Let’s save the world a recycle!! Toilet paper roll crafts

Teacher: Gustavo

Grand Theft Auto V: The Official Trailer

Algumas dicas para vocês!

Vocês viram o que lançou? GTA V!

Ainda não viu? 

Aqui o Trailer dele:

GTA V: como instalar os 2 discos no Xbox 360 sem perda de performance

GTA 5 para Xbox 360 exige a instalação do Disco 1 e a leitura do Disco 2 para ser jogado, porém é possível também instalar o segundo disco para poupar seu leitor de DVD. No entanto, a produtora Rockstar avisou que o processo pode causar problemas inesperados, se feito incorretamente. Confira o modo certo de fazê-lo, usando um Pendrive.

Ao instalar o Disco 1 no HD interno e deixar o Disco 2 no leitor de DVD, o Xbox 360 tem duas fontes diferentes para adquirir dados, tornando a execução do jogo otimizada. Porém, instalar os dois discos no mesmo HD cria um gargalo que prejudica a performance do game.

Para usuários que queiram evitar este problema, mas que também façam questão de instalar o disco no HD interno para poupar o leitor e evitar o barulho constante, será necessário fornecer uma segunda fonte. No caso, basta utilizar um Pendrive para a instalação obrigatória do Disco 1 e o HD interno para o Disco 2.

Passo 1: Siga nosso tutorial para colocar a instalação obrigatória do Disco 1 em um Pendrive.

Passo 2: Coloque o Disco 2 no Xbox 360, mas não pressione "A" para jogar, ao invés disso pressione "X" para “Detalhes do Jogo”.

      A queda de qualidade é visível ao instalar os 2 discos de GTA 5 no HD interno (Foto: Reprodução/Rafael Monteiro)

Passo 3: Na opção “Detalhes do Jogo” selecione "Instalar" e escolha o HD interno como dispositivo de armazenamento.

Passo 4: Após encerrada a instalação, volte para o menu inicial e selecione "Jogar".

Passo 5: Aproveite GTA 5 sem perda de performance, poupando seu leitor e sem os ruídos de leitura. Mas lembre-se de que, como todo jogo instalado do Xbox 360, o DVD ainda precisa estar no leitor.

É possível alternar a ordem também, colocando a instalação obrigatória do Disco 1 no HD interno do Xbox 360 e instalando o Disco 2 no Pendrive, o importante é apenas que não estejam ambos no mesmo dispositivo, seja o HD interno ou o Pendrive. O vídeo abaixo demonstra os problemas causados pela instalação incorreta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gPB0gdoOM

Teacher: Anna

Aprenda jogando...

Entre os filmes e musicas para nos ajudar a aprender inglês, encontramos também o vídeo game!

Sabia que esse é um recurso que muitos jovens usam para ajudar a falar o inglês?

 

Se você é um jogador, muito bom! Sempre escolha a opção “english” para suas partidas! Só não pode exagerar! A hora que a mãe fala para parar tem que obedecer!

Então, aqui vão alguns jogos novos que estão lançando, ou já lançaram para você ter novas opções!

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Survive an apocalypse on Earth in The Last of Us, a PlayStation 3-exclusive title by Naughty Dog. Here, you will find abandoned cities reclaimed by nature. Here is a population decimated by a modern plague. Here, there are only survivors killing each other for food, weapons, or whatever they can get their hands on. Here, you find no hope.

Joel, a brutal survivor, and Ellie, a brave young teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together if they hope to survive their journey across the US.

Release Date: June 14, 2013

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From the makers of the award-winning Heavy Rain™ comes a unique, psychological action thriller. Featuring a brand-new game engine, a compelling, original story, and a top-notch Hollywood cast; Beyond: Two Souls offers a sophisticated, technologically advanced, immersive gaming experience on PlayStation 3.

Live the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman who possesses supernatural powers through a psychic link to an invisible entity. Experience the most striking moments of Jodie’s life as your actions and decisions determine her fate. As she traverses the globe, Jodie will face incredible challenges against a backdrop of emotionally-charged events never before seen in a video game.

Release Date: October 8, 2013

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The United States has a military presence in two thirds of countries around the world. A group of 12 have had enough and initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist -- a deadly countdown of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S. interests. Sam Fisher is the leader of the newly formed 4th Echelon unit: a clandestine unit that answers solely to the President of the United States. Sam and his team must hunt down these terrorists by any means necessary, and stop the Blacklist countdown before it reaches zero.

