Teacher EVELYN,



2010: Estados Unidos!!!!!

Seu sucesso também é nossa vitória!!!!!

Equipe In House.

BRAINTEASER

Read the rhyme and answer the question.

When I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kittens;
Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives
How many were going to St. Ives?

see ya...

Du iú ispik ingrish?

OUCH, MY EYES, MY EYEEEEES!!!!

Rév a náis uík!
Quices,

Títcher Béu

If CLauSES

Hi there!
For all those ones who are studying IF CLAUSES:


Here you'll find some very good exercises. They are divided into levels and colors, the green ones are for elementary students, the yellow ones are for the pre-intermediate students and the red ones are for the intermediate students. Have fun ok?
They're useful and funny so let's get to work right?!
http://inglesnanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=45&Itemid=68

¿Quién es él?

Javier Bardem nació el 1 de marzo de 1969 en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

En sus comienzos Javier Bardem estudió pintura en la Escuela de Artes y Oficios y también jugó Rugby en la Selección Española, pero su pasión por el cine y su familia que son todos actores le hizo decidir volcarce a la actuación.

Ganador del Fotogramas de Plata al Mejor Actor en 1994 por "Huevos de Oro", ganó también ese mismo año por "Días contados" y por "El detective y la muerte" el Premio al Mejor Actor en el Festival de San Sebastián, además del Premio Fernando Rey a la mejor interpretación por "Días contados".

Su carrera como actor lo llevo a realizar grandes films entre los que se destacan "Los lunes al sol" (2002) y "Mar Adentro" (2004).

Y tú, ¿conoces a la chica de abajo? ¿Qué relación tiene ella con Bardem?

Greetings...

Hello (also Hullo especially in British English) (British English also Hallo) is the usual word and is used in all situations, including answering the telephone.

Hi is more informal and is now very common : Hi guys! Hi, there!

How are you? Or How are you doing? (very informal) often follow Hello and Hi : ‘Hello, Mark’.’Oh, hi, Kathy! How are you?’

Good morning is often used by members of a family or people who work together when they see each other for the first time in the day. It can also be used in formal situations and on the telephone. In informal speech, people may just say Morning.

Good afternoon and Good evening are much less common. Good night is not used to greet somebody, but only to say goodbye late in the evening or when you are going to bed.

If you are meeting someone for the first time, you can say Pleased to meet you or Nice to meet you (less formal). Some people use How do you do? In formal situations. The correct reply to this is: How do you do?

Some other facts:


Hi, related to "Hiya", both being less formal for 'hello' but very widely used nowadays. "Hi" is relatively new, having become popular in the 1920s in the USA and then spread throughout English-speaking populations around the world, and even into other languages.

"Hey", has become fairly commonplace as a greeting in informal USA English, but is considered impolite in UK English to use as a greeting (Cambridge English dictionary says "used as a way of attracting someone's attention, sometimes in a way which is not very polite"; its standard usage in the UK is to express a mixture of surprise and displeasure/indignation/protest/reprimand, or else to shout (specifically not at standard spoken volume) at someone from afar prior to greeting them or else warning them about danger.

According to the Cambridge English and Collins English dictionaries "hey" is not used as a greeting, but an interjection used to express surprise (sometimes with indignation or displeasure, e.g. "Hey, stop that!" or "Hey, stop making a noise! Or "Hey, what do you think you're doing?!"), inquiry (as a prelude, thus catching attention, e.g. "Hey, have you seen this?"), interest (especially sudden, e.g. "Hey, what's going on?!"), and to call attention from a distance (e.g. Across the street, or when someone's back is turned - "Hey, didn't see you there!" or "Hey, over here!").

"Good morning", "Good afternoon", "Good evening" — More formal verbal greetings used at the appropriate time of day. Note that the similar "Good night" and "Good day" are more commonly used as phrases of parting rather than greeting. These are often abbreviated by those wishing to be less formal, e.g. Among friends or family, to 'Morning!', 'Afternoon!', 'Night!' or 'G'night!'

