTRODUCTION

BY ANNE MERRIE-PESSIS

Five hundred years ago, when European sailors reached the coast of what would later be known as Brazil, they met indigenous peoples who had lived there for at least five hundred centuries. Thousands of years of adaptation had allowed these peoples to accumulate the knowledge and survival techniques that formed the basis of the culture of population density and wide cultural diversity throughout the whole coastal region, which was the first to be colonised. Records left by missionaries, soldiers, civil servants, and travelers in the early sixteenth century bear witness to the way of life of these aboriginal groups, whose technology and customs were so different from those familiar to the Eupeans.

The meeting of these two groups resulted in a devastating clash of cultures. The original contexts and value systems in which the two cultures had been created were completely different. The indigenous peoples had concentrated primarily on perfecting processes that used natural resources to create a quality of life whose survival potential would be conserved. At the same time, they also developed myths in their search for answers to questions that have constantly been, from the outset, the contra concerns of and about human nature. Records of the themes that preoccupied those most were marked on the rock walls or archaeological sites, in the form of narrative paintings, and of figures of unrecognizable morphology. Their knowledge was transmitted by oral tradition and shared throughout the whole community, extending to all the small groups into which they were divided. Their common knowledge allowed them to maintain a lifestyle oriented towards sustaining equilibrium with other human groups, and which the environment. They were classless and casteless societies.

The people who came from Europe had an entirely different way of organizing themselves, based on different ways of accumulating wealth, which they derived from commercializing the resources extracted from nature, and the goods produced by human labor. Wealth was the guarantee of their survival potential. They had created a religious institution that was repressive, powerful, and had an immense, constant an uninterrupted temporal influence. Knowledge, transmitted in written form, was distributed according to a rigid social stratification, which supported a hierarchical power system through the accumulation of capital and the control of technological knowledge.

Textos Mastigados, Teclasap

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(CNN) — Roger Federer claimed [conquistou] his record 15thgrand slam crown and sixth Wimbledon title as he beat Andy Roddick 5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14 in an epic final on Sunday.

Federer had been tied [empatado] for grand slam wins with Pete Sampras, who watched thespellbinding [encantador] clash [confronto, embate] on Centre Court.

The second seed [cabeça-de-chave número 2] waspushed to the very limits by his big-serving opponent[adversário e grande sacador], with the climax coming in a marathon 30-game fifth set.

Leading 15-14, Federer forced his first match point against a tiring [cansado] opponent who mishit [errou] aforehand [Bola batida com a palma da mão virada para frente. Destros têm seu forehand na direita, os canhotos na esquerda.] to see his own hopes of victory cruelly ended.

It was the first time that sixth seed Roddick had dropped his service [teve seu saque quebrado] in a match lasting four hours and 18 minutes.

The triumph will see Federer reclaim the world number one spot [posto, posição] from Rafael Nadal, who beat him in last year’s final but missed this year’s championships through injury[lesão, contusão].

Federer, who won his first French Open crown last month, told BBC Sport that he was aiming to win yet more grand slams.

“It’s been quite a career and quite a month for me. I don’t play tennis to break records and it doesn’t mean I’m going to stop playing. I hope to come here and play some good tennis in the future,” he said.

Roddick led by a set and had four set points in the second set tiebreaker before the Swiss maestro clawed his way back into the match [conseguiu uma recuperação impressionante] in the space of a few moments.

Federer saved three set points with gutsy [ousado; corajoso] play, but on the fourth Roddick had only to put away [concluir, finalizar; arrematar] a comfortable backhand volley [voleio de revés; golpe em que se bate na bola estando próximo à rede e com as costas da mão voltadas para frente], only to put it well wide [a bola foi muito para fora].

It proved a crucial mistake as Federer quickly won the next two points to seal the breaker 8-6 and level at a set all [empatar em 1 set a 1].

With both men dominant on their own service, the third set also went to a tiebreak and this time it was Federer who made the running [saiu na frente], claiming three set points.

Roddick saved two on his own service, but Federer duly [devidamente; na hora certa] closed out the set on the third.

But the American, who had broken Federer [havia quebrado o saque de Federer] in the 12th game to claim the opening set, repeated the feat [feito] in the fourth game of the fourth as he forced him to net a volley [jogar na rede um voleio].

Secure on his own service, Roddick had no trouble in holding to claim the set 6-3 and make sure the final went the full distance [ser disputada em 5 sets].

Both men were again dominant on their serve in the fifth set and it became a question of who would blink [piscar] first.

Federer had a break point in the fourth game, while Roddick, who had put out [havia eliminado] home hope [a esperança inglesa] Andy Murray in the semifinals, set up two break points at 8-8.

But Federer decisively saved them both as the marathon headed towards its thrilling[empolgante] climax.

Sampras, who had flown in from California especially for the final, believes Federer is the greatest player in history.

