quinta-feira, 1 de maio de 2014

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 26 - Listerning

^^V

Communication along the centuries

Electric telegraph, which a great means in writing in a distance, is a communication sistem that is able to transmit signals in code which represent letters, numbers and punctuation. The telegraph was invented subsequent to the developement of the safe electricity and the invention of the battery. Samuel F. B. Morse born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, was a important painter whose hobby was electricity, he developed morse code, a combination of dots and dashes, including the letters of the alphabet and the numerals. the first menssage ever sent was: What hath God wrought? numbers 23; verse 23, from the bible and it was exchanged between Baltmore and Washington DC on may 24, 1844.
The invention of television was based on the previously inventions and discoveries of many men and scientists. The first generation of television sets was mechanical. Converted into a eletronic sistem, television was first used to broadcast on a schedule basis in 1939, in the united states by their national broadcasting company NBC to only four hundred sets in the new york area. Colored televisions sets first became avaliable in 1954.
Ira Gutenberg, the inventor of the modern printing press is believed to have been borned in the german city of Mogúncia in the year 1400, Gutenberg worked as a goldsmith gem cutter as a young man and had learn about metalurgy. His first type was cast of metal, and was consisted of two hundred and nineteen separated symbols. gutemberg also had to find a ink that would not taint or be to thick, he adapted (?) for printing that had a rolling tray so that he could slide the paper in and out. The Gutenberg's bible printed in 1455, was the first bible and first book ever printed. The printing press allowed knowledge and ideas to be passed from one person to another and paved the way for schools and the midia

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segunda-feira, 17 de março de 2014

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 25 - Scenario

Oie gente bonita,

O scenario de hoje fala de carros *-*
Mas como eu gosto mesmo é de avião, o meu carro seria tipo assim:

kkk, divirta-se criando o seu nesta atividade!

There is a copetition for the most personalized car and you have been given a chance tho participate. The prize of the contest is the realization of your dream car. You must be as creative as possible and invent your brand new car.
Since you have the oportunity to design the car of your dreams you must think about every little detail of this car. You can chose all the expecial accessories and options you would like. You should also chose the style as UV, van, sedan, coupe, truck or even your own style.  The cooler, the size, the interior and the anything else you can think of. Will it be a convertible? If so, will it have a hard top or a canvas top? Will it have dark on the windows or not?
Also include what field will you run of. Will it use gasoline? Diesel? Oxygen? or a other type? Will it have four wheels or would it be able to fly?
What kind of mileage would it get? Would it be four wheel drive os two wheel drive?
Also, write about your inspiration. You need to name your model and if you would like, the make as well.
This is your dream car, so go crazy and have fun designing it.

XO

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 24 - Listerning

Helo, boys and grils

Como estão passando?
Viajando muito ao redor do mundo?
Pois é, nada melhor para praticar outra lingua como viajar muitooooo...

Sports

Gymnastic competitions heve been part of Olimpic games since it begun in 1896, but it was the extensive television coverage that comtributed to the enormes interest shown now. Man compete in floor exercise, pamolhoars, vault, paralowboars, horizontal bar and rings. Waman compete in vault, aniven bars, balance beans and floor exercise. Moder jugemant tecnics favor the great flexibility and acrobatic movemants more commons to youngh atleths.
Competitive swuiming includes both individual and team events. Four tipes of strokes are part of the Olimpic games. Front crow, back stroke, brass stroke and butterfly. In madly races each four swimers in a team uses a different stile of swiming in the same competition. Sincronized swiming involves pairs or teams of swimers and requires grace, agility, flexbility and perfect timing. Many of the most difficult manuvers are performed down the wather, only waman compete in this category.
Table tennis is a game played on a table by two of four contestins with a small light wegth seyaloyed bol and small raquets often called patols. Like tennis, table tennis involves hiting the bal back and fourth over the net until one of the players misses the bal or hits it into the net or of the table in each of this cases the oponent scores a point.

XO

quinta-feira, 28 de novembro de 2013

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 23 - Scenario

Olá pessoal,

Um pouquinho de inglês especialmente para vocês!

