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Nesta quarta-feira, dia 19, das 9h30ate 12 e de 13h45 ate 16 horas, o #DesfileSolidario, realizado pelo Bendito Bazar Traga um look para doar - naoprecisa ser doado um look completo, voce pode doar um vestido, calca, saia, blusa,casaco... tudo sera bem-vindo -, seja maquiada eproduzida por nos e desfile seu look doado ao #BenditoBazar. Esta acao tem por intuito arrecadar doacoes,principalmente para o inverno e tambem conhecer e dar visibilidade aoscolaboradores do #BenditoBazar.Sera um dia de solidariedade com musica, fotos e muitas pessoas juntasno mesmo proposito: #AJUDAR Ana : Leandro is an Ingles Online reader and a Steve Ford fan.Steve : Yeah, great.Ana : And he says that from what he gathered from your last video, your wife Leda is Brazilian. I believe he's right.Steve : That's right. Yes.Ana : So he wants to know if she already spoke English before she met you, whether... whether it was difficult for her to adjust to life in a different country, and finally if she's also an English teacher just like yourself.Steve : OK. Excellent questions, and... Well, first... first of all Leda, when we first met did not speak too much English... when we first met, and... I think she learned to like English because of me. I'm, I'm being modest here, but yeah. You know, some people... they learn English, you know... I ask students 'Why are you learning English?' and many times they would say 'Ah, because I have to, Steve' and.. I'm trying to change that.So I think that Leda was probably one of the first people that I helped. She started to learn English with me... and I think that when she came to Canada she was, you know, very confident... She came to Canada, I guess it was around eight years ago and she was already at a pretty high level of English and I want to tell all Brazilians that they can all reach Leda's level of English, or your level of English.It's just a question of working at it and trying to make it fun, you know, make it in a way that you can enjoy it. A lot of hard work, a lot of fun and a lot of love. And she actually now is teaching... She has been teaching English for a few years now, so... Yeah, she does teach English also, and it's something... She's also an actress.. she was an actress...Ana : She is? Wow! Well, yeah, we saw, we saw her in your videos, so...Steve : You just wait for Peppy 28 on Friday. You're going to see more of the Brazilian novela... kind of the soapopera style acting for all of my Brazilian audience.Ana : Can't wait. Actually when this interview airs, I think your video will have already been posted, so...Steve : Oh, so I should change that and say, I hope that everybody enjoyed Leda's Brazilian style acting when they saw Peppy 28.Ana : You guys make a great couple, yeah.Steve : Thank you very much, Ana.Ana : OK, she didn't speak much English before she met
you... So basically she had classes with you, or you guys just started hanging out together and...Steve : Yeah, she actually... she actually was one of my students which is a very brave thing for someone who is married to someone else to do. 'Cause, as you say in Portuguese "Santo de casa nao faz milagre" or 'the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'...I mean, she did, she studied with me in many of my classes including TOEFL here in Canada... Yeah, she really worked at it, she put in a lot of hard work to make sure that her English is, you know, is like a native speaker.Ana : OK. And, so how difficult was it, or was it difficult at all for her to adjust to life in Canada?Steve : Good question, and this is something that Leda herself, I think in the future, would like to talk to Brazilians about, adapting to life in North America, or adapting to life in Europe or another country abroad. And I think for her, obviously the habits of, you know, the cultural habits of people in another country are different... especially from Brazil. As a Brazilian, I think that you develop a new persona. It's almost like acting, you're developing a new person, a new you, like a new Steve, or a new...Ana : A new identity?Steve : Yeah, a new identity. And... I think that she, it was easier for her because she saw that I had done that in Brazil, so I mean, I had the Canadian Steve... I can be very Canadian... I can be the Brazilian Steve. So, yeah, I think she was good at that. She's an actress so she was able to develop a character . And I think that that's what all Brazilians who are planning to live in another country should think about, is if they really want to adapt they can try to develop a new kind of character.A mask, you could say, that you can put on when you go to work, when you go out in public. You can take it off when you go home and you can go back to being Brazilian.Ana : I think we could quote that proverb, I guess it is a proverb... When in Rome, do as Romans do.Steve : Yeah, that's exactly right. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And I really believe that those are the people who are most successful, so... It requires a little flexibility, but you'll have more success that way.Ana : OK, so Steve... you mentioned one thing that made me curious. You said 'I can be very Canadian', 'I can be very Brazilian'. So tell us about, tell us about that. What is being very Canadian like?Steve : I guess I could even expand that and say 'being very North American' and... The memory that comes to my mind is when my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law were visiting from Sao Paulo and we were in Toronto and I was talking to
someone in English and I was being very... more reserved, perhaps less emotional and then I just turned to them and I started speaking in Portuguese and you know, being completely the opposite.You know, I lived in Brazil long enough that I can, I can switch back and forth. I can change from one minute to the other and I think it has a lot to do with emotion. And I think for sure, here in North America people are not as emotional as they are in Brazil.Ana : OK.Steve : Which is why I love Brazil, you know.
