Vamos a comer?

Llegó el momento de aprender el vocabulario de los alimentos.

Adelante!







Buen apetito!

Usagui to Kamê

Minasan konnichiwa!

Kyouwa Usagui to Kamê no kamishibai wo mite kudasai!

Kamishibaiwa (História contada com imagens de cartão-show).



Jya mata raishuu made!

Inflexyon

Étudiants étrangers qui sont à Lyon pour apprendre le français.

Interpretative Dance - Absolutely Hilarious!

Check this Britney Spears song too. Just awesome!

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1BfI5y91s&feature=relmfu

BODY PARTS....Inter 4

   Hey, people....How are u???

My students from Inter 4 are reviewing body parts vocabulary...

Take a look at these pictures... :)

See u...

5 words your students won't find in the dictionary.

Do your students think the dictionary is the end all be all when it comes to language resourses? Have you seen students that are linguistically paralyzed if you say no doctionaries allowed?


These are the words your students won't find in the dictionary:


Slang: Slang is always a big red flag for English as a second language students. Because language is always changing, because it is a living and fluid thing, there are always new words being born into English. After a piece of slang becomes more commonly used and is used by a larger portion of the population, it may gain status by being added to the dictionary. For example, in recent years the expression “ginormous” (a combination of giant and enormous) gained some popular usage. Most English speakers would say it is obviously slang, but it now appears in the dictionary, labeled as informal language.


New Technology: Slang is not the only place language changes. With scientific advances moving forward every day, language moves right along with it. Words are added to English with many scientific discoveries or technological advancements. Because of this, the dictionary will not reflect these recent additions to the language, even if they seem like legitimate words. For example, if someone were to ask you what a netsurfer is, you could probably tell him or her it issomeone who browses the internet for entertainment. You will not, however, find this word in the dictionary.


Loanwords
What do you think of when you hear the word fahrvergnugen? How about joie de vivre? In fact, both speak of the joy of life, of living the good life, and neither of these expressions is English, not in the traditional sense, anyway. When two languages have natural contact with one another, whether through business or social relationships or another means, the speakers of these languages at times will use words from the language not their own. With continued use by those original speakers and then the adoption of the foreign word by other native speakers, what was once a foreign word becomes a part of (in this case) the English language. These words borrowed from one language into another are called loanwords. 


Acronyms
In this age of text messages, perhaps the most necessary “words” your students will need to enable communication with native speakers are acronyms. An acronym is a word that is composed of the initial letters of the words or the important words that make up a larger phrase. Some acronyms become commonly used words over time and make their way into the dictionary in their own right, radar and FBI for example.


Finally, as anyone who has ever had a lesson on the dictionary knows, the valuable reference books do not include proper nouns and names among their entries. Most students will expect this to be the case, and they will not depend upon dictionaries to understand these words.


See ya guys o/

Zehr lustig Lied !!!

Viel Spaß !!!

Dónde está la paz?

No habrá paz mientras no haya tolerancia.

Empecemos por nuestra casa.





Renato Aires

Crazy story...

Hey,there...

Last class my students from Inter 6 made up a story like Stand up comedy... They had to start with "I traveled to" and when I showed an object they must use it in the story. Let's see what we got:

I traveled to England with my father and my sister. We visited my uncle and my aunt. We were walking in the park when my sister found a ruler and she played with it. My mom didn't travel with us, because she lost the ticket. So she went in September. We went to Big Ben... (Larissa) It was a crazy experience, my parents loved that place. My sister bought a monkey and we went back to my uncle's house. My mother was preparing lunch for us, but my father wanted an egg, so my mom went to the supermarket to buy it. (Alcione) Then, after this wonderful trip, we decided to go to the beach in Brazil. In our lunch, at the beach, we decided to eat with a spoon, because it was easier. In the afternoon, we noticed that we forgot our toothbrushes in London and we decided to go shopping. After we bought them, we ate... (Vanessa) pizza with some friends and my friend Silvana gave me an Equequo, because I'm not lucky this year. After eating, we decided to do the dishes but there isn't a sponge. So we went back to the supermarket... (Eliel) and we bought it. But we didn't have much money, only some cents. But instead of buying a sponge we bought a yellow balloon. As we were so hungry we went to the supermarket again and we bought a green apple and we were so happy. (Elder)

Thanks dear students =)

See ya!!!

Differences Man x Woman

Hey!
My Inter 6 students are studying the differences between man and woman, and I found on youtube this really cool videos enhancing this difference:







Enjoy it and have a nice weekend!

xoxox
Teacher Bel

Teens 4 PIZZA

Hi, we prepared some delicious pizza!!! Take a look at our waiters, cooks and customers!!!

Kanji (Ideogramas)

Minasan konnichiwa!

Kyouwa tchotto kanji no ohanashiwo shimashou!


Os kanji ou ideogramas foram criados na China há mais de 3500 anos. No início, não passavam de desenhos que, com o tempo, foram esquematizados em imagens pictográficas até adquirem formatos atuais.