Imagine it is your dream to compete in the Olimpics. Since the Olimpics are not to far away you need to prepare to compete. You will need to chose a sport event to compete in and a training schedule for that event. Think about what you will have to do and for how long.
There are many events to chose from, but you need to chose just one. You can decide to perfor a water sport such as diving, or swiming the butterfly and free stile. You might want to compete in a gymnastic related event, man can compete on the rings, the (?), the (?) and the horse.  Woman can perform on the balance bean, the  (?) and the vault. Both man and woman can compete in a floor exercise event.
There are also winter olympics that you could decide to participate in, you could do downhill ski, snowboarding or ice skating.
Track and field is another area you might be interested in, there are many options such as dash, relay, runs and medley. There are also events like shot put, jovens roll, the high jump and the long jump.

Até mais ^^b

sábado, 23 de novembro de 2013

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 22 - Listerning

Oi pessoal,
Ultima por hoje

Special meals for holydays and celebrations

Shrove tuesday, the day before ash wednesday, the event, also known as (?), carnival and (?), is calebrated across the world with great feasting. Well brasilian's samba in the streets of Rio, and New Orlands through its most famous party of the year, the english celebrate with pancake day. Since long it is a time of abstinence traditionaly of meat, fat, eggs and dairy products, shrove tuesday manu was designed to use up all the fat, eggs and dairy products left in the kichen. On this day families get for sweet and savory pancakes (?) and housewives still compete in a peculiar traditional tossing and flipping their pancakes three times in to the air. Many christian churches offer pancakes suppers as a social function for their congregations.
Almost every country has at least one special food that is eaten on new years eve or in the first day of the new year that is believe to bring lucky, wealth or success. In the United States there is a sane that it takes eating habits in the new years celebrations. Eat poor on new years, eat fat in the rest of the year. A traditional new years meal includes ham, corn bread, black eyed peas and collard greens, but black eyed peas and collard greens are considered the specially lucky additions to the dinner table. Black eyed peas are thought to bring wealth because they look like little coins, in addition to the fact that they swells when cooked, a sure signal of prosperity. Collard greens are considered lucky because they are green, like money.
When we think of a traditional thanks giving meal the first thing that comes to our mind is a delicious roasted turkey, of course there isn't anything more tipical than to have turkey on thanks giving, but what goes with it? Besides the stuff in, which can be prepared in many different ways, we can't forget the grave and the chreamberry sauce. The vegetables served are often those harvest from the garden in tha fall, such as (?), carrots and potatos. For dessert, how about the delicious pumpkin pie?

Até outro dia!

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 21 - Scenario

Oi pessoal!

Hoje foi um dia atípico no meu curso, tivemos um italiano que ensina inglês como colega. Sujeito estranho e como a maioria dos estrangeiros cheio de preconceitos. Só pra v6 terem uma idéia, quando entrou um dos meus colegas que é meio moreninho assim mais escuro ele já agarrou o celular, OI? Pois é o meu colega é de boa família e deve ter mais condição do que eu, gente boa e tudo, mas foi bem assim.
Espero que v6 não trobem com nenhum sujeito como esse pq haja paciência viu.

Every country has its own holidays that its citizens celebrate which make it different from another countries. Think about some of holidays that are unique to your country. What makes they unique? How do they begin? Do you think that holidays form part of your contry culture? Why or why not?
Now think of five specific holydays that are unique to your contry and write about each one. Describe the holyday, how it is celebrated, where it is come from and any other interesting fact you can think of.
Some holydays may came from a mix of the cultures in your country, while others may be comemorative of a historical event.
Make a five page book with which page representing one of the holydays you have chosen. Make sure to include pictures and/or objects that are representatives of holydays. You should include songs related with the holydays, also include their composers and the history of the songs.
You might also include stikers or an interesting background for each page. Be creative.

Até mais pessoal

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 20 - Listerning

Oi de novo pessoal!

What about some history?

