There is a World with a lot of Worlds behind!

There are lots of things you can learn in the World.

There is a place where you can talk about work and there is also a place where you can find a job and a place where you can find staff.

There is a place where you can have fun and there is a place where you can talk about food or family. 

There is also a place where you can talk about money or love or philosophy. 

You can study anything you want anytime you want. You can do it once a week or every day or any time you like. 

Have fun! Work hard! 

Tell your friends and family members!  

Enjoy!

USALEARN.ORG - FREE ENGLISH COURSE - JOIN IN!

(BASTA CLICAR AI NO USAlearns.org e mandar ver)

Have you got an expertize to study by yourself?
U.S.A Learns is an E@English curse; tottaly free.
I recevied from Melissa Holt ...she is great friend
Now i am available:

Greetings Nilton!

We are glad that you like the CDLP online site.

It is used quite a lot by students all over the world.

****  You might want to also check out USALearns.org. It has USA in the name but is also free and open to anyone. There are three ESL courses on the site, Begining ESL, Intermediate ESL, and Practice English and Reading. The last one is based on the CDLPonline content but has additional activities. Another advantage is that teachers can create a course and have their students register in it in order to track their progress.

There are 3 sites with USALearns. The address listed above is for Independent Learners - those without teachers or tutors who wish to improve their English skills. If, after looking at the site, you would like your students to do the activities AND be able to track their progress, you will need to go to the Teacher site and setup a class. After you setup a class then the students will register on the Student site.

If you would like instructions on how to access and setup a Teacher account along with student registration instructions, let me know.

VERY IMPORTANT:

If a student registers at the Independent Learner site, they will NOT be able to register in your class if you create one.

I hope all of this makes sense. Please feel free to email if you have questions.

Our offices will be cloased from December 24th through January 1st.

Have a Safe and Happy Holiday season!

Melinda Holt, Project Specialist

CDLPonline.org

MyEFA.org

USALearns.org

Ps.:
If you are a begginer level or just wanna remember some initial rules;
This is a very good blog that I digged in Internet.
Use this link, subscribe yourself and enjoy it!
http://www.usalearns.org/index/loadActivity.cfm?TopicContentID=2146360524

CARNIVAL IS COMING: THE GREATEST PARTY IN THE WORLD - BRAZIL

The Carnival of Brazil  is an annual festival held [acontece]forty-six days before Easter. On certain days of Lent,[quaresma] Roman Catholics and some other Christians traditionally abstained from the consumption of meat and poultry [comer carne e aves], hence the term "carnival," from carnelevare, "to remove meat."
Carnival celebrations are believed to have roots in the pagan [originaria das festas pagãs] festival of Saturnalia, which, adapted to Christianity, became a farewell to bad things in a season of religious discipline to practice repentance and prepare for Christ's death and resurrection.
Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another.
In the southeastern cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, huge organized parades are led by samba schools.
Those official parades are meant to be watched by the public, while minor parades ("blocos") allowing public participation can be found in other cities.

The northeastern cities of Salvador, Porto Seguro and Recife have organized groups parading through streets, and public interacts
directly with them.
This carnival is also influenced by African-Brazilian culture. It's a six days party where crowds follow the trios elétricos through the city streets, dancing and singing.
Also in northeast, Olinda carnival features unique characteristics, part influenced by Venice Carnival mixed with cultural depictions of local folklore.
The typical genres of music of brazilian carnival are, in Rio de Janeiro (and Southeast Region in general): the samba-enredo, the samba de bloco, the samba de embalo and the marchinha; in Pernambuco and Bahia (and Northeast Region in general) the main genres are: the frevo, the maracatu, the samba-reggae and Axé music.
Carnaval is the most famous holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions.
The country stops completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.
The consumption of beer accounts for 80% of annual consumption and tourism receives 70% of annual visitors. The government distributes condoms and launches awareness campaigns at this time to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Rio de Janeiro's carnival alone drew 4.9 million people in 2011, with 400,000 being foreigners.

THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON : 2012

IN THIS MONDAY JANUARY 23^RD
CHINESE PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING THE BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR.

THEY USE TO CHOOSE AN ANIMAL TO REPRESENT THE SPIRIT OF EACH YEAR.

THIS IS RADITION HAVE BEEN CELEBRATION THROUGH MANY CENTURIES.

NOW IN 2012 IS THE DRAGON´S YEAR.

WHAT DRAGON SYMBOLIZES? LET SEE HERE:

DRAGON: full of vitality and enthusiasm! The dragon is a popular individual even with the reputation of taking foolish risks and “a big mouth” at times.

You are intelligent, gifted and perfectionist but these qualities make you unduly demanding on others. You would be well-suited to be artist, priest and politician.

Remember one thing: As dragons, unicorns and phoenix-eagles these are fictionaries animals.

They were created by some civilizations and don´t exist at all.

Do you believe them?

ANDRE X SALLY: WHAT A COUPLE! [que casal!]

                                                                    CHAPTER 1 :

It never gets you anywhere. 

                [Isto não vai ti levar a lugar algum]

Andre Souza is a natural worrier [naturalmente encucado].

It is something he has inherited from [herdou do seu pai]his father.

But then there are those who are never happy unless they have a problem to solve [nunca fica feliz até ter o problema resolvido].

Andre worried about the weather [clima], the state of the Real, Dollar or Euros and stocks, his health, the cost of living[custo de vida] and once he even worried because he thought he wasn't worrying enough. 

