English Recordings

Gregory
”No we won’t.”
“You won’t risk your neck!”
” When’s that?”
“You run away when you’re angry.”
“You’re a wimp, Sampson. Now ‘s your chance. Here’s a couple of Montague’s men”
“By running away?”
“But I do. “
” I’ll give them a dirty look.”
“No.”
“Do you want a fight?”
“ Say “better”- Here comes one of them.”

Abraham (Montague’s man):
“Do you bite your thumb at us, Sir?”
“Do you bite your thumb at us, Sir?”
“No, Sir.”
“No better?”
“Liar!”

Benvolio
“Stop you fools!Put your swords away”
“I’m trying to stop them. Why don’t you help me?”

Tybalt
“Fighting with the servants,Benvolio? Turn round and prepare to die”
“Because I hate you, and all Montagues! Fight coward!”

Lord Capulet
“Give me my sword!”
“There’s old Montague!”

Lady Capulet
“You need a crutch not a sword.”

Lord Montague
“Capulet, you Villain! Don’t hold me back!”

Lady Montague: “You’re going nowhere!”

Act I scene I Roles
A public place in Verona - early Sunday Morning.
Sampson
“ We won’t take any nonsense from them, Gregory.”
“We ‘ll fight them.”
”I’m fast when I’m angry.”
“When I see Montagues.”
“I’ll fight any Montague.”
“I’ll back you.”
“ Don’t worry about me.”
“Let them start the fight.”
“I’ll bite my thumb at them.”

“I do bite my thumb,Sir.”
“Is the law on our side if I say “yes”?”
“Then I do not bite my thumb at you-but I do bite my thumb.”
“If you do, I’ll fight you. My people are as good as yours.”
“Well, sir.”
“Better!”
“Come on, then draw and fight.”

1. I can cook very well.
2. Can you repeat please?
3. Yes, I can.
4. Can you play the piano?
5. Jennifer can play the drums.

Adhering strictly to early tradition, a person in search of luck should carry
the foot of a hare, the rabbit's larger cousin. Historically, it was the hare's
foot that possessed magical powers. However, most early European peoples
confused the rabbit with the hare, and in time the feet of both animals
were prized as potent good luck charms.
The luck attributed to a rabbit's foot stems from a belief rooted in ancient
totemism, the claim, predating Darwinism by thousands of years, that humankind
descended from animals. Differing from Darwinism, however,
totemism held that every tribe of people evolved from a separate species
of animal. A tribe worshiped and refrained from killing its ancestral animal
and employed parts of that animal as amulets, called totems.
Remains of totemism are with us today.
In biblical literature, totemism is the origin of many dietary laws prohibiting
consumption of certain animals. It has also given us the custom of
the sports mascot, believed to secure luck for a team, as well as our penchant
for classifying groups of people by animal images or traits. On Wall Street,
there are bulls and bears; in government, hawks and doves; and in politics,
elephants and donkeys. We may have abandoned the practice of physically
carrying around our identifying totems, but they are with us nonetheless.
Folklorists have not yet identified the "Hare" tribal society that gave the
early inhabitants of Western Europe, sometime before 600 B.C., the rabbit
foot amulet. They have ample evidence, though, of why this lagomorph
became a symbol of good luck, not bad.
The rabbit's habit of burrowing lent it an aura of mystery. The Celts, for
instance, believed that the animal spent so much time underground because
it was in secret communication with the netherworld of numina. Thus, a
rabbit was privy to information humans were denied. And the fact that
most animals, including humans, are born with their eyes closed, while
rabbits enter the world with eyes wide open, imbued them with an image
of wisdom: for the Celts, rabbits witnessed the mysteries of prenatal life.
(Actually, the hare is born with open eyes; the rabbit is born blind. And it
is the rabbit that burrows; hares live aboveground. Confusion abounded.)
It was the rabbit's fecundity, though, that helped to give its body parts
their strongest association with good luck and prosperity. So prolific was
the animal that early peoples regarded it as an outstanding example of aJ,1 '
that was procreative in nature. To possess any part of a rabbit-tail, ear,
foot, or dried innards-assured a person's good fortune. Interestingly, the
foot was always the preferred totem, believed to be luckier than any other
body part.
Why the foot? Folklorists claim that long before Freudian sexual interpretations existed, man, in his cave drawings and stone sculptures, incorporated
the foot as a phallic symbol, a totem to foster fertility in women
and a cornucopian harvest in the fields.

1. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
2. It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
3.Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing
3. Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
4. Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
5. Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
6.The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
7. Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
8. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
9. He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
10. It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
11. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
12. Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Look at the pictures. Now listen and tick the correct box.

One. Where is the bug?

A: Where is the bug?
B: I don’t know. Is it behind the box?
A: No, it isn’t.
B: Look! It’s under the box.

Two. When is Mike’s birthday?

A: Mike, is your birthday in October?
B: No! It’s on the second month of the year.
A: And, in what day?
B: It’s on the third day.

Three. What can Peter do?

A: Peter, can you fly?
B: Superman can fly but I can’t.
A: Can you ride a bike?
B: No, but I can ride a horse.

Four. Who is your father?

A: Who is your father?
B: Look! He’s in the room.
A: Has he got glasses?
B: No, he hasn’t.
A: I know! He’s got a moustache and short hair.
B: No! My father is bald.

Hello. I’m John. I’m nine. I live with my family in a big and old house. My family is from New York.

My father is Fred. He’s tall and he has got short black hair and a big nose. He is very funny. He has got a red car. He can play football but he can’t play the guitar.

Betty is my mother. She has got red hair but she isn’t ugly. She has got small brown eyes! She can cook delicious pizzas.

Alice is my sister. She’s 13 years old. She is confident and very clever. She can speak Portuguese and Spanish. She’s got a pet dog, Dino – it has got white fur and a long tail!

Alice likes our grandfather, Ed. He is a nice old man. He‘s got a white beard but he hasn’t got hair.

My grandma‘s name is Ellie. She’s thin but she isn’t weak.

My father’s brother is Peter. He has got curly hair and a big mouth. He’s friendly. His wife isn’t in the picture. She’s in England now. My cousins are Sam and Julie. He has got a scar on his face and she has got big teeth.

Losing weight

Our topic today is about losing some pounds.I have never understood why overweight people ask " ex-overweights" to give tips on how to lose weight. It seems clear to me that they already know how to achieve their goals, but they have problems maintaining themselves to become thin.To make this long story short, I have a piece of advice for someone who wants to get in shape,.

--- think like a thin person; they are able to eat lots of food. You may have seen a friend or relative who eat a lot and have a nice figure. Do you know why it happens? It happens because they are constantly on a diet.

If you were to observe a thin person eating during the week, you would notice they consum a lot of food two to three days a week, and typically spend long hours without food for the rest of the days. This would in crease dieting two to three days a week, and would work better than dieting every day.It seems crazy! However,it is logical that your body is used to receiving a large number of calories everyday, and if you suddenly decided to reduce the amount of calories, your body would assume you are starving, so you are basically storeing more energy.

(March 3, 2013 Burnt two of my fingers.
Just a moment ago, I burnt two fingers on my right hand on a hot pot. Now, they're slowly starting to throb.

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