HAVING FUN

What starts with E, ends with E and only has one letter?
A: An envelope.

Q: If you drop a white hat into the Red Sea, what does it become?
A: Wet.

Q: What is white when it's dirty and black when it's clean?
A: A blackboard.

Q: What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
A: B. (bee)

Q: What letter is a part of the head?
A: I. (eye)

Q: What letter is a drink?
A: T. (tea)

Q: What letter is a body of water?
A: C. (sea)

Q: What letter is a vegetable?
A: P. (pea)

IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION

 Esta é uma dica legal para facilitar a vida do estudante de língua estrangeira, muita gente ainda não sabe como usar todos os recursos de um dicionário, por exemplo, na maioria dos dicionários há alguns simbolos que nem sempre prestamos muita atenção, veja o exemplo abaixo, com a palavra "frozen".

 frozen

BrE / ˈfrəʊzn /

NAmE / ˈfroʊzn /

esses simbolos são simplesmente a forma como essas palavras devem ser pronunicadas.

entre neste link abaixo para escutar a pronuncia dos simbolos

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/methodology/phonetic-chart.htm

se preferir você também pode baixar o programa no seu computador, para sempre ouvir o símbolo que sentir dificuldade.

 

Consonants p pen, copy, happen b back, baby, job t tea, tight, button d day, ladder, odd k key, clock, school g get, giggle, ghost tʃ church, match, nature dʒ judge, age, soldier f fat, coffee, rough, photo v view, heavy, move θ thing, author, path ð this, other, smooth s soon, cease, sister z zero, music, roses, buzz ʃ ship, sure, national ʒ pleasure, vision h hot, whole, ahead m more, hammer, sum n nice, know, funny, sun ŋ ring, anger, thanks, sung l light, valley, feel r right, wrong, sorry, arrange j yet, use, beauty, few w wet, one, when, queen ʔ (glottal stop) department, football

Vowels ɪ kit, bid, hymn, minute e dress, bed, head, many æ trap, bad ɒ lot, odd, wash ʌ strut, mud, love, blood ʊ foot, good, put iː fleece, sea, machine eɪ face, day, break aɪ price, high, try ɔɪ choice, boy uː goose, two, blue, group əʊ goat, show, no aʊ mouth, now ɪə near, here, weary eə square. fair, various ɑː start, father ɔː thought, law, north, war ʊə poor, jury, cure ɜː nurse, stir, learn, refer ə about, common, standard i happy, radiate. glorious u thank you, influence, situation n̩ suddenly, cotton l̩ middle, metal ˈ (stress mark)

Depois de entender um pouco sobre estes simbolos tente traduzir estas duas piadas que estão escritas em simbolos fonéticos. Olhe na tabela para fazer a tradução

ə mæn goz tu ðə dɑktər ænd sɛz, " dɑktər, wɛrɛvər aj tətʃ, ɪt hərts."
ðə dɑktər æsks, " wət du ju min?"
ðə mæn sɛz, " wɛn aj tətʃ maj ʃoldər, ɪt rɪli hərts. wɛn aj tətʃ maj ni - awtʃ! wɛn aj tətʃ maj fɔrhɛd, ɪt rɪli, rɪli hərts."
ðə dɑktər sɛz, " aj no wəts rɒŋ wɪθ ju. juv brokən jɔr fɪŋgər!"

ə mæn rəsivz ə fon kɒl frəm hɪz dɑktər.
ðə dɑktər sɛz, " aj hæv səm gʊd nuz ænd səm bæd nuz."
ðə mæn sɛz, " oke, gɪv mi ðə gʊd nuz fərst."
ðə dɑktər sɛz, " ðə gʊd nuz ɪz, ju hæv 24 awərz tu lIv."
ðə mæn rəplajz, " o no! ɪf ðæts ðə gʊd nuz, ðɛn wəts ðə bæd nuz?"
ðə dɑktər sɛz, " ðə bæd nuz ɪz, aj fərgɑt tu kɒl ju jɛstərde."



VOCABULARY - CLOTHES

VOCABULARY - SHOES

CONVERSATION CLASS

ABOUT CRIMES

Assista esse vídeo e acompanhe com o texto abaixo a narração, tente preencher as lacunas, uma dica, nas espaços com o número 1 as palavras são relatives clauses e 2 os vocabulos são preposições. O foco deste exercício é descobrir um história fantástica que aconteceu no Estados Unidos na década de 70, de um cara que sequestrou um avião e exigiu uma grana das autoridades, o mais incrível é que ele pulou do avião com a grana e nunca mais foi encontrado, o FBI até hoje procura ele.

NÍVEL: AVANÇADO

INTRODUCTION

B. Cooper is the name attributed to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States on 24 November 1971, received US $ 200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane. The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press miscommunication, he became known as "D. B. Cooper". Despite hundreds of leads through the years, no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts, and the bulk of the money has never been recovered. Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump, but the F.B.I. believe he did not survive.

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VIDEO SCRIPT

During the weeny hours of thanksgiving eve 1971. A Boeing 727 leaves Portland bound for Seattle. This plane and these passengers will become the most into the skyjacking in the American history. A man told DB cooper by the news media jumps from the plane over dense forest carrying four parachutes and 2,000 dollars, why is the crime still unsolved? Who is Cooper?, where is the money today?

