1 DE JUNHO A 8 DE JUNHO DE 2015


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http://www.elllo.org/video/0901/V917-Books.htm

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http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer126/T148-Season.htm



When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks

Darlin' I will be lovin' you
Till we're seventy
Baby my heart could still fall as hard
At twenty three

I'm thinkin' bout how
People fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Me, I fall in love with you every single day
I just wanna tell you I am

So honey now
Take me into your lovin' arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way (mm)
I know you will still love me the same

Cause honey your soul
Could never grow old
It's evergreen
Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory

I'm thinkin' bout how
People fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe it's all part of a plan
I'll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you'll understand

That baby now (ooh)
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are

Baby now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars (oh darlin')
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud

Maybe we found love right where we are
Maybe we found love right where we are
And we found love right where we are

Link: http://www.vagalume.com.br/ed-sheeran/thinking-out-loud.html#ixzz3boIJb4vW


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AU PAIR QUESTIONS


Sobre as kids:

1) Let's say her name is Caroline]. Hi, how should I call you? Is Caroline fine?

2) How many children are there and what are their names?

3) How old are they?

4) How is their daily schedule like?

5) What do they like to do?

6) Do they have favorite toys or games?

7) Do they practice sports? If YES, which ones? Do they swim yet?

8) Are they going to school yet? If so, how far from your house is the school?

9) Do they go to school by bus or by car? Do I have to drive them?

10) Are they allowed to have friends over?  

11) What do they like to eat? Do you follow a speciel diet?

12) Would I be responsible for their dinner, lunch and breakfast every day? 

13) What time do they go to bed?

14) Are they allowed to watch tv/listen to music/play video games?

15) Are they allergic to something? 

Sobre os parents:

16) Where do you work and what do you do?

17) Do you have any hobbies?

18) Do you have family members living near by?

19) Do you travel a lot? If Yes, where do you go? Would I have to go, too?

20) Do you live in a house or apart.? 

21) Have you ever traveled to other countries? Did you like it? 

22) Do you know anything about my country?

23) Have you lived abroad? If so, how hard was that for you?

24) Why are you hosting an au pair? 

25) What qualities do you think your au pair should have?

25.1) Have you ever had an au pair before? What do you mind if I talk to her or send her an e-mail? Why did she go home? How was her relationship with your kids? 

Sobre a cidade:

26) How is your city? What are the other cities nearby?  

27) Are there a lot of schools/colleges/universities near your town/city? If YES, which ones?

Are they too expensive?

28) Do you have pets?

29) Do you have a housekeeper? Is she/he going to clean my room, too? Does she/he come every week?

30) Are there many au pairs in the area?

31) Where can I take the kids? What things are there to do with kids? Any parks? Library? gym centers?

Sobre os deveres:

32) Do you have any house rules? What are they?

33) Where is the au pair room located? Can you describe the room?

34) Do I have to share the bathroom with the kids or do I have my own?

35) What happens if I am talking to your kid and he/she is not behaving well? Am I allowed to give them some time out?

36) Am I reponsible for any household duties? If so, which ones?

37) Are my friends and family members allowed to come over to visit me?

38) Is there a car for the au pair to use?Can I drive it during my free time, too? Am I be responsible for gas?

39) Is there a cellphone for the au pair to use? 

40) What activities do you expect me to do with the children?

41) Will I have access to internet? Is there a computer I can use?

42) How will my schedule be like?Will I have the weekends off? 

43) Will I have time to study? 

44) Will I have a curfew? 

Apesar de no geral parecer bastante perguntas na hora do skype (pelo menos acontece comigo) elas foram poucas, até porque nem todas as perguntas se adequam a host family. Então de uma lida antes e adapte a realidade da sua família. 

Além dessas perguntas, a Gisella havia me passado uma vez um arquivo com 100 perguntas que toda au pair deveria saber responder ou perguntar, e eu tomei a liberdade de vir aqui dividir com vocês. Tem perguntas pra fazer para as HF, para AP responder, para a entrevista do visto, tem as mais importantes que devemos saber responder, etc. E elas estão separadas por cores. Deem uma olhada:

1- Tell me about your experience with kids. 

2- Tell me what you like to do with children.

3- What can you do to entertain a child?

4- In your opinion, what are the main qualities we need to have as an Au Pair?