"Howdy" — Informal greeting. Derived from "How do you do," it is common in the rural regions of the United States. This is also the official greeting of the Texas A&M Aggies of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

"How do you do?", along with variations such as "How are ya?" (Ireland) and "Hiya"

"What's up?", "Whassup", "Sup?", "How's it going?", “How’s it hanging?” "wazap?", "Yo", and "What's happenin?" — United States.

"How's tricks?" and "How's it going?" are popular in UK English, but note that 'What's up?' in UK English means 'What's wrong?' and is therefore not a greeting.

"Howzit?" also "Howsit?"

=)

I blog #6

The Marshmallow Test - VERY FUNNY

"Ok, here’s the deal: marshmallow for you. You can either wait, and I’ll give you another one if you wait ‘till I come back, or you can eat it now, and don’t get another"

A woman made this (sadistic!) deal with many different children. They were filmed while waiting her return, resisting bravely to the softness of the marshmallow. Watch the result, it's HILARIOUS!



Have a nice week!

xxx,
teacher Bel

Gumminbär -CHO KA KA O

mEet Me HaLfWaY...BEP

For all BEP fans:
Meet me halfway!
Fergie told Daily Mail that when she was recording her vocals for "Meet Me Halfway", she "transported herself back to 1985, when she was 10 and saw Madonna in concert for the first time on the Virgin tour. She took on Madonna's persona in that song as a homage".

Ao mestre, com carinho!

Pela International House Idiomas já passaram muitos e excelentes professores! Cada um, à sua maneira, deixou muito de si e certamente levou algo de nós!
Na construção da escola muitos tijolos foram especialmente colocados pelos saudosos Gilson, Cristiane, Lívia, Maria Carolina, Danilo, Rosirene, Mariana, Kátia, Cristiano, Daniela, Vanessa, Patrícia...
Á eles, nossa eterna gratidão!!!

E aos que mantém de pé nossa filosofia de ensino, nossa gratidão maior!!!
Muito obrigado aos cúmplices Bel, Rafael, Elisa, Nayra, Jean, Evelyn, Andréia, Joanna e Schneider!!!!

À vocês, nossa eterna gratidão!!!!

Teacher's Day

My favorite quotations about teaching:


"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job." ~Donald D. Quinn


"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~Thomas Carruthers

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others"

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." ~John Cotton Dana

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning"

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach." ~Peter Drucker

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task." ~Haim G. Ginott


Happy teacher's day to all my collegues. We're together on this road, compañeros!

xxx,
teacher Bel

Le Roi Lion Hakuna Matata



Hakuna Matata,
Mais quelle phrase magnifique!
Hakuna Matata,
Quel chant fantastique!

Ces mots signifient
Que tu vivras ta vie,
Sans aucun souci,
Philosophie

Hakuna Matata
Ce très jeune phacochère
J´étais jeune et phacochère ...

Bel organe
Merci !

Un jour, quelle horreur
Il comprit que son odeur
Au lieu de sentir la fleur
Soulevait les coeurs.

Oui y´a dans tout cochon
Un poète qui sommeille.

Quel martyr
Quand personne
Peut plus vous sentir!

Disgrâce infâme
Parfum d´infâme
Inonde mon âme

Oh ! Ça pue le drame
Je déclenche une tempête

Pitié, arrête!
Chaque fois que je...

Non Pumbaa, pas devant les enfants!

Oh ! Pardon!

Hakuna Matata,
Mais quelle phrase magnifique!
Hakuna Matata,
Quel chant fantastique!

Ces mots signifient
Que tu vivras ta vie,

Ouais, chante petit!

Sans aucun souci...

Philosophie...

Hakuna Matata!

Hakuna Matata,
Hakuna Matata,
Hakuna Matata,
Hakuna...

Ces mots signifient
Que tu vivras ta vie,

Sans aucun souci,
Philosophie Hakuna Matata!

Hakuna Matata,
Hakuna Matata,
Hakuna Matata...

pEaNuTs...

