This blog aims to share with foreign language teachers some projects and classroom activities I have developed throughout my career as an English teacher in Brasil, as well as express my feelings and choices on news, literature, songs, movies...




sábado, 5 de outubro de 2013

Cup in Araraquara 1D

Trabalho Video Minuto Inglês. 1D

Video Minuto: Bonequinha de Luxo.

Hairspray - trailer 1D

Sherlock Holmes - The Letter 1D

Araraquara in one minute 1A

Trailler - Singing in the rain

Araraquara in One Minute

Araraquara in one minute 1B


Paper Boat


segunda-feira, 10 de junho de 2013

THE EIGHTIES

VERY GOOD FOLKS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCuytunuwo

CARPE DIEM


THE TEXT PRESENTED ALONGSIDE WITH THE VIDEO. VERY CREATIVE.

Carpe Diem, o nome do poema já descreve o poema em sí.
Cada dia é único, devemos fazer de cada momento, unico.
E assim, fazer de nossa vida, algo especial.
Só vivemos uma vez, então devemos fazer valer a pena.
Dance, grite, chore,dance faça o que te faz feliz.. 
A sua felicidade depende apenas de você. 
Se você não for feliz hoje,quem vai ser por você?
Você é dono de sua felicidade,não deixe ninguem tirar isso de você.
Não deixe a sociedade impor o que é certo, o que é errado... 
O que deve te fazer feliz ou não.
Vá em frente.. Não desista de si mesmo.
Sua essencia é unica ..
Faça da tristeza confete. Jogue para o ar e deixe o vento levar.. 
Sonhar faz a vida mais feliz, mais bonita, mais esperançosa.
E voce? ja foi feliz hoje?

Isadora recitou
Usamos: Sony Vegas 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hv_ntT3o6Gs

quinta-feira, 30 de maio de 2013

THE HISTORY OF ROCK - PART I COURSERA

The History of Rock – Part One 

PLAYLIST

Week One: The World Before Rock and Roll (1900-1955)


Video 1 - The Music Business in the First Half of the 20th Centu
Video 2 - Radio and Regional vs National Audience

Video 3 - The Stars of Pop Music Before Rock and Roll 
Bing Crosby – I've Got A Pocket Full Of Dreams
Bing Crosby – Only Forever
Bing Crosby – Swinging On A Star
Bing Crosby – White Christmas
Glenn Miller – A String Of Pearls
The Andrew Sisters – In the Mood
The Andrews Sisters – Bei mir bist du schön
The Andrews Sisters – Shoo Shoo Baby
The Andrews Sisters – Rum And Coca Cola
The Mills Brothers – You Always Hurt The One You Love
The Mills Brothers – Paper Doll
Frank Sinatra – Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
Frank Sinatra – All Of Me
Frank Sinatra – I've Got A Crush On You
Johnnie Ray – Cry
Tony Bennet – Rags To Riches
Eddie Fisher – Oh! My Pa-Pa
Patti Page – Tennessee Waltz

Video 4 – Les Paul, Inventor – The Role of Technology
Les Paul & Mary Ford – How High The Moon

Video 5 – Origins of Country & Western (pre WWII)
Fiddlin John Carson – The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane
Carter Family – Can the Circle Be Unbroken
Roy Acuff – Great Speckled Bird
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – New San Antonio Rose
Gene Autry – Back In The Saddle Again
Jimmie Rodgers – Blue Yodel - T for Texas

Video 6 – The Rise of Nashville
Hank Williams – Move It On Over
Hank Williams – Your Cheatin' Heart
Hank Williams – Cold Cold Heart
Hank Williams – Hey Good Lookin'
Hank Williams – I Saw The Light
Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys – Blue Moon Of Kentucky

Video 7 – Rhythm and Blues (pre 1945)
W.C. Handy – St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith – Downhearted Blues
Robert Johnson – Cross Road Blues
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Caldonia
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Choo Choo Ch´boogie

Video 8 – Rhythm and Blues (post 1945)
Jackie Brenston – Rocket 88

Video 9 – Regional R&B Radio in the 1950s
Elvis Presley – That’s Alright Mama

Video 10 – Doo Wop and Gospel
The Chords – Sh’boom
The Five Satins – In The Still Of The Night
Ray Charles – I Got A Woman

Video 11 – Hokum Blues and Sexual Lyrics
Jimmie Rodgers – Pistol Packin' Papa
Lightning Hopkins – Let Me Play With Your Poodle
The Dominoes – Sixty-Minute Man
The Royals – Work With Me Annie
Hank Ballard – Annie Had A Baby
Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle And Roll