But that was in the past [mas isto é passado].

Things have changed because something happened to him exactly two years ago[exatos 2 anos atrás].
It was in the spring[ foi na primavera] when leaves appear on trees and nature prepares herself for renewal [preparando para se renovar].

Other things happen too — people often fall in love [pessoas sí apaixonam].

Now Andre doesn't have a romantic disposition.

 He never looks up at the leaves starting to grow [não olhava para folhas crescendo],     sighs and says: "Ah here comes the spring!" He simply thinks to himself:

"I live in a small village by a little stream[cidadezinha com seu riozinho] and around this time of year lots of creatures start to wake up and make a lot of noise.

"In Porto Alegre, where stands on the River Guaiba people make a lot of noise all the time! [pessoas fazem muito barulho]".

I apologize for the simplicity of these statements [perdoe-me a forma simples] but I want to illustrate the unimaginative nature which Andre possesses.

Towards the end of this story I give examples[até o final da história darei exemplos de] to show the extent of the change that he passed on.
The other character in this anecdote [outra personagem da estória] is a young woman called Sally Bastos.

She too lives in same small town village as André.

Now Sally is an entirely different kettle of fish [totalmente diferente e não está nem aí para as coisas complicadas].

Her philosophy runs as follows: "Worrying never gets you anywhere and life is too short to waste time imagining the worst [preocupação não leva a nada; e a vida é breve para si preocupar e ficar pensando no pior]."

In a word she is the complete opposite in temperament of Andre.

Here comes another cliché: Opposites attract. But you must remember that two years ago the two main characters hadn't met [até há 2 anos o casal nunca havia se visto antes], which was surprising when you consider the proximity of Andre's house and Sally's flat.

If you take the first left after the post office [posto do correios], you come to Sally's place and if you take the second turning to the right after that you come to the house [chega até a casa] where Andre lives.

The next participant in this village drama is the weather [é o clima], which plays a very significant part in Gauchos life [a vida do gaucho].

It was late September and the sun had disappeared behind dark heavy rain clouds but Andre had already set off for the local pub [entrar no boteco local].

Naturally he had his umbrella with him and a heavy coat following that aphorism his mother always used [o ditado que sempre tua mãe dizia]: 

                          "Never cast a cloud before august is out."

                                                  (to be continued...)
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A dangerous game to play. [uma jogada perigosa]

 The legal limit for driving after drinking alcohol is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood[sangue] when tested.

But there is no sure way of telling[Mas não há uma forma clara de afirmar]  how much you can drink before you reach this limit. It varies with each person depending on your weight, your gender [depende de cada pessoa, seu peso, sexo], if you´ve eaten and what sort of drinks you have had.

Some people might reach their limit [algumas pessoas atingem seu limite] after only about three standard drinks.  In fact, your driving ability can be affected by just one or two drinks.

Even if you [mesmo sí voce estiver] are below the legal limit, you could still be taken to court if a police officer[pego por policiais e fiscais] thinks your driving has been affected by alcohol.

   It takes about one hour for the body puts out the alcohol in one standard drink.   

So, if you have a heavy drinking session in the evening[si voce tomar uma cachaçada(sic)] you find that your driving ability is still affected the next morning, or you could even find that you are still over the legal limit. 

In a test with professional drivers, more alcoholic drinks they had had the more [mais e mais quantidade de alcool ingerida]certain they were to performance their ability to drive on... and less able they were to do it!

Alcohol is the major cause of road traffic accidents.

 One in three drivers have been killed [um a cada três motoristas assassinados] on road accidents have levels of alcohol which are over the legal limit, and road accidents after drinking are the biggest cause of death among young men.

More than half of the people stopped[mais da metade das pessoas que são paradas] by the police to take a breathalyzer [bafometro – aparelho para medir concentração de alcool no organismo] test have a blood alcohol concentration more than twice the legal limit.

So the only way to be sure you are safe is not to drink at all.

AMERICA: YORK x NEW YORK

This Is YORK in Yorkshire, which is in England

...and this is New York in America

                          .What differences between these two cities?

                          .What similar things do they have?

                                       

                                         Let´s talk about New York.

New York is a very interesting place. It is a world city. 

Do you know what I mean by that?

There are people from everywhere in New York. It is a mix. 

It is a mixture. 

It is a big mixture. It is a melting pot. 

New York is an international city. 

New York is a world city. New Yorkers called The BIG APPLE. 

Many singers, bands made songs celebrating New York. Movies, plays, documentaries, and the biggest and famous events taking place every year in this city. Everybody dream to come for a time to New York City. Don´t you?

Can you recognise these four hot spot place from New York?

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·        Do you know are these five famous New Yorkers?

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Begin the Begin

After America became independent from England, many people went to America.
Some people wanted a new beginning. They wanted a new life. 

They needed a fresh start. So some people were following a dream and other people were running away from persecution. They are remembering by The Pilgrims.

·                  Do you know the Pilgrims history?  

This is the Boat that navigated with first english families from England to US.

   

                           

There was another group of people too: slaves. They were forced to go to America. There was another group living in America. They were the Native Americans.

·        Can you say 3 Native American tribes? 

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People from all the nations of the world have contributed to the creation of the United States of America as African, Native Americans, Irish, Dutch, Italian, Asiatic, Latin America, Mexican, Jewish, German, French, etc.