Seasons of Love - RENT

One of my friends once passed me via e-mail one video that helped him a lot on his studies, so I'm sharing this video with you! This is a video of a musical from a movie called RENT. The song is called Seasons of love.
The song is not easy to get all the numbers, but you can watch and rewatch, can't you? Try to get the key words, and don't worry if you don't understand all the lyrics....

aka "Rent: En vivo desde Broadway" - Spain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273675/)

The direct link is here or another copy is here.

 The lyrics, for you to check, after watching the video.

All:
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Moments so dear
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure - Measure A Year?
In Daylights - In Sunsets
In Midnights - In Cups Of Coffee
In Inches - In Miles
In Laughter - In Strife

In - Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure
A Year In The Life?

How About Love?
How About Love?
How About Love?
Measure In Love

Seasons of Love.
Seasons of Love.

Joanne:
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Journeys To Plan

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure The Life
Of A Woman Or A Man

Collins:
In Truth That She Learned
Or In Times That He Cried
In Bridges He Burned
Or The Way That She Died

All:
It's Time Now - To Sing Out
Though The Story Never Ends
Let's Celebrate
Remember A Year In The Life Of Friends

Remember the Love
Remember the Love
Remember the Love
Measure In Love

Joanne:
Oh you got to you got to remember the love,
You know that love is a gift from up above
Share love, give love, spread love
Measure, measure your life in love.

ALL
Seasons Of Love(2x)

Joanne:
Measure your life, measure your life in love

Thanks to [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/rent/seasons_of_love.html ]
Many thanks to Thales Kronenbegerger as well! 

List of professions

Here I have a list of professions.
A good suggestion that I have for you is to browse (1) through the list and look for the ones you don't know the meaning, then read the description. If it's still confusing, write it on google and select "images".

A picture is worth more than a thousand words. ;-D

List of Professions

Accountant - a person that works with the money and accounts of a company.

Actor /Actress - a person that acts in a play or a movie

Architect - a person that designs building and houses.

Author - They write books or novels.

Attorney - A person legally appointed by another to act as his or her agent in the transaction of business, specifically one qualified and licensed to act for plaintiffs and defendants in legal proceedings.

Baker - They make bread and cakes and normally work in a bakery.

Bricklayer - a person that helps to build houses using bricks.

Bus driver - a person that drives buses.

Butcher - a person that works with meat. They cut the meat and sell it in their shop.

Carpenter - a person that makes things from wood including houses and furniture.

Chambermaid - A maid who cleans and cares for bedrooms, as in a hotel.

Chef/Cook - a person that prepares food for others, often in a restaurant or café.

Cleaner - a person that cleans/tidies an area or place (such as in an office)

Dentist - a person that can fix problems you have with your teeth.

Designer - a person who has the job of designing things.

Doctor - a person you go see when you are ill or have some type of health problem.

Dustman/Refuse collector - a person that collects trash/rubbish from bins in the street.

Electrician - a person that works with electric circuits.

Factory worker - a person that works in a factory.

Farmer - a person that works on a farm, usually with animals.

Fireman/Fire fighter - a person that puts out fires.

Fisherman - a person that catches fish

Flight Attendant - a person who assists passengers in an aircraft.

Florist - a person that works with flowers.

Gardener - a person that keeps gardens clean and tidy. They take care of the plants in the garden.

Hairdresser - they cut your hair or give it a new style.

Journalist - a person that makes new reports in writing or through television.

Judge - a qualified person that decides cases in a law court.

Lawyer - a person that defends people in court and gives legal advice.

Lecturer - a person that gives lectures, usually in a university.

Librarian - a person that works in a library.

Lifeguard - a person that saves lives where people swim (at a beach or swimming pool).

Mechanic - a person that repairs machines, especially car motors.

Model - a (usually attractive) person that works in fashion, modeling clothes and accessories.

Newsreader - a person that reads the news, normally on television.

Nurse - a person trained to help a doctor look after the sick or injured.

Optician - a person that checks your eyes and try and correct any problems with your sight.

Painter - a person that paints pictures or the interior and exterior of buildings.

Pharmacist - a qualified person that works with and dispenses medicine.

Physician - A person licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.

Physiatrist - a medical doctor with specialized training in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and pain medicine.

Physicist - A scientist who specializes in physics.

Photographer - a person that takes photos.

Pilot - a person who flies a plane.

Plumber - a person that repairs your water systems or pipes.

Politician - a person who works in politics.

Policeman/Policewoman - a member of the police force. They (try and) prevent crime.

