quinta-feira, 1 de julho de 2010

Lesson 5 - Animals, shapes, tell the time

sábado, 17 de abril de 2010

Lesson 4 - Sun,moon,year,month, day, hour, here,there

http://www.readthewords.com/ (type the sentence, press read button, repeat and record your voice, compare)

Words

music
Here comes the sun (sunrise)
it's all right

here/there

impossible
live

sun
moon

phase
new moon
waxing crescent
full moon
waning crescent

astrology
earth
geography
course
satellite
Mars
solar system

april
month
year
january
february
march
april

yesterday
today
tomorrow

hour
morning
afternoon
night

phrase

Geography

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography

Geography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A map of the Earth

Geography is the study of the Earth and its features, its inhabitants, and its phenomena.^[1] The word geography comes from theGreek words gê ("Earth") and graphein ("to write"). It means "to write about the Earth". The word was first used by a scientist calledEratosthenes (276-194 B.C.).

Its features are things like continents, seas, rivers and mountains. Its inhabitants are all the people and animals that live on it. Its phenomena are the things that happen like tides, winds, and earthquakes.

A person who is expert in geography is a geographer. A geographer tries to understand the world and the things that are in it, how they started and how they have changed.^[2] Geography is not the same as ecology. A geographer tries to describe how things are, while an ecologist thinks about changes that might happen in the future. Ecologists need the work of geographers so that they can work out the future.

Geography is divided into two main parts called physical geography and human geography. Physical geography studies the natural environment and human geography studies the human environment. The human environmental studies would include things such as the population in a country, how a country's economy is doing, and more.

Geographers need to know a lot about maps because maps are very important for understanding geography. Geographers use maps a lot, and often make them. Making maps is calledcartography, and similarly, people who make maps are cartographers.

sábado, 10 de abril de 2010

Lesson 3 Face, easy/difficult like/hate face (eyes,nose,ears,mouth) happy/sad

Read this words, record them, access http://dictionary.reference.com and compare your pronounce with the one you listen in this site.

adjective
eyes
ears
nose
mouth
face
breath
opposite
easy
like
hate
umbrella
happy
sad

Listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtQh5EIgWQ

Read again
http://inglesparauniversitarios.blogspot.com/search/label/Brazil

sábado, 20 de março de 2010

Lesson 2 - Brazil

Brazil is a country in South America and it is the world's fifth largest country. The country has a population of 186 million people. People in Brazil speak Portuguese and it is the only country in Latin America that speaks Portuguese; most of the others speakSpanish. The capital of Brazil is Brasília, a city planned and built from 1957 to 1960. The country also has the world's fourth largest city,São Paulo.

Geographics

Brazil has the world's largest forest, the Amazon Rainforest. It makes up 40% of the country's land area. Brazil also has other types of land; there is a type of savanna called cerrado; there is also a dry plant region named caatinga. Caatinga means white vegetation in Tupi, a native language of Brazil.

Brazil is known for soccer, but it also has many other things: a varied culture (influenced by people who have come from many countries), and a growing economy. Brazil is the largest country and in South America and the largest economy in Latin America. Its people include people of Portuguese or other European descent, African descent, and native Amerindians, as well as many people ofmixed origins. Brazil also has the biggest number of Japanese descendents outside Japan. The country is the fifth largest in the world by area. It is known for its numerous rainforests and jungles. It neighbours Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia,Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, therefore it borders every country in South America, with the exception of two, Chileand Ecuador.