Effortless English, A. J. Hoge

Effortless is an English method created and developed by A. J. Hoge which provides you fluency and no longer than 6 months you'll be able to speak easily, faster and automatically, also you'll enlarge your vocabulary, improve your speaking skill and much more, just  check out this video and getting in touch with A.J. Hoge through http://www.effortlessenglish.com/ subscribe for free and getting started right now. 

“7 Rules You Must Know To Speak Excellent English”

POET’S CORNER...Bison are dangerous and unpredictable

POET’S CORNER
Source: http://www.speakup.com.br
Language level: B2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE 
Speaker: Justin Ratcliffe (Bre standard) and Chuck Rolando (Ame Standard)

POETRY BY MICHAEL SWAN

Bison are dangerous and unpredictable

(notice in Yellowstone Park)

Unpredictable be damned

Anyone who knows me

Will tell you

I am remarkably even-tempered

Just one or two things.

Don’t photograph my left profile.

Never mind why,

Just don’t.

Also

As a patriotic American bison

I object to foreign cars.

Last spring

Somebody drove a Toyota

right up to my nose

and sat in it grinning

I put it in the river.

No orange hats

OK?

And no T-shirts

With the Mona Lisa on.

I don’t like the Mona Lisa.

Never mind why.

You can stand where you like

Within reason

But don’t get between me

And my friend the heron.

You get between me and my friend the heron

You are dead meat.

That’s about it.

Just keep these few things in

Mind

And we’ll get along fine.

Oh, I nearly forgot.

No yellow bootlaces.

Have a nice day.

This poem was written in Yellowstone Park, where visitors regularly ignore the notices and get up close to the bison to take souvenir holiday photos. Bison are irritable and can run at 50 kilometres per hour, so this does not always end happily. The poem was published in BBC Wildlife Magazine in 2007.  

English - the International Language by Study English today

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English is part of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken as a native language by around 377 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world. Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language.

Around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language. English has an official or a special status in 75 countries with a total population of over 2 billion.

The domination of the English language globally is undeniable. English is the language of diplomacy and international communications, business, tourism, education, science, computer technology, media and Internet. Because English was used to develop communication, technology, programming, software, etc, it dominates the web. 70% of all information stored electronically is in English.

British colonialism in the 19th century and American capitalism and technological progress in the 20th century were undoubtedly the main causes for the spread of English throughout the world.

The English language came to British Isles from northern Europe in the fifth century. From the fifteenth century, the British began to sail all over the world and became explorers, colonists and imperialists. They took the English language to North America, Canada and the Caribbean, to South Africa, to Australia and New Zealand, to South Asia (especially India), to the British colonies in Africa, to South East Asia and the South Pacific.

The USA has played a leading role in most parts of the world for the last hundred years. At the end of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th, it welcomed millions of European immigrants who had fled their countries ravaged by war, poverty or famine. This labor force strengthened American economy. The Hollywood film industry also attracted many foreign artists in quest of fame and fortune and the number of American films produced every year soon flooded the market. Before the Treaty of Versailles (1919), which ended the First World War between Germany and the Allies, diplomacy was conducted in French. However, President Woodrow Wilson succeeded in having the treaty in English as well. Since then, English started being used in diplomacy and gradually in economic relations and the media.

The future of English as a global language will depend very largely on the political, economical, demographic and cultural trends in the world. The beginning of the 21st century is a time of global transition. According to some experts, faster economic globalization is going hand in hand with the growing use of English. More and more people are being encouraged to use English rather than their own language. On the other hand, the period of most rapid change can be expected to be an uncomfortable and at times traumatic experience for many people around the world. Hence, the opposite view, that the next 20 years or so will be a critical time for the English language and for those who depend upon it. The patterns of usage and public attitudes to English which develop during this period will have long-term effects for its future in the world.

*Sources:

David Crystal
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
English as a global language, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

David Graddol
The Future of English?, London The British Council, 1997

Launching of the Book...The Ballet of Camels by Sofia Emanuelis

Sofia Emanuelis is a Brazilian writer and blogger and recently launched a book called O Ballet dos Camelos, The Ballet of Camels and I want to invite you, specially for Brazilian people interested to get the book contact with Sofia on http://rzorpaesofia.blogspot.com or on E-mail Contact: loubahsofia@live.com 

 

Read the e-book Here

Written by Sofia Emanuelis and the introduction translated by 

by Stephen Craig Roweaia

Painting Studio  

Many, many thanks for that sweet affection.

I hope this translation for the introduction is well read. As ever be well. 

