A story to be told in five minutes - Compositions for intermediate students!

A story to be told in five minutes

                As you know the most entertaining, harmful or disadvantageous stories never happen with me or with you. They only happen with our friends who told us and we retold to others. This story is not diverse and it actually happened with a friend of me. ‘The Tchê, a Gaucho man as the time he had gotten married, on his honeymoon, in May 1972.  They had decided to spend their honeymoon in Buenos Ayres City, the Capital of Argentina, and they had traveled by bus from their City, Santa Maria, in the Center Region of his State to Uruguaiana City, the frontier in West of RS State.  They had crossed the edge of our country on “Friendly Bridge” on Uruguay River, in Passo de Los Libres and bought the air tickets to Buenos Ayres, the capital. According him, the troubles had started when they had handed the passages.  He told me that he hadn’t read them, he had only asked to the attendant of the Flight Company what time would the plane departure to the Capital and he had answered him: “a las tres e binte”.  It wasn’t twelve o’clock, and then he thought that they had time to have lunch.  They went to the airport restaurant.  At there, the waiter questioned them what would they order.  He requested him two union beefsteaks, fried potatoes, rice, bean and salad. The waiter questioned him “how many beefs?”   He reinforced the order: “two beefsteaks, one for me and other to my wife”.  At that moment, when he had confirmed the provisions to be eaten, all people who were around looked at them with incredible sights.  He told me that he hadn’t understood anything until they had received the plates with the feed.  “When the waiter brought us the two beefs, we couldn’t believe in which we were seeing”, he told me.  “We hadn’t had idea of the volume of beefsteak.  It was an amazing and incredible thing.  Every beef had more than two centimeters high and passed more than five centimeters at each side of the border of the plates”. He told me from that hour until the end of the lunch they only looked at themselves and at that time they had stayed red their faces.  They didn’t remember if they talk themselves any more from that hour ahead.   They got languished.   Only at that moment, they had just understood why the waiter and the sided crowd had been astonished when he had ordered two beefsteaks.  They had only known “our beefsteaks, the Brazilian beefs”, which aren’t crushed meat because they serve only one piece, but our beefs look like a piece of meat that the ‘gauchos’ say: gagging cats!!!

The ‘Tchê’ told me that they hadn’t finished their lunch when the attendant of the air company approached and questioned if they wouldn’t take the plane to the Capital. They confirmed, yes, they would take the flight.  Then he shouted: “you are late”.  The fly is “a las tres e binte!”.  Gaucho said that he showed his watch to him and said: “it’s thirteen o’clock and the flight  departures will be at  fifteen”.  The assistant intensified, the flying is “a las treze e binte! Las treze e binte!!  No a las quinze e binte!!!, you are late!!!.”  From that moment ahead they worried up. They became a thunderbolt. They had paid much more in the restaurant because they didn’t do the necessary monetary modification, nor had wait for the change. They had rushed and had gotten the flight relatively on time.  After the plane took off, the staff of the flight brought them “the lunch!!!”

Work presented for school “Mnemo System” – as intermediate student -  on    08/10/2004.

The traffic Rules in Brasilia - Composition for Intermediate student

THE TRAFFIC RULES IN BRASILIA

         In 1978 when I got here, in Brasilia, there almost were no traffic lights.  We almost had the roads,  avenues and streets that we have today but there weren’t the number of the traffic lights of nowadays nor the great number of today’s car.  Only in the last ten years the number of vehicles grew vertiginously up and this was the determination of the changing the Traffic Laws which stayed more hard.  The hard rules of nowadays it’s because we (drivers) cannot lost a simple second to wait for a pedestrian just cross in his proper pedestrian crossing that is the safety way to him crosses the streets.