Unleash the power of the most lethal agent to ever exist. You've been given the ultimate freedom to protect innocents against the Blacklist terror attacks known as -- the freedom to use limitless force, to break every law, and to become the globe's deadliest operative. If you succeed, the President of the United States will deny you exist. If you fail, millions will die.

Release Date: August 20, 2013

Teacher: Anna Sophia

For you laugh

A Wife Sends Her Husband to a Grocery Store:

"And don't forget to buy the milk, do you hear me?!"
"I hear you..."

"And take the low fat one, don't mix up!"
"Take it easy, I won't..."

"And don't buy wine instead, like you did the last time, do you remember?!"
"Of course I remember..."

"And no beer, like the time before that, understand?!"
"I do, I do...."

"Well, go then!"

... Ten minutes later in the grocery store:

"What did she tell me to buy - was it wine or beer? Oh, well, I'll better take both, just in case."

Teacher Elena Iorga

April Fool’s

Watch the video and fill in the blanks with these words:

England - January 1^st - April – Philadelphia –calendar – fools – prank - noon

April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day is one day of the year when you're allowed to mercilessly __________ your friends, family and co-workers. How exactly did this day come about? We don’t actually know for sure what started the celebration of April Fools’ Day. Evidences can be found as early as 1500 but these accounts are infrequent and not very detailed.

The most popular theory is that it began around 1582 in France during the reformation of the ____________. Before France adopted the Gregorian calendar, they celebrated the New Year for eight days, beginning on March 25^th and ending on April 1^st. When they switched the calendar systems, the 8^th day moved from April 1^st to ____________________________^.

Because they didn't have internet, phones, social media and a mail system, a lot of people didn't hear about this change until years later. Those who did not hear about the change continued to celebrate New Year in _________. Others refused to celebrate it out to rebellion. Those that have been informed of the change and adjusted their calendars begin to make fun of these ___________ who were informed or rebellious. This harassment evolved into a tradition of playing pranks on the first day of April and then spread to other countries.

However April Fools’ Day was already established in ________, which did not change calendar system until 1752. Also people were already engaged in pranks and light-heartedness around this time of year, long before the French switched their calendar systems, such as in the case of the ancient Roman Festival of Hilaria.

Modern celebrations of April Fools’ Day have slightly different traditions depending on the country you are in, but they all have the similar theme of pranking and humiliating individuals. In France they try to tape an image of a fish to your back without you noticing it and in Portugalthey throw flour to you. In England, you’re only supposed to put jokes until _________and if you put a joke after noon, you’re called an “April fool”.  In the US as in Britain, even popular media outlets and companies have been known to get involved in the fun.

In 1996 Taco Bell announced that it had purchased the liberty bell from the city of ________________ and that it was going to rename it as the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1192 NPR claimed that Richard Nixon would be runningagain for president. The British publication, The Guardian, famously pranked the public in 1977, when they said that a semicolon-shaped island in the Indian Ocean had been discovered. This hoax is credited for launching the trend of April Fools’ Day pranks by British tabloids.

Teacher Gustavo 

Easter is coming

Hello guys, how are you?

Easter is coming, yeaaaaahhhh   I can’t stop thinking about chocolate, Easter egg, Easter bunny. Talking about Easter bunny, have you ever wondered why Easter egg? And how about Easter bunny?  Well I have done my researches and this is what I found out…. 

Rabbits have been associated with springtime since ancient times. It is believed that a symbol of the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring Eostre was the hare. It was Eostre's sacred animal since it was a symbol of fertility and the rebirth of nature following winter.

As rabbits are similar to hares and are very common everywhere, Christians changed the symbol to the Easter bunny. So the modern symbol of the Easter bunny comes from pagan times.

The tradition of the Easter bunny leaving a basket of treats such as Easter eggs and chocolates on Easter Day is common in America but not in Britain. Parents of American children often hide eggs in the garden for children to find. Sometimes their children leave out carrots for the Easter bunny. The idea of an egg-laying rabbit went to America in the 1700's through immigrants arriving from Germany. They told their children to make 'nests' before Easter with their caps and bonnets and if they were good the Easter bunny would leave them coloured eggs.

Source: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Easter/EasterBunny.aspx

I hope you liked, see you next time =)

Teacher Andreza

Try to do it!

 Happy Easter to everybody

 Easter Bunny Apprehended

Statue Arrested in Germany
Will and Guy have noticed that Police have arrested a large Easter Bunny statue in Duisburg, Germany after homeowners reported a 'stalker' staring into their window.

The couple contacted authorities after seeing a figure with a "striking" face about 1.8 metres (6ft) tall peering in, to their house. They then described to police that the offender was wearing a yellow shirt, blue check trousers and a green backpack.