Postman - a person that delivers mail to your house.

Porter - A person employed to carry burdens, especially an attendant who carries travelers' baggage at a hotel or transportation station.

Real estate agent - a person that makes money from selling land for development.

Receptionist - a person that is at the reception (entrance) of a company.

Reporter - A writer, investigator, or presenter of news stories.

Scientist - a person that works in the science industry. They do many experiments.

Secretary - a person employed in an office who types letters, keeps records etc.

Shop assistant - a person that works in a shop or store selling products.

Soldier - a person who works for the army.

Tailor - a person that makes clothes for others, many times producing exclusive items of clothing.

Taxi driver - a person who drives a taxi.

Teacher - a person that passes knowledge to students, usually at school.

Translator - a person that translates from one language to another.

Traffic warden - a person that patrols areas to check that people do not park in the wrong place.

Travel agent - a person that organises and sells holidays and flights for others.

Veterinary doctor (Vet) - a qualified person that looks after sick animals.

Waiter/Waitress - a person that works in a food outlet, looking after customers and serving food.

Welder – A person that welds, joins pieces of metal by welding them together.

Window cleaner - a person that cleans windows, normally the windows of big buildings.

(1) to browse: fast reading, look over and explore searching for particular files or information

Numbers

To know the numbers, and also to know the variants is important in any language. Especially in English.
Here I present a list of exercises that covers good part of what is needed  in English.
The exercises are simple and direct. If you need to practice numbers, take a look on this, and if you need the answers, e-mail me please! (pipe.teacher@gmail.com)

To download the file, click here.

Example of the exercise in the file, there are 4 more exercises in the paper.

Snakes and ladders

For teachers and students
Snakes and ladders can be a very educational game, as it is simple and straightforward (1) . The only thing you need are counters (2)  and one dice.

The game is very simple, players take turns rolling the dices and walking on the squares. If you fall in the bottom of a ladder, you go up to the top of the ladder, if you fall on the head of a snake, you go down. If you fall on the middle of any of them, you don't move, though.
There may be additional rules, as for example if you fall in the same square of another player, you can switch places with him.

For the educational part, I made a series of questions for them. Every turn, they had the chance to answer a question, if correct, they could step one square, if they missed, they had to step 1 square back.
Examples of questions:

1.  List two ingredients for a cake.
2. Who is the richest man in the world?
3. What is my profession?
4. What is Argentina’s capital?
5. What time do you have lunch?
6. Where do you live?
7. How much does a newspaper cost?
8. What's the most beautiful girl's name you've heard?
9. Do you have a nickname?
10. What is your favorite book?
11. Who was our president in 2000?
12. Who is your favorite author?
13. Who is our mayor?
14. Is any of your friends 22 years old?
15. What color are my pants?

(1) straighforward: direct
(2) counters: peons, markers, counting device

Examples of counters

Why are you happy?

Are you happy? Yes? No?
Dan Gilbert talks about happiness and his studies around it.
The video is interesting, difficult and may require a lot of patience to watch and understand everything... but it is worth watching!
The main point is that it has subtitles (1) for many languages, so you can select to watch it all with English subtitles (1) .

Direct link: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

The video, in the blog.




(1) subtitle: secondary title appearing below the main title; translation of a foreign-language film which appears at the bottom of the screen; caption or dialogue which appears between scenes in a silent film

example:

Smiles, emoticons, slang expressions

Have you ever came across a word, in a chat, like MSN, orkut, or some site or forum that you had no idea of what it was?
When someone talks to you with a very informal sentence, like;

like 2 c a movie 2nite?

To understand this, you have to know that:

2 = to
c = see
2nite= tonight

Some abreviations are obvious, but some are not... so here I present a list of them for you to have as reference. You don't need to memorize them all, just take a look and have them whenever you face (1) them!

4	For
404	A clueless person
10q	Thank you
AKA	Also known as
ASAP	As soon as possible
B4	Before
BK / BC	Because
BRB	(I’ll) be right back
BTW	By the way
CIO	Check it out
CYL / CUL8R	See you later
D / C	Disconnect
EOD	End of discussion
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
F2F	Face-to-face
FYI	For your information
GJ	Good Job
GR8	Great
GTG / GG	Got to go
HAND	Have a Nice Day
IAC	In any case...
IDK	I don’t know
L8TR	Later
LUV	Love
LOL	Laughing out loud
LTNT	Long time, no type !
M	Am
NITE	Nite
OIC	Oh, I see...
OTOH	On the other hand
PLS	Please
R	Are
RU	Are you ?
SOME1	Someone
SRI / SRRY	Sorry
THANX / THX	Thanks
TIA	Thanks in Advance
U	You
Ur	You are
W8	Wait
YGBK	You gotta be kiddin’
YYSW	Yeah, yeah, sure, whatever

I also have a list of emoticons! You can surprise your friends with them!

