Lesson Seventeen

Video conversation Class

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Lesson Eighteen - Teacher's tips for earning money!

 The teacher's tips for your financial life.

If you don’t have rich parents to stuff your pockets with hard cash, if you are sick of being broke, if you don’t want to be dependent on others for your basic economic needs, if you want to have a decent flow of income all the time to buy cool stuff and to spend the way you like, then it’s time to think dollars and get serious about earning. Whether you want to earn big and get rich someday or you just want some extra pocket money, you need to get into business, starting today.

There are lots of ways you can make good bucks without getting bad grades. You can work part-time after school or college, and on weekends and holidays. You can use your free time to earn that extra cash. There are plenty of opportunities, both online and offline. Look and you’ll find.

Let’s see some ways of online income. If you have a website or a blog (hey, you can get them free – try Blogger to start with), you can use it to market your own products and services. You can also sign up for some nice affiliate programs and earn money by promoting their products and services online. There are thousands of stuffs to choose from. In fact, you don’t even need a website or blog of your own to earn money online as an affiliate. You can use the popular social media like Facebook ( but don't add someone named Dayse Aparecida ) and Twitter as your money making tools. Or you can sign up for some programs that ask you to fill up forms and take some online surveys and get paid for doing so. Earning money on the web was never so simple and easy. Come to think of it , I heard that you  can earn some dollars buy showing some advertisings on your blog . Google pays you through Google adsense.

 

Now, how about offline income sources? There are plenty of possibilities for not only pocket money generation but also good cash collection. The first thing is to identify your unique talent and to turn it into cash. For example, if you’re good at painting, start selling your work to your friends and neighbors, and participate in exhibitions to reach a larger market. If you are good at math, gather some kids from your neighborhood and start tutoring them. There’s always something you know or are especially good at, and there’s always some way (in fact, lots of ways) to turn it into cash. All talents have market value. But then, you don’t need special talent to walk your neighbor’s dog and charge him for it. Yes, you can earn money by doing even ordinary things. Just think of ways to be of service to others - for cash!

 

Get some inspiration. Most of the richest guys today, all these billionaires and millionaires around, started out making small bucks doing little things. It’s said some of them shined shoes, delivered newspapers and sold lemonade. But they did something! Then they did more and better things. They got rich.

 

You don’t get rich by sitting around doing nothing. Get up and do something, start by earning a dollar. Then set your eyes on a million and get going in that direction.

Remember, you don’t have to wait until you’re 38 years fat teacher to start earning money!

If I myself had followed some of these tips , certainly I would have obtained a better success in my career. As I said before this world is full of good opportunities for you earning some bucks. All depends on which kind of person you are. The one who prefers to complain about everything unable to  see a way around it or the success one who thinks that every closed door is waiting for someone to open it. Take your pick! It's your turn! Wake up! Do it now or someone smarter than you , will.

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Lesson Nineteen - Third Video Class

Today we will watch our third conversation video and perform the role play. Are you ready? Let's go!

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Lesson Twenty - Evaluation English Class

In this class we will answer a big questionaire together. It will be an excellent opportunity for us to evaluate our English. We will also have a nice conversation in English. Both the questionaire and the conversation will be taken from a web site. See you saturday!

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Lesson Twenty-one - Conversation Review

1- What do you say when someone says "hi" to you?
2- What is the difference between Good Night and Good Evening?
3- What is the polite way to ask something to somebody?
4- What do you say before you ask an information ?
5- Your father did something good for  you. How do you praise him ?
6- I have something to tell you but I don't know if you would like to listen to me. What do you say to show me that you want to?
7-  How would you explain to a friend about the first conditional?
8- When someone asks me if I speak English , I answer " Yes, I speak English". Is there other way to answer this question?
9- Could you introduce yourself and your  family , informing the relationship, age and a thing each one like to do?
10- Someone is speaking with you in a perfect English, but you can't understand some words because the person talks too fast. What do you do to keep your conversation going?
11- What are the differences among get/make and earn money?
12- Tell me 10 English verbs you know by heart.
13- Guided Conversation. Bruna and Elias will have a conversation following my instructions.

