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quarta-feira, 8 de junho de 2011
John Paul Young 'Love Is In The Air'
is in the air
PROERD, and The Project Travel Around the Past
Yesterday's morning me, Carlos (Tour guide) and pupils of 4º and 5º grade of Genius School went to the Archaeological Site Xique-Xique I, as well as the PROERD’s instructor Iranildo Pereira and Rosilena, Genius’ Teacher. PROERD comes to the American project (D.A.R.E) developed in Los Angeles in 1983 which means Drug Abuse Resistance Education presenting over 58 countries, in particular the purpose of PROERD is similar and the Instructor of the project in Carnaúba dos Dantas Iranildo Pereira, have been developing the project in partnership with the Secretaria of Education.
Back to the topic, juniors’ students of Genius have the opportunity to visit one of the most and relevant archaeological site guided by Carlos (Tour guide). As I told you before I develop Educative projects such as Travel Around The Past providing for local Students to valorize and develop the Education’s Heritage. Check it out the pictures below.
On the way of Xique-Xique pupils of Genius
PROERD project similar to D.A.R.E Present in several countries, here in our region it has been developing by Teacher Iranildo Pereira, DARE means Drugs Abuse Resistant Education and this is Pupils' (4º and 5º grade) of Genius School folllowed by Teacher Rosilene and guided by me, Carlos Tour guide moderator of this blog.
Crossing the Carnaúba's River
Maria Arlinda, so cute baby...
PROERD's Instructor Policeman Iranildo and Pupils of Genius
Carlos Tour guide and Genius' pupils on the Xique-Xique I walkways
Dancing and Hunting Scenes Xique-Xique I archaeological site.
The Oscars and The Golden Globes
AND THE WINNE IS...THE SAME PERSON!
Source: Speak Up
Making predictions is rarely a good idea as there is a strong possibility that you will be wrong. It’s difficult in sports matches, where there are two teams to choose from, but it’s even harder with film awards like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, where there are five nominees per category. Politicking by studios and actors that want to win and less forecasting by Hollywood journalists and deep secrecy by voters cloud the results for all unitl awards night.
THE GOLDEN GLOBES
The 83rd edition of the Academy Awards (which are organised by AMPAS, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) took place at the Kodak Theatre on February 27 . Often – but not always – the Golden Globe Awards, which are held six weeks earlier, are a good indication. The members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (FPA: these are not the same people as the 6.000 members of the Academy of Motion Pictures.
COLIN FIRTH
British actor Colin Firth dominated Hollywood’s major awards this year, winning “Best Actor! For The King’s Speech at both the Globes and Oscars. The film is directed by Tom Hooper, who directed another “true life story.” The damned United. It the Damned United was about English soccer, then The King’s Speech is about the Royal Family. Firth plays George VI, the man who reluctantly became King of England (in 1936), when his brother, Edward VII, abdicated to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. George VI (who was the father of the present Queen) had a problem, he stuttered and this became particularly traumatic when he had to address the nation on radio during the Second World War. The film tells the story of his relationship with Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist. Logue is played by Geoffrey Rush, who was nominated for (but didn’t win) a Golden Globe or an Oscar for “Best Supporting Actor.” The film itself lost the “Best Picture” race at the Globes to The Social Network (aka “the Facebook movie), but won top prize at the Oscars.
JAMES FRANCO
James Franco was in a unique position on Oscar night serving a co-host of the show while also being a “Best Actor” nominee for his part in Danny Boyle’s disturbing movie. 127 Hours (that prize went to Firth). Boyle is famous for films like Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, but this is far darker. Like The King’s Speech, 127 Hours tells a true story, that of Aron Ralston, a mountaineer in Utah who was obliged to take “drastic measures –i.e. amputating part of his arm with a penknife! – when he was trapped by a boulder. The films based on Ralston’s book. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Language fans may like to know that this is a colloquial expression for a difficult situation, but in Ralston’s case it was literal.
PAUL GIAMATTI
The Golden Globes divide films into two categories: “Drama” and “Musical” or Comedy.” The prize for “Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy” went to Paul Giarmatti for Barney’s Version (he wasn’t among the five nominated for the Oscars). The film, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Festival, is based on the novel by the Canadian Mordecal Richier, sadly Richler died in 2010, but his story now lives on in cinema, thanks in part to the talent of Giamatti.