Jim : Hi, Lucy. How are you?Lucy : Hi, Jim. I'm okay, thanks. And you?Jim : I'm fine, thank you. Do you know? There's a good exhibition of modern art in the city . Would you like to visit the museum sometimethis week?Lucy : Okay, but I'm quite busy. how about on Wednesday at half past ten? Jim : I can't on Wednesday. I have to get up at a quarter after six to go to a special meeting at work. What time do you usually get up?Lucy : I only work in the afternoon, so I usually get up at ten.Jim : That's very late! Well, we could go on Thursday at eleven o'clock.Lucy : Oh, I can't on Thursday . I'm going shopping to buy my sister a birthday present.Jim : How about in the evening?Lucy : The museum only opens on Tuesday evenings.Jim : Ok. Well, on Tuesday at a quarter to seven?Lucy : I'm sorry but it's impossible . My sister works on Tuesday evenings and I look after her baby.Jim : This is very complicated! Tell me when you're free.Lucy : Well, we can see the exhibition on Friday morning. I can get up early and meet you at the museum. How about at ten o'clock?Jim : Perfect! By the way, what's the time? Oh, no! It's twenty after twelve. I need to get back to work.Lucy : See you on Friday at ten, then.Jim : See you then!............................................................. Natalie : Good Morning! How can I help you?Michael : Good Morning! Where is the town hall, please?Natalie : The town hall is at 230, New street, on the boardwalk.Michael : Is it far from here?Natalie : On foot, it's about thirty minutes. By bus or by car, it takes around ten minutes.Michael : What number bus do I need to catch?Natalie : The number 107. it stops just in front of the tourist office and stops just across from the town hall.Michael : And is there a supermarket near here?Natalie : No. The nearest supermarket is next to the church, on Smith road.Michael : How can I get there on foot?Natalie : Go along this street up to the roundabout, then turn right and walk up to the post office. At the post office, turn left and go straight ahead. Take the second right , and the supermarket is on the corner.Michael : Thank you very much.Natalie : Can I help you with anything else?Michael : Yes. Are there any good bookstores in the city?Natalie : Yes, there are.One of them is near the supermarket, on Smith road.Michael : Thank you. And , finally , could you tell me how to get to the train station, please?Natalie : The train station is on Dyke Road . Take the number 230 bus to the shopping mall, when you get off the bus, turn right, go straight and you will see the train station in front of you.Michael : Thank you very much for all your help. Is there a map of the city I can take with me?Natalie
Steve : Many of my Brazilian students actually live in North America, so... Some in the United States and some in Canada, so... We always talk about that too, like...Ana : Oh, that's interesting Steve. That's what came to my mind right now, do they ask you about that, do they make comments about how different it is in Brazil?...Steve : Always, always. I have a student...Ana : It's good to have someone to talk to about that.Steve : It is, it really is. Like, I have a student right now, I won't give his name, you know, to maintain his privacy... He's planning to be a doctor here and, so we often talk about how he can develop a Canadian persona... Yeah, it's a process, it's a process that, you know, I've had to develop travelling so he's starting to do that too... to develop his own persona. It's not easy but it's not impossible. Maybe it's easier to go from rational and more distant to emotional, than from emotional to...Ana : Yeah, yeah... maybe here in Brazil... I don't know. I think I'm speaking more, you know, for myself... I can't speak for everyone but maybe it's a matter of learning how not to take things so personally.Steve : Yeah, I think so.Ana : 'Cause it's a matter of culture sometimes and there's nothing you can do. I mean, it's not about you, right?Steve : Exactly. And I helped another student who immigrated to Toronto. He's originally from Sao Caetano in Brazil. I guess that's, like, a city just outside of Sao Paulo and he's, he... I mean, incredible. Brazilians have the incredible ability to adapt, and I think in maybe five, six months, you know, I helped him to adapt to living in Toronto. So he bought an apartment there and now he's living there. He's all... you know, set up and... yeah, yeah. So, Brazilians... you can do it!Ana : I know! Everywhere you go in the world you will meet Brazilians there.Steve : Exactly. Yeah, I have Brazilian students in Japan, I have another Brazilian student in Holland and she has adapted very well so Brazilians are wonderful in terms of adaptation.Ana : Let's move on to the next question...Steve : You bet.Ana : Professor Sergio... He asks, Steve - in your experience, what's the most difficult learning area for students?Steve : I think that depends on the nationality, Sergio, and with my Latin language speaking students... people who speak Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish... what I find is the fact that English and Portuguese, for example, are similar in some ways that many of the words have a different word stress. So, I'm going to give you a little tip, so I mean... Most times in Portuguese if the stress is at the end of the word - oh God, now I sound like an English teacher...Ana : Go ahead... Well, English-teaching moment...Steve : So for example... right, sure. So I mean, if you're saying "informacao", so the "cao", the word stress at the end... in English