Há diversas teorias sobre como e quando os kanji foram introduzidos ao Japão. O mais provável é que os japoneses tenham conhecido os kanji, já evoluídos até os formatos atuais, por volta do século IV a V, e tenham adaptado para transcrever a sua língua, criando leituras próprias. Assim, um único kanji possui várias leituras.

O kanji considerado o campeão de leituras variadas é o “生” que significa “vida, nascimento, vigor, pureza”, podendo ser lido sei, shô, nama, ki, i(kiru), u(mareru), ha(eru), o(u). Como pode ser observado, os kanji além de serem símbolos gráficos com idéias, podem ser utilizados como representações fonéticas. Assim, poderemos brincar de escrever os nomes estrangeiros em kanji.


Por exemplo, “Mário” pode ser escrito 真理男 (lê-se 真=ma, 理=ri, 男=o) 真significa verdade, ,理 a razão ou lógica e , 男o homem, ou seja, homem lógico ou com a razão verdadeira. Ainda, “Miriam” pode se escrever 美理案(lê-se 美=mi, 理= ri, 案= an), 美significando beleza, ,理a razão ou lógica e,　案a idéia, ou seja, bonita com idéias lógicas.

Por se tratar de representação gráfica de idéias, existem milhares de kanji. Porém, como são combinações de dois ou mais caracteres básicos, se souber os caracteres básicos, não são letras tão difíceis. Por exemplo: os radicais que representam o elemento semântico do kanji, basicamente, são em torno de 250 ou pouco mais.

Exemplo de alguns radicais:

シ= significa água
Exemplo de alguns radicais

海mar　 湖lagoa　　池represa　　沼represa　　

木= significa árvore
Exemplo de alguns radicais

林bosque 　　森floresta 　　机escrivaninha 　　松pinheiro

心= significa sentimento, coração
Exemplo de alguns radicais

恋amor 　　悪maldade 　　恩gratidão 　　恥vergonha

Omoshiroidesho!

Jya mata raishuu made!

The Lion King is back !!!

A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the "Circle of Life".

Do you remember this movie?!

Now, Disney’s “The Lion King” is coming to Disney Diamond Edition Blu-ray and DVD...

I have been a big fan of The Lion King since year 2001. When I was younger, I used to watch it almost every single day. I remember almost everything about this movie..... :)

This is by far one of my favorite classic Disney movies....

what about u ?

xoxox

I SPEAK AMERICAN!

The language of freedom!

What do you get when you have the stars from the movie series Harry Potter speak with the American accent? Find out for yourself.

Pocoyo auf deutsch

Das ist eine Kindersendunge!!



Das ist sehr lustig.

Tschüss

Delicious Sandwiches...

Hey, there...

My students from Inter 2 prepared special sandwiches yesterday... Take a look at the photos:

HUMMMMMMM!!!



Have a great week!!!



See ya =)

El ombligo del Mundo

(CUZCO)



El Cuzco[1] (quechua sureño: Qusqu, Qosqo, pronunciado [ˈqo̝s.qɔ]), o Cusco (grafía oficial reciente), es una ciudad del sureste del Perú ubicada en la vertiente oriental de la Cordillera de los Andes, en la cuenca del río Huatanay, afluente del Vilcanota. Es la capital del Departamento del Cuzco y además, está declarado en la constitución peruana como la capital histórica del país.



Antiguamente fue la capital del Imperio inca y una de las ciudades más importantes del Virreinato del Perú. Declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1983 por la Unesco, suele ser denominada, debido a la gran cantidad de monumentos que posee, como la "Roma de América";[2] actualmente es el mayor destino turístico en el Perú, con una afluencia anual de cerca de un millón de visitantes en el 2008.[3]



Cuenta con una población estimada de 358,052 según el censo peruano de 2007,[4] lo que la ubica entre las ciudades más pobladas del país.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and later by his son Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former United States presidents (in order from left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km²)and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.

South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. Robinson's initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles site and chose the larger Mount Rushmore. Borglum also decided the sculpture should have a more national focus, and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain. After securing federal funding, construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took over construction. Although the initial concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding forced construction to end in October 1941.The U.S. National Park Service took control of the memorial in 1933, while it was still under construction, and manages the memorial to the present day. It attracts approximately two million people annually.

The Simpons

Hello!

Daviana, from Inter 1, has written some sentences about the famous TV series The Simpsons.

Check it out:



Homer is Marge´s huband.

Homer is Abraham's son.

Lisa is Marge's daughter.

Jackie is Clancy's wife.

Bart is Ling' cousin.

Selma is Maggie's aunt.

Ilha de Okinawa

Minasan genki desuka?

Okinawa wa doko?
Ikitai desuka?
Takusan kireina basho ga arimasu. Mite ne!

Tanoshiiyo!
Jya mata ne!

Picnic

My students from Kids 2 made a Picnic last week. Let's see the pictures: