Ismael Martinez - Ilustrações: Why?

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English Listening Exercises with Christmas Classics: Elf

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Crop Circles

Hello Everybody

The post today is very intriguing for most of us. It is about some crop circles.

Watch the video below and think about it.

I am not telling you it is the true. However, it makes us think about where we come from and where we are going to...

The ones who are not interested in such matter ignore it please.

Cheers

Nevton

English Tips Self-Taught: 10 tips to learn English, Inglês Vip

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English Tips Self-Taught: The new muse of Brazilian music

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CONTRAFEITOS: Os Souvenirs de Montaigne

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CONTRAFEITOS: Simplicidade...

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Thanksgiving history

Hello Dear all,

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated primarily in United States and Canada. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November. It will be celebrated on November 24th this year. The thanksgiving celebration has been brought by Europeans settlers to America in order to thank for the harvest.

Let's gather at this moment to thank for all we have got so far.

Watch the video below and get to know a bit about the history of Thanksgiving day.

Happy thanksgiving day

Best wishes

Nevton

what makes a good sales rep

Hello Folks

The objective of the post today is talking about what makes a successful sales rep.

PRE-TASK

Discuss this question: (5”)

“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

1. What makes a successful sale a good product or a good salesrep?

2. What makes a good salesrep?

Vocabulary - Adjectives of character

• Which of the adjectives would you use to describe a good salesrep ? Give reasons for your choice.

Now listen to the video below and check some of the adjectives that Alec Baldwin mentions:

Transcript

Glengarry Glen Ross

written by David Mamet

In this scene, Blake (Alec Baldwin) is confronting the employees of a tough Chicago real-estate office, Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon), Ed Moss (Ed Harris) and George Aaronow (Alan Arkin) while their unsympathetic supervisor John Williamson (Kevin Spacey) looks on. If you would like, this monologue I'm sure can be edited into one incredibly long one, if you want to take out the lines from the other actors.

Blake: Let me have your attention for a moment! So you're talking about what? You're talking about...(puts out his cigarette)...bitching about that sale you shot, some son of a bitch that doesn't want to buy, somebody that doesn't want what you're selling, some broad you're trying to screw and so forth. Let's talk about something important. Are they all here?

Williamson: All but one.

Blake: Well, I'm going anyway. Let's talk about something important! (to Levene) Put that coffee down!! Coffee's for closers only. (Levene scoffs) Do you think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's Levene?

Levene: Yeah.

Blake: You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?

Moss: I don't have to listen to this shit.

Blake: You certainly don't pal. 'Cause the good news is -- you're fired. The bad news is you've got, all you got, just one week to regain your jobs, starting tonight. Starting with tonights sit. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this months sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. You get the picture? You're laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them! You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, you ARE shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it 'cause you are going out!!!

Levene: The leads are weak.

Blake: 'The leads are weak.' Fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years.

Moss: What's your name?

Blake: FUCK YOU, that's my name!! You know why, Mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove a eighty thousand dollar BMW. That's my name!! (to Levene) And your name is "you're wanting." And you can't play in a man's game. You can't close them. (at a near whisper) And you go home and tell your wife your troubles. (to everyone again) Because only one thing counts in this life! Get them to sign on the line which is dotted! You hear me, you fucking faggots?

(Blake flips over a blackboard which has two sets of letters on it: ABC, and AIDA.)

Blake: A-B-C. A-always, B-be, C-closing. Always be closing! Always be closing!! A-I-D-A. Attention, interest, decision, action. Attention -- do I have your attention? Interest -- are you interested? I know you are because it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks! Decision -- have you made your decision for Christ?!! And action. A-I-D-A; get out there!! You got the prospects comin' in; you think they came in to get out of the rain? Guy doesn't walk on the lot unless he wants to buy. Sitting out there waiting to give you their money! Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it? (to Moss) What's the problem pal? You. Moss.

Moss: You're such a hero, you're so rich. Why you coming down here and waste your time on a bunch of bums?

(Blake sits and takes off his gold watch)

Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?

Moss: Yeah.

Blake: That watch cost more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am. And you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you -- go home and play with your kids!! (to everyone) You wanna work here? Close!! (to Aaronow) You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this -- how can you take the abuse you get on a sit?! You don't like it -- leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you got, make myself fifteen thousand dollars! Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can you? Go and do likewise! A-I-D-A!! Get mad! You sons of bitches! Get mad!! You know what it takes to sell real estate?

(He pulls something out of his briefcase)

Blake: It takes brass balls to sell real estate.

(He's holding two brass balls on string, over the appropriate "area"--he puts them away after a pause)

Blake: Go and do likewise, gents. The money's out there, you pick it up, it's yours. You don't--I have no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close, close, it's yours. If not you're going to be shining my shoes. Bunch of losers sitting around in a bar. (in a mocking weak voice) "Oh yeah, I used to be a salesman, it's a tough racket." (he takes out large stack of red index cards tied together with string from his briefcase) These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you, they're gold. And you don't get them. Because to give them to you is just throwing them away.(he hands the stack to Williamson) They're for closers.