NATALIE PORTMAN
We apologise for dealing with the ladies last (and not first), but this is a Hollywood convention and not ours. Nowadays the word “actress” is considered politically incorrect: female stars are also “actors” The Oscars began in 1929 (and the Golden Globes in 1944) and so the female category in the award ceremonies is still called “Best Actress.” Natalie Portman won the Golden Globe for “Best Actress” in the “Drama” section, for her portrayal of an obsessive ballet dancer in Black Swan, and Annete Bening won the “Musical and Comedy” Golden Globe as a lesbian mother in The Kids Are All Right…On Oscar night there was just one “Best Actress” award to give out, and Portman beat Bening and three others for the prize.
Among 11 award categories where the Globes and Oscars overlapped, eight winners were the same, reinforcing the popular theory that the Golden Globes are a good predictor of who’ll win the Academy Awards.
terça-feira, 7 de junho de 2011
Last Christmas
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CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD:
Last Christmas, I you my heart
But the very next day,
But the very next day,
You it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll it to someone special (x2)
This year, to save me from tears
I'll it to someone special (x2)
Once bitten and twice shy
I my distance but you still my eye
Tell me baby do you me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't me.
- Happy Christmas! - I it up and it
With a note saying "I Love You" - I it -
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd me again.
I my distance but you still my eye
Tell me baby do you me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't me.
- Happy Christmas! - I it up and it
With a note saying "I Love You" - I it -
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd me again.
Chorus (x2)
A crowded room, friends with tired eyes
I'm from you and your soul of ice
My God I you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I a shoulder to cry on,
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you me apart.
Now I've found a real love you'll never me again.
Chorus (x2)
I'm from you and your soul of ice
My God I you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I a shoulder to cry on,
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you me apart.
Now I've found a real love you'll never me again.
Chorus (x2)
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart,
A man undercover but you me apart.
Next year I'll it to someone
Next year I'll it to someone
I'll it to someone special.
Speaku Up in Class, We Are What We Do
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Source: Speak Up in Class.
YOUNG ACTIVISTS
We are what we do (B1)
A - Before you start, talk to a partner.
1. Look at the title of the article and discuss it with your partner. What do you think it means? Do you agree with it?
2. Look at the list of suggestions in the first paragraph. What do you think of them?
3. Make your own list of small things you could do to help a friend or improve the environment. Compare your ideas with those of your partner. Are they similar?
B - Read and answer
Read the main article and answer the questions with a partner.
1. What was David Robinson’s document Reconnecting about?
2. Why was he suited to write about this?
3. What kind of people took part in the project?
4. How did their ideas become famous?
5. How did the book Teach Your Granny How To Text develop?
6. Why do members of WAWWD go and speak in schools?
7. Who does the presentations?
8. What organisation helps to pay for the presentations?
C - Learn it! Use it!
Complete the sentences with the correct form of these verbs from the article.
gather recruit shake shout spread swear text
1. The Prime Minister came to visit the factory and _________ hands with all the workers.
2. If your train’s delayed, you can __________ me instead of phoning.
3. News of the disaster had _________ rapidly and the town was full of TV reporters.
4. The company is _________ staff for its new offices in Manchester.
5. Our neighbours argue a lot. They’re always _________ and _________ at each other.
6. Most of the street performers at Covent Garden are very good, so large crowds _________ to watch them.
D - Ready for PET? (Paper 1: Writing, Part 1)
Complete the second sentence with 1 to 3 words so that it means the same as the first. (They are constructions used in the article.)
1. Be careful to use both sides of the writing paper.
Make _____________ both sides of the writing paper.
2. Perhaps these don’t seem like things that will change the world.
These _____________ seem like things that will change the world.
3. The people from WAWWD think so.
That’s _____________ from WAWWD think.
4. Robinson thought that change was needed in society.
Robinson thought there was a _____________ change in society.
5. They got together to see how they could do it.
They got together to see how it _____________ .
6. The thousands of ideas were reduced to thirty.
The thousands of ideas were ___________ down to thirty.
7. The title developed from a suggestion by Erica.
The title is __________ on a suggestion by Erica.
8. No school in England is without a copy of the book.
_____________ in England has a copy of the book.
E - Listen and answer (Optional)
N.B. This interview is graded as C1. So don’t be discouraged if you find it difficult. Try to understand the main points.