we know that it's falling on "ation", "information". So typically the word stress comes before in English but, for some reason, they do not put the accent above where the word stress should be. And I think this gives students a lot of difficulty. You know, how can I learn the pronunciation when there is no, there's no accent above the word.Ana : Graphic mark, OK.Steve : "I need a GPS device to find my way", you know, "around this language"... and nobody has made one. So pronunciation, definitely, prepositions for sure... Prepositions give students a lot of difficulty. Phrasal verbs for sure... Sometimes, verb tenses you know... In the Latin languages many times, for example, you can use progressive tenses. You can say, I am liking this, I am loving this. And grammatically in English that would not be considered correct. So...Ana : Yeah, although I've heard that a lot, I mean...Steve : I know, informal English...Ana : Right, in very informal... yeah.Steve : Yeah, yeah. And this is the thing, too... is that, in English there is the way that people speak it and then... when people go to do a test like the TOEFL, the IELTS or the Cambridge, if they use those same strategies...Ana : They flunk...Steve : Yeah, they flunk 'cause... "Oh, that's wrong, you can't do it like that." So, I think that's also a challenge for... It's good that you mentioned that because it shows that English is divided into different levels of formality so... I think that's another challenge for students, it's to separate the different levels of formality of English. Semi-formal, what is academic.Ana : Yeah, I think it all comes down... in the end it comes down to your purpose...Steve : That's true.Ana : Most people, I don't know, most students I come across... they just wanna speak. They just wanna be able to comprehend what people tell them, and just be able to respond or to initiate a conversation. But some people want to, I don't know... Go the, maybe, academic route and study literature or be a scientist of the language and they probaby have to know all the formal rules and everything.Steve : Yeah. And I think it's important for everybody to remember that... it's important to learn a good English because, you know, in the future it'll give you more opportunities... 'cause usually the people who contact me say, "I want to learn English because I need it for my work" I'm talking to people on the phone or something like that".I think it's important for people to try to learn the best English they can. And that's why I'm trying to make it fun, because I know that a lot of people... they work all day long, they come home, they're tired and then, "Oh my God, I have to study English now? I want to watch TV, I don't want to study English"Ana : Yeah, they deserve a good laugh.Steve : Exactly!
Allie: Hello?Jack: Hi Allie. It's Jack.Allie: Hi!Jack: Are you okay? I phoned you two times today, but you didn'tanswer your phone.Allie: Oh sorry. When?Jack: I phoned you at ten o'clock this morning.Allie: At ten o'clock I was swimming.Jack: Then I phoned you again at three o'clock.Allie: Umm, at three o'clock I was playing beach volleyball. Myphone was in my bag so perhaps I didn't hear it ring. Sorryabout that.Jack: That's okay. Anyway, do you want to have dinner atPierre's?Allie: The little cafe on the beach? Yes please!Jack: Okay. I'm at the hotel. See you at 7 o'clock in the hotel lobby?Allie: Okay, bye!Jack: Bye! Naomi : What is your job, Joseph?Joseph : I'm a lawyer.Naomi : And is your job hard?Joseph : Sorry, it's noisy and I don't understand. Could you repeat that, please?Naomi : Of course. Is your job hard?Joseph : Yes, my job is sometimes hard. I have to be very efficient and responsible because I have a lot of work.Naomi : Do you have to get up early?Joseph : Yes, I have to get up at 6:30am every day so I can catch the bus to work.Naomi : That's very early ! can you drive?Joseph : yes, I can , but I don't have a car.Naomi : Are you good at your job?Joseph : Yes, I think so. I'm good at it because I'm very hardworking.Naomi : Do you have to speak Spanish in your job?Joseph : No, I don't . In fact, I don't speak Spanish.Naomi : But you can have more "clientes" if you can speak Spanish.Joseph : What does " clientes" mean?Naomi : It means " clients".Joseph : Yes, I can have more clients but I'm not very good at languages.Naomi : You don't have to be brilliant at languages. You just need to study!Joseph : That's my problem. I don't have time.Naomi : Ok. I know it's difficult for you.Joseph : Well, I have to go now. Next time you'll tell me about you.Naomi : Ok. bye-bye!Joseph : Bye!................................................................... Ana : Hi everyone, this is Ana from inglesonline.com.br. Today I am interviewing Steve Ford. Steve is Canadian and he has been teaching English for over fifteen years. He's the author of the very popular Peppy videos.These are videos where Steve teaches English through storytelling, through singing and they're a lot of fun to watch... and there's a bunch of Peppy videos on Ingles Online so you can access Ingles Online, the category Ingles em Video or you can access Steve's channel on YouTube directly. It's - Steve correct me if I'm wrong - it's youtube.com/privateenglishportal.Steve : That's right.Ana : That's right?Steve : Yes, that's correct.Ana : OK. So the last word I said there, portal, it's "portal" like PortugueseSteve : Yes, that's right. Portal, portal, that's right. Private English Portal, yeah. And you can either type in youtube.com/privateenglishportal.com (forward slash, "barra") or you can type that in the search engine... you type in "learn English" in the search engine, you can find me there too, so... yeah.Ana : How about we get started with a
