Sports!

I like sports in general and their origins are very interesting. I love to read about their history my opinion the most dangerous sport is Rugby. It’s terrible and violent. The most exciting is dragon boat. It really is very motivating. Swimming is the most fun and it is also good for our healthy. I also find Bocce funny because it is an uncommon sports, but it is also nice. I hate to watch people playing handball, it’s very boring. The least expensive sports in Brazil is soccer. It is easy to know why it is not expensive, it is the most popular sports in South America! I don't like to play handball because I don't find it interesting. I hate basketball and volleyball, I prefer tennis because it's extremely exciting, but it is also tiring.

Synchronized swimming

My sport favorite is synchronized swimming because dance in a swimming pool is very artistic. I always watch this activity on tv when there are olympic games. I pay attention in the movements. Brazil has two young twin girls who are athletes in this sports, they are Carolina and Isabela Moraes. I confess: sports in general are good for our health. I really like athletic bodies. Everyone who is beautiful has a nice body. I prefer to eat vegetables, fruits, drink a lot of water, walk and do gymnastics .I did ballet for six years which demanded a lot of dedication and practice. My foot hurt very much but I loved to dance because I was happy all these days. Can you imagine the life of an athlete? It's necessary to tape measure the abs every day.

Halloween!

On Halloween people are very afraid of children as children do funny things to them. Everybody decorates their haunted houses with sweets, pumpkins and candles. It is a very frightening day, really. People who lived in northern countries created this date to drive away bad spirits. In Brazil it's not very typical to celebrate it on the October 31 st. We have Halloween parties, for example: in clubs and English courses such as Cultural and Wizard people celebrate it. I never went to a Halloween event because I don't know about its origins but now I am learning about this. I am very afraid of witches, witchcraft, devils and dracula but I don't believe in them. It's interesting to decorate carved pumpkins in detail. Kids in the USA and north Europe go to the street and houses asking for money and sweets.

Olympics

I like to watch sports on tv. It is very exciting. My favorite sports is rhythmist gymnastics and swimming.I become thrilled when Brazil wins in these olympic events. My dream is to go to the Olympic games one day. People from every countries participate in different competitions. I confess: I love my fatherland and its athletes. The 2016 Olympics is important to Brazil touristically and economically. It attracts people from other nations and they spend their money here, helping the country. Our country is also benefited because it gains more status culture.

Mercosur biennial

I was at the Mercosur Biennial on weekend. I saw different things, I understood some works of art, others I didn't understand. I liked the design of ideas, my favorite subject of Mercosur Biennial. This project was very interesting, because the artists demonstrated their opinion through design. The idea of the project was to show future changes. All people were concentrated analysing the pictures. I always appreciate culture, our population is privileged. I know little about pictures and paintings, in the future I would like to learn and interpret better the world of art.

My birthday!

I was on birthday last weekend. I won gifts such as clothes, chocolate cake and earrings. My family and friends are very special to me. I like to get gifts and give gifts to my relatives and friends too. I prefer to give things to women because I understand their lifestyle. I confess: birthday, Christmas and Easter are my favorite days.

Thiago

I met him in 2003 at school. He is important to me because he is my best friend. We always studied together. We walked my dogs and went shopping. His family is very friendly with me. His mother is very sweet. He lives near my house, but we meet sometimes because we do not have the time. At the moment he is studying architecture at PUC college, still he works hard every day. He likes to go to nightclubs in Cidade Baixa to dance and listen to music. Thiago is always very funny and clever. We like to go to restaurants and bars in Cidade Baixa to eat and drink. I am always smiling with him! I confess: I love my friends and my life. Our party finishes at 5 am. When he is dancing it is very cute.

I'm not looking for us
and neither should you.
Absolutely gorgeous,
then nothing I say is true.
You won't find yourself
in these guilty eyes

'cause I love anybody who's fool enough to believe
And you're just one of many who broke their heart on me
And so I say I don't love you,
though it kills me
It's a lie that sets you free.

Love, love, love
I can't take your
Love, love, love

And so I say I don't love you,
though it kills me
It's a lie that sets you free.

I will wrap my body
in other women's arms.
Make love in a hurry,
feel better than I am.
Hope you find yourself
in someone else's eyes

'cause I love anybody who's fool enough to believe
And you're just one of many who broke their heart on me
And so I say I don't love you,
though it kills me
It's a lie that sets you free.

Love, love, love
I can't take your
Love, love, love

And so I say I don't love you

'cause I love anybody who's fool enough to believe (Love, love, love)
And you're just one of many who broke their heart on me (Love, love, love)
And so I say I don't love you, (Love, love, love)
though it kills me
'cause it's a lie

'cause I love anybody who's fool enough to believe (Love, love, love)
And you're just one of many who broke their heart on me (Love, love, love)
And so I say I don't love you, (Love, love, love)
though it kills me
It's a lie that sets you free.