Read these statements. Then listen to the interview, without reading, and write T (True) or F (False).
1. WAWWD is a charity, not a movement.
2. The Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is in the north of England.
3. Becki and Sarah are school teachers.
4. They go and talk to children in primary schools.
5. One of the “actions” mentioned in this interview is having showers instead of baths in order to save water.
F – Listen and read (Check your answers)
Listen to the interview while reading the text. (Check your answers to the questions in E.)
G – Talk about it
In pairs or groups.
1. Do you think that you can make a difference to the environment, or is it a waste of time?
2. Is climate change caused by human activity?
3. Can you think of some more suggestions to include in a book like Teach Your Granny to Text, And Other Ways to Save the World?
Kennedy Center Honors of 2008: Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey
Kennedy Center Honors of 2008: Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey part II
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Steve Ember. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., is a major cultural center in America. For the past thirty years, the center has presented awards to honor artists for their lifetime of work. On Sunday, December seventh, it will honor six outstanding performers.
(MUSIC: "Don't Rain On My Parade")
That voice is one of the most recognizable in the world. It belongs toBarbra Streisand. At the age of nineteen, Barbra Streisand won her first part in a Broadway musical. The year was nineteen sixty-two and the character was Miss Marmelstein in the play, "I Can Get It for You Wholesale." The part was small but Streisand earned a Tony nomination and lots of attention.
Her first recording, "The Barbra Streisand Album," came out in nineteen sixty-three. It won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.It made her a star.
Many albums followed. Fifty went "gold," selling at least a half-million copies. Barbra Streisand also has thirteen "platinum" albums, those that sold at least one million copies.
In nineteen sixty-eight Barbra Streisand made her first movie. It was the film version of the Broadway musical, "Funny Girl." The movie was a huge hit. Barbara Streisand won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
(MUSIC: "People Who Need People")
The singer/actress continued to make albums and movies. She also began to produce and direct movies.In nineteen eighty-three, Barbra Streisand became the first woman to write, direct, produce and star in a major film. The movie, "Yentl," won great critical praise. Barbra Streisand has won many awards in her long career.
(SOUND: "March of The Penguins")
The next Kennedy Center honoree also has an unmistakable voice. The deep, warm sound of seventy-one year old actor Morgan Freeman has been heard in more than fifty movies and documentaries. But, you might not know this serious dramatic actor spent many years in children's television.Freeman was a performer on the show "The Electric Company" for much of the nineteen seventies.
In nineteen eighty-nine, two movies changed Morgan Freeman's career forever. In "Glory," he starred as an officer in the first all-black volunteer group of federal troops in the American Civil War. In "Driving Miss Daisy," he became friends with his employer, an old, independent, difficult woman.
Morgan Freeman got his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for that movie. But he did not win one until two thousand four. That was for his performance as a former professional fighter in the Clint Eastwood movie, "Million Dollar Baby."
(SOUND: "Million Dollar Baby")
Morgan Freeman recently returned to live theater in a Broadway production of the Clifford Odets play, "The Country Girl."
(MUSIC: "Why Baby Why")
George Jones first sang that unforgettable song in nineteen fifty-five. The following year Billboard magazine named him the most promising country music singer. It was right. He has had one of the most hit-filled careers in country music.
The seventy-seven year old singer was born in Texas. He began singing on the streets of Beaumont as a child. He was a teenager when he left home to seek musical fame and riches. But first he served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War.
(MUSIC)
That song, "White Lightning," was Jones' first to hit number one on Billboard's country music charts. The year was nineteen fifty-nine and he was twenty-eight.
The Kennedy Center notes that while Jones is often called cool, his style of singing is extremely personal. It says George Jones always means every note and word he sings. His feelings are real and the music is true.
George Jones married country singer Tammy Wynette in nineteen sixty-nine. She was his third wife. They made some of the greatest country duets ever. Here is one, "We're Gonna' Hold On."
(MUSIC)
The "Silver-Haired Possum," as he is called, has held on through a lot of hard times. His father was dependent on alcohol. George Jones also developed the disease and was dependent on the drug cocaine. He suffered financially and professionally as a result. He became known as "no-show Jones" for missing performances. He has since recovered.
George Jones was admitted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety-two. President Bush presented him with a National Medal of Arts ten years later.
