Christmas Wishes

Christmas has the magical power to bring delight and joy to our heart. No matter whether one is spendthrift or scrooge, idealist or gloomy Gus, cynical or naïve, this festival has the magic to make everyone nicer, kinder, and gentler. Christmas fills your heart with a warm feeling and nostalgia and enwraps the whole environment with warmth. The festival celebrates humanity and mankind and conveys message of tolerance, love and brotherhood. The occasion heartily greets the new and prosperous year coming ahead. Christmas is a way of celebrating a new today rather than regretting past sorrow. It is about hoping for a cheerful and sparkling future ahead. The festival is also about spreading happiness all over. The day is filled with merry and cheer.

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Christmas Word Puzzles

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Language Point 6: Illness


When you're ill, you can describe your symptoms (changes in your body which show that you're ill) in the following ways:

You can use have got + ache (when it forms part of a compound noun) with only 5 parts of the body:

I've got (a)
backache
She’s got (a) stomach-ache
He’s got a headache
You’ve got (an) earache
He's got (a) toothache

Note: All of these aches except headache are usually uncountable in British English so you don't use a or an with them. In American English, all these aches are countable so you use a or an with them.

You can use hurt/ache (verb) with any part of the body:

My leg hurts
Her ankle
His stomach aches
Everything
His stomach
My toes hurt
His hands ache

You can use sore (adjective) with any part of the body:

I’ve got arm
She’ got a sore leg
He’s got toe
You've got head

You can use pain (noun) with any part of the body:

I feel my leg

She’s got a pain in her stomach
He has his toe

You can use be or feel + ill/sick/unwell (adjective) or
feel + awful (adjective) to talk about your health in general:

I feel
ill
He feels
awful
I'm sick
She’s unwell
We’re not well


Vocabulary:

Morning, campers! (informal greeting to more than one person): Good morning!

My head's killing me (idiom): I've got a very bad headache

A hangover (n): A headache from drinking a lot of alcohol

A fry-up (n, informal): A meal made of fried foods (fried egg, mushrooms, bacon etc)

To burn the midnight oil (idiom): To study or work until late at night

Who's for...? (offer, informal): Who wants...?

You're a pain in the neck (idiom): You're very annoying

LET'S PRACTICE ENGLISH!

Breakfast time !

Tim: Morning, campers!

Alice: Ooh, not so loud, my head's killing me.

Michal: I'm feel awful too. I've got a pain stomach. My head hurts.....

Tim: Welcome to your first British hangover Michal! What you need now is a good fry-up.

Alice: Bleugh! Oh, morning Helen. You look as bad as I feel. Have you been crying?

Helen: No, no of course not. Just burning the midnight oil studying, studying, studying.

Tim: So, who's for eggs, beans and toast?

Alice: Urgh! You really are a pain in the neck sometimes Tim!

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PRINCIPLES

principles that tell how you can receive the gift of God for your life.

1. God Loves You!
The Bible says, "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life"

The problem is that


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2. All of us have done, said or thought things that are wrong. This is called sin, and our sins have separated us from God.

The Bible says “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” God is perfect and holy, and our sins separate us from God forever. The Bible says “The wages of sin is death.”

The good news is that, about 2,000 years ago,


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3. God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.

Jesus is the Son of God. He lived a sinless life and then died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. “God demonstrates His own love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.”

Jesus rose from the dead and now He lives in heaven with God His Father. He offers us the gift of eternal life -- of living forever with Him in heaven if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by Me."

God reaches out in love to you and wants you to be His child. "As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe on His name." You can choose to ask Jesus Christ to forgive your sins and come in to your life as your Lord and Savior.


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4. If you want to accept Christ as Savior and turn from your sins, you can ask Him to be your Savior and Lord by praying a prayer like this:

"Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life. I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior. I want to serve you always."

EASTER

Jesus and Easter
What is the meaning of Easter?
Easter is the day when we celebrate Jesus Christ rising from the dead. Jesus is the Son of God and gave His life to die for our sins. On the third day after He died -- the day we now celebrate as Easter Sunday -- His friends went to His grave, and found that He had risen from the dead. They saw an angel who told them, "Don't be afraid! I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead, just as He said it would happen."

Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday; now He offers to you the gift of eternal life and forgiveness of sins. This is the true story of Easter, and how it can change your life. Here are 4 principles that tell how you can receive the gift of God for your life.

THOUGHT

Srength is born in the deep silence of long suffering hearts; not amid joy.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

There are two freedoms- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.

ACT QUICKLY, THINK SLOWLY
Brothers, don't forget that it is best to listen much, speak little, and not become angry.

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.

When you are rightly related to God, you cannot begin to imagine the marvelous things He will do through you.

NO COWARD SOUL IS MINE, NO TREMBLER IN THE WORLD'S STORM-TROUBLED SPHERE: I SEE HEAVEN'S GLORIES SHINE, AND FAITH SHINES EQUAL, ARMING,ME FROM FEAR.

Carnival of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazil of South America is now mid summer season. Strong summer sun light is shining. The carnival is the most exciting moment for the Brazilians. They work and save money for a year in order to participate to the carnival. Most people in Rio de Janeiro go to Samba schools. There are hundreds of Samba schools in the town. The carnival is the competition of Samba schools. Victory or Defeat is depended on the originality and creativity of the theme of the float, music, costumes and dances. A school of parade consist of 5000 dancers. They dance and parade on 800m road for 90 minutes with loud Samba music. On the gorgeous huge float, hundreds of dancers are keep dancing. As there are 10 to 12 schools participate on each night, the last parade finishes in the dawn. All music songs are Samba, the heart of Brazil. The phrase of "Oh, Brazil" is repeated by thousand times. The moment of unification by patriotism.

