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Tenha COMUNICAÇÃO como OBJETIVO!



O vídeo abaixo é bastante interessante!

Tendo COMUNICAÇÃO como OBJETIVO,
totalmente concordo com o que diz esse polonês do vídeo abaixo...

Se você tem bloqueio com inglês básico (ou conhece alguém que tem)
vale a pena ver ou sugerir esse vídeo!

http://blog.rafaelcavalcante.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/diamante.jpg

Antes de ver o vídeo,
você saberia dizer que pedra é essa ao lado?

Depois de ver o vídeo,
por favor, veja também meu texto em defesa da gramática, que eu poderia resumir assim:
Ninguém se faz ourives em sete dias!


E agora, em defesa da gramática:
imagine-se
segurando em uma mão um diamante bruto
e em outra mão um diamante lapidado.
Ambos são valiosos, mas um deles,
antes de valer no bolso, vale nos olhos!
e quanto mais lapidado, mais brilho!
Uma frase bem-feita, antes de valer nas ideias,
vale nos ouvidos, além de ser mais objetiva,
limpa, de fácil reconhecimento.


"O valor de um diamante não pode jamais ser considerado apenas em função do peso da pedra. Embora seja uma característica muito importante, é preciso levar em conta também a cor, pureza e o corte da gema para classificar o seu valor no mercado. Um diamante menor pode ser considerado mais valioso do que outro maior que tenha cor, pureza e lapidação inferiores." ( diamantes.com )
Você saberia que pedra é aquela lá em cima,
antes do texto?... Você poderia arriscar,
mas convenhamos que há muito ruído,
há muita interferência, não se pode ver bem,
portanto não se pode deduzir tão precisamente.
Assim é a comunicação. Valiosíssima!
De uma forma ou de outra.

Lapidar é agregar valor!
Um valor simbólico.
O valor do brilho.

Não há como lapidar diamantes sem ferramentas.
Para sua comunicação, a ferramenta é a gramática.

E ninguém se faz ourives em sete dias!



=)
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT
TEACHING AND LEARNING...
(CLICK TO WATCH IT)

MOTHER




  1. ___ is the mother of good luck.
    a. Diligence
    b. Experience
    c. Intelligence
    d. Arrogance
  2. ___ is the mother of wisdom.
    a. Diligence
    b. Experience
    c. Intelligence
    d. Necessity
  3. ___ is the mother of invention.
    a. Diligence
    b. Experience
    c. Intelligence
    d. Necessity
  4. He that would the ___ win, must with the mother first begin.
    a. battle
    b. argument
    c. lottery
    d. daughter
  5. "Like mother, like daughter" means ___.
    a. If you admire the mother you will also admire the daughter.
    b. Daughters tend to do the same things as their mothers.
  6. "Tied to one's mother's apron strings" means ___.
    a. A person likes cooking.
    b. A person has a fetish for his or her mother's clothing.
    c. A person is dependent on his or her mother.
    d. A person has very strict ideas about what is proper behavior.
  7. "Every mother's son (of someone)" means ___.
    a. Absolutely everyone with no exception
    b. Anyone who is underage
    c. All who are immature
    d. Anyone who is living at home
  8. "Old enough to be someone's mother" means ___.
    a. A person is as old as someone's parents (too old for a relationship).
    b. A person is old enough to have children.
    c. A person is well matched emotionally with another person.
    d. A person ought to act more mature.
  9. Children are the ___ that hold a mother to life. (Sophocles)
    a. stitches
    b. anchors
    c. pillars
    d. glue
  10. Every beetle is a gazelle in the ___ of its mother. (Moorish Proverb)
    a. mind
    b. view
    c. eyes
    d. heart
  11. A ___ son is the heaviness of its mother. (Bible, Proverbs)
    a. foolish
    b. friendly
    c. frank
    d. fiendish
  12. The ideal mother, like the ideal ___ is fiction.(Milton B. Sapirstein, Paradoxes of Everyday Life, 1955)
    a. house
    b. job
    c. marriage
    d. vacation
  13. A mother is glad to get the loveliest child ___. (Emerson)
    a. dressed
    b. ready
    c. home
    d. asleep
  14. No woman can call herself ___ unless she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be amother. (Margaret Sanger, Parade, Dec.1, 1963)
    a. happy
    b. open
    c. free
    d. modern
  15. What mother sings to the cradle goes all the way ___ to the coffin. (Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbsfrom Plymouth Pulpit, 1887)
    a. down
    b. after
    c. on
    d. in
  16. Who takes the child by the ___ takes the mother by the heart. (Danish Proverb)
    a. storm
    b. hand
    c. shirttails
    d. arm
  17. Men are what ___ mothers made them. (Emerson)
    a. some
    b. other
    c. their
    d. many
  18. Only mothers can think of the ___ because they give birth to it in their children. (Maxim Gorky)
    a. future
    b. past
    c. present
    d. possible
  19. Motherly love begins with oneness and ___ to separateness. (Erich Fromm)
    a. ends
    b. leads
    c. results
    d. depends
  20. A motherless son is a fish ___low water. (Burmese Proverb)
    a. out
    b. over
    c. in
    d. on



















A test & The Chinese Zodiac Characteristics



 
What a coincidence:
Last Tuesday, one of my groups of students was reading about the Chinese Zodiac...
When we started talking about it, they
found it difficult to talk about themselves finding animal characteristics in their routines or life styles.

Well...
Today
it's not me!
It's
Superinteressante suggesting you to do a TEST.
(and to think about it, so)

WHAT'S
YOUR ANIMAL PERSONALITY?



It's in portuguese,
but the idea is
to know  yourself
a little better!

=)



Do you know somebody having a baby in 2013?
Well. These babies have SNAKE as sign...
 

SNAKE is the sixth sign of the lunar calendar.
Mine is the wisdom of the ages.
I hold the key to the mysteries of life.

Casting my seeds on fertile ground,
I nurture them with constancy and purpose.
My sights are fixed. My gaze remains unchanged.
Unyielding, inexorable and deep,
I advance with steady gait,
the solid earth beneath me.


  • Philosopher, theologian, political wizard, wily fancier- the Snake is the deepest thinker and the enigma
  • Endowed with a personal wisdom
  • Graceful and soft-spoken, will gravitate naturally towards the finer things in life
  • Very beautiful
  • Generally relies on their own judgment, not working well with others, trusting their own instincts rather than outside advice
  • By nature is skeptical, but will keep his suspicions to himself
  • One of the most tenacious signs, never stops plotting and can be viciously unrelenting. Can be possessive and demanding in relationships.
  • Snake women are the original femme fatale, if she doesn’t have money and power she will marry into it, and won’t agonize over women’s rights. She will be her husbands’ best asset.
Ox and Rooster are your fellow intellectuals; Snake and Boar do not mix well!
Here you have a nice chart about the Chinese Zodiac.



READ MORE about the Chinese Zodiac Characteristics...