The world celebrates Nelson Mandela

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Mandela with Bafana Bafana

 

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The world celebrates Nelson Mandela

He struggled against oppression of the blacks in South Africa, was imprisoned for almost three decades, and beat apartheid.  Mandela became not just the biggest hero in his country, but a revered [1] celebrity the world over

In 2008 Bono, Amy Winehouse and other major international singing stars played a show in Londonin honor of the man who changed the history of South Africa:  Nelson Mandela.  That year he turned 90. In 2009 it was the USA’s turn to organize a big event (with heavyweight stars) to honor one of the most important peace campaigners of the twentieth century. Mandela’s life has inspired two films produced recently: Goodbye Bafana (2007) and Invictus (2009), which starred the award-winning[2] actor, Morgan Freeman. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a small South African village on July 18^th 1918. He studied law [3], worked as a lawyer and has been married since 1998 to Grace Machel, his third wife.

  

A tough battle

In 1948 the South African government officially established the racial segregation regime known as “apartheid” in the country. The blacks could not use the same public transport as the whites, or live in the same neighborhoods, or vote, or have the same job opportunities as the whites. It was in that decade that Mandela began his long struggle against apartheid. This cost him his freedom. He wasarrested [4] in 1962 and only set free [5] in 1990. During his years in prison Mandela became the leading symbol of the struggle against racial segregation. Apartheid began to lose its grip [6] in 1990 and was officially ended in 1994, when Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa. A year before he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Matéria publicada na edição de número 55 da revista Maganews.

Áudio – Thiago Ribeiro

Photo (by Nelson Mandela Foundation)

Mandela with Bafana Bafana

Vocabulary

1 to revere – reverenciar / honrar

2 award-winning – premiado (a)

3 law – direito

4 to arrest – prender

5 to set free - libertar

6 to lose its grip – perder a sua força

Teclasap, Joke... The offering plate

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Mark G. Nash e Willians Ramos Ferreira

The offering plate

O vocalista Peter Tägtgren da banda Hypocrisy.

A man went to church one day and afterward he stopped toshake the preacher’s hand. He said, ‘Preacher, I’ll tell you, that was a damned fine sermon. Damned good!’

The preacher said, ‘Thank you sir, but I’d rather you didn’t use profanity.’

The man said, ‘I was so damned impressed with that sermon that I put five thousand dollars in the offering plate!’

The preacher said, ‘No shit?‘

Cf. O que “DAMN” quer dizer?Cf. Mais Piadas em Inglês

• the offering plate > a sacolinha (onde se coloca doações em dinheiro)
• afterward > depois
  
• shake the preacher’s hand > cumprimentar o pastor
• I’ll tell you… > cá entre nós
• that was a damned fine sermon > aquela pregação sua foi boa pra cacete
• I’d rather you didn’t use profanity > eu preferiria que o senhor não usasse palavras profanas
• impressed > encantado
• No shit? > Puta que pariu!

Referência: “Sorria, você está praticando inglês!“, de Mark G. Nash e Willians Ramos Ferreira, Disal Editora, 2010. Leia a sinopse.

DUBLIN...DOWN AT THE THE DOCKS

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DUBLIN DOWN AT THE DOCKS

The regeneration of the Dublin Docklands started in the late 1980. Today, many banks and companies have their headquarters on both sides of the River Liffey, and Spencer Dock is the country’s largest urban regeneration project.

The Docklands Development Authority, founded in 1997, at the height of the “Celtic Tiger,” is in charge of prosperity development and regeneration. It makes great effort to capitalize on the Docklands’ maritime heritage and to breathe life into the sea. There are sports and cultural events, such as the Maritime Festival in June.

CHARACTER BUILDING

Yet much of the Docklands still feels soulless. The chq building, for example, is a historical wine and tobacco warehouse. Today it houses nice shops, a tea salon and a Starbucks, but it has very little atmosphere. Visitors should walk along the quayside to understand the contrasts of Dublin old and new: a bronze statue of a dockworker pulling a rope and urban graffiti, a mobile coffee stall on the river by glass office buildings.

On the opposite side of the Liffey, bronze statues of starved immigrants appear to be waiting to board the Jeanie Johnston, the replica of an immigration ship. Just a bit further along, a floating restaurant represents the new gourmet Dublin.

LITERARY CONNECTIONS

Two beautiful new bridges over the Liffey were built in recent years (in honour of famous Irish writers): the Sean O’Casey Bridge swing bridge and, in 2009, the Samuel Beckett suspension bridge. From here, you can see one of the Docklands’ iconic developments: The O2, a gleaming new concert venue for big acts like Rod Stewart or Beyoncé. U2 were the first to perform there when it opened in late 2008.

SCANDAL

It is no secret that Ireland was hit by the recession, and the Docklands, as the centre of the economic bubble, were badly hit. The U2 Tower which was going to be Ireland’s highest building and house the band’s new recording studios, is on hold. Also, he Docklands Development Authority has been accused of mismanagement. Important files on the purchase of a € 420 million site in 2006, and now worth much less, strangely disappeared!

