World Cop and English Language.

Well, everybody know in 2014, Brazil will celebrate the amazing World Cup, and as this word says: the World will be here, and there's just one language that we can communicate with everyone.

This language is English.

But, How are the people preparing to speak this language? Are the companies helping theirs workers to do any English Course?

To try answering this questions me and my friend Karol did a lillte search in a tourist place, where I live: so we interviewed 64 shops, that have about 222 workers.

Result:

• About 15 shops have one or two people that speak English
• and about 48 shops have workers that want to do an English Course,
•  but, just 18 shops help or want to pay part of an English course for its workers in the future.

 It's clear if the shops help their workers to do it, they will sell faster their products and increase their economy.

　

Well, this is another tip: "Help yours workers to be bilingual and become rich!" rsrsrs


Please, comment!

Thank you!
 

Music

MUSIC:
is there a person who does not like it? I think no. Because the music enter in our soul and move our body. The music makes us fell happy.
Don't matter the kind of music, it's always good listen to it.

1ª What do you think about English and Music?

Before talk about my opinion, I need to say that: I know about 3 people don't speak English, and they never did an English Course before, so they sing worderful songs of Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz of the right way. Do I need to speak anymore?

I'll answer this question asking others two questions: 2ª - Have you ever gotten to study English without listen to music?
3ª Why is the music so important to your English?

Asnwer 2 - I think no!
Answer 3 - The music is important to our English, because when we  listen to music we fell happy, and the activity becomes delightful and when we study English listening to music we add more words in our vocabulary.

Well, I think it's impossible studies English without music!

Send me, your opinion!
Thank you, Chris!

The pronunciation of Regular verbs.

It's hard to say that I passed very time hearing and saying "I WOURQUEEDI (I WORKED) or I WOTIIDI (I WATCHED)", when I didn't know that the Irregular Verbs have three ways to be pronounced.

So, I will try to show you. Pay attention:


             1  - When the Regular verb ends in a vowel sounds or voiced consonat (B,G,L,M,N,V,Y and Z), the -ED is pronounced D.

EX: PLAYED, TRAVELED.


              2 - When the Regular verb ends in an unvoiced cosonant sound (K,P,F,-SH,-TCH, or X) the -ED  ending is prounounced T.

EX: WORKED, WATCHED, FIXED

     
              3 - The -ED ending is pronounced ID when the Regular verb ends in consonat sounds D or T.

Ex: NEEDED, ALERT.


It's just study, see ya.

Christian Nunes.

HOW ABOUT VISITING PRAIA DO FORTE?

Praia do Forte is beautiful place localted in Mata de São João - Bahia. It has a wonderful ville where you can buy some crafts objects, eat delicious foods at goods restaurants and visit cool places as the Tamar Project.
 Well, "let's visit some of these places".

Tamar Project:

The Tamar project is a Open-air Museum of the Sea Turtle, where you can see and know about some marine animals, mainly the sea turtles.

There you can follow a guiding, watch the puppet show, whatch the feeding of the animals, touch in the stingray and the sharks, visit the Yellow Submarine and buy something in the shop to help some endangered animals.

Look some images:



Feeding of the animals.





Interactive Feeding

Interactive Feeding

Stingray Pool.




 



 





Sapiranga reserve

The Sapiranga reserve protects its animals. All this area is rainforest where you can watch birds and other animals, do a trail with  natives guides that work there.

When you finish the trail, you’ll find a river where you can take shower and relax with the nature.

In the Sapiranga Reserve, you can jump a tyrolean, go bicycling or go riding.

It’s really a amazing place.

Let’s see: 

Timentube River.



Ruins of Garcia D’Ávila Castel

The Gaircia D’Ávila Castel is a historic place to visit in Praia do Forte.

There you can enter in the Castel with a guide to know about the history of the people lived and work there.

At the Garcia D’Ávila Foundation you can see some ob­jects found by archaeologists.

Garcia D’Ávila Castel is the “fort” where some Portuguese lived there, and it is in front of the beach, for this reason, this amazing place is called Praia do Forte.

Humpback Whale Institute             

The Humpback Whale Institute is a place where you can  see a whale’s skeleton  and  watch some movies about them.

This is a wonderful place.

At the Humpback Whale Institute’s group, from July to November you can wacth the whales, because  it's the period they come to Brazil to have their babies.

 

Beaches:

The beaches of Praia do Forte are really beautiful! They’re good places to go diving, surf, walk and swimming.

In the beach you will find some tents, where you can eat some traditional foods and drinks.

I wish you a good trip!

Christian Nunes.



WHAT KIND OF ENGLISH I HAVE TO SPEAK? BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH?

Well, if we stop to think, all the languages have two ways of speak: the formal and informal way, as in the English Language.
 The English students have some doubts in what kind of English speak, and to help you, I'll try to explain each one.

• The British English is more formal and more easy to understand, because the British people speak slower.

The British English uses more the grammar and the sounds of the words is as themselves.