B- Olá, Boa noite! Meu nome é Bruna. Qual é seu nome?
E- Olá Bruna, meu nome é Elias. Como vai você?
B- Muito bem obrigada. Você fala Inglês?
E- Não muito bem. Sinto muito. Mas eu entendo se você falar devagar. De onde você é?
B- Eu sou do Brazil. E você?
E- Eu sou Japones. Parabens! Seu Inglês é muito bom!
B- È porque tenho aulas particulares em casa.
E- Com licença, mas tenho que ir. Prazer em conhece-la Bruna.
B- O prazer é meu.

14- When do you use the expression " How do you say? "
15- Which expression do you use when someone tells something a little difficult to believe?
16- What do you say if someone affirms you are pregnant? ( gay)
17- How do you say in English " O que você quer dizer com isso? "
18- How do you say in English ' tenha um bom dia"
20- How do you say in English " È muita bondade sua"
21- When do I use the expression ' What's the matter?"
22- How do you say in English " tenha uma boa tarde"
23- How would you explain to a friend about the second conditional?
24- Tell me two ways of asking the time.
25- How do you say in English " Deixa pra lá, não se preocupe"
26- Tell me two ways of saying " How are you?"
27- How do you say in English " tenha uma boa noite"
28- What did you do during your vacations?
29- Which place would you like to visit if you had money enough to?
30- What are your expectatives to 2011?
31- Tell me 5 English verbs you know by heart.
32- Are these verbs regular or irregular?
33- Identifying the sentences. I will write some sentences in English and the person in parenthesis will try to find some informations about the sentence.  You must tell me wether this sentence is in the present, past, future, continous, immediate future, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional, affirmative, negative,interrogative, comparative of equality, superiority, inferiority, superlative...I mean, you are supposed to give me all the informations you can take from the sentences.

Example: 


* Edgar's house is the most expensive house I have ever seen. ( J.B.)






answer = This is an affirmative sentence. It is written in both simple and  perfect tense. In the beggining of the sentence I could identify a genitive case. There's also a superlative grammar.

A- I don't like to live in Brazil. ( Bruna )
B- Is your teacher as fluent as a native american? ( Elias )
C- If I were you , I would pay attention on your teacher. ( Dani)
D- The teacher spent his vacation at his sister's beach house. ( J.B.)
E- I won't buy a car for you because I don't have money. ( Bruna )
F- Where are you going to? ( Dani )
G- Why will I believe in your story? It is smelling a rat. ( Elias)
H- If Dani had had another sister, She wouldn't have been as happy as she is now with Bruna.( J.B.)

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Lesson twenty-two - Conversation review Two

1- What do you say when someone says "hi" to you?
2- What is the difference between Good Night and Good Evening?
3- What is the polite way to ask something to somebody?
4- What do you say before you ask an information ?
5- Your father did something good for  you. How do you praise him ?
6- I have something to tell you but I don't know if you would like to listen to me. What do you say to show me that you want to?
7-  How would you explain to a friend about the first conditional?
8- When someone asks me if I speak English , I answer " Yes, I speak English". Is there other way to answer this question?
9- Could you introduce yourself and your  family , informing the relationship, age and a thing each one like to do?
10- Someone is speaking with you in a perfect English, but you can't understand some words because the person talks too fast. What do you do to keep your conversation going?
11- What are the differences among get/make and earn money?
12- Tell me 10 English verbs you know by heart.
13- Guided Conversation. Bruna and Elias will have a conversation following my instructions.

B- Olá, Boa noite! Meu nome é Bruna. Qual é seu nome?
E- Olá Bruna, meu nome é Elias. Como vai você?
B- Muito bem obrigada. Você fala Inglês?
E- Não muito bem. Sinto muito. Mas eu entendo se você falar devagar. De onde você é?
B- Eu sou do Brazil. E você?
E- Eu sou Japones. Parabens! Seu Inglês é muito bom!
B- È porque tenho aulas particulares em casa.
E- Com licença, mas tenho que ir. Prazer em conhece-la Bruna.
B- O prazer é meu.

