Friday Class - September 4th -

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Improving your vocabulary by answering general questions.

1- Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan both portrayed what fictional spy?

a) Austin Powers
b) Alex Rider
c) James Bond
d) Agent 99
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2- Which actor started the Happy Madison film production company ?

a) Rob Schneider
b) David Spade
c) Adam Sandler
d) Dana Carvey
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3- What are the two official languages of Canada ?

a) English and French.
b) German and finnish.
c) Italian and Polish.
d) Russian and Slovene.
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4- Which of the following is a hot sauce ?

a) Tobasco
b) Mayonnaise
c) Tartar sauce
d) Soy sauce
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5- Who originally recorded the theme song or the 1997 film "Titanic"?

a) Mariah Carey
b) Whitney Houston
c) Shania Twain
d) Celine Dion
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6- Who directed the 2004 film " The passion of the Christ?"

a) Bill Paxton
b) Mel Gibson
c) Kevin Costner
d) Andrew Adamson
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7- Who directed the 2004 documentary film "Fahrenheit 9/11?

a) Ron Howard
b) Cassio and Tassio
c) Steven Spielberg
d) Michael Moore
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8- What should you make if "life hands you lemons?"

a) Lemon Meringue pie
b) Lemonade
c) Jelly
d) Lemon juice
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9- Who was the winner of the first "American survivors" series?

a) Rudy Boesch
b) Richard Hatch
c) Jenna Lewis
d) Gervase Peterson
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10 - At which restaurant would you be able to order " Chicken Mc nuggets?"

a) Taco Bell
b) Burguer King
c) Mc Donald's
d) Tatto's bar
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11- Which of the following is not a typical color of candy corn ?

a) White
b) Blue
c) Yellow
d) orange
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12- What is the national bird of the United States?

a) Cardinal
b) Bald Eagle
c) Stunk
d) Wild turkey
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13- Napster was originally a service which allowed sharing of what?

a) files
b) lunches
c) ideas
d) stories
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14- What is the name of the technique in which an advertiser implies that a product is widely used?

a) Association
b) Repetition
c) Guerrilla advertising
d) Bandwagon
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15- What is the seventh planet of the sun?

a) Neptune
b) Jupiter
c) Saturn
d) Uranus
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English Class - August 28th - Regular Verbs

Hello Renato and Andre , as you can see , we have a guest in our class tonight. Andressa and her boyfriend came here to get further informations about your English Lessons at Lia's association. For this special reason I'll let you free to talk to them and after that I'll start my lesson . Today we'll learn the most useful regular verbs. If you allow me I will be glad if I can review some structures about our last class. Well , let's keep the ball rolling!

* accept - accepted - accepted - aceitar - aceitei - aceitado
•add - added - added - adicionar - adicionei - adicionado
•admire - admired - admired - admirar - admirei - admirado
•admit - admitted - admitted - admitir - admiti - admitido
•advise - advised - advised - avisar - avisei avisado*** I advised him do not add strange people on msn but he didn't accept my oppinion. Now he admits that I was right and admires me for this.
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•afford - afforded - afforded - arcar - arquei - arcado
•agree - agreed - agreed - concordar - concordei - concordado
•alert - alerted - alerted - alertar - alertei - alertado
•allow - allowed - allowed - permitir - permiti - permitido
•amuse - amused - amused - divertir - diverti - divertido

*** I was alerted that I couldn't afford that work alone and I agree with you that I should allow somebody to help me...but believe me I have amused a lot doing it by myself.
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•analyse - analysed - analysed - analisar
•announce - announced - announced - anunciar
•annoy - annoyed - annoyed - aborrecer
•answer - answered - answered - responder
•apologize - apologized - apologized - se desculpar 

*** You shouldn't announce the end of the project without analyse all details in it. Your actitude really annoyed me because now I need to answer the boss and certainly to apologize for this terrible mistake.
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•appear - appeared - appeared - aparecer
•applaud - aplauded - aplauded - aplaudir
•appreciate - appreciated - appreciated - apreciar
•approve - approved - approved - aprovar
•argue - argued - argued - argumentar*** When she appeared in the stage she was applauded for five minutes. The audience really appreciated her new look and approved her way to sing romantic songs. I am not her fan but I couldn't argue against it.
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•arrange - arranged - arranged -                              arranjar
•arrest - arrested - arrested -                                    prender
•arrive - arrived - arrived -                                      chegar
•ask - asked - asked -                                              perguntar
•attach - attached attached -                                    anexar 

*** He was arrested on Saturday at two o'clock at the same time his wife arrived from Japan. This information must be attached to files because she wasn't with him during the crime. When the police officer asked him about his wife's participation, he lied saying that she arranged everything and took part on it.

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•attack - attacked - attacked - atacar
•attempt - attempted - attempted - tentar
•attend - attended - attended - assistir
•attract - attracted - attracted - atrair
•avoid - avoided - avoided - evitar*** If you had attended the class you would have known that the USA attempted to attack the borders of Iraq but they were attracted to an ambush and couldn't avoid the death of 200 soldiers.

