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Why in the world

Behaviour is difficult to meaasure, but manu scientists agree about certain differences between the sexes. They say that girls are superior at reading and understanding difficult material, and that they speaks more fluently. Boys are generally better at mathematics.
They are good at reading maps and they are without doubt more aggressive both phisically and verbally. That doesn't mean, of course, that a particular boy is better at math's than a particular girls, or that he is necessarily more aggressive. Scientists are talking about the average.
Aggression in mean probably comes from prehistoric times, when only adept fithters could survive. Anthropologists point out that men were usually hunters or killers. It was rare for women to go to war. If similarities exists between societies, behavioural scientists say they probably stem from biological factors.

The microscope

A mivcroscope is an instrument used to help see things that are too small to see with the naked eye. The word microscope is a combination of two Greek words. The words are mikros, or "small", and skopos, or "watchers". So a microscope is a "watcher of small".
A microscope consists of a series of lenses in a hollow tube. A lens is a transparent piece of glass that makes an object look larger. The lenses in a microscope are called magnifying lenses. The are the top of the tube is called the eyepiece. The lens at the bottom of the tube is called the objective.
A microscope has many uses. Medical scientists use microscopes to see tiny organisms live bacteria that causes diseases. Scientists also use microscopes to look at the structure of metals and the cells of plants.
Microscopes are used in science, medicine and industry.

The Milky Way

If you are under the sky in the desert or in the mountains, on a moonless night, far from the light pollution of the cities, the spectacle overhad is awesome: a river of stars seemingly without number, stretching from horizon from horizon. This great celestial spectacle is the Milky Way, the galaxy which is our home.
When, in 1924, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble annouced that the Andromeda Nebula was not part of the Milky Way but in fact a neighboring galaxy, the field of extragalactic astronomy was born,. This led to an extraordinary insight into the possible structure of the universe.

London`s Park

I`m lying under a tree in St. James Park. There are three downtown parks adjoining each other - St. James and Green, both small, and the big one, Hyde Park.
All the parks in London are very serene, veru gentle. Young couples are going by, arm in arm, quietly, no transistor radios or guitars in hand. Families are picknicking on the lawn sedately. Dogs are going by on leashes, equally sedate, looking neither to the right nor to the left. There is one exception: a woman is coming by with a small gray poodle on a leash. I say hello to the poodle and he veers towards me, always-glad-to-meet-a-friend, but the woman yanks him back.
"Please, don't do that" she says to me sharply. "I'm trying to teach him good manners."
I think, "Pity he can't do that for you."

Terror in a computer world

A virus is basically an information disorder. Biological viruses use the genetic code of living cells to multiply. Like its biological counterpart, a computer virus carries in its instructional code the recipe for making perfect copies of itself. Lodged in a computer, the typical virus takes temporary control of the operating system. When the infected computer comes in contact with a uninfected piece of software a copy of the virus passes into the new program. Thus the infection can be spread from computer to computer.
Viruses can travel from one place to another as fast as a phone call. A single virus can quickly turn up in computers hundred of miles away.
Computer virus can be avoided. Most computers experts warn other users about viruses. "Remember", they say, "only you can prevent a virus epidemic! Don't lend discs. Don't copy software. Don't let anyone touch your computer. Don't panic. Just say no".

The X-Rays

Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad. Also Roentgen. 1845-1923. German physics
- Discovered and studied x-rays (From: The Heritage Illustrated Dictionary)
X-ray, X-rays, ... X-rayed
1. An X-ray is a type of radiation that can pass through most solid materials. X-rays are commonly used by doctors to examine the bones or organs inside your body and at airports to see inside people`s luggage.
2. An X-ray is a picture made by sending X-rays through something, usually someone`s body. She was advised to have an abdominal X-rays.
3. If someone or something is X-rayed, an X-ray picture is taken of them. All hand baggage will be X-rayed ... , They took my pulse, took my bllod pressure, and X-rayed my jaw.
- From Collins Cobuild English Dictiionary)

"Some of the rays were stopped by the bones and produced a clear shadow of the hand's skeleton".
One day in 1895 a German scientist named Wilhelm Roentgen discovered an astonishing thing. He was experimenting with the electron rays, shooting them at a coated glass screen. Roentgen happened to pass his hands between the rays and the screen. To his amazement, the shadow of the bones inside his hand appeared instead! Most of the rays were passing right to the flesh of his hand lightining the screen, but some of them were stopped by the bones abd produced a clear shadow of the hand's skeleton. Roentgen had discovered the X-rays.