I Blog # 5

by Marta

I'm a geologist and I work in a mine in Catalão. The common minerals in the mine are apatite, piroclore, magnetite and carbonates of Calcium( calcite) and magnesium (dolomite).

dolomite

Calcite

Magnetite

piroclore

Apatite

I Blog #4

by Natália, Tadeu and Jefferson

This TV series has much blood and two handsome guys! It's very interesting and different...
But it is very strong!!



The first impression of it is a little pathetic and doof, but it´s also extremely funny and ironic.

This is a very interesting TV series because the story is exciting and fascinating...

Some moments need no words...

I Blog #3

by: Loraine



I would like to recommend the book "Fortune Teller" 'cause it's a great book, for those who like mystery and drama stories. This book tells us the story about Petter and Pam and a misterious fortune teller.

Girl talk: learn to replicate Lady Gaga's eye makeup!

As everybody knows, Lady Gaga causes a huge impression in the music industry. She's young, talented, fun and always carries an... exotic look. In sum, Lady Gaga ROCKS!



She's known specially for her overdramatic looks. I found on the web a great tutorial so you can copy one of this looks! The picture above was taken from the video clip Poker Face, and that's what you're gonna learn in this tutorial video by Michelle Phan: how to replicate Lady Gaga's look in Poker Face.
Enjoy it, ladies!



I'll copy only the makeup part, because I don't like those gloves nor the blond wig. But the makeup is gorgeous, very fashion and pure glamour :D

I hope you like it!

xxx,
teacher Bel

be HAPPY!!!

But.. what is HAPPINESS??? Could you define it???

I'm waiting for answers...

hehe

=)

Pagode Versions

Hey Guys! Check this out. This guy writes english versions of some brazilian hits and they turn out to be very funny.

I chose the song Brown Good Good, from the original Marrom Bombom lol
If you wanna listen to the other versions, visit his youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pagodeversions



SING WITH ME
We have everything to make it right
Stay with me
With you so close everything is beautiful
Stay with me
In the sand of the beach, in front of the sea
I need you

Take off your pants and put the dental floss
Morena you are so so hot

In the sand our love
In the radio our sound

There's magic in our color
Our color Brown

Brown goodgood
Brown good good
Our color brown

Informe sobre la familia española

Así somos

En una familia española de finales del siglo XX, y también en las familias europeas, hay muy pocos niños. La tasa de natalidad de España es muy baja (1,2 hijos por mujer). Sin embargo, los hijos no se van de casa pronto. Su salida se retrasa cada vez más porque las viviendas son caras y el paro entre jóvenes es muy alto. Lo normal es que no formen una pareja estable hasta los 27 años.

En comparación con otras sociedades europeas, en las familias españolas hay pocos divorcios (0,5 por mil), quizá porque la ley de divorcio tiene pocos años. No es muy alto tampoco el número de nacimientos fuera del matrimonio en España ni en otros países mediterráneos.

Algunos hombres y mujeres viven solos (3% y 6% respectivamente), pero normalmente las personas solteras conviven con sus padres. Todavía hay bastantes familias (un 9 por ciento) en las que conviven tres generaciones: padres, hijos y abuelos. Otro cambio importante es que actualmente casi el 50% de las mujeres españolas entre 15 y 64 años trabaja fuera de casa.

(Seguro Contador, Informe sobre la familia española)


Ahora contesta la pregunta de abajo:


¿Cómo es tu familia?


Abrazos,

Renato Aires

hOlMeS... by Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . He is the creation of British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and for his skillful use of astute, observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases.
With his best and adored friend, Dr. Watson, he goes through incredible cases either narrated by himself or by doctor Watson's point of view.
His intelligence is breathtaking, charming and totally confident, he solves the most difficult misteries and mesmerizes us wiht his talent.
Reading holmes is really worth your while, no regrets!
kkkk
But if you're not very into reading you might like the movie version that's going to be released on december,25th 2009.

Here's the trailer.
Check it out!