Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

Work Tourism Rankings (Group Work) Which 10 countries do you think ranked highest in the world tourism rankings? Try to guess with a partner. (Answers (from 2010) on the bottom of next page.) The Foreign Visitor (Pair Work) Option 1 : A foreign VIP client of your company will visit from this Thursday to next Monday. Your boss has given you an unlimited budget to show your country to the client. Design the best itinerary you can for the visit. Option 2 : You met some friendly aliens on a recent space flight. You invited them to visit Earth sometime. Yesterday, they contacted you. They’d like you to give them a 5-day tour of your planet. Design the best itinerary you can. (Transportation will not be a problem as you can use their spacecraft.) Role-play #1 Student A: You want to take your wife/husband on a trip this weekend. First, decide where you want to go. Then, phone your travel agent to reserve a plane ticket and hotel. Also, ask for recommendations of things to...

Father's Day is celebrated all around the world to say thank you to dads. An old English proverb tells how important fathers are. It says: “A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” Many of us perhaps think our father is even more important. There is no age limit for the person saying thank you, nor for the dad. There is no universal date when every country celebrates Father’s Day. In many countries it is on the third Sunday in June. Most fathers receive presents and cards and perhaps even a special dinner. The day has a special punctuation point. The apostrophe is placed before the ‘s’. This means we all think about our own father. Of course, if the apostrophe was placed after the ‘s’, we would be honouring all the fathers in the world. Father’s Day historians believe the day started in Washington state in the USA. A lady called Sonora Dodd was sitting in church one Sunday in 1909, listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day. She decided it was only fair to also have a day for ...

lição em pdf: http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/05/mothers_day.pdf audio: http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/05/mothers_day.mp3 READING: Mother's Day is an important day all around the world, even though it started in North America and Europe. Not all countries celebrate it on the same day, but the most popular day is the second Sunday in May. It is, of course, a day to honour our mothers and make them feel extra special. A punctuation point about the day is that most countries choose the singular possessive “Mother’s Day”, with the apostrophe before the ‘s’ to show that each family honours their mother, rather than all of the world’s mothers. Young children get especially excited about Mother’s Day and put a lot of effort into making cards and presents for their Mums, or Moms in America. For mothers, it is like having a second birthday. Mother’s Day in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. means mothers usually get the day off from housework. It is common for children to...

Teacher’s notes Topic: Imaginary wealth and a magazine article Aims:  • To help students use their imaginations to build up a fictitious character • To develop students’ ability to use a variety of question forms and tenses  • To develop students’ communication skills • To develop students’ writing skills   Level: low to mid intermediate   Introduction This lesson takes a light-hearted look at money and magazines. Students invent their extremely wealthy future selves and then take turns to be journalists interviewing and writing for ‘Rich!!’ magazine.   Procedure Write today’s date on the board, substituting the year for ‘2025’. Tell your students that in this class they have to imagine that it is in fact 2025. Tell them how old you are now that it is 2025. Have all students work out their new age and tell either you or a partner. Now tell them that that as well as being older they are also extremely rich. Have students imagine what job they ...