14- When do you use the expression " How do you say? "
15- Which expression do you use when someone tells something a little difficult to believe?
16- What do you say if someone affirms you are pregnant? ( gay)
17- How do you say in English " O que você quer dizer com isso? "
18- How do you say in English ' tenha um bom dia"
20- How do you say in English " È muita bondade sua"
21- When do I use the expression ' What's the matter?"
22- How do you say in English " tenha uma boa tarde"
23- How would you explain to a friend about the second conditional?
24- Tell me two ways of asking the time.
25- How do you say in English " Deixa pra lá, não se preocupe"
26- Tell me two ways of saying " How are you?"
27- How do you say in English " tenha uma boa noite"
28- What did you do during your vacations?
29- Which place would you like to visit if you had money enough to?
30- What are your expectatives to 2011?
31- Tell me 5 English verbs you know by heart.
32- Are these verbs regular or irregular?
33- Identifying the sentences. I will write some sentences in English and the person in parenthesis will try to find some informations about the sentence.  You must tell me wether this sentence is in the present, past, future, continous, immediate future, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional, affirmative, negative,interrogative, comparative of equality, superiority, inferiority, superlative...I mean, you are supposed to give me all the informations you can take from the sentences.

Example: 


* Edgar's house is the most expensive house I have ever seen. ( J.B.)






answer = This is an affirmative sentence. It is written in both simple and  perfect tense. In the beggining of the sentence I could identify a genitive case. There's also a superlative grammar.

A- I don't like to live in Brazil. ( Bruna )
B- Is your teacher as fluent as a native american? ( Elias )
C- If I were you , I would pay attention on your teacher. ( Dani)
D- The teacher spent his vacation at his sister's beach house. ( J.B.)
E- I won't buy a car for you because I don't have money. ( Bruna )
F- Where are you going to? ( Dani )
G- Why will I believe in your story? It is smelling a rat. ( Elias)
H- If Dani had had another sister, She wouldn't have been as happy as she is now with Bruna.( J.B.)

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Lesson twenty- three - The Cyder House - Video conversation

“ In other parts of the world , young men leave home and travel far and wide in search of a promising future. Their journeys are often fueled by dreams of triumphing overevil , finding a great love or the hope of fortune easily made. Here in St.Cloud’s not even the decision to get off the train is easily made. For it requires an earlier more difficult decision. Add a child to your life or leave one behind. The only reason people journey here is for the orphanage.”