The Ballet Of Camels is a satire, the descriptive "normality between the real and the crime of fantasy. Hence the emergence: Mandolins which is built as a city divided between reality and fantasy, in the center of the array consists of it and in it, two beings born of love of one another and that love comes to address blue of the sky.

They two were tragically separated, He locked inside the Center and It outside.

Everything revolves around this prison, between Her dialogs with itself, with it in thoughts, dreams, nightmares, dramas, joys. Tragedies and souvenirs.

She on the threshold of surrealism and the concretism, fight against the world, life and death, to defend the homeland of his faith and the life of the heart which devotes his life and love.

Living in parallel worlds of reason and the world of fantasy, shade of banana.

Many characters are purely fictitious, and others based in real life, with proven data autobiographical works.

In the world of reason follows the attempt of setting the character in the search, that even through everyday adversities, benefit sharing a dignified life, based on what he learned, said.

In the world of fantasy She has no name and lives in a place outside of space and time where almost everything is prone to happen.

Highlighting a deep analysis of herself with her other selves and those that surround it.

Moments of beauty, innocence and pain that permeate without chronology going of old age, his boyhood as a browse undisciplined from the book of life.

Certain times arrive Xaynúkaespirras, Mavie, Ivai and Nouaha beings created by them in times of glory of Mandolins.

So in the company of his friends, real and imaginary, It with him in missing presence. Conducts life between poetry, philosophy, short stories, melodies ...

Apart from a viewpoint under psychology, psychoanalysis, news of the world of finance, policies and digital interactivity.

Between a passage of time and another, always hoping that the miracle happen, moments of complete passivity, as also of turbulence.

Good ride on this trip and an affectionate hug.Welcome to the Ballet Of Camels on Mandolins.

The only thing fancy
is eating time

Chew slowly all
the world watches

Drink every second,
puff the minutes in a track

Mount on pointers ...
And Gallop in Your direction

Loubah Sofia

Contact: loubahsofia@live.com

Friends interested in acquiring it
Write me that I will gladly send the coupon
Special discount
from the Publisher....

The greatest sporting festival in the Americas, Pan American

Source: http://www.maganews.com.br Excelente revista accesse o site e assine já. 

Pan-American Games 2011

The greatest sporting festival in the Americas
About 6,000 athletes from 42 countries will take part in the Pan- American Games in Guadalajara. The event will begin on October 14 and Brazil will be sending its best athletes

     The Pan-American Games are like a big party. A party that will begin on October 14 and end on October 30. Only countries from the American continent can take part. About 6,000 athletes from 42 countries will compete for medals in 44 sports. This will be the 16^th edition of the Games. The USA has won first place in themedals table [1] in 13 of the 15 previous [2]  editions (in only two editions did the Americans come in second, in 1951 and 1991). Brazil's performance has improved in the last two Games. In 2003, Brazil won 123 medals - 29 of them gold. In the 2007 Pan-American Games, in Rio, Brazil broke its record for medals, winning 157 in total, with 52 gold medals.  But even so, it ranked third, behind Cuba, which won 59 gold medals.

     Brazil looking for [3] medals in several sports

Brazil is a major [4] world power in sports like volleyball, beach volleyball and soccer, both in men’s and women’s events. However, over the 15 editions of the Pan-American Games, the most successful sports for Brazil have been athletics, swimming, judo and sailing [5]. In addition to these, Brazil has a good chance of winning medals in several other sports. The Brazilian delegation includes some Olympic and World Champions, such as César Cielo, Maurren and Fabiana Murer.  

Foto (Fabiana Murer) – Agência Luz.
Áudio – Julia Constantinides.

Primeira parte da matéria sobre os Jogos Pan-Americanos de Guadalajarao. A edição de outubro da revista Maganews traz a segunda parte desta matéria, com áudio de Thiago Ribeiro.

Vocabulary

1 medals table – quadro de medalhas

2 previous - anteriores

3 to look for – aqui = lutar por / buscar

4 major - importante

5 sailing - vela

TIM AND TAMMY, Brazilian website.

One of the interesting website I've seen and found out this days is TIM AND TAMMY, they are an American Family living in Brazil and they teach English for Brazilian in order to speak as an American ones. They also maintain a website http://www.timandtammy.com and I added it on the main menu on LEARN ENGLISH. And it's really another interesting website in Portuguese in order to teach using the social networking websites around the world, for more info, getting in touch with TIM AND TAMMY website and getting started to practise English. 

WONDERFUL WORLD by SAM COOKE

 Source: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3867 


All credits for Maria Helena Sabardine


 

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