• The American English isn't as formal as the British. It uses slang and more expressions to speak.

I think the English students need to learn the British English because it's more easy to understand. But I think we have to learn a "little" of the two ways, because of we have more knowledge of the pronounce, it's better to us. 

An example: I try to speak of the twos because maybe the person don't speak the kind of English I speak.

HOW CAN I PRONOUNCE THE WORDS "BETTER, LITTLE, WATER"?


Comment!

Christian Nunes.

Read and write - Tip of the day!

Read:

In this blog I put many tips, many things I did my life and many things I want to do.
If you are studying English Language to work or for others reasons, you need to read and write too.

It's of course, we know it is really important read, and sometimes when we read we don't know all the means of the words. It's as when we are talking with someone, and his person say:
"In the world there are senven turtles, and four of them live in Bahia".

For you understand an English text you don't need understand all the means of the words, you have to find the keywords, and have a good vocabulary.
For example: In the world there are seven turtles, and four of them live in Bahia.
If you found the keywords and have a good vacabulary, maybe you understood this sentence as:
"In the word there seven turtles and in the Bahia there are four turtles".

Write:

Someone English students don't like to write, but it's writting that we can review our knowledge.

If you don't like to write so much, you need to start writting something you like. I love the English Language, and I write something about it.

Observations: Read and write its easy, but you have to read and write things of your English level, it's more comfortable to you understand.
The your ability to write and read will grow up with the time.


Comment!
                                                                      Christian Nunes.

How about visiting the Bahia?

The Bahia is a state of Brazil. It has very nature, cultures and a population of 14.080.654 funny people.

Its songs and sons are so hot, they funny everybody. Its foods are delicious, its nature is so beautiful.

It’s a state has very wonderful cities and places, like Salvador, Porto Seguro and Chapada Diamantina.

The Bahia is a state of many touristic places, but let’s begins by Salvador.

Did you ever visit the Elevador Lacerda and the Pelorinho? Did you ever buy anything in the Mercado modelo? Would you like to pray and know elegant and historic churches?

Well, let’s do a tour by Salvador and know these beautiful places.

 

Elevador Lacerda

The Elevador Lacerda is an elevator used to transport people.  It has 72 meters high. It was built by Augusto Frederico de Lacerda.  To build it, Augutto Frederico used pieces of steel imported from England.

How can I get there?

The Elevador Lacerda is next to Mercado Modelo on Cayru Square.

It’s good visit it, because there you can see the sea and others things.

Mercado Modelo

The Mercado Modelo is a big Market where you can buy some craft products of the Bahia. That’s way you can buy many gifts to give your friends and family when you come back home.

Well, Elevador Lacerda is one of the five more visited tourist points in Salvador.

It is opening every day. It opens on 9:00 A.M to 07:00 P.M.

 

Farol da Barra

The Farol da Barra is a lighthouse.

In the seventeenth century, the port of Salvador was one of the busiest and most important of the continent, and had to assist to the boats that arrived at the Bay of All Saints looking for Brazil wood, sugar, cotton, tobacco and other items, and because this necessity was built the lighthouse.

I like to see it in the night. Well, it is beautiful all the time.

Itapuã

It is beautiful beach, with a calm sea and bright water. It’s a important tourist place of the Salvador.

In Tupi Guarani (a traditional Indians language) Itupuã means “stone that snores”.  Why “stone that snores”? Tell one story that there was a stone snored, in the Itapuã beach, and this became the name of the beach.

Dique do Tororó

The Dique do Tororó is an artificial lake.  Its lake has 110,000 meters cubic.

Dique do Tororó is a place where the people usually went to supply their water, and because it, the people have the culture to sing this song:

“I went to Tororó,

To drink water and I didn’t find,

I met a beautiful woman,

That I left there…”

What can I do in the Tororó?

In the Dique do Tororó we can do many things. We can fish, we can rowing, we can do yoga, etc.

 Abaeté

The Abaeté Lagoon is one of the most popular postcards of the city. A curiosity is that the water temperature is different in several parts. Its deep is approximately 5 meters. There, you can find orchids, fruit trees, like guava and cashew. The Abaeté is an Area of Environmental Protection and it is one of the biggest ecologic recreation centers of the northeast.

What more can I find there?

There you can find nature and cultural extractives like the Music’s House, restaurants, crafts shops, playground and 17 kiosks sell coconut and typical foods. 

In the Music’s house, there are documents that tell the Bahia’s music story, videos, pictures, books and musical instruments.

Pelourinho

Pelourinho is a name of one Salvador’s neighborhood. It’s stay in Historic Center of the city, it has one colonial architecture of the Portuguese Baroque.

The name Pelourinho refers to stone column located in the center of the square, where the criminals were exposed and punished.

In the Pelourinho you can find goods restaurants, music and read or buy some books in the Jorge Amado’s house.

Well, come to visit the Bahia and know wonderful places and cultures.

Comment!!!

Christian Nunes.