         In our main road, the “Eixo Monumental”, more known as “Eixão”,  we have six or seven tracks but at the rush time all stay complete, with a heavy traffic or a traffic jam.  In it we become frustrate, stressed and impatient.  I don’t happily have  this problem because I live near the job and when I get out my home to work the traffic is almost free but when I come back home (I work until 6:30 p. m.) in the evening I suffer a little because it’s time for everybody to close the avenues and streets with their cars, buses, motorcycles,  bikes, people on foot, and by on from their employees to their homes.

         Well, to summarize, I agree with the hard of the traffic rules because in a car crash both we and the government have to value the life.  It’s  only not the death which afraid us, because if someone dies he becomes a  statistic number.  But principally when somebody becomes a permanent invalidity either not only  will be a statistic number and worry much more.  The government has to debt a mensal payment, the family has to care for all life and for him who is impossibility to make the things he used to do. 

   

Student’s name:    Darci G. Pinheiro                    (X )        Reading III

Contr. Number:  912            Teacher:  Luiz           Friday, September 15^th 

Papanicolau for Men! Tchê's Misadventures!

‘Papanicolau’ for men!!!

My friend Tchê told me he was to make an assessment with a doctor.  When he entered the doctor’s waiting-room office, he realized there were seven to nine men before him. But he had told me that the examination had been booked by doctor’s secretary.  He entered, marked presence with the Secretary and sat down. Afterwards he hadn’t listened to any word, that no one man had been saying anything, all they were looking at the ground, and had down their heads. Nobody was talking, telling or saying anything. The silence was total, as they were in a sepulchral solemnity.  He told me that one man could listen to the breathing of the others.  He also told me he had arrived at the time that was marked at the prior arrangement, but… there were nine men waiting for the appointment.    The time had passed and nobody had gotten out the doctor’s office! 

My friend told me that to him an eternity had passed when finally the door of the office opened and the doctor entered in the waiting-room.  Solemnity made his presentation, had asked excuses for his overdue (as ever he had been operating in the surgery-room), and had said the order of his patients inspection (My friend told me he would be the second patient to be examined).  The doctor continued his announces, and had suddenly given an incredulous advertisement: “Gentlemen, I would like to say you that I don’t accept nor flowers, nor chocolates neither at my home nor in my office”. After that he called the first patient…

My friend Tchê told me when he listened that, he couldn’t believe, it was absurd a doctor had said that!  This was an opportunity to me asked him: why?  Would you like to send the doctor flowers or chocolates?  Oh, my gosh!  My friend had become crazed!!! “I can’t relate you anything serious!” 

The related story continued.  He had finally called by the doctor. He related me that there were a big room, three woman nurses, a great quantity of appliances, including a video monitor. A nurse conducted him to a square screen for change his clothes by an opened back apron. After that she accomplished him to a special table or bed (? He couldn’t describe it), where he was post with his buttocks to up. He had put his legs largely separated as if he was a woman, but in the reverse form of the ‘Papanicolau’s position’ for women! He told me the doctor had talked him that it was a troublesome examination. He couldn’t move himself.  He hadn’t idea as it would be the order of the doctor’s procedure.  subsequently he had experienced the doctor (or the nurse, he was not seeing) put some Vaseline in his anal cavity, introduced a device like the handle of an umbrella and turning it as it was opening more and more until beginning to cause some discomfort and pain in his buttock and backs. 

The linked story continued, and his relate tells us that after that, some procedures were implemented by the doctor’s staff, and he had felt as: a ‘cable man’ entered and embraced some illumination chain, lamps, and some more equipment. As it was enlightened inside his anal hole, he put some chairs and called the other components of the movie’s staff, like the panorama director. At the same time as the scene production shouted “action”…   in his fissure…. the doctor called his attention and said him that he could look at the monitor in his front.  He gazed at the monitor but the images were very, very strong. It was his intestine, the inside of his body! He told me…  on that time he thought was going to dismay….. the map-reading continued into his entrance hall, the ‘walls’ were bright, red, wet…  but he couldn’t continue looking at that. He would experience the risk to dismay!!!!?  