(MUSIC: "Movin' Out")
VOICE TWO:
American dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp was born in Indiana and raised there and in California.Her mother, a piano teacher, realized that Twyla had a musical gift when she was still a baby. Twyla started dancing lessons when she was just four. She says dancing is how she most enjoyed spending time as a child. And she says it was the way she always identified herself.
Tharp moved to New York City and studied art history at Barnard College. She also studied dance under famous teachers like Martha Graham and Paul Taylor.
Twyla Tharp graduated from Barnard in nineteen sixty-three. Two years later, Twyla Tharp Dance opened. From the start her work was different. For example, she used a lot of jazz music.Sometimes she mixed it with classical pieces.
She also used completely new dance movements. There might be a sudden, playful lift and drop of the shoulders, or the dancers might hop around. Tharp often combined ballet with common movements like walking, running or sliding. Her dances were often playful, edgy, humorous and always daring.
(MUSIC)
Twyla Tharp started to work with major ballet companies. The Joffrey Ballet first performed her work, "Deuce Coupe," set to the music of the Beach Boys.
Twyla Tharp also choreographed for films, starting with Milos Forman's movie version of the Broadway musical, "Hair." She also wrote two books, produced dance specials for television and developed and directed several Broadway dance musicals. She won a Tony Award for "Movin' Out," which was set to the music of pop rocker Billy Joel.
At sixty-seven, Tharp has won many awards. They include the National Medal of Arts and a MacArthur Fellowship.
(MUSIC: "Who Are You?")
They are Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, that's who. They are the driving force of the British rock band The Who. Both men were born in London. Daltry is sixty-three. Townshend is sixty-four. But they were still teenagers in separate bands when they met. Pete Townshend played rhythm guitar and Roger Daltry sang. Joined by Pete Entwhistle on bass and Keith Moon on drums, The Who formed in nineteen sixty-four.
Pete Townshend became the main songwriter for the band early on. He gained fame for his extremely energetic performances, which sometimes ended with Townshend destroying his guitar on stage.
(MUSIC: "My Generation")
Their first album, "My Generation," was released in nineteen sixty-five after their first hit single, "I Can't Explain." Hit after hit followed throughout the nineteen sixties.
The Who experimented. In nineteen sixty-seven they put out an album that played like radio programming. It contained commercials and station identifications and talk. A short time later came the rock opera "Tommy."
Roger Daltry became "Tommy" in the extraordinary concert performances that followed its creation. Later, he earned critical praise for his work in the movie, "Tommy." Daltry apparently liked acting. He has continued to do so, on stage and television.
The Who is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has received many other music awards and honors.
(MUSIC: "I Can See For Miles")
This program was written and produced by Caty Weaver. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.
A brief biography of the genius Lobato
Literature
Source: www.maganews.com.br
Besides being the greatest writer of children’s books in Brazil
Monteiro Lobato began publishing his children’s works in the 1920. In the 1970s and 1980s the adventures enjoyed by the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo were adapted for television. In 2002 Rede Globo restored Lobato’s characters to the TV screens. Lobato also worked as a businessman, lawyer, translator, journalist, designer, photographer and even a diplomat. He was also a prominent defender of oil exploration in Brazil. At that time our country spent a lot of money on oil imports. Lobato was jailed for three months because of his criticism of the Getúlio Vargas Government. José Bento Monteiro Lobato was born in Taubaté on April 18th 1882 and died on July 4th 1948. He was married to Dona Purezinha and had four children.
The wonderful world of Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
There is always a powerful adjective behind each character created by the genius Monteiro Lobato. The wise Dona Benta is the owner of Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. She has two grandchildren who live there: the brave Pedrinho and his cousin, the sweet Narizinho. The cook is the frightened and naive Tia Nastácia. Lobato created other characters who are not flesh and blood. Emília is a clever rag doll and Visconde de Sabugosa is a very smart, talking corncob. Zeca Tatu, the hillbilly, is another unforgettable character created by Lobato.
Vocabulary
1 translator - tradutor
2 designer – desenhista
3 oil – petróleo
4 to be jailed – ser preso
5 wise – sábia (o)
6 brave – corajoso
7 cousin – prima (o)
8 frightened – medrosa (o)
9 naive – ingênua
10 flesh and blood – de carne e osso
11 rag doll – boneca de pano
12 corncob – espiga de milho
13 hillbilly – caipira
Foto – Globo / divulgação
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