Jeans were first weared by mynors and farmeres in California. Well living in France, a German named Levy Strows (?) a very resiliant fiber and emediatly tought that it would be very usefull for mynors and farmeres in the United States. He bought a large amount of the fiber and went to Jenoa, in Italy where he found people who over (?). Strwas, than came to America, he used call jeans material, material from jeans, the franch name from Jenoa and than jean material, it has been a big sucsses since than.
In the 70'centure Europe was devastated by the 30'year's war, this war was causes by religios differences and had put catolics against the protestance on the baterfield. The France had a group of Croation's sodiers helping them, they were all mercenaries. This mercenaries weared a kind of handkerchief around the neek similar to our ties nowadays. The France aristacracy loved it and adopted the new fashion that was later taken to England and soon spread all over Europe. The 80'hundred's can be considered the golden age of the tie because it became an essecial peace of a man's clothing. It was also in the 90'centure that a new tipe of tie was put on the market, the boll tie.
Weman don't think twice before taking a pair of pants today, but it hasn't always been like that. Before the 96's it was in a entirely different matter. In the 1920's a fasion designer named Coco Chanel pioneered pants for weman. They were (?) like byfocated skirts and should only be waer on very casual ocasions. In the 1950's weman weared casual pants or overalls but they would change into dresses or skirts if they had to go out.
Authough it was a famous designer Mary kuant the women who created the mini skirt, who designed the first pants for weman to be wearned streatwear, it was the franch designer Corrage who received much of the credit because at that time he was for more famous tham mary kuant. One interesting fact is that in the 1960's many restaurants refuse to addimit weman wearing pants but very shot mini skirts were acceptable.

Bye, bye.

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 19 - Scenario

Oi pessoal!

Como vocês estão hoje?
Já se matricularam para o ano que vem? É, eu tbm não e falei bem pra minha prof que eu não tenho mais condições de ficar pagando o curso, simples assim. Quero mesmo é investir numa viagem para o exterior.

Scenario

There are many people in the world who suffer on a daily basis. Many do not have enough food or clean water, some do not have a oportunity to have a quality education.
There are already many organizations but now it is your chance to make the difference in the world.
You will design a program that will help a certain group of people to relieve their suffering. Decide what will you alliviate and for what group. Would the people you will help be from a particular country? How old will they be? Will the be male female or both? Will they need aid from a natural disaster? A sickness? Or a war?
You will also need to create a campain to advertise your charity to potencial donors. How much will they need to donate? What would their donations go towards? Will they be able to meet a person or peole they are helping? Would they be able to donate only money or would they also be able to itens such as clothing, food or other materials?
Than, you will need to create a plan to continue the aid. This may mean you will need to continue asleesick donations or that you will use other sources of income. For example, the people you are helping could do something to generate funds or you could rely sole on donations.
Remember to give your program a name and, maybe a slogam, to help your campain.

Até mais!

quarta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2013

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 18 - Text

Hey every one!

How about a litle bit more of lesson 18? No? I guess so, but we do have no choice, so lets do it!

Voluteering

A notional survey show that volunteering among teenagers in America is on the rise. The number of teens volunteering rose by seventy percent within a period of four years. Not only are they more involved in formal and informal commitments organizations, but also donating hight amounts of money as contributions to charitable institutions.
During the same period the average anual contribution reached eighty two dollars from fifty six dollars. This survey also showed that the reason for which they decided to get involved with volunteer work is their compassion for in need.
The major benefit drived from volunteering decided was learning to respect one a other.
It is quite noticable that this kind of charity tends to increase more and more among teenagers since they have little or no responsability toward money earning, and therefore they have more time to dedicate themselves to charity

Bye

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 18 - Listerning

Oi pessoal!

Voltei.
Já estavam com saudades? É, eu entendo, é quase impossível viver sem um pouco de inglês, kk

What do americans do for fun?

Lets visit the amusement park! Americans love amusement parks, besides the traditional rides like (?), roller coasters and water slides, there are also games pie eating contests, exhibits of farm animales. The Giants theme parks like world famous DisneyWorld and DisneyLand are visited by many americans families and tourists from all over the globe.
In Brasil folk dance is commonly part of june festivities, but in the USA square dance is a traditional dance enjoyed by many people throughout the country all year long. Man usualy dress a cowboy outfit, and woman wear lace blouses and full skirts. Four couples form a square and a (?) shouts out what movements they need to make.
An other entertainemant very popular among americans is bingo. This game is usualy promoted by comunity and church groups to raise money for charity. Since bingo card are very cheap and in comparison to other activities it is considered a low risk game. Thats why, sometimes, americans spend their saturday evenings at bingo halls.

Até mais pessoal!

terça-feira, 22 de outubro de 2013

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 17 - Scenario

Oi!