VALENTINE'S DAY, FEB. 14

Love & Relationship

Love is the only answer to the question of human existence. It is the feeling that unites hearts and souls. Life would be meaningless, if love wouldn't exist. It is a feeling that gives many of us a reason to live. Love may sometimes seem to be life's most intense emotion, which is difficult to track. Sometimes, you may become clueless about whether love is controlled by the heart or the feeling itself has occupied your mind and soul! When you are at this situation and are in search of an answer, just think about what how much love is vital in your relationship.

Any relationship in the world, be it between a couple, siblings or friends, will be incomplete if there was no love in it. It is love only that enables us to sacrifice for our loved ones - to revel in their happiness and be sad when they are in pain. Just think what the relationship between parents and their children would be, if there was no love in it. Would the mother still be willing to give her all, for her child? In other worlds, there never has been, not there will be, any meaningful relationship without love in it. It is the 'be all and end all' of our existence.

THOUGHT

THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION; HE PROTECTS ME FROM DANGER- WHOM SHALL I FEAR?
Psalm 27:1

THOUGHT

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

"The better part of valor is discretion."
Shakespeare

"God wants to give you the strength and skill to climb your troublesome mountain and stand at last triumphant at the top!"
Gloria Gaither

THOUGHT

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be perfectly."

THINK ABOUT THIS

DO NOT FEAR TOMORROW, GOD IS ALREADY THERE.

KEEP TRYING. IT'S ONLY FROM THE VALLEY THAT THE MOUNTAIN SEEMS SO HIGH.

COURAGE is when you do what you have to do though people don't think you can. COURAGE is when you think you can't do something, but you do it.

Adam McCord(TEENAGER PARALYZED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT)

Today is my wedding anniversary. I got married in 1994.

Pensamento de hoje:
HE HAS NOT LEARNED THE LESSON OF LIFE WHO DOES NOT EVERY DAY SURMOUNT A FEAR.

Ralfh W. Emerson

Para Refletir: Thought

Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today.
Exodus 14:13

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.
Charles R. Swindoll

PENSAMENTO DE HOJE

A MAN SHOULD STOP HIS EARS AGAINST PARALYZING TERROR AND RUN THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE HIM WITH A SINGLE MIND.

ROBERT L. STEVENSON

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit- a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

pensamento do dia

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Proverbs 16:3

COURAGE is resistence to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward,it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Mark Twain

THOUGHT

The greatest test of COURAGE on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Dream manfully and nobly and thy dreams shall be thy prophets. Edward G. B. Lytton

FOR FUN

FOR FUN
A visitor from Holland was chatting with his American friend and was jokingly explaining about red, white and blue in the Netherlands flag.
"Our flag symbolizes our taxes", he said. "We get red when we talk about them, white when we get our tax bill, and blue after we pay them".
"That's the same with us", the American said, "only we see stars, too."

THOUGHT

"BE STRONG!BE COURAGEOUS!...DON'T BE AFRAID, FOR THE LORD WILL GO BEFORE YOU AND WILL BE WITH YOU; HE WILL NOT FAIL NOR FORSAKE YOU".
Deuteronomy 31:6,8

Text: The Hungry Cat

Tim: I don’t believe it! Kitty's just eaten my dinner. I was putting the kettle on and I turned round and there she was, eating my chicken. That cat’s a pain in the neck.

Alice: Oh calm down.

Tim: It drives me mad! I’m starving, I’ve been slaving away in that dusty old stockroom all day. I hate work just now and then this happens! The cat’s got to go or be put down.

Helen: Don’t be horrible. You can buy something else to eat.

Tim: We're not all as rich as you, you know, daddy's girl!

Helen: How dare you Tim! I didn’t eat your chicken. You drive me up the wall sometimes.

Alice: Hey guys, chill out.

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Fonte:http://educacao.uol.com.br/ingles-bbc/

Mensagem do dia

"All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light."
Francis Bacon

Mensagem do dia

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but live manfully."

Thomas Carlyle

Mensagem do dia - COURAGE

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

John F. Kennedy

Editorial

As páginas deste blog vão trazer diariamente pensamentos de coragem que, aliás, todos nós precisamos a cada dia , sejam grandes ou pequenos atos que precisamos demonstrar desde o amanhecer .
Aqueles que já sabem inglês , vão poder se encorajar através do conteúdo das mensagens. E aqueles que gostam de aprender ou querem estudar um outro idioma, é um desafio que poderão ter todos os dias .
Aqui você encontrará reportagens, entrevistas, músicas, textos, ... Também terão várias dicas simples de gramática(sem dar nome aos bois), que facilitará o aprendizado do Inglês.Além de piadas sadias, engraçadas e mensagens de otimismo que vão nos ajudar a vermos as coisas de uma forma mais fácil e ver o lado bom da vida.
A idéia desse blog surgiu através de um grande ato de coragem e fé que precisei ter há algum tempo, com a enorme angústia que senti de quase ter perdido minha filha que foi gravemente atropelada, com traumatismo crânio-encefálico muito grave, desenganada pelos médicos, e que se sobrepujou a tudo isso e está se recuperando e voltando a viver, a ter uma vida normal novamente. Depois de tantas lutas, tantos atos de coragem, fé e esperança que mostram que a vida é preciosa, que vale a pena lutar.
Unindo tudo isso com a vontade, com o desejo e a necessidade de aprender um outro idioma, que você, amigo leitor, vai ser presenteado todos os dias.
TENHA FÉ, ACREDITE EM VOCÊ. VOCÊ PODE ! VOCÊ É CAPAZ !

Com Amor,
Professora Anita Fanzlau Varjão