Aulas de Inglês

Que tal aprender ou desenvolver a fluência em inglês e, simultaneamente, conhecer algumas das obras literárias mais famosas da Literatura Inglesa? O curso oferece o desenvolvimento das habilidades de fala, escrita, compreensão oral e leitura em inglês, a partir da leitura de textos literários adaptados ao seu nível de conhecimento de inglês. Durante as aulas além de lermos e ouvirmos as histórias, comentamos e analisamos fatos, personagens e conhecemos o contexto sociocultural no qual as obras foram produzidas (tudo em inglês!).

Posso garantir que é aprender inglês de forma divertida, motivadora e interessante.

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Do or Make?

Language topic

From: https://www.facebook.com/EnglishIF

Language, Power and Imperialism

The following text was part of the English Test of Usp Entrance Exam in 2004. It is about how language can be used as a weapon to exterminate another language, a culture and a people.

English is a colonial language that continued to be the official language after independence in virtually all African countries that were under British rule. In some cases it was retained to avoid ethnic tensions. But in all cases it was retained because of its prestige and association with power. In contrast, the vernaculars were viewed as backward and inferior, and so were not developed. Students were made to feel ashamed of their mother tongue and punished for speaking it. 

In Kenya, for example, speaking in vernacular was forbidden and sanctioned in schools. One popular method of punishment was to make pupils carry around a skull of some dead animal the whole day as a way of embarrassing the pupil who dared speak in his mother tongue. 

Today it is difficult to use indigenuous languages because they have not developed , been codified and standardised. Hence there is a shortage of teaching materials and trained teachers in the vernaculars. And this has often been used as an excuse for not adopting the vernaculars in schools.         

(The Guardian Weekly, August 2003)

Map showing European territorial claims on the African continent in 1914

                                                                 (Image from New World Encyclopedia)

The British Empire in 1920s

( From: http://abagond.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/british-empire/)