I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. (to Moss as he puts on his watch again) And to answer your question, pal: why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to, they asked me for a favor. I said, the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

(He stares at Moss for a sec, and then picking up his briefcase, goes into inner office with Williamson)

Have fun,

Nevton

Global warming

Hey Folks

The weather has change a lot lately. All over the world people are suffering the effects of the global warming(drought,flood, twisters, tornados,high tide, etc.)

How about you?

1. Have you ever thought about it?
2. What have you done to protect our planet?
3. What can be done to save the world?

Watch the video and match the right answers:

a. The planet's temperature has risen from about 1.2 to 1.4 degrees Farenheit in the last

• 150 years
• 100 years
• 1000 years

b. The green house effect begins with

• the sun
• the earth
• the atmosphere

c. The two warmest years in measured history have beeen

• 1958 and 2005
• 1978 and 2005
• 1998 and 2005

d. Artic sea ice has decreased 10% in the last

• 13 years
• 130 years
• 30 years

e. By the end of the century, temperatures will increase between

• 2 to 10 degrees
• 2 to 12 degrees
• 10 to 12 degrees

f. Which of the following natural phenomena is not mentioned?

• draughts
• earthquakes
• floods

g. To reduce global warming we are advised to

• use public transport
• reduce speed
• drive fewer miles

Have fun.

Nevton

Source: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=7956

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=7956

OxfordWords blog | Oxford Dictionaries Online

Hello People

This is a very good blog, which will help you with your studies.

I hope you like it.

OxfordWords blog | Oxford Dictionaries Online

Nevton

Anglo-Saxon - The history of English

The post today is about the history of English in 10 minutes.

I hope you like it.

Source: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language

Have fun

Nevton

Nova Cara para o Blog

Olá a Todos,

Primeiramente quero agradecer a todos que tem acompanhado meu trabalho no "janeladacultura". Espero que tenham gostado

do que tem sido publicado aqui até o momento.

O objetivo inicial do blog foi o de compartilhar informações das mais variadas áreas. Com o passar do tempo as coisas foram tomando rumo próprio e é chegado o momento de reavaliar os objetivos.

Portanto, a partir de agora esse blog deixa de se chamar "janeladacultura.blogspot.com" e passa a "www.culturalwindow.blogspot.com. Com essa mudança vieram algumas alterações em termos de layout, e postagens. Acredito que esse nome venha ao encontro do que tenho publicado ultimamente. O blog ainda não está totalmente reformulado, mas a mudança mais radical foi a alteração do endereço, e outras como (formatação, ferramentas, layout, etc,que ainda ocorrerão. Tudo isso com o intuito de melhorar a interatividade da página.

Desde o principio a inspiração para o blog foram as janelas. Assim continuaremos usando o termo “janela", "window", "ventana", "Fenster", "Fenêtre", como preferirem, pois isso sugere um conflito de realidades, já que a janela por si só é um objeto de contato entre o mundo externo e o interno. Portanto, nada melhor do que um poema de Baudelaire intitulado "As Janelas":

As Janelas

Aquele que olha de fora através de uma janela aberta, não vê nunca tantas coisas quanto aquele que olha uma janela fechada. Não há objeto mais profundo, mais misterioso, mais fecundo, mais tenebroso, mais radiante do que uma janela iluminada por uma candeia. O que se pode ver à luz do sol é sempre menos interessante do que o que se passa por detrás de uma vidraça.Neste buraco negro ou luminoso vive a vida, sonha a vida, sofre a vida.

Para além do ondular dos telhados, avisto uma mulher madura, já com rugas, pobre, sempre debruçada sobre alguma coisa, e que nunca sai. Com seu rosto, com sua roupa, com seu gesto, com quase nada, refiz a história desta mulher, ou melhor, sua lenda e, por vezes, a conto a mim mesmo chorando.

Houvesse sido um pobre velho homem, teria refeito a sua com igual facilidade.

E me deito, feliz por ter vivido e sofrido em outros que não eu mesmo.

Vocês talvez me digam: "Tem certeza de que esta lenda é a verdadeira?" Que importa o que possa ser a realidade situada fora de mim, se ela me ajudou a viver, a sentir que sou e o que sou?

Bibliografia: -BAUDELAIRE, Charles. "Pequenos Poemas em Prosa";Florianópolis, 1988.

Mas um vez muito obrigado a todos os amigos que de uma forma ou de outra tem usado, divulgado e comentado meu blog.

Um grande abraço,

Nevton

Rolling in the deep

Hi There,

The post today is about a very nice song of a famous singer known worldwide. I am talking about an English singer, named Adele. The 23-year-old girl is the first female to have simultaneously, two singles and two albums in the UK, which hasn't been got since Beatles. Some of her most famous songs are “Someone like you” and the hit “Rolling in the deep”. In an interview to Q magazine, Adele said “I prefer not sexualize my image because it does not fit with my music”….. “Even if I had Rihanna’s body. I’d still be making the music I make, and that don’t go together”.

