Casa do Caminho - fourth English Class: Feb. 26, 2011

TRAINING DIALOGUES:

- Good morning, how are you doing?
- Doing good, and you?
- Hi, what´s up?
– Hi, just reading a book.
- What is this?
- This is my new notebook.

- Hello, how are you?
- I´m fine.. and you?
- I´m very good, thank you.

- How was your week?
- Very nice!

- Excuse me... what time is it?
- Let me see.. it´s 8 o´clock. (Watch)
- Thank you.

a.m. – ante meridien (before noon)
p.m. - post meridien (after noon)
noon: meio dia

DATE

2. What is the date today?
February 26, 2011 (twenty six, twenty – eleven)
(Month, day, year)

Quarter: um quarto de hora
Half: meia hora

Days of week:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

TRAINING NUMBERS:

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty

HOMEWORK:

escreva em números

- a quarter past eight
- half past nine- a quarter to nine
- five past nine
- quarter past ten.
- quarter to one
- ten to eight

O bilinguismo amplia a capacidade perceptiva e adia a demência

Novo idioma é um estímulo para o cérebro

Foram apresentados vários estudos sobre o tema das jornadas «O que nos diz o bilinguismo sobre o nosso cérebro?», organizadas pela Associação Americana para o Avanço nas Ciências (American Association for the Advancement of Science), em Washington, que demonstram que saber duas línguas não gera confusão no cérebro. Pelo contrário, amplia a capacidade perceptiva.

Uma das investigações, realizadas por María Teresa Bajo e Pedro Macizo, da Universidade de Granada, consistiu em medir o tempo de resposta da actividade cerebral perante uma pergunta, dirigida a voluntários que dominavam o espanhol e o inglês de igual forma. Os investigadores verificaram que os bilingues são capazes de activar ambos os idiomas, ao mesmo tempo, mesmo em situações em que apenas necessitem uma língua.

Segundo um comunicado da instituição, o bilinguismo permite melhorar a atenção e a memória das pessoas, já que a treina como se de uma ginástica mental se tratasse. Segundo os avanços da investigadora Nùria Sebastián-Gallés, da Universidade Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona, por exemplo, crianças bilingues, de quatro a oito meses conseguem distinguir entre dois idiomas que não conhecem.

Ler mais: Ciência Hoje http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=47553&op=all

Third English class - Casa do Caminho: Rua Itapeva 131 - São Paulo

BE POLITE - ASKING

1. How are you feeling this morning, my dear?
2. Are you feeling better?
3. How can I help you?
4. How was your day?
5. How was your weekend?
6. Do you want a coffee?
7. May I offer you a juice?
8. Would you like some water?
9. Did you enjoy the movie?
10. Did you make your homework?
11. May I help you doing your work?
12. Would you like some help?

ANSWERING

1. I´m feeling good, thank you dear.
2. Yes, I feel much better, thank you.
3. Help me cleaning up. Would you?
4. My day was good, thank you.
5. Awesome! And yours?
6. Yes, please.
7. Yes, an orange juice, thank you.
8. Yes, please.
9. For sure! Really good movie.
10.a Yes, teacher, I´ve done.
10.b No, I did not, had no time. Sorry.
11. No thank you. You´re kind.
12. Yes, please. I can´t do this by myself.

verb TO DO – fazer

Usado para perguntas, no presente ou passado:

Do you like..?
Do you know..?
Did you enjoy..?
Did you make..?

Usado para responder, no passado:

I did not..

verb TO BE - ser, estar

- Are you..?
- was ….

TO CAN – verbo poder

- I can not (can´t)
- Can you… ?

TO MAKE – fazer

- Did you make..?

Homework

Procurar o significado das palavras (ou traduzir para o inglês):

- Flower
- Carpet
- Stove
- Fire
- Sapato
- Sabonete
- Butter
- Bread
- Twenty
- Thirty

Second English class - Casa do Caminho: Rua Itapeva 131 - São Paulo - SP

Nós ficamos bem na foto:

Expressões idiomáticas / Idiomatic expressions.

- Let´s rock!

- Let´s work!

- Got it? Got you. – gottcha.

- For God´s sake!

- Oh my God! (OMG)

- Save Our Souls (SOS)

- May I help you? / Can you help me, please?

- For God's sake, don't scare me like that!

1. I´m too excited today.

2. It´s summer.

3. I just got my breakfast.

4. I just love the daylight.

5. I really enjoy Saturdays.

6. my week was very good.

7. I like February because it´s a short month.

8. it´s raining today, but tomorrow the sun will shine.

9. I´ve met someone.

10. I´ve got a girl friend/boy friend.

11. I´ve met new awesome friends.

12. I´ve learned few good lessons.

13. I´m a little sad.

Negative forms:

1. I´m not really excited today.

2. Isn´t summer.

3. I didn´t get my breakfast (passado)

4. I don´t like daylight. (presente)

5. I don´t really like Saturdays.

6. I´m not sad.

7. I didn´t meet my friend Tony.

8. I didn´t meet new people.

9. I don´t like February because it´s a short month.

Negative forms:

1. I´m not really excited today.

2. Isn´t summer.

3. I didn´t get my breakfast (passado)

4. I don´t like daylight. (presente)

5. I don´t really like Saturdays.

6. I´m not sad.

7. I didn´t meet my friend Tony.

8. I didn´t meet new people.

9. I don´t like February because it´s a short month.

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Regra: Dias da semana e nome dos meses em inglês, escreve-se com letra maiúscula.

A análise gramatical das palavras na tabela à seguir, referem-se à sua função no presente texto. Existem outras funções, dependendo do contexto.

WORD	FUNCTION	TRANSLATION
a	article	Um / uma
Awesome	adjective	Chocante, demais de bom
because	conjunção	Porque (usado em respostas)
Breakfast	noun	desjejum
Day	noun	dia
do	verb	fazer
excited	adjective	Animado / animada
February	noun	fevereiro
Friends	noun	amigos
girl friend/boy friend	noun	Namorada / namorado
Grey	Adjective	cinza
it´s	Pronome + TO BE	Ele é
Job	noun	trabalho
learn/ learned	verb	Aprender / aprendi
Meet/met	verb	Conhecer / conheci
month	noun	mês
New	adjective	novo
People	noun	pessoas
rock	noun	agitar
Sad	adjective	triste
short	adjective	curto
someone	pronome	alguém
Scare	verb	assustar
Sake	noun	segurança
Got / get	Verb	Pegou / pegar (entendeu? )
Save	verb	salvar
Souls	Noun	almas
Daylight	Noun	Luz do dia
Week	Noun	semana
But	advérbio	porém
Tomorrow	advérbio	amanhã
Today	Advérbio	hoje
Yesterday	advérbio	ontem
NUMBERS		HOME WORK: escrever os nºs
1 one		11
2 two		12
3 three		13
4 four		14
5 five		15
6 six		16
7 seven		17
8 eight		18
9 nine		19
10 ten		20