Casa do Caminho - English Course – Fifteenth English Class: May 28th, 2011

What is the date today? (Saturday, May 28th, 2011)

Piratininga became São Paulo: the old college is today a metropolis. Jesuit priests José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega walked up the Serra do Mar mountains. They tried - in 1553 - to find out a safe place to catechize native Indians; reaching Piratininga plateau, they found the ideal location. “Cold and tempered winds like in Spain” and “a healthy and fresh land and good waters" called their attention.

They built a college on a low hill, close to river Tamanduateí and Anhangabaú, where they said a mass. It was January 25, 1554, the date we celebrate the anniversary of São Paulo. Almost five centuries late, the small village of Piratininga became an 11,000,000 inhabitant city. Only the foundations of the buildings made by priests and Indians are left in Pateo do Colegio.

New words: became, mass, priests, walked up, mountains, safe, catechize, reaching, plateau, winds, like, healthy, land.

Expressions: to find out, made by, to build up

1) Encontrar TO BE VERB (all forms)

Text interpretation:

1) What was São Paulo city name at first?
2) who are it´s founders?
3) where did they first arrive?
4) What did they build up?
5) Where´s founders buildings?
6) what did jesuit priests say about the place

Responda em português:

1) Que caminho seguiram os jesuitas fundadores de São Paulo?
2) Em que data foi fundada a cidade?
3) Quantos séculos tem São Paulo?
4) Quantos habitantes tem, aproximadamente, a cidade?
5) O que resta dos prédios construídos pelos dois jesuitas?
6) Qual o nome dos jesuitas fundadores da cidade?

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EXPRESSÕES:
Find out (encontre)

HOMEWORK (last week)

I have a beautiful garden, full of colored flowers. There are red, blue, yellow, green and white flowers. On Tuesdays I use to gardening feeling the ground scent, earth and cutted grass.

Truth (verdade)
Lie (mentira)
Happiness (felicidade)
Sadness (tristeza)
Joy (alegria)
Playful (brincalhão, prazeiroso)
Fatness (gordura, gorduroso)
Building (edifício)
Tent (tenda)
Bag (saco, bolsa, mochila)
Small (pequenoa)
Big (grande)