He told me with the purpose of end his chat about this, he was entirely sweaty!  His body was entirely wet!!! The research continued and the movie ended. The people had given up work, the paraphernalia had gotten from his intestine; the doctor had stopped to move behind him and said: it’s ready! The ‘rectum colonoscopy’ is finished! You have anything, you are very good! You may go out!  But… when he stood up beside the table (or bed)… the doctor screamed: Nurse!! Give him a little tea on the other hand he will dismay here!!!

My friend said me; he at least had left the doctor’s examination room by a rear door!!!

On time:When we were children some people cal names as “go to take on eye of your butock …” same as … fuck you!  And the picture, show "the of the..." rsrsrsrsrs

Actually that exam is made with the patient doped this days!!! Tchê said:  Thanks God!!!

New Math Challengers - For ntermediate students!

1 – Translated and adapted from Admissão ao 2º Grau do CMB – Colégio Militar de Brasília.

A mother was to work and left some Money for her three kids with a message:  “divide uniformly this Money among you. Kisses, your mother”.

The first kid took his part, and got away.

The second teen didn’t see anybody and thought he was the first, and then he took his part of the money and got away.

The third adolescent found four R$ 5,00 bills. He knew he was the last one, then took the bills and got away.

Answer:              

1)   How much money did the first son take?

2)   How much money did the second teenager take?

3)      How much money did mother leave?

2 – Adapted from Estratégias de Leitura para Inglês Instrumental, by Oliveira, Sara R.F. Edit.  UnB; 2ª Ed. 1996. P28.

   A philosopher had two hours to spend in a small town and decided to cut his hair.  The town had only two barbers, each one with own his shop.

  The logician entered in the first barber shop and saw that it was extremely disordered. The barber needed cut his beard, his clothes were disorderly and his hair was badly cut.

     He entered in the other shop and it was extremely ordered. The barber was freshly shaved, precisely dressed and his hair was uniformly cut.

     The philosopher returned to the first barbershop for his haircut.

Why?       How can you explain this?

3 – Adapted from PAS/UnB:

“On the road to Saint Ives

I met a man with two wives.

Every wife had two sacks.

Every sack had two cats.

Every cat had two kits.

Kits, cats, sacks and wives.

How many were on the road to St. Ives?”

4 – A pastor has to celebrate a marriage, and he has to know the wife’s age.

He asks her: “how old are you?”

She answers him: “I am half of my mother’s age.”

The minister then asks to the lady’s mother. “How old are you?”

Mother answers him: “I am twenty years old less than my husband.”

Then the priest asks to the bride’s father: “How old are you?”

He answers him: “The total age of my daughter, my wife, and my personal age sum a century and twenty.”

Please permit this marriage. Calculate the age.  Calculate the bride’s age!

5 – A red car starts from Gama City to a rodeo in Goiânia City in a medium velocity of 80 Km/h, at ten a.m.  Another car, a blue one, proceeds from Goiânia to Gama in an average speed of 60 km/h, one hour before. (Consider the distance between the two cities, final point, with 240 km).

a)      What is the average speed of each car?

b)      What time will each car arrive in destiny?

c)       When the cars cross themselves, which one will be nearest Gama?

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Compositions for Intermediate Students - How to do /to write a Complaint, protest, grievance letter.

Letters of complaint, protest, grievance, accusation,

Most people will need to complain about unsatisfactory goods or bad service at some point in their lives. If you are writing a letter of complaint, there are some dos and don’ts that can help you get the right outcome.

 

Do

• gather all your facts before you start writing the letter, e.g. where and when goods were bought, any customer reference numbers or invoice numbers, or a record of any previous communication with the company concerned.
• get straight to the point and set out exactly what the problem is.
• give all the relevant information in a clear and logical sequence.
• state what action you want the company to take and when you expect them to have done this.
• enclose copies of any relevant documents that support your case.