When the police arrived on the scene to apprehend the stalker, they were faced with a 6-foot statue of the Easter Bunny.

One officer told us, 'We took him into custody but he hasn't said much yet.'

The police believe the bunny was placed outside the couple's home as a practical joke, and will keep the bunny detained until his owners come and collect him.

1. What will you do in a situation like that?Justify your  answer.

__________________________________________________

___________________________________________________

Teacher Elena

St Patrick's exercise!

Hello guys!

Está chegando o dia de St Patrick so let’s do a fun exercise!

Existem várias expressões com a palavra “green”, coloque as letras certas na primeira coluna para explicar as expressões.

_____  give someone the green light                   a. To wear green clothing on St. Patrick’s Day

_____  to have a green thumb                         b. to be inexperienced at something

_____  to be green with envy                                 c. to take care of the Earth and the 

                                                                     environment

_____  wearing of the green                                   d. give permission to go ahead with a 

                                                                     project

_____  to be green around the gills                  e. to feel jealous

_____  green-eyed monster                            f. paper money

_____  to be green                                         g. the wall at Fenway Park, where the Red

                                                                    Sox play

_____ the grass is always greener on                  h. very jealous, full of envy

            the other side of the fence

_____  to go green                                                    i. a place that is different seems better 

                                                                     than where we are now

_____  greenbacks                                                   j. to have a talent for making things grow

_____  The Green Monster                                      k. to look very sick

Answer: 1)d - 2)j – 3)e – 4)a – 5)k – 6)h – 7)b – 8)i - 9)c – 10)f – 11)g

Teacher Monica

Boxing Day

Hello guys.

I just can't believe it is already December. And when December comes, Christmas starts to say hello to us as well.LOL  

Teacher Andreza Ferro

Before I start telling you about my first Xmas in England, let me ask you something.

What is the first think that comes in your mind when someone says: Boxing Day?

Is it something like this?

A

or like this?

B

or

C

When I lived in England my first Christmas far from my family was very strange, and I discovered something very different about their Xmas as well. First, they don't start celebrating on 24th December. Yep, they don't, they only celebrate it on 25th  Xmas day or eve as they say, and the most different one, they have Boxing day. When I heard about this day I thought, what a heck box and Xmas together. Here is a little about it for you.

Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradespeople would receive gifts from their superiors or employers. Today, Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on 26^th December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth nations.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In Ireland it is recognized as St. Stephen's Day (Irish: LáFhéileStiofáin) or the Day of the Wren (Irish: LáanDreoilín). In the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Catalonia, 26^th December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.

In Canada, Boxing Day takes place on 26^th December and is a federal public holiday.In Ontario, Boxing Day is a statutory holiday where all full-time workers receive time off with pay.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

So who said that Boxing day look more like the letter C, was totally right. Nowadays Boxing day is the day they rush to the stores to buy and change their gifts. It is the best time to buy in there, like Black Friday in The USA.

I hope you had enjoyed to know a little about this lovely day in there.

Quer saber mais sobre a palavra HOT??

HOT

1. Someone that’s EXTREMEMLY good looking but not like cute, more like sexy. When they walk by you turn your head and wish you had a pause button or something. 

2. Something that is in some way attractive

Sergio Ferreira

Se divirta com tirinhas....

Sergio Ferreira

Vem aí, "Graffiti Band"

Vem aí a "Graffiti Band", a banda fictícia dos nossos alunos Kauê, Matheus e Reinaldo.
Fiquem ligados pois na próxima quinta, dia 11/11, eles estreiarão 3 clipes aqui no Be An Expert.
Isso tudo faz parte do projeto "LEWM" (Learn English With Music)
Os alunos prometeram mandar bem, então tenha certeza de conferir na semana que vem!

Teens: Web Language

Y r u waiting 4 m 2 say something?
Entendeu a pergunta?
Assim como nós usamos uma linguagem "da net", nossos amigos norte americanos também gostam de dar uma "encurtada" nas palavras; principalmente agora com o limite de 140 caracteres no Twitter

Então confira uma lista de algumas das abreviações mais utilizadas!

"Não boie" em inglês! 

Be An Expert!

Teacher Guilherme

 

2 – to

4 – for

B - Be

C – See

D – The

M – Me

N – And

R – Are

U - You

Ur – Your

Y – Why

‘cuz - Because

LOL – Laugh Out Loud

Plz - Please

Gotta – Got to = Have

BTW – By the Way

Watcha – What do you

Wanna – Want to

Gonna – Going To

Ain’t – Am not, Is not, Are not, Have not, Has Not