“I think you have to give it to him [devemos reconhecer seu mérito],” said the 14-time grand slam winner.

“The critics say (Rod) Laver, and (Rafael) Nadal’s beaten him a few times in majors.

“But he’s won all the majors, he’s won 15 now, he’s going to win a few more. In my book [na minha opinião] he is (the greatest).”

In the final action of the Wimbledon fortnight [quinzena], Mark Knowles and Anna-Lena Groenefeld paired up to win the mixed doubles final as they beat top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black, 7-5, 6-3.

Will books survived

Language Level: Advanced

Standard American accent

Will Books Survive?

Recently the Publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzburger, Said -  in na interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz – that “ I don’t know  whether we’ll still be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either.” This statement led to speculation that most newspapers will soon be available in on-line editions only. If printed newspaper face extinction, then what about printed books?

HARD TIMES

Nancy Ann Bass works at Strands used bookstore, a veritable New York institution which was opened by her grandfather 80 years ago. She thinks that printed books do have a future, even though she admits that the independent bookstore sector is under siege.

Nancy Ann Bass (Standard American accent)

Well, in America already two-thirds of independent bookstores have closed in the last 10 years, so there’s already been huge amount of stores that are not there anymore. You know, Barnes and Nobles’ and Borders are big megastore…and they’ve come in and they’ve taken over some of that market, so it’s changed radically. The store that sells the most books in America is called Wallmart! So the bookstore industry has radically changed. I think people are buying more and more books on the internet, just for the convenience, but there’s something to be said about going into a bookstore and shopping and finding things that are unexpected and a kind of the serendipity of exploring and not knowing what’s really going to be there and you really can’t do that searching for books on the internet.

FIRST EDITIONS

Nancy Ann Bass is skeptical about the idea of reading books in a electronic format:

Nancy Ann Bass

Also, you know, there’s the Sony Reader, there’s the idea too that books are now digitized and I think that is working very well for reference books, but I think for people that like to read for pleasure, the present book form is really the best way and there’s something wonderful, tactile, about having a book in your hand, and turning pages and maybe even buying things that have been used, that other people have put their own inscription on, or put things on the side. I’ve seen a Sony Reader recently and I found the technology not (to) be that good. First of all, it costs $ 350 and you can download, I think it was 80 or 100 books. When the pages turned, too, it turns black, it wasn’t great type to read it, and they don’t have any kind of illustration like you would with regular books and, of course, there’s…you know, you never find antique leather books, or first editions that are collected and signed by authors and all that kind of wonderfulness.

Toon History

Toon History

Source: www.maganews.com.br Recommendable for Brazilian's teachers and students, for more info, visit the site.

Monica’s Gang:  it all started 50 years ago....

In July 1959 Maurício de Sousa published his first cartoon in a São PauloState newspaper.  The first character he created was a cute little dog called Blu (Bidu)

Brazil at the end of the 1950 was going through a boom.  Brasília, the future capital of the country, was being built. In 1959 an 18-year-old called Roberto Carlos was setting out as a singer and Bossa Nova was just beginning.  Meanwhile, in São Paulo city, a young man called Maurício de Sousa was working as a crime reporter for Folha da Manhã (now Folha de São Paulo).  Maurício was a journalist but his passion was making up stories in cartoon strips. On July 18^th 1959 the young reporter had his first cartoon strip published in the newspaper he worked at.  It was a simple story, with only two characters: the dog, Blu (Bidu) and his owner Franklin (Franjinha). Soon afterwards Maurício left his career as a journalist to become a full-time cartoonist.

The first comic was published in 1970

The first characters created by Maurício de Sousa were boys. After Blu and 

Franklin came Jimmy Five (Cebolinha), Pitheco (Piteco), Smudge (Cascão) and Chuck Billy (Chico Bento).  In the years that followed, Maurício was inspired by his young daughters, Mônica and Magali, to create them as his first girl characters. In the 1960s Maurício’s stories were published in newspapers. The first comic with Monica’s Gang was published in 1970 (see picture). Later the cartoon characters appeared in films, on TV and in educational projects. Global soccer stars also inspired Maurício to create two characters: Pelezinho (1976) and Ronaldinho Gaúcho (2005).

Áudio – Aasita Muralikrishna

Na edição impressa da revista Maganews você poderá conferir mais sobre a trajetória de Maurício de Sousa e ainda, o sucesso da Turma da Mônica Jovem e a homenagem que o quadrinista paulista está preparando para Michael Jackson

Imagens – Litera / Maurício de Sousa Produções

Vocabulary

1 gang – turma

2 cute – simpático

3 boom – fase favorável

4 to set out – iniciar

5 meanwhile – enquanto isso

6 cartoon strips – tiras em quadrinhos

7 soon afterwards – pouco tempo depois

8 full-time – tempo integral

9 comics - gibis

10 toon-history – história em quadrinhos (toon = forma abreviada de “cartoon”)