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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Tempos verbais no presente usando-se eu

O verbo no presente é usado para expressar nossas atividades do dia-a-dia. São exemplos; ir trabalhar todo dia, escola, comer, tomar banho. Em Inglês se usa os seguintes verbos no presente.

(1) I go (ir para trabalharto work every day

(2) I eat (comer comidafood

(3) I take (tomar banho) bath/shower every morning

(4) I drive (dirigir carro) my car every day

(5) I watch (assistir tv) television every night

(6) I go (ir ao banheiro) to toilet every morning before work 

(7) I give (dar presente) gift to my daughter every year on her anniversary

(8) I meet (encontrar com amigos) with my friends every weekend

(9) I phone (ligar no telefone) my mother every week.

(10) I do (fazer lição de casa) my homework every night

















Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Vocabularies of corruption - Advanced Students

My students always ask me the vocabularies generally used for corruption. Their request results from the new they receive from the local media about national and international corrupt officials. Recently, everybody followed the scandal of corruption involving FIFA officials. The vocabularies related to different types of corruption are:

corruption 
wrongdoing
scam
money laundering
racketeering
embezzlement
fraud
sweetener
sleaze
kickback
whistleblower
bribery
market rigging
sports rigging
election rigging
price fixing
match fixing
insider trading
priviledged information
counterfeiting