Saturday, October 9, 2010

JORDIN SPARKS - "ONE STEP AT A TIME"





Jordin Brianna Sparks (December 22, 1989) is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol when she was only 17 years old, making her the youngest winner. She followed her American Idol victory with the release of her self-titled debut album in 2007. Sparks won an American Music Award in 2008 and received her first Grammy nomination in 2009.

"One Step at a Time", officially released in the U.S. on June 10, 2008, was the third single from the album "Jordin Sparks". The song peaked in the Top 20 on the Hot 100 and the Top 5 on the Pop 100 chart. She has been on many tv shows promoting this song. With the success of "One Step at a Time", Sparks became the first and only American Idol contestant ever to have their first four singles all crack the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.

[Jordin Brianna Sparks (22 de dezembro de 1989) é uma cantora e compositora americana de música pop e R&B que atingiu a fama ao vencer a sexta temporada de American Idol quando ela tinha apenas 17 anos, tornando-se a mais jovem vencedora da competição. Após a vitória veio o primeiro álbum homônimo da cantora em 2007. Sparks ganhou um American Music Award em 2008 e recebeu a primeira indicação ao Grammy em 2009.

"One Step at a Time", lançada oficialmente nos EUA em 10 de junho de 2008, foi o terceiro single do álbum "Jordin Sparks". A canção entrou no Top 20 da Hot 100 e no Top 5 do Top 100 chart. Ela se apresentou em muitos programas de televisão promovendo a canção. Com o sucesso de "One Step at a Time", Sparks foi a primeira participante do American Idol a ter todos os seus primeiros quatro singles no Top 20 da Billboard Hot 100.]

Read more about Sparks (Leia mais sobre Sparks)





Now it's time to work!!
Fill the blanks in the verses:
[Agora é hora de trabalhar!! Preencha os espaços nos versos:]



Jordin Sparks - One Step at a Time

______ ___ and wait
So close, but so far away
Everything that you've always ________ of
Close enough for you to taste
But you just can't _______

You wanna show the world, but no one knows your name _____
Wonder when and where and how you're gonna make it
You know you can if you get the chance
In your face as the door keeps __________
Now you're feeling more and more frustrated
And you're getting all kind of _________ waiting

[Chorus:]
We live and we learn to take
One step at a time
There's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly
Or falling in love
It's gonna happen and it's
Supposed to happen that we
Find the reasons why
One step at a time

You believe and you doubt
You're confused, you got it all ________ ___
Everything that you wished for
______ be yours, ______ be yours, ______ be yours
If they only knew

You wanna show the world, but no one knows your name _____
Wonder when and where and how you're gonna make it
You know you can if you get the chance
In your face as the door keeps ___________
Now you're feeling more and more frustrated
And you're getting all kind of ________ waiting

[Chorus:]
We live and we learn to take
One step at a time
There's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly
Or falling in love
It's gonna happen and it's
Supposed to happen that we
Find the reasons why
One step at a time

When you can't ______ any longer
But there's no end in sight
It's the ______ that makes you stronger
The only way you get _______
Is one step at a time

[Chorus:]
Take one step at a time
There's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly
Or falling in love
It's gonna happen and it's
Supposed to happen that we
Find the reasons why
On step at a time

[Chorus:]
One step at a time
There's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly
Or falling in love
It's gonna happen and it's
supposed to happen that we
Find the reasons why
One step at a time

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

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

OBRIGADO A TODOS OS MEUS AMIGOS!/ THANKS TO ALL MY FRIENDS!

ESSE VÍDEO FOI MINHA MANEIRA DE DIZER OBRIGADO A TODOS OS MEUS AMIGOS NO DIA DO MEU ANIVERSÁRIO!!!

[THIS VIDEO WAS MY WAY TO THANK ALL MY FRIENDS ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!]

Sunday, February 21, 2010

SISSEL - "WHERE THE LOST ONES GO" (Duet With Espen Lind)


Hey dear friends!

I heard a song from Sissel, a norwegian singer. "Where The Lost Ones Go", a duet with Espen Lind, one of the composers. Espel is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and a norwegian producer.The song is from album All The Good Things - 2000, Universal Music.
The following is the song in video with captions in English.

Single - Where The Lost Ones Go


[Hey caros amigos!

Eu ouvi uma canção da cantora norueguesa Sissel, "Where The Lost Ones Go", um dueto com Espen Lind, um dos compositores. Espel é cantor, multi-instrumentalista e cantor norueguês. A canção é do álbum All The Good Things - 2000, Universal Music.
Segue o vídeo da canção com legendas em Inglês.]


Note that this video was incorporated from other Youtube user, who wrote "one goes" instead of "ones go" in the title of the song. [Observe que esse vídeo foi incorporado de outro usuário do Youtube, que escreveu "one goes" no lugar de "ones go", no título do vídeo.]



SISSEL OFFICIAL WEBSITE


ESPEN LIND ON MYSPACE



Tradução da canção em Português
[Translation in Portuguese:]


Where The Lost Ones Go
Aonde Os Perdidos Vão


Vá e deixe-me ir
Você não foi feito para mim, eu sei
Continue, continue, e eu permanecerei forte

Vá e deixe-me ir
Eu pensarei em você, Eu sei
Mas continue, continue, e eu permanecerei forte

Outro alguém lhe manterá aquecido de agora em diante
Outro alguém lhe manterá a salvo da tempestade
Mas eu estarei com você aonde que que você vá
Assim você nunca estará sozinho
Eu estou indo aonde o vento sopra
Indo aonde os perdidos vão

Eu estarei com você
Eu estou perdendo o amor que encontrei
Chorando calada
Aonde você foi?
Eu estarei com você
Você era meu tolo por amor
Enviado pra mim lá de cima
Você foi o único
Eu estarei com você
Eu estou indo pra onde o vento sopra
Indo aonde os perdidos vão

Vá e deixe-me ir
Não olhe para trás, apenas deixe-me saber
Que você continuará, continuará, você deve permanecer forte

Nada nunca parece o mesmo na luz
Nada nunca parece dar muito certo
Mas quando você perceber que foi amado
Você nunca estará sozinho
Eu estou indo pra onde o vento sopra
Indo aonde os perdidos vão