The world's English mania - Fernando

Well, I remember when I was backing from my work to home and was in course the Metro employes strike. All lines reduced your functionalities, and installed a truly chaos. The bus service could not absorb the great flow of people trying to back to your homes without subway service, and the main terminals and bus stops were entirely fully. In the middle of my way to home, I was in the Tatuapé station, where there were a great concentration of people triyng, like me, to find a better way to go home. In there exists a shopping center, where I, in middle of the pandemonium, decided to relax and wait more a little to back home.. so, I enter in the shop, walk a little inside, stops to take a coffee and buy some cereal bars and water, and about 2 hour later I go back to try go home. In this time, the things stay a little more calm, and I find an alternative way to finally arrive in my home, a little later, it's true, but is ok, at least I have not got so irritated..

Follows a link to a news report that time:

http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/brasil/sp/2014-06-05/onibus-e-trens-da-cptm-tem-operacao-especial-com-greve-do-metro-em-sao-paulo.html

The world's English mania - Lyvia

The last time that I witnessed a pandemonium was on August 20th at Eldorado mall. The chef Buddy Valastro (Cake Boss) came to Brazil to give a lecture, at Eldorado mall, about how to candy a cake. But the chef is very famous here, more famous than he thought. More than 5 thousand people came to see the lecture. No one could see anything, the mall was very crowded. So many people passing out and the place was very hot. In fact iit was a real pandemonium.

Desperate Housewives - S01E01 - Activity A - Lyvia

My night

After a long day I arrived home and I needed to clean everyting until it gleamed. I performed my chores during the week and on the weekend I ran my errands. During the week, nothing astonishing happens, but I always try to see the bright side of my life.

Desperate Housewives - S01E01 Activity A - Geisa

Today I retrieved the paper from the newstand and as I was reading it, it seemed to have nothing newsworthy until I got the job offers section.
I was startled by a school ad offering a job for an English teacher in São Bernardo do Campo.
After my errands, O decided to write my resumée in English to apply for that vacancy.
While I was writing it I was stricken by a popping sound from the door and found that it was my husband who almost fell down.

Desperate Housewives - S01E01 Activity A - Instructions

Hi everyone! :)

In class, we have watched an excerpt of the pilot episode of the series "Desperate Housewives". Mary Alice described what her life was like before she committed suicide. You have learned some new words, such as:

astonishing / dropping in / errands / gleamed / motionless / paper / polishing / popping / retrieve / startled

Now, write a short narrative (fictional or real) using as many words as you can from the list above. Post your narrative in the blog.

Instructions:

• Do not post your answer as a comment to this post. Create a new post for your response;
• Your post's title should be: "Desperate Housewives - S01E01 - Activity A - YOUR NAME". In my case, for example, my post's title would be Desperate Housewives - S01E01 Activity A - Gabriele.
• The tags/labels (marcadores) for your post should be: desperate housewives, S01E01 A, YOUR NAME. In my case, for example, the tags for the post would be desperate housewives S01E01 A, Gabriele.
• Make sure you read your colleagues' posts and comment on at least two of them.
• Don't forget to review the general rules for posting and commenting here.

Let's talk!

The world's English mania - instructions

Hi everyone! :)

In class, we have talked about manias. We have also watched the TED Talk by Jay Walker, "The world's English mania", and discussed the ideas presented by the lecturer.

When presenting the topic, Walker said:

Let's talk about manias. Let's start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea -- get the ball in the net. Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly.

How about you? When was the last time you witnessed a pandemonium? Describe the situation in a short paragraph and post it in the blog.

Instructions:

• Do not post your answer as a comment to this post. Create a new post for your response;
• Your post's title should be: "The world's English mania - YOUR NAME". In my case, for example, my post's title would be The world's English mania - Gabriele.
• The tags/labels (marcadores) for your post should be: english mania, YOUR NAME. In my case, for example, the tags for the post would be english mania, Gabriele.
• Make sure you read your colleagues' posts and comment on at least two of them.
• Don't forget to review the general rules for posting and commenting here.

Let's talk!

Why does this blog exist?

Good evening, everyone!

Welcome to my blog! Or maybe I should say... our blog!

This is a "place" - online, virtual space - where you, my students, and I will have the opportunity to communicate with each other.

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You'll be able to post some of your compositions here and read your colleagues'. You'll also have the chance to post comments to each other's works and share your views on topics we discussed in class.

From time to time, we'll also share links to resources, videos and any other interesting materials you might find around the web. I hope we have a great time together here.

See you around. ;)