English Class - August 30th - Regular Verbs - Letter B

•back - backed - backed - voltar - voltei - voltado (retornado)
•bake - baked - baked - assar - assei - assado
•balance - balanced - balanced - equilibrar - equilibrei - equilibrado
•ban - banned - banned - banir - bani - banido
•bang- banged - banged - golpear - golpeei - golpeado
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*** My sister banned me from the kitchen because she doesn't like anybody looking at her when she is baking a cake. Even though I understand her I backed , but when she saw me She banged me with the spoon ...sometimes she is not a balanced woman.
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•bare - bared - bared - despir - despi - despido
•bat - batted - batted - espancar - espanquei - espancado
•bathe - bathed - bathed - banhar - banhei - banhado ( tomar banho)
•battle - battled - battled - batalhar - batalhei - batalhado
•beam - beamed - beamed - irradiar - irradiei - irradiado
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*** What is the place where somebody can bathe and do not bare? The answer is : the beach. There you can be batted by water and to battle against the waves. The beamed light of the sun is an invitation to the liberty.
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beg - begged - begged - implorar - implorei - implorado
•behave - behaved - behaved - se comportar - me comportei - me comportado
•belong - belonged - belonged - pertencer - pertenci - pertencido
•bleach - bleached - bleached - alvejar - alvejei - alvejado ( alvejante )
•bless - blessed - blessed - abençoar - abençoei - abençoado
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*** My blessed son behaved badly once again. He was playing with a shirt that didn't belong to him , it was his friend's shirt. And now this shirt is completely dirty , so my wife is trying to bleach it. His mother begged him do not do it again.
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blind - blinded - blinded - cegar - geguei - cegado
•blink - blinked - blinked - piscar - pisquei - piscado
•boast - boasted - boasted - vangloriar - vangloriei - vangloriado
•boil - boiled - boiled - ferver - fervi - fervido
•bolt - bolted - bolted - arremessar - arremessei - arremessado
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*** I don't want to boast but I am really good in basketball. I can bolt the ball with an eye blinded from a long distance .
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*** When you put the milk on the stove you can't blink , because the milk can boil faster than you imagine.
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•book - booked - booked - reservar - reservei - reservado
•bore - bored - bored - cansar - cansei - cansado
•borrow - borrowed - borrowed - emprestar - emprestei - emprestado
•bounce - bounced - bounced - contar vantagem
•bow - bowed - bowed - se curvar - me curvei - curvado
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*** I was bored of trying to book a bedroom at that hotel. I asked my father 200 dollars borrowed and he didn't give me anything, I had to bow to my sister's will and she gave the money. I have the right to bounce after all of this.
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*box - boxed - boxed - encaixotar
•brake - braked - braked - frear - freei - freado
•branch - branched - branched - ramificar - ramifiquei - ramificado
•breathe - breathed - breathed - respirar - respirei - respirado
•bruise - bruised - bruised - magoar - magoei - magoado.
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*** I boxed the fruits , put them in the trunk, breathed deeply and took the highway. A car braked in front of mine and I had to break too. All the fruits escaped from the boxes . I am bruised because of this.
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•brush - brushed - brushed - escovar - escovei - escovado
•bump - bumped - bumped - colidir - colidi - colidido
•burn - burned - burned - queimar - queimei - queimado
•bury - buried - buried - enterrar - enterrei - enterrado
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*** The girls were brushing their hair in the car when a truck bumped against the car. It was a horrible tragedy. Their burned bodies were buried yesterday in a sad ceremony.

Using your imagination to create sentences

Well, I'd like to know how good you are . Try to create sentences by using the verbs below:

* accept - accepted - accepted - aceitar - aceitei - aceitado
•add - added - added - adicionar - adicionei - adicionado
•admire - admired - admired - admirar - admirei - admirado
•admit - admitted - admitted - admitir - admiti - admitido
•advise - advised - advised - avisar - avisei avisado

Renato's:

"Last week I had the awesome idea to bake a cake. My mom advised me to keep my eyes on the oven, in order to keep my house untouchble.My family was so proud of me and admired me so much, until they discover that I added a lot of "extra sugar".Well, I admit that I didn't do a good job, and I accepted that bad words I had to hear and all that the roaring in my ears.
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Andrew's :

" ...That's enougth!I admit!You'll have to accept that!I admire you chick! I fuckin love ya!!I already advised that a bomb would come!!
-And what you want me to do???You just add an extra number to list, you sucker!
-Ok, so i'll continue doing kébi
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##•back - backed - backed - voltar - voltei - voltado (retornado)
•bake - baked - baked - assar - assei - assado
•balance - balanced - balanced - equilibrar - equilibrei - equilibrado
•ban - banned - banned - banir - bani - banido
•bang- banged - banged - golpear - golpeei - golpeado

Andrew again

"I was baking a cake at my friends house, and so, out of the blue he said that i made the cake lose the balance and banned me of his house!I get mad and so I backed there and banged him till he faints!Was a nice day!

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Rê Nato

" Diary of a smooth criminal:

Last year I escaped from the jail, but I didn't intend to get back there again. When I appeared at home, my mother banned me from there and said: "How you dare to step on carpet, to eat of my food again?"
Well, at that moment the only thing I could thing was to keep the balance.Two years later I coudn't resist and got back to the life of crimes, and banged a cop.I was arrested again and had to bake for the other criminal guys, being their woman!

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