Don’t

• use abusive language, however frustrated or angry you might feel.
• allow yourself to get sidetracked from your specific problem into generalized criticism of the company or its products or services.
• send your letter without checking it carefully for grammar or spelling mistakes.

 Structuring your letter

 The opening 

• Start your letter with the greeting Dear Mr (or Mrs, Ms, Miss, etc.) Surname.
• If you don’t know the name of the person you are writing to, begin with Dear Sir or Dear Madam; if you don’t know their name or sex, use Dear Sir or Madam.

 The content 

• Begin with a heading alerting the reader to the subject of the letter, and in your first sentence draw their attention to the matter you’re going to raise or discuss. For example I am writing to complain..., or I wish to express my dissatisfaction with ... or Thank you for your letter of ...
• Introduce your main point as early as possible, stating your reason for writing in a clear, concise way. Once you have done this, you may want to give more details, perhaps adding further background or relevant facts.
• In conclusion, you should state what your expectations are, for example Please let me know as soon as possible what action you propose to take or I look forward to hearing from you within the next ten days.

 The close

 The wording at the end of a formal letter follows a standard format: 

• If you know the name of the person you’re writing to, you should end the letter with Yours sincerely.
• If your letter begins with Dear Sir or Dear Madam, it should end with Yours faithfully.
• Your own name should be typed out underneath your signature.

 Sample letters of complaint

 Here are some examples of letters complaining about a faulty product, unsatisfactory workmanship, a disappointing holiday, and a leaking radiator in a rented flat.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/letters-of-complaint

[Your address] 
[Your city, state, zip code] 
[Today’s date] 
[Name of contact person (if available)] 
[Title (if available)] 
[Company name] 
[Consumer Complaint Division (if there is no contact person)] 
[Street address] 
[City, state, zip code] 
Re: [Account number or other reference to your complaint] 
Dear [Contact Person]: 
This letter is to [notify you {or} follow up on our conversation of {date}] about a problem I am having with the [name of product or service performed] that I [bought, leased, rented or had repaired] at your [name of location] location on [date]. 
I am dissatisfied with your [service or product] because [describe problem]. I have already attempted to resolve this problem by [describe attempts and actions taken]. I have enclosed copies of my records. [Include copies of receipts, canceled checks, contracts, and other relevant documents] 
Unfortunately, the problem remains unresolved. I am hereby requesting that you: [List specific actions you want (such as: refund, exchange or repair the item)] 
1) 
2) 
3) 
Please contact me within [number of days] days to confirm that you will honor my request. I have prepared a complaint for submission to the proper agencies for investigation. I will not file the complaint if you resolve the problem within this time period I have indicated. 
Thank you for your anticipated assistance in resolving my problem. Please contact me at [telephone number and/or e-mail address] if you have any questions. 
Sincerely, 
[Your signature] 
[Your name] 

Name of Contact Person, if available
Title, if available
Company Name
Consumer Complaint Division, if you have no contact person
Street Address
City, State, Zip Code

Dear (Contact Person):

Re: (account number, if applicable)

On (date), I (bought, leased, rented, or had repaired) a (name of the product, with serial or model number or service performed) at (location and other important details of the transaction).

Unfortunately, your product (or service) has not performed well (or the service was inadequate) because (state the problem). I am disappointed because (explain the problem: for example, the product does not work properly, the service was not performed correctly, I was billed the wrong amount, something was not disclosed clearly or was misrepresented, etc.).

To resolve the problem, I would appreciate it if you could (state the specific action you want—money back, charge card credit, repair, exchange, etc.). Enclosed are copies of my records (include copies of receipts, guarantees, warranties, canceled checks, contracts, model and serial numbers, and any other documents).

I look forward to your reply and a resolution to my problem, and will wait until (set a time limit) before seeking help from a consumer protection agency or the Better Business Bureau. Please contact me at the above address or by phone at (home and/or office numbers with area code).

Sincerely,

Your name
Enclosure(s) cc: (reference to whom you are sending a copy of this letter, if anyone)

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