:-|	Ambivalent
o:-)	Angelic
|-I	Asleep
(::( )::)	Band aid
:-{}	Blowing a Kiss
\-o	Bored
:-c	Bummed Out
|C|	Can of Coke
|P|	Can of Pepsi
:( )	Can't Stop Talking
:*)	Clowning
:'	Crying
:'-)	Crying with Joy
:'-(	Crying Sadly
\_/7	cup (coffee/tea)
:-9	Delicious, Yummy
:->	Devilish
;->	Devilish Wink
:-P	Sticking out tongue
:*)	Drunk
:-6	Exhausted, Wiped Out
>> >><)))`>	Fish/fishy
> ><<*>	Fish/fishy
:(	Frown
\~/	Full Glass
\_/	Glass (drink)
:-I	Indifferent
:-)*(-:	Kiss
:-#	Lips are Sealed
:~/	Mixed Up
:-O	Mouth Open (Surprised)
(_)	Mug (coffee)
:-@	Screaming
:O	Shocked
:-)	Smile
:-&	Tongue Tied
:-\	Undecided
;-)	Wink
|-O	Yawning

You can also download the printable version, here.

(1) to face: In this context, means that you see the expressions, come across, look at them, find them

Why pipes?

Well, these first topics exist because I imagine that people may ask, eventually, so I have them already prepared, he he.

This is a pipe.

A personal quote(1) that I use a lot in my classes is this one "You have to put it in your pipe and smoke it", so I decided to create a blog, but I had to give it a name, right? (It couldn't be Englishclassesblog, or teacherleo.blogspot.com, these names are really boring[2]) So I decided to base my blog on this. I even created an e-mail just for this!

What does "You have to put it in your pipe and smoke it" mean (3)?

This is an expression that means "You have to accept things as they are" or "You can't change it, just accept it". It is used in cases where people can't change the facts, and another one says that for the first to accept. For example, imagine that your friend Bob has a car. He left it on the street and went to your apairtment ot have some tea. One hour later he discovers that his car was robbed (4) and can't accept that fact after 3 days. You can say this quote to him.

Isn't this expression a little...impolite?

Yes it is, but I never used it on the impolite way with my students. I used mainly whenever I said to them that they had to study a lot, there was no other way....


(1) quote: citation, passage taken from another source
(2) boring: not interesting, dull
(3) to mean: mean or intend to express or convey;
e.g. "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"
(4) to rob: steal, plunder, illegally take property by force

note: this is also a pipe

Why all in English?

Você deve ter sido redirecionado para este tópico, pois estava difícil entender os meus posts, ou então porque etsava curioso do porquê tudo em inglês, ou simplesmente não concorda com a metodologia, certo? Afinal, devia estar em português, para pessoas que estão aprendendo em inglês, certo?
Na minha opinião, errado.

Eu sigo uma linha de pesquisa que afirma que uma língua deve ser aprendida sem o intermédio de outra, mesmo que isso torne o processo mais "doloroso". Sim, é bem mais difícil, e cansa mais... porém compensa mais e tem vantagens inúmeras.
Portanto este será o meu único post em português, mas caso você não esteja entendendo muito, ou ficou alguma dúvida em alguma das frases usadas, ou se você não conseguir construir este tipo de frase, por favor me mande um e-mail, que isso pode ser resolvido! (pipe.teacher@gmail.com)

Até a próxima!

First Topic

Ok, first of all, be welcome, anyone that reads this blog, either because you found it in the internet, or because I asked, or because I demanded....You may know me, or may not, in any case, feel free to send me e-mails, ask questions, recommend stuff, complain about everything or donate $.$

This blog has the initial objective of being an archive for files, videos, or anything that may help or interest my own students, but it is also avalable for any other student that I have never seen personally.
Do you study English ofr yourself, or intend to? Please send me emails, I will help you (or at least intend to)
Do you study in a school? And want to complement with extras? Right place!
So, to finish my first post, I will leave my e-mail, (pipe.teacher@gmail.com) for any contact needed.

Não está entendendo nada? Prefere em português? por favor leia o tópico seguinte, "Why all in English?"