The music we are about to study today is a hit at the radios all around the world; it is “Rolling in the deep”.

A- Listen to this song playing the video and write all the missing words from the lyrics.

Rolling in the deep - ADELE

There's a fire ___________ in my heart

Reaching a fever pitch and it's ___________ me out the dark

Finally, I can see you ___________ clear

Go head and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare

See how I'll leave with every ___________ of you

Don't ___________ the things that I will do

There's a fire ___________ in my heart

Reaching a fever pitch and it's ___________ me out the dark

The scars of your love ___________ me of us

They keep me ___________ that we ___________ had it all

The scars of your love, they ___________ me breathless

I can't help ___________

We could have had it all

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

Rolling in the deep

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

You had my heart ___________ of your hand

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

And you ___________ it to the beat

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Baby, I have no ___________ to be told

But I've ___________ one of you and I'm gonna make your head burn

Think of me in the depths of your ___________

___________ a home down there, as mine sure won't be shared

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

The scars of your love ___________ me of us

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

They keep me ___________ that we ___________ had it all

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

The scars of your love, they ___________ me breathless

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

I can't help ___________

CHORUS

Could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart ___________ of your hand

But you ___________ it with a beating

Throw your soul ___________ every open door

Count your blessings to ___________ what you look for

Turn my sorrow into treasured ___________

You ___________ ___________ ___________

in kind and reap just what you sow

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

We could have had it all

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

We could have had it all

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

It all, it all, it all

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

CHORUS

Could have had it all

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)

Rolling in the deep

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

You had my heart ___________ of your hand

But you ___________ it

You ___________ it // You ___________ it

You ___________ it to the beat.

Vocabulary: Check the words and expression you have any doubt and write them down with their meaning on your notebook.

Answers: http://letras.terra.com.br/adele/1775439/

Enjoy it,

Nevton

Increasing your vocabulary

Hi people,

If you are looking for improving your vocabulary this post aims to help you achieve your goal.

Words are generally difficult to remember out of a context. Although, keeping them in mind is greatly facilitated when they are inserted into a context. It means associated with a fact.

A very good example I can provide you with is the word hippopotamus, which means a " river horse". The word horse comes from the Greek hippos, and "potamos", means "river".

How To Increase Your Vocabulary on Howcast

Transcript.

Whether you are looking to improve your grades, seem smarter at work, or simply wanting to impress your friends, these tips will help you achieve your goal of an increased vocabulary.

You Will Need

• Reading material
• Dictionary
• Notebook
• Note cards
• Word-a-day calendars
• Internet access
• Crossword puzzles
• Address book (optional)

Step 1: Read as much as you can

Read as much as you can to encounter words that you don’t already know.

Step 2: Look up the definitions unfamiliar words

Use a dictionary to look up the definitions of the unfamiliar words that you come across in your reading.

Remember a word can have different meanings. Note all of the definitions for your word.

Step 3: Keep a list of your new vocabulary words

Use a notebook to keep a list of your vocabulary words. Write the definition as well as a sentence using the word to help you remember the context.

Use an address book to keep an alphabetical list of your words.

Step 4: Make vocabulary flash cards

Create flashcards to reinforce your new words. Write the word on one side of a note card and the definition on the other. Quiz yourself by looking at the word and remembering the definition.

Step 5: Use word-a-day calendars and web sites

Make efforts to learn a new word every day. Use a word-a-day calendar and web sites to introduce you to new words.

Learn common prefixes and suffixes. These parts that come together to create words can help you figure out what a word means.

Step 6: Play word games

Play word games. Use computer games or crossword puzzles to grow your vocabulary and help reinforce the words you are learning.

Step 7: Use your new words in daily conversation

Use your new words in your daily conversations. Continue using and reviewing your words to reinforce what you’ve learned.

In 1857, British scholars decided to build a dictionary to contain all words in the English language. They created the Oxford English Dictionary, which still serves as the language’s definitive dictionary.

Source: http://www.howcast.com/videos/349857-How-To-Increase-Your-Vocabulary

Enjoy it,

Nevton

Father and Son - Cat Stevens

Hello there,

The post today is about a popular song written and performed by the English singer-songwriter named Yusuf Islam(known by Cat Stevens).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_and_Son_(song)

http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/257/cat_stevens/father_and_son

Pre-task

• How often do you talk to your father?
• What is your relation with him like?
• How often do you meet each other?
• What do you normally do together?
• Where do you normally go out?

A- Now listen to the song and and underline new words and expression

B- After listening to the song check the meaning of the bolded expressions.

Father and son
Cat Stevens

Father
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

Son
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.
It's always been the same , same old story.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

Father
It's time to make a change
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
(Son-- Away Away Away, I know I have to
Make this decision alone - no)
Son
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them, They know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.
(Father-- Stay Stay Stay, Why must you go and
Make this decision alone?)

Have fun,

Nevton