Nesta lição apareceram mais algumas expressões que me deixam confusas, por exemplo:
Buttered up: literalmente seria amanteigar ou passar manteiga, ou seja você passa manteiga na pessoa para ela fazer o q você quer, kkk
Wolfed down: quando ouvi essa pela primeira vez pensei o que o lobo (wolf) tem a ver com você comer muito rápido??? Será que é porque você acaba comento como um lobo ou algo do tipo? kk
^^'

Esse é o ultimo por hoje pessoal, estou na lição 19 então não estou mais tão atrasada com as postagens, rs.

Scenario

Since the economy has been so low lately you have decided to help out to getting more people to travel. You will need to choose a city that you want travelers to visit, you must chose wisely because you will be helping the economy but at the same time you need to remember that most travelers nowadays dont have a lot of extra money.
You will design a brochure to advertise this city and all of its best atractions. Find out what the travelers will want to do, eat, see and where they will want to sleep.
Also, since travelers own target budget you will need to be creative in promoting the city you choose. Think about over all cost, maybe use the price as a selling point if it is cheap, if not, think of another way to sell to your potencial visitors.
You will need to explain what the city is, the size of its population among other demografic information. Be sure to identify the best time of year to visit it and what the climate is like since people will need to know what to pack include anything else you may think it is important for traveler to know.

Fuiiii
XO

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 16 - Text

Oieee,

Que texto enoooorme é esse minha gente???
Na minha opnião nos deveriamos ficar 3 aulas sem qualquer outro texto porque este aqui vale por 3. kk
Se eu não tivesse pego algumas anotações com a prof quando discutimos este tema em sala eu estaria perdidinha.

Faux-pas

When traveling abroad one important point to consider is the cultural aspect, most of the time acting according local costumes would make the difference between a satisfying trip and a total disaster. Some things may seen very natural and casual for us but when we are in a foreigner country they can cause embarrassment, sneezing in public is one of than, in Japan it is considered rude. It is also rude to speak and laugh loudly. Coughing is an other issue to consider.
In India do not wear tight and low cut cloths or people will take more pictures of you than of the Taj Mahal. If an Egyptian is wearing purple and the Japonese or an Indian is wearing white it probable means they are in a mourning period.
In Europe it is not appropriated to wear a small biquini at the beach, the irony is that europeuns do not mind topless woman sunbathing along the beaches.
You can get embarrassed or suprised when someone greets you in a foreigner country, so be prepared to be kissed on the cheek or even on the mouth if you were on the Rusia. The traditional hand-shake is used in most of the countries and can save you in case you do not know what to do.
It would be polite to great on their traditional way though, Japonese, Chinese and koreans will band over to greet you. Indians will put your hands together as if they were praying.
If you were in USA or in Germany never kiss a person when greeting him or her, the hand shake is good enough, but watch out in Germany it is impolite to do that with the other hand in your pocket.
One least piece of advice: Lithuan people like to hug and to path people on the back but other people, Scandinavian, for instance, avoid this kind of enthusiastic greetings.
Punctuality is a other subject that shoud be part of your homework, British, German, Swiss and Scandinavian people are extremely punctual, in their countries if the trains is schedule to leave at nine thirty seven it will leave at nine thirty seven and not  at nine thirty five or nine forty.
In the USA, if you have a reservation at a restaurant you are expected to be there fifteen minutes earlier or you can loose your reservation.
Food etiquette is a subject that may get you in trouble, something polite in one country can be extremely rude in an other. In Japan it is normal to eat spagett sucking them one by one, when eating soup there, forget about the spoon, Japoneses have soup directly from the bowl. Talking about soup, in China if you eat the soup noisily the host will take it as a compliment, it is also a compliment to burp after eating in Sumerian countries.
In Canada, it is rude to start eating before the host or hostess is sited and pick up their forks, it is also a good idea to offer to past things that others at the table can not reach and finaly, in England do not soak bread in your spagett sauce or people will think you are barbarian.
You can think it is a lot of information remember but there is no need for you to worry to much about it, the most important thing is to relax but be observant and you will enjoy your trip even more.
If you make a faux-pas the local people will forgive you since you are a foreigner, however it would be a good idea do some homework before hiting the road.