5- What do you think the family hopes for in an Au Pair?

6- Tell me about you: your interests, skills, what you enjoy doing in your free time and weekends.

7- What do you most like to do in you free time?

8- Talk about interesting courses you've done (not just relating to children), sports that you do or have done.

9- Why did you decide to be an Au Pair?

10- What do you expect to learn from this program?

11- Do you think the experience you have with children here will be different in the United States?

12- Are you graduated? What will you do when you return?

13- Tell me about your family, how is your relationship, if you have siblings… What do your parents do? Do you live together? Have you lived alone?

14- What are your responsibilities at home? 

15- How long have you been driven? Are you afraid of driving in the United States?

16- How do you consider your English (basic, intermediate or advanced) and how long have you studied English?

17- Do you have piercing or tattoo? Do you wear make up every day?

18- Who is the most important person for you? Why?

19-  What would you do if a friend decide to visit your city?

20- What kind of books do you like to read?

21- What country would you like to visit? Why? Give examples.

22- Which places would you like to go in the U.S.? Why?

23- Talk about something difficult that you've done and explain how you overcame it.

24- Tell me about something you've been afraid to do and why?

25- Talk about things that you consider right or wrong.

26- Talk about things that you enjoy doing with your family.

27- Do you like to study? What was your favorite subject in school?

28- What would you change in your school?

29- What would you do if a child does something that was not suppose to do and how will a child listen to your advices?

30- What you would you do if a child gets angry, crying or kicking?

31- What can you do if siblings fight or cannot play good together?

32- What can you do if two children want your attention at the same time?

33- How can you help a child who cries when his mother leaves?

34- What kind of activities do you like to do with children?

35- How was the longest period of time you have spent away from your family and friends?

36- Do you think you will get sad or lonely while you are away from your family? What can you do about it?

37- What do your parents think about your decision to become an au pair? Do you think they will visit you while you are in the U.S.? How do you plan to keep in touch with them?

38- What will you do if you feel like you are under a lot of pressure?

39- Do your parents have any rules that you must have to follow in your house? Do you let your parents to know where you are going and what time you are coming back? Do you have to be home by a certain time at night? How do you feel about house rules?

40- Based on the time of day that you will start work (give a concrete example), what time do you think you would need to be sleeping in order to take good care of the children in the next day?

41- Who is responsible for things like cooking, cleaning and doing laundry in your house? How much do your parents expect from you to help? How much do you help?

42- Describe your town or city. What do you like or dislike about it?

43- If someone were describing you, what would the person say?

44- If you took a picture of your room right now, what would it look like? Are you neat or messy? How would you feel living with someone who is neat or messy?

45- Do you like to plan your day or prefer things to “just happen”?

46- When you go out with your friends, where do you go? What do you guys do? How many times for week do you go out with friends?

47- Describe the kind of relationship that you have with your parents and sibling. What activities do you do together as a family? What is your favorite thing to do together?

48- What is the best memory that you have from your family?

49- How many times a year do you usually have to go to the doctor because you are sick?

50- Do you regularly need to visit your doctor for a medical condition such as allergies, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, etc.?

51- What is your favorite meal? What kinds of foods do you usually eat? Are there any kind of foods that you cannot eat? Are you a vegetarian? Do you follow a diet?

52- Do you smoke cigarettes on a daily basis? Do you smoke cigarettes when you go out at night? If so, do you think that you will be able to stop smoking when you are in the house and car and around the children?

53- What things would you like to do while you are in the U.S.? Do you have any hobbies or activities that you would like to continue doing while in the U.S.? Are there any new activities that you would like to do?

54- What kind of course would you like to take while you are in the U.S.?

55- How long have you been driving? How often do you drive? What kind of roads do you normally drive on? Have you ever driven on a highway? What kind of vehicle do you drive?

56- Have you ever been stopped by a policeman while you were driving because you did something wrong? If so, what happened?

57- How would you feel about driving the children?

58- What qualities do you think are important in as an Au Pair?

59- What are you going to do in the U.S.?

60- Have you ever travel abroad?

61- Why do you want to be an au pair?

62- How does the Au Pair program work? How did you meet this host family? Have you talked to them?

63- How much did you pay for the agency?

64- What are the hosts names?

65- What do they do?

