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Português para estrangeiros

Bemvindo a-lingua-portuguesa-no-mundo-da-comunicacao from Cristo de Ávila

Inglês 01, unidade 01, lição 05 - Meeting People

Inglês 01, unidade 01, lição 05 - Meeting People
http://youtu.be/SVmw6ma6Hn0 Aula em vídeo do curso básico de inglês baseado nas aulas do site www.newmexico.com.br.

Inglês 01, unidade 01, lição 02 - Numbers

http://www.youtube.com/v/NbAwqyGCo2g?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&showinfo=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=IRY9vePXfHUfVLPKVTn0vA

GANADORA DEL II CONCURSO DE X-TRADE B...

GANADORA DEL II CONCURSO DE X-TRADE BROKERS

'No tenía ni idea pero aprendí a invertir hasta ganar un Porsche'

Actualizado viernes 27/11/2009 09:36

Javier González | Ricardo Domínguez (Vídeo)

Madrid.- No estaba ocupada, y su hijo le propuso apuntarse a un concurso de inversores para "entretenerse un rato". María Luisa Vega Gómez, ganadora del II XTB Trading Cup de X-Trade Brokers (XTB), ha sido premiada con un Porsche Cayman por haber sido la mejor inversora de este año.

María Luisa, de Santander, ha ganado un 2102% sobre
su inversión inicial, de 20.000 a 440.338 euros virtuales al final del
concurso, gracias a una combinación de inversiones en materias primas y
divisas.

"Invertí en azúcar... soy una apasionada de Cuba, me gusta el azúcar", admite la ganadora, quien combinó intuición y aprendizaje a partes iguales.

"Mi hijo me dijo que me tenía que apuntar. Él me recomendaba algunos
movimientos, y he ido aprendiendo con el juego. Ahora me he puesto las
botas y he leído un par de libros", afirma María Luisa, quien recibió
ayer su coche deportivo en el Palacio de Congresos de Madrid.

"Me han enseñado a manejar el coche, ahora tengo que aprender a conducir",
hace un símil la ganadora con el premio y lo aprendido en el concurso.
No obstante, advierte de que su impecable partida no es fruto de la
casualidad: "Mis amigos no se lo creen, se piensan que me ha tocado la
lotería, pero no, me lo he ganado yo".

Los instrumentos de inversión de XTB Trading Cup son los Contratos por Diferencias,
herramientas que, a grandes rasgos, permiten hacer grandes inversiones
con un desembolso inicial mínimo, y cuyo vencimiento implica ganar -o
perder- la diferencia de revalorización o devaluación del activo
invertido.

María Luisa inició su partida invirtiendo en materias primas
como el mencionado azúcar y la plata. Después, a medida que ella y su
hijo seguían la evolución de los mercados, dieron el salto a las divisas, en especial al yen.

No obstante, la ganadora aún no ha decidido dar el salto al mercado
real. "Todavía tengo que estudiar un poquito más", reconoce María Luisa.

Otros premios

La segunda edición del concurso, en el que colabora el actor Ramón Langa, se celebró entre 4 de octubre y el 6 de noviembre 2009.

El segundo (Egonzalez) y tercer clasificado (Ivanovich) han recibido
por su parte 5.000 y 3.000 euros, respectivamente, en cuentas X-Trade
Brokers.

Además, la operación más rentable de cada semana
era premiada con una PDA de última generación y entre todos los
concursantes se ha sorteado un viaje a Londres para dos personas.

Escuchar la noticia en www.elmundo.es/tts/rosa/20/CMXrT+gzfx++oV4l3NXHmw.mp3

Olympic success

by Pete Sharma
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Olympic success

Level: Intermediate and above

Worksheet

Teacher's Notes

This week's activities:

• Completing the missing information in a chart of Olympic venues
• Matching headings to the correct paragraph in an article
• Reading an article about the recent Olympic vote to choose the host city for the 2016 games
• Deciding if words are nouns, verbs or both
• Completing a fluency task arising from the article

http://www.businessenglishonline.net/e-lessons/index.htm

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics
http://www.olympic.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0MHsUOHDOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Y_dqByI4M&feature=player_embedded
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070508053810AAFaUKH

http://www.marcoping.com/blog/img/2016.jpg

Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor

October 7, 2003 : On this day in 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California, the most populous state in the nation with the world's fifth-largest economy. Despite his inexperience, Schwarzenegger came out on top in the 11-week campaign to replace Gray Davis, who had earlier become the first United States governor to be recalled by the people since 1921. Schwarzenegger was one of 135 candidates on the ballot, which included career politicians, other actors, and one adult-film star. Born in Thal, Austria, on July 30, 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger began body-building as a teenager. He won the first of four "Mr. Universe" body-building championships at the age of 20, and moved to the United States in 1968. He also went on to win a then-record seven "Mr. Olympia" championships, securing his reputation as a body-building legend, and soon began appearing in films. Schwarzenegger first attracted mainstream public attention for a Golden Globe®-winning performance in Stay Hungry (1976) and his appearance in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. At the same time, he was working on a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1979. Schwarzenegger's film career took off after his starring turn in 1982's Conan the Barbarian. In 1983, he became a U.S. citizen; the next year he made his most famous film, The Terminator, directed by James Cameron. Although his acting talent is probably aptly described as limited, Schwarzenegger went on to become one of the most sought-after action-film stars of the 1980s and early 1990s and enjoyed an extremely lucrative career. The actor's romantic life also captured the attention of the American public: he married television journalist and lifelong Democrat Maria Shriver, niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, in 1986. With his film career beginning to stagnate, Schwarzenegger, a staunch supporter of the Republican party who had long been thought to harbor political aspirations, announced his candidacy for governor of California during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Aside from his well-known stint serving as chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under President George H.W. Bush, Schwarzenegger had little political experience. His campaign, which featured his use of myriad one-liners well-known from his movie career, was dogged by criticism of his use of anabolic steroids, as well as allegations of sexual misconduct and racism. Still, Schwarzenegger was able to parlay his celebrity into a win, appealing to weary California voters with talk of reform. He beat his closest challenger, the Democratic lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, by more than 1 million votes. http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=5410 Picture: http://davidpaulmorris.com/content/photos/RECALL07OCT03ARNOLD096.jpg