The day before thanksgiving 1971 was busy as usual for air traffic. The air cargo between Portland and Seattle was crowded. By mid afternoon the bulk of departuring passengers had left Portland International Airport. ……. (2) approximately two o`clock a man called himself Dan Cooper arrive in one of the seven entrances to the terminal. As recreated for “In search of” he passes unanimously through the two thousand five hundred people ………… (1)still remained, flight 305, a milk run originated in Washington  DC was ……… (2) schedule for its quick stop over in Portland.

Dan Cooper purchased the ticket with cash, for the last leg of the flight, Portland to Seattle. the airline clerk ……(1) solved him his ticket did not take any special notice of Cooper. later through an error in newspaper reporting  he was incorrectly identified as BD Cooper, not Dan Cooper, a mistake ……………(1.A)  often continues to this day. At 2;30 boarding began for flight 305. Cooper was the thirty sixth passenger to board the plane. Loading of a both cargo and passengers was complete by 2:45.

 The 727 carrying Cooper and his fellow passenger swung out ………(2) the airport runways in the early twilight. Portland tower cleared flight 305 for take off at 2: 58 pm , the plane was lifting off when  cooper approached the stewardess and gave her a note. he demanded 2 hundred thousand dollars in twenty dollar bills and four parachutes.

Everything would be delivered to him when the plane landed in Seattle . “the skyjacker called himself Cooper was the first American to hold the plane and its passengers for ransom,  he established the dangerous precedent of air piracy for financial extortion ………….(1) is still copied by many terrorists  today, but in Cooper`s case it was an act of pre-agreed it was a social protest not an outcry for political justice. Cooper`s only motivation was the money.”

the way …...   …………  he carried out his crime was coldly calculated, he reinforce his demands by opening a briefcase and showed the stewardess what appeared to be a bomb. the stewards reported directly to the captain, then communicated the skyjacker`s demands to the airlines and the FAA.

 Rolf Humoosbock a FBI veteran with 29 years of service was notified of the skyjacking ……… (2) progress. flight 305 from Portland to Seattle normally takes 36 minutes, this day it would last more than two hours. two of the passengers on that flight were Richard and Barbara Simons

 “the way he asked to remain in our seats…cause after two hours in the air I felt urge to go back to the men`s restroom and I got up  and  walked down the aisle and I notice the expression in the stewards, it was rather horrified he glanced first in me getting a walk up on the aisle and DB Cooper and the handbag by his side and back in me again what if why are you doing?, what are you doing?...I waked past into the men`s room he turned around and looked very intently out me I got a pretty good look . I thought it rather strange cause he was interested in me and I …so, I got a pretty good impression of him, he was very alert, very much in command of the situation, he knew what was going on and even he was watching carefully every move of every passenger.

Meanwhile lawing forceman officers  and airline officials were now preparing to meet Cooper`s demands. Earl Cossy a parachutist for 16 years experience and 32 jumps to his credit was asked to supply the four parachutes cooper wanted. …….(2) 3:34 captain Robert Scott was circling the Seattle Tacoma International airport by airline officials collect the 2 hundred thousand dollars for a group of Seattle banks. Cossy was quickly preparing the parachutes to be delivered to Cooper. By mistake one was a ground training chute with its panels soon shot does making it defective.

At FBI headquarters a furious effort was being made to record each serial number on the 10.020 dollar bills that would comprise the ransom demanded by Cooper. The plane finally landed …….. (2) Seattle at 5:46 pm, it was brought to a remote area of the run way.

“when we finally did land, ah….we landed way off in the farthest into field which. I felt was just a way show he had engineering think so it was no possible thing could got in his way, he allowed the passengers to be unnoted by captain group down on the airport close to forty five minutes in the wind in the cold and in the rain and I car met the airplane with the parachute and the money and on the rumor it was there and I…. but none of us were allowed to leave until that all taking place and we were allowed slowly walk across the air field.”

 The flight crew and Cooper remained aboard the aircraft, at 7:36 pm the plane refilled and prepared for flight headed it out in low clouds and wind and showers. Cooper demanded that landing gear be kept down and displaying basic flight knowledge he also order the wind flaps set in 15 degrees to slow the jet speed. The air force scramble jet flies from a cord base force land Tacoma to follow the plane from a safe distance.

Trying find  and follow a low flying 727  even with radar vectors is like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. About twenty minutes later Cooper ordered the entire crew to stay locked in the front of the plane. …….. (2) 8:11 pm the crew felt a sudden change in the pressure throughout the plane. Because of the inclement weather no one including the air force jets ever saw cooper jump or a chute open.

The territory in which Cooper jumped was to be searched by planes, helicopters and trackers ………. (2)  foot. Both Washington and Oregon possess some of the most into impenetrable forests in the country  ……….. (1) Cooper would pick these areas may provide clues to his identity, on the present all we have is an artist rendering of his face, who was Cooper?

Relative clauses (1)

Prepositions (2)

In your opinion what did happen to Cooper? What`s his whereabouts? Is he alive? How did he spend the money?  Write a paragraph about it.

	Death penalty	Life imprisonment	Jail    (how long)	Community Service	Fine
Arson
Bigamy
Burglary
Corruption
Drunken driving
Drug peddling
Forgery
Fraud
Hijacking
Kidnapping
Murder
Rape
Robbery
Shoplifting
Smuggling
Tax evasion

Do you think that …?

Are you in favor of…?

Are you opposed of…?

What do you think about…?

What`s your opinion about?

Are you for or against the death penalty?

What do you think about each crime and the punishments above. Are you against the death penalty? Give reasons.   In your opinion what was the most hideous crime you have heard?