66- How many kids do they have? Names, ages.

67- How did they know about the program?

68- Do you have experience with child?

69- How long will you be there?

70- Where will you live there?

71- What else will you do there?

72- Do you live with your parents?

73- What do your parents do?

74- What is the amount of money your family make per month?

75- What do your siblings do?

76- Do you study? Where? What? When?

77- Where did you study English? For how long?

78- Who is paying for this exchange?

79- Do you work? What do you do? Since when?

80- When are you leaving the country?

81- What will you do until there?

82- How old are you?

83- What will you do when you come back?

84- Do you have family or friends in the U.S.?

85- When did the last Au Pair leave?

86- How do the children feel about having an au pair taking care of them?

87- What will be my responsibilities for each child?

88- Is there anything you don't want me to do with them?

89- When are their birthdays?

90- What are their favorite colors?

91- What are their favorite games and toys?

92- Do they have friends that live close to them?

93- Will I be able to help the kids with homework?

94- What time do they go to school and come back?

95- Are there any English schools near to your house?

96- Will I be able to drive to my school while the kids are in school for example?

97- Is there gym close to the house?

98- Do their grandparents live close?

99- Do you go to the church?

100- Is there anything else you'd like to know about me?

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http://www.elllo.org/video/1101/V1122-Party.htm

Hi, my name is Julia, I'm from the UK. My question is do you listen to podcasts?

And the answer is yes. I love podcasts actually, I think they're great. I don't really listen to the radio, I don't know why, I'm not a radio person but podcasts are great and you can choose exactly what you want to listen to, when you want to listen to it, you can put it on your iPod or your player, whatever you can listen to it while you're out going for a run or driving your car, so you can choose when and where you listen to it. You can choose what you listen to, so I guess the convenience and the flexibility of podcasts suits my lifestyle much better than radio.

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http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer126/T135-Holiday.htm

Kat / Germany 

In my home country, Germany, I think the best holiday is Christmas. Christmas season is amazing. We have many markets especially for Christmas. Christmas time normally comes with a lot of snow and an amazing atmosphere. My mom makes cookies, and we have lots of friends and family over to our house, so it's a wonderful time.

Phoebe / China
What is your country's best holiday? I think in China the best holiday should be the spring festival. It is the main festival in China, and the families always get together, and the children can get their red pack with the money put in, so everybody likes that holiday.

Isma / Indonesia
My country's best holiday, I think, would be the Ramadan month, just because it is the holy month and everybody is usually pretty nice, and usually have a longer holiday on it, maybe around two weeks or something. So, the Ramadan month would be the best holiday 

for me.

Antoinette / United States 
I'm from the U.S., so I would say the best holiday would be maybe Thanksgiving, although there are some aspects of that holiday that I don't like. I don't like the overeating, but I do like the fact thatfamilies get together and talk about reasons why they're thankful for being together and for having family.

Rese / Botswana 
My country's best holiday would have to be the Christmas-New Year period, because that's the time when your family gets together and you cook and you make traditional meals and you see your friends. There's a lot of stuff going on in the village and other places, as well as the city.

Tony / Mozambique
I'll say the best holidays are Independence Day and Christmas. Independence Day, it's because that's where we achieved our freedom. And Christmas, that's when family get together to celebrate.

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PRE INTERMEDIATE AND INTERMEDIATE

http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer101/T123-Study.htm

Katia / Mexico
I prefer studying alone, because if I have to work on one particular issue, I stay as long as I need to, studying that part. So, I'd rather study by myself.

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Sunny / Korea
I think I prefer studying in groups, because I can find out many things that I haven't thought about, and then we can do some little chit-chats after studying.

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Dani / England
Alone, definitely. I kind of like to be in control of my own learning. I feel like with groups, it's too easy to getdistracted.

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Shiloh / United States 
I definitely prefer studying alone. Like I said before about team sports, I am an individualist. I like working in teams theoretically, but a lot of times, it doesn't work. My problem is that a lot of the time, I don't study for tests until the night before, so it's difficult to get groups together and study for the test. And I find that although maybe you learn better when you're studying in groups, it takes a lot longer and you get a lot less done in the same period of time. So, when I'm by myself, I'm able to justpower through the material and study hard and get it done.