IRELAND OLD AND NEW

While in a sense, the Docklands represent Ireland’s recent obsession with properly, the new projects also designed to bring “normal” Dubliners and visitors into the area. Next to the O2 concert hall, the Point Village has just opened an all-year weekend market that, in the words of the organizers, “encourages everything the Celtic Tiger forgot, and is an outlet for all of the people most affected by the recession.”

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A sketch of Argentina

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A trip around South America

A sketch of Argentina

Maradona, Evita, Carlos Gardel and tango. These are some of the main symbols of Argentina, a country in love with literature and soccer - a country that produces excellent food and wine

  

Argentina has some things in common with Brazil. It is mad about soccer, suffers with corruption, and financial hardship is a problem for many of its people. Argentines also drink tea (chimarrão), just like the gauchos.  In this country of 40 million people, the main religion is Catholicism (92% of the population). Just like Brazilians, Argentines have also been governed by military dictatorships. Culturally speaking, Argentines like reading books and newspapers much more than Brazilians. Argentines are proud that their country has produced five Nobel Prize winners.  Crime rates in Buenos Aires are much lower than in Rio and São Paulo. In cookery, Argentines produce some of the finest meat in the world. The country that produced Maradona and Che Guevara is also famed for its excellent quality wine and also for producing some of the best fudge in the world.

Tango and the Carlos Gardel legend

Tango arose out of the suburbs of Buenos Aires at the end of the 19^th Century. The biggest name in tango was the legendary singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935).  Gardel helped popularize tango all over the world. He was born in France, but arrived in Buenos Aires when he was two years old. Some historians, however, believe he was born in Uruguay.

Trecho da matéria publicada na edição de número 45 da Revista Maganews, que traz também um perfil da lendária Evita e fotos e informações interessantes sobre Buenos Aires e Bariloche.

Foto – Márcia Pavarini

Vocabulary

1 sketch – retrato / esboço / desenho

2 hardship – dificuldade / sofrimento

3 military dictatorships – ditadura military

4 to be proud – se orgulhar

5 crime rate – índice de criminalidade

6 cookery – cozinha / culinária

7 meat - carne

8 fudge –  um tipo de doce de leite

We want sex, movie...Interview.

INTERVIEW

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Language level: Advanced
 Speaker: Jason Bermigham
MADE IN DAGENHAM

The British movie Made in Dagenham which has been given a rather different title: We Want Sex (short for “We Want Sex Equality”) in many European countries, will be released in Brazil on DVD this month, under the title A Revolução em Dagenham. The film tells the true story of a strike that took place at the Ford Motor Works in Dagenham in 1968. It involved 187 female employees who demanded the right to equal pay. The film, which is directed by Niget Cole, stars Sally Hawkins, who plays Rita O’ Grady, the strike’s unlikely leader. As Sally Hawkins explains, the story is still relevant today:

Sally Hawkins

(Standard British accent)

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Still, in this day and age, we’re fighting that fight. What’s so nice is the fact it’s from true life, it’s real, this happened, and these women set in motion. The Equal Pay Act you know, of1970s. It’s…without them, that wouldn’t have come about.

The film’s producer is Stephen Woolley, who discovered the story of the Dagenham women almost by chance.

Sally Hawkins

The story about how he came across this story and this fight and these women through the radio, through an article, and hearing these women speak, and hearing their voice, you know, obviously triggered something in Steve and he thought, “That’s…that’s the story I want to tell.” And, absolutely, he’s so right, and thanks God!

And Sally Hawkins says that she met the real women of Dagenham, more than 40 years after the event:

Sally Hawkins

I went to Dagenham: they’re still all there, and they’re still all friends, and they still have that camaraderie, and seeing that spark between them, and them sort of you know, being quite witty each other, quite cutting, but also, ultimately, they really love each other and they’re really good friends: it’s about that, really.

Lyric, I just Called to Say I love

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 CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD: (VERSE 1)

No New Yearbirthday's day
To celebrate
No chocolate covered sweetcandy hearts to give away
No first of springOctober

No song to playsing

In fact here’s just another specialordinary day.
No April sunrain

No treesflowers bloom
No wedding  SaturdayMonday within the month of June
But what it is
Is something funnytrue

Made up of these three bagswords that I must say to you.

 COMPLETE WITH THE CORRECT WORD: (CHORUS)

I just called to say I  you.
I just called to say how much I .

I just called to say I love you

And I mean it from the  of my heart.

CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD: (VERSE 2)

No summer’s high
No coldwarm July
No harvest moon to light one tender  AugustDecember night
No winterautumn breeze
No falling leavessky

Not even time for catsbirds to fly to southern skies.
No Libra sun
No HalloweenSeptember

No giving thanks to all the HannukahChristmas joy you bring
But what it is
Though old so new
To fill your househeart like no three words could ever do.

 SEASONS: The song starts with winter, then carries on with spring, summer and autumn. 

                     Write two events that happen on each season, according to the song.   

                                                           

                                             

      W I N T E R                         S P R I N G                        S U M M E R                     A U T U M N