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Tuesday 29 March 2011
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Monday 27 April 2009
Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci programmes
Would you like to study abroad?
If the answer is Yes, this conference is for you.
Thursday 12 March 2009
Dictionaries
Imagem retirada de http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog
We all know that each language is a living organism in constant transformation. Our experience consulting dictionaries has taught us that sometimes the word that we are looking for is not registered yet for many different reasons. For those who like to keep up with new, non-standard and urban-motivated words, here’s a very interesting site: http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Wednesday 18 February 2009
How transportation changed our lives during the 20th Century
How transportation changed our lives during the 20th Century
Do you remember the last big travel you made? Do you remember how many kilometers separated you from the starting point to the ending point? Can you now imagine doing the same travel 100 years ago? Hum… let the imagination fly… and right now I can figure out your thought: if you have a smile you are thinking how beautiful and pleasant it would be… you are in vacancies mode:) If you have a serious face you are probably thinking how boring that could be and how transportation changed the last century and how that changed our lives!
I could snap here a bunch of data about speed and time, but there are things that sometimes impress you more than simple and hard data. For example, my father sometimes says that when he was young he took a day to go to Oporto, and right now we go there shopping and come back on the same day (not frequently, though). I’m now remembering a story with my father and my uncle. The two were going to the army on his motorcycle when they had an accident. This was in the morning. My father broke a leg (I don’t remember what happened to my uncle, but it wasn’t that bad) and needed to go to a hospital in Oporto. The trip was made on an ambulance and at the middle of the trip, and because they were in the middle of nowhere at 4 or 5 p.m., they had to stop, with my father’s broken leg, to eat ham and drink wine that my father had on the motorcycle. They arrived to Oporto at about 10 p.m. (my father says it was a really old ambulance :))…
Well, I hope this let you thinking about the past and the present transportation.
Evandro Alves
Upper-Intermediate
Thursday 18 December 2008
Monday 15 December 2008
Thursday 11 December 2008
Christmas riddle
As I was going to the North Pole
I met nine elves;
Each elf had nine reindeers,
Each reindeer had nine bags,
Each bag had nine puppies,
And each bag had also nine cats,
Reindeers, elves, puppies and cats,
How many were going to the North Pole?
Thursday 6 November 2008
Monday 27 October 2008
The Origins of Halloween
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.
On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.
By the 600s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs.
http://www.history.com
Friday 19 September 2008
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