Revision

a, an
- a => a horse (rorse), a university (yuniversiti)
- an => an hour (aur), an x-box (equiboquis)

At, On, In
- at - momento específico, horários
  - at lunch, at break, at five o'clock
- on - dia da semana.
  - On wednesday
- In - data distante - 1996

Leave, Live
- To leave => liv, beach => bitii
- To live => liiv

Time
- quarter => 15 minutes
  - 12h15 => a quarter past twelve
  - 01h15 => a quarter past one
  - 01h30 => one a half (réf)

To, To the
- I go to the party, to the club, to the beach
- I go To school, to work
- I go downtown, home

The
- Não distingue singular de plural
- o, a
- os, as

Do, pay, put
- To do - did
  - He did not do
- To pay - paid
  - They did not pay
- To put - put
  - She did not put
- She paid you
  - Did she pay you?

nothing
- Eu não fiz nada
- I did nothing
- I did not do anything

oso, osa
- It is rainy
- It is sunny
- It is cloudy
- It is foggy

Present Progressive/Continous
- To be + ....... ing
  - I Like playing
  - I hate playing
  - I love playing

I want to play
I need to play
I know how to
- It is raining today
- It usually rains on October
- to finish
- to quit
- to enjoy

Past
- To do - did
  - She paid you?
  - Did she pay you?
- To pay - paid
- To put - put

Negative
- Eu não fiz nada
  - I did nothing
  - I didn't do anything

Datas:
- 1845-1923
  - From eighteen-fourty five to nineteen-twenty three

Past continous
- to be + ing
  - I was doing - eu estava fazendo
  - I was teaching - eu estava ensinando
- Were you playing?
- You were nt playing

Preciso, devo
- I have to buy - eu preciso comprar
- I must to buy - eu devo comprar

Past
- To buy - bought

Numbers

One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven => ileven
Twelve
Thirteen => trertin
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty => Tueni
Twenty-one
Twenty-two

30 Thirty => tar ri
40 Fourty
50 Fifty
60 Sixty
70 Seventy
80 Eighty
90 Ninety
100 One hundred

Vocabulary

Inglês
# A little bit => um pouquinho
# About => aproximadamente, sobre
# Already
# Animal
# Beans
# Boss
# Chicken
# City
# Clean the house
# Cooker => fogão
# Country
# Course
# Cow
# Director
# Door
# Drills => pŕatica
# French fries => chips
# Friendly
# Have a nice easter
# Haze - neblina
# Help
# Here
# Horse
# If
# lawn - gramado
# Lawn =: gramado
# leashes - coleira
# Leashes => coleira
# Lodged - interposto
# Lying - deitado, mentindo
# Magazine
# Maid => Meiri
# Meal
# Money
# Month
# More
# Neighbor => niguibour
# Newspaper
# NightStand => criado-mudo

# Office => Ofis
# Often
# Ox - Oxes
# Parents => pérentis (pais)
# Pie => torta
# Pig
# Plane
# Pork
# Relative => parentes
# Rice
# Rope
# Salad => Seled
# sedate - calmo
# Sedate => calmo
# Slip
# Sofa
# State
# Test
# Then
# There
# This afternoon
# This morning
# Ticket
# Tired
# To borrow
# To close
# To cook
# To get up
# To have breakfast
# To have dinner
# To have lunch
# To have supper
# To help
# To know
# To leave => liiivi
# To lend => emprestar
# To live => lívi
# To lodged => alocar
# To open
# To prefer => prifer
# To read
# To tie => amarrar
# To turn up - aparecer, virar para cima
# To wirte
# Until
# Usually => iusualli
# Very
# What
# Window
# Writing

Pork
Pig
Parents => pérentis (pais)
Relative => parentes
Boss
Money
Here
There
Month
What
Very
Course
This morning
This afternoon
To help
To know
To read
To wirte
Newspaper
Magazine
Animal
Horse
Ox - Oxes
Cow
Chicken
About => aproximadamente, sobre
To open
To close
To live => lívi
To leave => liiivi
To prefer => prifer
Door
Window
Neighbor => niguibour
Usually => iusualli
Until
More
Test
Office => Ofis
Already
Ticket
Then
City
State
Country
Rice
Beans
Salad => Seled
To get up
To have breakfast
To have lunch
To have supper
To have dinner
lawn - gramado
sedate - calmo
leashes - coleira
To turn up - aparecer, virar para cima
Lodged - interposto
Lying - deitado, mentindo
Haze - neblina
Sedate => calmo
Lawn =: gramado
Leashes => coleira
To lend => emprestar
To borrow
To lodged => alocar
Help
Meal
To tie => amarrar
Writing
Slip
Rope
To cook
Cooker => fogão
Friendly
Plane
French fries => chips
Sofa
Pie => torta
Clean the house
A little bit => um pouquinho
Tired
Director
If
Often
Noi problem!
Maid => Meiri
Have a nice easter
NightStand => criado-mudo
Drills => pŕatica
Cup => xicara
Mug => caneca
Glass => copo, vidro
Soda - pop => refri
Astonishing => estonteante
Coated => blindada
Amazement => deslumbramento
Instead => em vez disso