Espero que ajude.
Qualquer duvida, correção, comentário ou elogio é só postar nos comentário. Afinal as suas idéias podem ser uteis para outros leitores!
Até mais!

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 15 - Scenario

Oi!

Me falaram que as nossas notas desse ano vão estar no nosso certificado. Não podia ser as notas do 1º ou 2º ano? : /

Scenario

You have just won the trip of your dreams. You can go to any couty in the world with all expanses paid however there is a cath. You have only one weekend to see the entire country or your expanses will not be paid. Your job is create a entinarary begining from the time you live the airport to the time you retur home.
It must be a full week and you will need to plan out the detales of every single day. Make sure you cover all the most important sites in the coutry of your choice identifiyng what you will need to bring and what you will see and due and its location.
Your intinerary should be as detaled as possible and should also include estimated prices of which acctivities. This project may involve resarch on the internet but you should be able to create the perfect one week country tour.

Tchau!

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 14 - Listerning and Text

Qué tal?!

Houses

Nomadic people do not have permanent homes, they travel from place to place taking their homes with them. Their shoulders must be light and easily packed. The tuareg people from the saara (?) things from gold, sheep or camel hair. The tent is put up and held with the help of wood and poles, which happens to be very expensive in the desert.
On the island of Hong Kong there is not enough space for everybody to live in and build their homes, it is one of the most dasly populated places in the world, so people live in sampens, that is the name given to houseboats in Hong Kong.
Because Japam is earthquake ground the japanese have long built their houses out of bamboo paper and light weight wood. If a earthquake caused them to collapse these materials would be less likely to injure humans. Today most japanese homes are built with concrete bloc that moves as the ground shakes.

Haloween

When the Celts occupied Europe, long before the birth of Christ, halloween was time for all who lived good lifes to feast. This feast happened mainly in Ireland and Scotland. The ancient Celts observed it to celebrate the sunset of winter and the begining of the caught at new year. This feast marked the third and final harvest and the storage of provisions for the winter.
People wore costumes made of animal skins to warned of the spirits of the death who returned to earth at the turning point of one year to the other. Wearing this costumes they would visit homes asking for treats, those who gave them would have a good year those ho did not will warned to watch out for spirits, this is the origen of the trick or treating that is so common nowadays.
The Romans after conquering England and France introduced their own thoughts to halloween, they gave nuts to their neighbors and let some donuts by their doors.
In the 90's century immigrants brought the holyday to north America were has involved and become a national celebration. Nowadays it has become a family holyday for parents and children and neighborly named to spend time together, creating costumes, carving pumpkins, planing trick or treating activities and participating in family and friends parties.
It is also time to take care of ones safety. Because of the tradition of sacrifice, said to be held by the Celts, questions of safety related to trick or treating has increase over the years causing some parents discontinue the tradition together. Some people have taken this oportunity to go after children to practice violence and to sat up some fanatic sucks

Hasta luego!

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 13 - Scenario

Oi, todo mundo!

Como vão as aulas pessoal?
É, eu sei...Eu concordo em  gênero, numero e grau.
Pois é, eu também estou um pouco cansada, por isso atrasei um pouco as postagens, mas hoje vou fazer um extra pra vocês.
Então vamos começar que o trem não espera.

Scenario
Imagine you are already to move to a new house. You have made a lot of money so you can spend as much as you would like to on a house. You decide to build your own house since you want to costume it. You begin to plan your house and it is going to be magnificient.
What will your house look like? Will it be enviromental friendly? What style of decor will you use? Will it be a range house? A castle? An a double house? A log cabin? or something different?
You should also think about where your house will be located as this might change the look of your house. You will also need to think about who will live in your house. How many bedroom will you need? How many bathrooms would you like? Are you going to have any extra rooms for exercising? A home theater? A indoor or a outdoor pool? etc
Will you have a yard? What would it look like? How much property will you need in order to fit your new house and its yard?
Now as you begin dreaming, think about what inspired you and take note. At the end of your project write about what inspired you and whether or not you realy want this house to became a reality.

Até mais pessoal!

quarta-feira, 25 de setembro de 2013

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 12 - Listerning

Oi gente bonita da net!