This song is wonderful for me. I like sensible and romantic things. I sometimes believe that love is something complicated because we never know whether we are actually loved. I always loved James Blunt for he is creative when one speaks about song lyrics. Every woman dreams about a true love, nowadays it is very difficult for people to speak the truth.

Supermarket!

Every friday I go to the supermarket to do the shopping. I prepare a list of foods. The contents of the list is divided into countable and uncountable nouns. Vegetables and fruits are countable : apple, banana, watermelon, pear and vegetables. green-pepper, potato, onion, tomato, and garlic. Uncountable: yoghurt, milk, tea, water, soda, juice, bread, cheese, meat. I think about my list and the fridge! "How many pears do you have in the frigde? How much tea do you drink every day, Barth?" I reflected and spook to myself, What do I need? Then I organize my list in a piece of paper. I love to cook meal on weekend for it's when I have time. My favourite food is pasta with dairy cream, watercress salad, drink orange juice, and vanilla ice-cream for dessert. I eat meat only sometimes because I don't like it a lot.

The Weather!

What was the weather like in POA last weekend? It was sunny and hot. It was a beautiful and easygoing day. I walked my dogs in the neighborhood of Assunção. They loved the walk and it was perfect. Then I took to looking for a girlfriend for my dog, Jimmy Cliff. At the moment he needed to date because it was high time he was a father. I love puppies, I find baby dogs very cute. Jimmy Cliff and Victoria hate wet courtyards. They get irritated because their paws get wet; it's terrible. I confess my animals eat vegetables and fruits. My friend is a veterinary and she spoke it's a good idea, it does them good. They like summer because it is a wonderful season for animals.

Culture

New York city is an important internacional center for music, film, theater, dance and visual art. There are more than 2.000 arts and cultural organizations.Besides it has more than 500 art galleries. The city has a goverment that funds the arts.
Kenya is not identified with only one culture. There are about 42 different tribes in Kenya. They have tribes are grouped into larger sub groups-based on their cultural an linguistic similarties.
Cancun- One can find some small Mayan traces of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Cancun. Recently some colleges and universities have been offering higher educations to both Mexican and fogeian students.
Iceland- The culture of Iceland is rich and varied with its literary heritage and it is also famous for authors from the 12th to 14th centuries. Religion was initially the Viking religion that believed in Norse mythology.

Narrative fragment-flatlife

They are very agile people and do different things. The first person paints a picture and fixes the picture on the wall, then sweeps the floor. The second neighbor watches TV, but it breaks down and catch fire. He knocks over the TV. He is very stressed. Then he builds a card castle. The third person loses his temper because his TV has problems and it breaks down. He likes to watch cartoons. The fourth person is very old and organized. He has a crazy washing machine. He has to be patient. He has a big laundry in his apartment. They are all very interesting. Everybody is very nervous.

teste

Count or uncount?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv259.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv283.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv192.shtml
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/lefg3_countnoncount3.html
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/article1.htm

Exercises
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4672500/Countable-and-Uncountable-nouns-exercises
http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=countable
Crossword puzzle
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/crossword/090918_crossword_drinks.shtml
Food and drink idioms
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-themes-food.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/communicate/blog/

http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs/

http://portal.eatonweb.com/


weather
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8270109.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8270104.stm

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=15355&from=hp_main_tab4

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What`s the weather like in the US, in the east coast?

What`s the average temperature?

Is it a comfortable temperature in the north-east?

What`s the season there?

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My best friend!

Her name is Mary. I always meet her in my home every day. She lives in Porto Alegre in Camaquã. She's very friendly and lovely. She's a comercial representive, she started to work at sixteen. She has also worked as a civil servant. Today she loves this job for it is very interesting. I see my friend at lunch. She is important to me because I can trust her and tell her my secrets. She's very intelligent, careful, true, beautiful. She sometimes is very quiet, she is generally wonderful. She is very like myself. She is thin, long hair and tall.

The origin of my family!

My family is very big. My great-grandmother was Italian and my great-grandfather was Spanish. They lived in Uruguay and had a farm. They were very hard-working. Everybody grew vegetables and fruit and also raised animals. Today my grandmother is ninety years old. She's very old, but she is very caring for my relatives. They like her because she used to be a very friendly partner when engaged in their activities. I like the story of my family and mine too. I sometimes see my photographs and I remember very special moments. Then I think to myself for some minutes how happy I am, I love my family an its origins.

Why I love to learn English?

I like to learn English because it is a universal language. The people who speak and write well in this language, have the most opportunities in the job market. I'm studying to be an English teacher. I always dream of traveling to either Canada or Australia. At the moment I'm studying at Ritter dos Reis. I love to listen to cd's and pratice conversation and study grammar. The English language offers many working opportunities. For example: executive secretary, English teacher , translator, flight attendant etc.

My name

My name is Bartira because my mother likes things with unusual meaning.It's indigenous. Bartira symbolize the country flower.My family loves different names. No, none of my relatives have this name.It´s not popular, the name Bartira. I never met anyone with this name in my life. Bartira is very unusual because people like common names.I often like my name but sometimes I hate it.

My name

barth

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