Bill Haley & The Comets – Shake, Rattle & Roll

domingo, 26 de maio de 2013

COURSES AT COURSERA

I have been caught up with so much work. Besides working everyday and correcting the students´works I´m taking some courses at Coursera. The first one was "The language of Hollywood" and now "The history of rock - part 1" There are so many lectures to watch that   time goes by quickly...
EXPLORE  THE COURSES AT https://www.coursera.org/courses. It´s worth it AND IT´S FREE.

domingo, 19 de maio de 2013

ONE MINUTE FESTIVAL 2012

The task was to choose a song from past decades and make a video. This one from 1B was so nice! Enjoy!

Roesler and his troop.1b again!



quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2013

homo zappiens



A brief definition based on Win Veen and Bem Vrakking

Homo Zappiens relationship with school has changed a whole lot since this generation is transforming education and making the institutions respond according to their needs. Click in the link below to watch them on their" best".


click here:
homo zappiens





quinta-feira, 11 de abril de 2013

I'd Rather Go Blind | Playing For Change



ETTA JAMES WOULD BE PROUD OF THEM  FOR SURE..... HEART AND SOUL ONLY. TAKE A LOOK ON THE LYRICS:

Something told me it was over
When I saw you and her talkin'
Something deep down in my soul said, 'Cry, girl'
When I saw you and that girl walkin' around

Whoo, I would rather, I would rather go blind, boy
Then to see you walk away from me, child, no

Whoo, so you see, I love you so much
That I don't wanna watch you leave me, baby
Most of all, I just don't, I just don't wanna be free, no

Whoo, whoo, I was just, I was just, I was just
Sittin here thinkin', of your kiss and your warm embrace, yeah
When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now, baby
Revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah

Whoo and baby, baby, I'd rather, I'd rather be blind, boy
Then to see you walk away, see you walk away from me, yeah
Whoo, baby, baby, baby, I'd rather be blind...

sábado, 30 de março de 2013

Procon Harum - BACK TO THE SIXTIES

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION


If you want to improve your pronunciation in English, visit THE SITE  English Central. There are lots of videos you can watch and then you can tape your voice and get an instaneous feedback. I have selected this one for you.
There are 3 levels: beginners ( TOEIC 350- 450) intermediate (450=655) and advanced (665-990) You can choose the most suitable for you.

sexta-feira, 29 de março de 2013

The Big Bang Theory "Sheldon playing bongos"

HILARIOUS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFW4QNBY_yk

London Native English Speaker Interviews Part 1




LISTEN TO THE BRITISH ACCENT AND ENJOY!

PAST CONTINUOUS IN SONGS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYoWG6eu7bw&feature=share&list=UUOa2zyEMTCu83lWXJk5I5kA


THE SECOND CONDITIONAL IN SONGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq2l4hpSZpo&list=UUOa2zyEMTCu83lWXJk5I5kA

THE THIRD CONDITIONAL IN SONGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlIEwi9e7mQ&list=UUOa2zyEMTCu83lWXJk5I5kA&index=4

Listening Practice from Films - Beginner_Intermediate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLRC5p31i0

sábado, 23 de março de 2013

ABOUT ORGAN DONATION


MY WILL

When my hour comes, do not attempt to introduce artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. Instead, give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby’s face or love in the eyes of a woman. Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused  nothing but endless days of pain. Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week. Take my blood, my bones, every muscle and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.    
    Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday, a speechless boy will be able to shout as his team scores a goal and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her window.
     Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow.
     If you really want to bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses, and all prejudice against my fellow man.
     Give my sins to the Devil. Give my soul to God.
     If you shoud wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.
                                                         
(from “To Remember Me”, Robert N.Test)


After reading the WONDERFUL text "My will" adapted from Robert test´s, the students were supposed to write a paragraph about their thinkings... here it goes:




 I totally agree with organ donation. It is a way to save a life for somebody who really needs it. This shows kindness to our fellow man. For example, a man who has a family and kids to care, needs some kind of transplantation, if you donate you will saving not just him but all the family who needs him. When I die, I do not mind that my organs to be donated.         Wendel Ricardo  







domingo, 10 de fevereiro de 2013

Six Deaths and a Secret


These traillers are part of the project "Luz, Câmera...action" made in  2010  by a group of students from High School and they were  based in Shakespeare. Needless to say I loved them.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJnZ6HjygM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0gLmmheRhU