few questions?Steve : Sure.Ana : We have a good one here: professor Adir asks, How did you get involved with English teaching?Steve : Oh, that's a great question. Well, that was something that happened...actually, when I was doing my major in English. I always loved the English language, literature, culture, so... it was always my passion to, to know languages... especially the English language.So that became more apparent when I started to live in Brazil. Because actually, I lived in Brazil for a total of ten years... kind of a long time for a foreigner to be in Brazil so... During my stay there I actually taught English in Brazil, so... Many of the schools where I got my start as an English teacher were in fact in Brazil, so...Ana : Where in Brazil, exactly?Steve : I started in the north of Brazil, in Recife, or as you would say in Portuguese "Recife", and then I made my way down to Belo Horizonte, and then of course you know that I was in Rio for a bit, and then I was in Sao Paulo, yeah. So, all over the place in Brazil.Ana : Why did you end up living in Brazil? What made you go to Brazil?Steve : Ah, yeah. This is a question that probably I answered every day to my students...Ana : They were all very curious...Steve : Yeah, yeah, you know... It was a question that... and, and I mean, I love answering this question because it is an answer about love, and it's a, it's an answer about my heart...And, they say "Why did you come to Brazil, Steve?" And I say, well, the first time that I went to Brazil with a group of people was with a... "intercambio", or an exchange, a student exchange...Ana : Really?Steve : Yeah.Ana : You were, like, in high school?Steve : I was just out of university so we went as a group... It was really interesting because we had Brazilians who stayed in Canada for three and a half months and we, you know, lived together, we worked on a certain project together, for three and a half months... and that was in Quebec, Canada.We also had to learn French. And then we stayed in Brazil for three and a half months. And I stayed in a very, very small town in the north of Brazil... which is difficult for me to pronounce to this day, which is Taquaratinga do Norte. I don't know if you've heard of that city before but...Ana : Would that be Taquaratinga do Norte?Steve : Yeah, and that was the first contact that I had with Brazil, was through this student exchange and... and I have to tell you that my... the first time that I arrived in Brazil... I mean, I was just in love, basically. And ever since that moment that feeling has not changed. I kind of have this love for Brazil. You know, maybe you can see it in my videos...Ana : Yeah. In your wife...Steve : Yeah, exactly. It's a
lifelong love affair. And when you do anything with love, of course, you do it well, and it becomes magical... and I thought Brazil...Ana : It becomes easy, doesn't it?Steve : It becomes easy. And I thought from the very first moment that Brazil was a very magical place and... yeah, so that's how I first had my first contact with Brazil.Ana : Great, great story. And before that... was it before that you taught in France, or was it after? When did you go to France?Steve : I went to France in 2000. Yeah, so... it was actually shortly after we had our stay in Sao Paulo, and we lived and taught in Paris, France for a year.That was a great experience because I had never been to France before so... You know, I do have French [the language], being a Canadian, I lived in Quebec but... Yeah, that was another great experience, and...The videos about "Steve in Paris" are so true about, you know... Taking the subway to work, finding my way around... You know, a bit of confusion arriving, you know, where the students, you know... It's like a French movie living there. It was great!Ana : Yeah, yeah... Paris, not too shabby, huh?Steve : No, and, there are a lot of different nationalities living there so we had a great opportunity to share ideas.Ana : Yeah, it's a big, international city, right?Steve : It is.Ana : Much like New York, much like Sao Paulo, and maybe like Vancouver... I don't know. Is Vancouver like that?Steve : Yes, it is very cosmopolitan, very cosmopolitan... ah, you know, people from all over the world living there and... Paris is great, because you have... a lot of culture there. It's like walking through a museum or a Hollywood movie studio all the time, you know.My wife and I lived near the Louvre museum, so we had the opportunity to actually go rollerblading around the Louvre every night so...