Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 10 - Listerning

Bom dia minha gente!

Que tal um pouquinho de inglês pela manhã? Não? Como assim? Achei que todos estavam se esforçando para fechar o curso com notas máximas... Então vamos lá adiantar essas lições, e bola pra frente!

Excuses

Sometimes we go to realy embarrassing situations. Have you ever been invited to a friend's house but all you wanted was to go out to for dinner with your girlfriend just the two of you? And than you turn to your friend and said something like: "Oh, i'm sorry but i have to take my mother to church on friday night"? You know your friend knows you were lieing and that is terrible because after that happens you will probably do something to this friend in order to rebuild your friendship but than it may be too late.
Do not think for a minute that you are fooling your friend? They will probably pretend believe you so the following (?) when you meet them be prepared for question like: "Did your mother enjoy the religious service last friday night?".
Excuses are sometime used in circunstances in which you do not want to tell the other person the truth, so we lie. Of course, in most cases, it is not a bad lie at all and it is realy to avoid hurting the other person's feelings, but your excuses must be appropriate and plausible and you must sound convinced. If a with lie is used to protect the friend, avoid being caught.
Imagine a situation in which you have canceled an appointment with a friend, claim that you have an emerge business meeting when actually all you want is to stay home and watch television. Everything is fine except for the fact that on the next day someone tells your friend that you were at home in the night before. You have just caught in a white lie and the first thing to do is apologize. You can not continue to lie anymore. Make all possible attempts to fix the damage. There are situations when the more you speak and try to justify yourself, the worse it gets. Lets say you are late for an important meeting, when you open the door you see twenty heads turning to your silently and disapproving way. You do not know if they are disapproving that you have being late or the noise that the door made when you opened it. No matter what that means, you know you are interrupting someone's speech, and that is realy bad. It's best to leave excuses and explanations, just say you are sorry and move on. Maybe latter, if some of your coworkers still feel like listening to your explanations you can make up a good excuses or make use of a white lie.

Minha gente, que texto mais longo é esse?
E ainda coube dois nessa lição, pode isso?
Na minha humilde opinião este já estava de bom tamanho, nem faria falta o outro...

Até já pessoal!