Agora estamos aprendendo expressões idiomáticas e é uma coisa mais estranha que a outra não é mesmo?
As expressões que eu considero mais estranhas são:
- to burn the candle at both ends: queimar a vela nas duas pontas (tem que ser muito burro pra fazer isso não é?)
- Out of the blue: fora do azul (o que isto tem relacionado com o inesperado?)
- boils down to: ferve baixo para (????)
- put ones foot in ones mouth (isso é nojento, mas não impossível)
- to feel blue: se sentir azul (tá, eu até entenderia se into significa-se estar com enjoo)

Internet

Researches and social critics are debating whether the internet are improving or harming participation in comunity live and social relationship. Computers until not long ago were used only in science and business, but nowadays  the internet is in the home as an essential tool.
Although the internet is basicly about communication many of its key activities remain remarkable lonely occupations causing people to become social isolated. People are catered of from the most essential form of social interaction that is face to face communication. People are getting together less, visiting friends less, and giving fewer party.
But for those who can't resist the (?) entertainment, things are even worse. For such people work, family, friends and sleep are replaced by a virtual world cartoons and games.
Studies conducted by the University of Pittsburgh concluded that the more time spent on the internet at home, the more likely people are to be isolated, lonely, depressed and dependent. This new kind of dependance, called internet addiction recently began to be treated by psychologists. Some of the major internet related problems reported by psychologists and colleges counselors included increased level of divorces, child neglect, job termination, death, flunking out of school and legal problems.
Professionals advice internet users that it is very important to plan time to spent online carefully, and make sure that time spent online is quality time. Users must learn to discriminate between what is good and what is bad on the net.

Até mais pessoal, agora eu vou de vardade, kk

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 11 - Scenario

Hello everybody,

Vocês não concordam comigo de que esta palavra, everybody, é um tanto estranha é tipo assim: todo corpo.
Oi todo corpo!
Estranho...

Scenario
Coming up with ideas for new websites, especially social networking websites in on the rise this days and some people have become millionaires with simple ideas that spread on the net and are a big success among people of all ages.
Now you have the chance to create one on your own with all aspects and features you would like.
First of all you should give a name to your new creation and, also, create a very atractive logo to your new website. These should reflect your personal style moreover you have to focus on which group of people you would cater to.
Would they work in a specific field? Would they belong to an especific region? Would they have certain interests? How many members do you think will join in your network?
Second you must also think about the various method of communication and how will you include them in your site.
Will your members use video to chat? Will they use instant menssages? Or, will the able to post menssages or blog?
Third you must include an advertisment skin for your site. Where will you addvertise? How will you addvertise?

Bye bye!

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 10

Voltei pessoal!

Lifespain

In this age of technological and medical achievements, life expectance has increased extraordinarily, therefore the number of elderly people in the comunity has reach the level that can no longer be ignored. The well being of senior citizens will very accordingly to their reaches and the country they are living.
Last favored people in developed nations usualy receive a reasonable allowence from the government and, due to the fact that they are in great number, are not discriminated against. On the other hand, in growing countrys, there are still pre conception about the elderly and a common thought that this citizens should be shunned from the job market, being a no-use to the community.
What young people are not enough sensible to realize is that the knowledge gathered and the history built through out the fully lived years of our old population is the society more valuable fortune.

Agora eu me vou, é sério...
Tchau!

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!

terça-feira, 17 de setembro de 2013

Wizard - Book 10 - Lesson 9

Oi pessoal!

Scenario

Congratulations! You have become a party planner. A vary important businessman or woman wants to promote his or her company by throwing a party and he or she is realy interested in your work and would like to hire you to help with this very important task. However in order to be hired by him or her you have to present a proposal full of great ideas describing how the party will help promoting this company.
This proposal should describe all the organization aspects of the event and detalles. You should include how the company will be promoted at the party, the site were it be held, who will be invited and all the strategies that will make this party a huge success.
An other aspect you should is if the party will have an special theme, such as a costume party, black-tie affair, or even a theme from an specific decade.
Will there be any special atractions? Like singers, dancers or magicians? In other words, what kind of entertainment will the guests have?
How about security? Will you hire an other company to do that or will someone from your company be there?
Will you send out invitations or, if it will opened to the public, how were the flyers be?
How will you decorate the party? will you use an special decor?
Bare in mind that this party has to reflect the spirit of the company and it has to have special effects to atract the guests attention.

Tchau pessoal!