Friday, April 23, 2010

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TOWNS / CIDADES INGLESAS MEDIEVAIS

This is a very good website where you can read about the medieval English towns.
[Esse é um site muito bom onde você pode ler sobre as cidades Inglesas medievais.]






This text I'll present below is from D. Graham Jones, PhD from St John's College.
He works in the Centre for English Local History - University of Leicester.


[Esse texto que eu mostro abaixo é do Dr. Graham Jones, PhD do St John's College. Dr. Jones trabalha no Centro de Estudos de História Inglesa Local - Universidade de Leicester.]


Anglo-Saxon England. Settlement - rural and town life:


Summary of lecture:

In our own day we have a very clear idea of the difference between town and country; indeed we are heirs of a whole bundle of intellectual concepts and prejudiced snobbery about one or the other.. Townies and bumpkins both go back a long way - to Roman times, in fact. Then too, town and country were easily distinguished, but not so in Anglo-Saxon England. With the collapse of the Roman empire - or rather, since yesterday I was proposing that the empire itself never died, with the collapse of the imperial economy, towns and cities as the Romans knew them disappeared from Britain. The empire had required a huge standing army and a huge bureaucracy to service it, and these were paid for by taxation; taxation paid in coin, not kind, just as the army was paid in coin, not kind. A monetary economy encouraged the growth of markets, indeed required them, and markets led to towns. Within the imperial economy, Britain appears to have been what we would call today a net exporter of produce. Coin flowed in to Britain, and the economy encouraged what academics call conspicuous consumption: the building of lavish villas, for example. When the imperial army was withdrawn from Britain, taxation and the export of supplies for the army ceased, and the flow of imperial coin dried up. Towns and cities as the Romano-British knew them ceased to exist.


READ THE ORIGINAL TEXT HERE


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TOWNS


UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

RECADOS PARA ORKUT/ ORKUT SCRAPS

I think it's very important to use different tools to learn/teach English.
For those who like to share messages in social networks like orkut, so there it goes!!!

I found a lovely website where you can select many orkut scraps to send to your friends.
"4 Orkut" provides a great deal of messages in different themes such as: days of the week, greetings, etc.
Just copy the code below each message and paste it on your friends' page!!


Have fun!

[Eu acredito que é muito importante usar diferentes ferramentas para aprender/ensinar Inglês. Para os que gostam de compartilhar mensagens pelas redes sociais como orkut, então aí vai!!!

Encontrei um site muito legal onde você pode selecionar muitos scraps para enviar aos seus amigos.
"4 Orkut" possui uma grande quantidade de recados em diferentes temas tais como: dias da semana, cumprimentos, etc.
É só copiar o código abaixo de cada mensagem e colar na página dos seus amigos!!!

Boa diversão!]


Click here and visit the site!!!



Friday, April 16, 2010

ENGLISH IDIOMS


I was looking for a good website for idioms... Well, I just found it!
You can choose the terms by section or containing a specific word.

Check the pictures and also visit the website clicking below...

[Eu estava procurando por um website legal de idioms... Bom, eu encontrei!
Você pode escolher os termos por seção ou contendo uma palavra específica.

Clique nas figuras para ver e também visite o site no link abaixo...]








ENGLISH IDIOMS