Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Vocabulário para Festa de Aniversário

Vocabulário de festa de aniversário - birthday party!

Para ir a uma festa - seja de aniversário ou não - você precisa de um invitation (convite). Se você ganhar um, poderá dizer "I was invited to João's birthday party" (Fui convidado para a festa de aniversário do João). Você vai à birthday party levando um gift (presentinho) para a pessoa!Toda birthday party tem de ter um birthday cake (bolo de aniversário). Geralmente, as pessoas colocam candles (velas) sobre o bolo. Depois de cantar o "happy birthday to you" (parabéns pra você), o aniversariante deve make a wish (fazer um pedido) e blow out the candles (soprar as velas).
Não podemos esquecer a decoration (decoração), geralmente feita com muitos balloons (balões). Pode ainda incluir hats (chapéuzinhos), banners (baners), blowouts ou blowers (língua de sogra), cutouts (recortes), streamers (serpentina) e muito mais.

No final da festa você pode ganhar uma favor (lembrancinha). Pode ganhar também um thank-you note (cartão de agradecimento) por ter comparecido à festa.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Books

Livro em inglês todo mundo sabe, não é mesmo? Uma frase com livro todo mundo também sabe! Afinal, quem não conhece o clássico “the book is on the table”?
Mas o que dizer quando tiver que falar “livro abrangente”, “livro agradável”, “livro de agradável leitura”, “livro digno de confiança”, “livro consciente”, “livro indigesto”, “livro sem originalidade”, etc? O que dizer ainda para “folhear um livro”, “encadernar um livro” e outros verbos?

É neste momento que você tem de saber que palavras combinam com “book” em inglês. Ou seja, é preciso conhecer as collocations. Para ajudar um pouco, anote aí algumas combinações comuns com “book”.

ADJETIVOS
abrangente (comprehensive), agradável (delightful), cativante (engrossing, enthralling), chato (dull), com poucas páginas (thin), comovente (moving), consciente (sensible), de agradável leitura (readable), de difícil leitura (unreadable), digno de confiança (reliable), fino (thin), grosso (thick), indigesto (unreadable), polêmico (controversial, thought-provoking), respeitável (authoritative), sem originalidade (trite)

VERBOS
banir (ban), censurar (censor), encadernar (bind), escrever (write), fazer a revisão (proofread), folhear (
thumb through), ler rapidamente (flick through, skim through), plagiar (plagiarize)

FRASES
- este livro trata de…
this book touches on…
- estar absorto com o novo livro
be engrossed in the new book
- estar bastante entretido com o livro
be deep in the book

Monday, May 12, 2008

Are You An Organized Manager?

Here’s a quick test to see if you are an organized manager.

1. Is your door always open? Can anybody just walk in to see you when they have a problem? Now that may sound like you are being a good ‘caring and sharing’ manager but it’s not good at all. As a manager, you need a time for acting and a time for reacting. When you are reacting, an open door is a good thing. You want to know how you can help people with their problems. However, when you want to be active – to get on with your own creative work – you have to free yourself up and not allow any interruptions, except for real emergencies.


2. Are you always busy or do you get things done? It’s easy enough for a manager to appear busy. There are always people to talk to, decisions to be made, visits to be made. But do you really need to be involved in deciding what brand of toilet paper you buy? You need to concentrate your energies where they are most needed. And you need to finish things off completely – you need to see a result.
3. Do you try to do everything? Not all aspects of your job are equally important. You need to prioritize. If something is important or urgent, you need to deal with it. The unimportant and non-urgent tasks can be left for another day.
4. Do you let other people get on with their own jobs? Just as you need to have an uninterrupted spell for your active time, so do your subordinates. You cannot expect them to produce good creative work unless you give them the personal space in which to do it.
5. Do you plan your work? You need to spend a few quiet minutes every day thinking about what you have to do and deciding on the priorities. There is no point in rushing around like a headless chicken, constantly reacting to each new crisis. Plan some active time and some reactive time and try your best to stick to it. Decide what jobs are important and make sure you deal with them before they become urgent. It’s the important and urgent jobs that will really stress you out.
We all go through periods of disorganization when we feel we cannot cope. When there is so much to do it can seem like we will never cope. But put a few minutes aside to think calmly about what you have to do and how you can best organize it. Those few minutes could save you hours of stress.


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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Celebrating Mother's Day

One the best way to celebrate Mother's Day (May 11th, 2008) is to give your mom the day off. Let her take it easy and relax while the rest of the family does the work.

Many families begin Mother's Day with breakfast in bed. Usually Dad and the Kids will let mom sleep late as they go into the kitchen and prepare her favorite meal. A Mother's Day breakfast can consist of anything your mom likes.

After the food is cooked arrange everything nicely on a tray. Don't forget the vase with a single flower. With spring here, the children can pick a tulip or daffodil from the garden outside. When everything is ready carefully carry the tray and mom's favorite sections from the newspaper up to her bedroom. Cards and small presents from the children can be placed on the tray before it is presented to mom in bed.

Many Families make a special Mother's Day dinner or take mom out to her favorite restaurant for a meal. It is a good day to let your mom relax and let her see what a wonderful family she has.

HaPpY MoThEr'S DaY !!!!