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___ Good Morning!
___ Hello, we have an appointment.
___ Yeah, come in! Welcome to St.Clouds. We’re going right upstairs to see Dr. Larch.
“ I came as a physician, to abandoned children and unhappily pregnant women. I had hope to become a hero , but here in St. Cloud”s , there is no such position. In the lonely sordid world of lost children there were no heroes to be found. And so I became the caretaker of many. Fatherof none. Well, in a way , there was one. Here he is. His name was Homer wells. I named him after the Greek writer. “
___ You know Homer, of course. And I made his name Wells , because I could tell he was …very deep. In truth, Nurse Angela named him. Her father drilled wells and she once owned a cat named Homer.
“ Bye – bye , Homer! “
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___ Good Night , you princess of Maine.
___ Can we see the doctor?
___ you Kings of New England.
___ Doctor? Doctor? There’s something wrong with him. He never makes a sound.
“ He didn’t cry. Orphan babies learn there is no point in it.”
___ Do you think we could have a look at someone a little different?
“ Thus was Homer Wells returned. He was too happy a baby.
“ bye Homer!!
“ The second family to adopt him had a gift for getting sounds out of Homer. They beat him.He couldn’t stop crying. “ It’s ok now. Nobody’s going to hurt you anymore.”
“ Here in St. Cloud’s , I try to consider with each rule I make or break …that my first priority is an orphan’s future.Twice adopted. Twice returned. It didn’t bode well.And yet it was always clear to me that he was a special boy.”
___” Near the angle of the rib…”
“ It was with Homer’s future in mind that I began his tutorial”
___ If you’re going to stay at St. Clouds, I expect you to be of use.”
“ I admit our lessons were , in part, the simple expression of a father’s love. But in failing to with hold love and making the orphanage his home ……had I created a true and everlasting orphan?
___ Keep breathing! You’re going to be ok!
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“ And also my excellent pupil learned to look after abandoned children and to deliver unwanted babies.
“___ Relax!”
“ long ago I decide …it was the women who needed to be delivered. I chose my own path. No one would ever choose for Homer Wells. “
“___ Dr. Larch” .
__” Coming!”
___We have two new patients. One to deliver.
“___First pregnancy?”
___Yes, for both.
___I presume you’d prefer handling the delivery?
___All I said was I don’t want to perform abortions. I have no argument with you performing them.
___You know how to help these women. How can you not feel obligated to help them when they can’t get help anywhere else?
___One, it’s illegal. Two, I didn’t ask how to do it. You just showed me.
___ What else could I have shown you? I can only teach what I know. In any life you have to be of use.___ Of use? Of use
___” That was good , Carla. It was perfect.” Everything is gonna be fine.
___ I don’t want to see it.
“ You don’t have to see it , dear. Don’t worry.
___ I don’t even want to know what sex it is! So don’t tell me!
___” We won’t tell you. You’re gonna be ok.
_ and your baby is gonna be ok too.
___ I don’t wanna know!
_ That’s a big boy.
___” Let me see him. I want to see him.
___ Would you mind join me in the nursery?
___Okay.
___ Wilbur, the adopting couple is waiting in your office.
___ Life is waiting. Let them waiting.
___ Where’s the name sheet?
___ Nobody’s named this one yet.
___ oh, it’s my turn. Henceforth …you shall be Little Dorritt.
___ Oh, no …you don’t like that, do you?
__He’s a boy, that’s why.
___Can’t a boy be a Dorritt?
___I don’t think so.
___ You do it.
___Okay. Henceforth you shall be Little Wilbur.
___ I’m not crazy about the “ little.”
___ Okay, just Wilbur then.
___ We haven’t had a Wilbur here in a year or so, have we? We used to have dozens.
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“ __ He sniffs that ether! I’ve seen him do it.
___ it’s because he’s too tired to sleep. He has to.
___ his smell could put you to sleep.
___ doctors smell like ether.
___ Doctor Homer, you don’t smell like ether.
___ I’m not a doctor.
I haven’t been to medical school. I haven’t even been to high school.
__ but you’ve studied with him for years.
___ I’m not a doctor!
___ I’m sorry Homer.
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“ Fuzzy is not uncommon.I tell you there’s something about the premature babies of alcoholic mothers. They seem to be susceptible to every damn thing that comes along.”
___ I haven’t read that.
___ I haven’t either. But you will. The morons who write the books ought to do some research here.
___ Isn’t Fuzzy just underdeveloped?
___ when doesn’t he have bronchitis? I wouldn’t call his bronchial infection underdevelopment , would you?
__ come on , Fuzz!
__ Here we go, fee up! There you are.
__ sit up straight.
__ Wilbur, Wilbur..Can you come out here please? There you go…
___ Hi, Homer.
__ hey! What is it, Mary Agnes?
“ Now calm down!”
__ What is it?
___ Look.
__ Did you bite it? Did you bite your tongue?
___ I don’t remember.
___ yep! That looks like you bit it. It will be fine.
___ well, maybe I was kissing someone and he bit me.
___ Oh, I think you bit it. Maybe in your sleep. Story time , Fuzzy.
“ oh Lord , support us all the day long…until the shadows lenghten, and the evening comes …and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over and our work is done. Then in thy Mercy, grant us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last. Amen. Amen.

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