The Great Debaters

Development and the official character of international assessments surveys and national standards of school performance favour the coexistence of a double institutional definition of success at school. The usual ones take into account the curriculum effectively taught, adapt itself to the levels of the pupils and present a rather doubtful reliability. The second one is more objective, but gives a too great weight to what can be measured through standardised tests: the cognitive…

viii VIII Expressões verbo + substantivo: blow one's top, burn the candle at both ends, bury the hatchet, catch someones eye, have a good time, have someones ear, hit the ceiling, keep an ear to the ground, kick the bucket, leí the cat out of the bag, make up ones mind, miss the bus, pull someone's leg, rain pitchforks, rock the boat. Frases feitas - expressões fixas consagradas pelo uso: don't give me that, give up the ship, it takes two to tango, like a cat on a hot tin roof,…

ABSTRACT The field of event management is very wide and dynamic and knowing a foreign language is a key factor for a good professional work, because the use of expressions in the English language is very common. In a globalized world as we live in today, it is a basic requirement to communicate in many languages, therefore learning English has become an obligatory condition and not a differential anymore. This proposal for a Module of English for Specific Purposes attempts to…

entanto, esta nova sociedade não consegue se libertar da sociedade industrial, uma vez que é especialmente a SMITH, Denis. “Business and the environment: towards a paradigm shift.” In: Business and Environment: implications of a new environmentalism., New York: St. Martins Press, 1993. 3 BECK, Ulrich. Risk Society: towards a new modernity. Sage Publications: Great Britain, 1992. 4 Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society. op. cit. 2 indústria, unida à ciência, a principal responsável por…

ABSTRACT The originary social arrangements in our culture had modified the mannering way substantially it man. These new rules had been established with bonanza celeridade, obeying the rules evolutiva the one that the human being is susceptible, corollary of the capacity to create norms in the relations with the remain of the people interested in this model contemporary of group convivência. The increasing concern of the society with collective well-being is conceived, originally,…

humana pelo tanto que dessensibilizou a humanidade para a desumanidade da guerra moderna. Notas 1 Dankl, citado em Holger H. Herwig, The First World War: Germany and Austria (London: Arnold, 1997), 55. 2 Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2006), 329. 3 Charles à Court Repington, The First World War, 1914-1918 (London: Constable, 1920). O MUNDO EM 1914 E AS ORIGENS DA GUERRA George Grantham Bain Collection (Library…

TENNIS: AN EXAMPLE OF THE PLAY AND STAY PROGRAM IN THE LIGHT OF THE PEDAGOGY OF THE SPORT ABSTRACT This study sought through a literature review to expand the debate on sports initiation to tennis, thus contributing to the modification of the current situation of teaching the sport in Brazil based on technical methodology. For this, they were presented and discussed, the light of the pedagogy of sport, the theoretical assumptions used by the Play and Stay program, adopted by the…

textos em língua. Inglesa.  O vocabulário de textos acadêmicos é composto de 20% de palavras cognatas.  60% do texto são compostos das 250 palavras mais comuns da língua inglesa.  Dessas 250 palavras, supõe-se que o leitor saiba 50.  O artigo the perfaz 10 % de um texto.  Três palavras, em quatro, são familiares.  As palavras de conteúdo, cognatos ou não, são repetidas várias vezes YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS You Are What You Read Um bom leitor consegue capitalizar suas…

communicate is the main process to define a decision and get good results, taking the strategical plan of a company as reference, mutual cooperation between both sides, merging the organization targets with public expectations. A participative leader, popular among people of his/her team, do not get constrained or ungry while putting himself/herself among the workers, having discussions in non formal way to show that things do not work as vertical formal structure, this person has the…

construções de sentidos. Palavras chave: pedagogia crítica, letramento crítico, letramento visual, leitura, cinema. 5 ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to investigate the reading of images by the university student. This analysis took place in the English classes in two universities, a private and a public university of the state of São Paulo. The importance of the studies of reading of film imagens comes by their influence regarding social reality. We perceived…