Phoebe / China
Do you like to study alone or in a group? My answer will be in a group. Definitely. Because when you study alone, you need to have high self-motivation. I'm kind of lack of that, so I need a group.

Gareth / England 
I prefer studying alone, but I like to collaborate with other people and to discuss ideas. I think collaboration can help you to develop your own ideas and see things from a different point of view.

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INTERMEDIATE

http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G069-Travel.htm

Hi, I'm Jonathan and I'm from Canada, and I'm going to be talking about some travel destinations. I've travelled a lot. I've been to just over one hundred countries and I'm going to tell you about some of the places that I really liked.

In Africa, in the country of Nanibia is the Otossia National Park. It's the best place in the world to go on Safari. It's in a salt pan, so there's very little vegetation, very few water holes, so the animals all congregate in those places and they're easy to see.

For Asia, I would recommend trekking in the Annapurna Himalayas. You can see some incredible views. It's very good exercise. The people are friendly and it's very cheap and safe to do. And Annapurna is in Nepal in case you don't know.

In the region of the Pacific Islands and such I would recommend going to the Great Barrier Reef off the East Coast of Australia, especially if you enjoy water sports and things like scuba diving and snorkelling. It's a very good place to go. It's safe and clean and you can see an incredible underwater world.

For South America, in the country of Bolivia, you can go to the Uyuni Region. You'll never see a sky so bright. The sun is reflecting off the surface of the salt pan which has a very thin layer of water.

In Central America, I would recommend going to Tical in Guatamala. It's a Mayan ruin which was only discovered more recently than some of the older ones so it's still in very good condition and it's still in the Jungle setting, so you will have Howler monkeys in the trees and lush vegetation around as you walk between temples.

In Europe, I really like the city of Barcelona. It has a very lively atmosphere. There's a lot of culture and arts everywhere. It's a very fun place to spend some time if you enjoy art and nightlife and vibrant culture.

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BASIC 1 AND 2

O que você está ouvindo? What are you listening to? Lucy: Eu estou ouvindo o rádio. I'm listening to the radio. Bill: Eu sei disso. Quem está tocando? I know that. Who are they playing? Lucy: Advinha. Guess. Bill: Eu acha que isso são os Beatles, certo? I think that's the Beatles, right? Lucy: Está certo. Como você sabia? That's right. How did you know that? Bill: No meu país todos sabem quem eles são. Eles são famosos. In my country everyone knows who they are. They're famous. Lucy: Mesmo? Really? Bill: Claro. Meus pais os viram num show há muito tempo atrás. Of course. My parents saw them at a concert a long time ago. Lucy: Você sabia que eles são da Inglaterra? Did you know that they're from England? Bill: Sim, claro. Yes, of course. Lucy: Que tipo de música você geralmente ouve? What kind of music do you usually listen to? Bill: Eu ouço de tudo mas meu favorito é Pop. I listen to everything, but my favorite is Pop. Lucy: Sei. Quem é teu cantor favorito? I see. Who's your favorite singer? Bill: Celine Dion Celine Dion. Lucy: Eu também gosto dela. Ela tem uma grande voz. I like her too. She's got a great voice.

pre intermediario

http://www.engvid.com/level/beginner/


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It’s ten in the morning and Michael is sleeping. He is sleeping in a big bedroom in a hotel. His secretary is talking to his fans and answering emails. The manager is making the arrangements for Michael’s show. Outside the hotel there are people waiting to see Michael. The police is helping to control the situation. His fans are saying, “I love you Michael”. Everyone wants to go to his concert because he is the best. He is a great singer and a wonderful dancer too.The show is tonight and I won't miss it.

Vocabulary:

Sleep: dormir 
Manager: gerente, empresário 
Bedroom: quarto 
Talk: conversar 
Answer: responder 
Make arrangements: fazer preparativos
Say: dizer
Outside: do lado de fora
Wait to see: esperar para ver
Miss: perder

2. Respondam as perguntas – Answer the questions

a. Where is Michael sleeping?
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b. What is his secretary doing?
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c. What is the manager doing?
…………………………………………………………………

d.What are his fans saying?
…………………………………………………………………

3. Mark True or False - Verdadeiro ou Falso

a. Michael sings and dances. (.....)
b. His fans are violent. (.....)
c. Michael doesn't have a secretary. (.....)
d. The show is tomorrow. (.....)