Phil News 08 - Phil Young`s English School

Newsletter #8 • Daytona, Florida, USA • 20/July/2015
Carta do Phil
Hey Y’all Students,
You guys are better than my generation in so many ways. We often read things about the “young
people of today not knowing as much, or being as much, as our generation when we were young.”
Waal, my contact with students on previous trips, has once again dispelled these “holier than thou”
judgments. The generational bola vai pra frente, não pra trás, forward, not backward. There is a thing
called evolution, and the tendency is for generations to successively get better. You “guys” on this
trip, you “young’uns”, have a lot to be admired for - from your relaxed body language to your
“sereno” way of talking and being. Furthermore, on one occasion, I was so pleasantly surprised to
hear accurate answers to a few of my questions about the history of Brazil, and the beautiful
indignation of one of you who shouted out to your colleagues who didn’t know the answers, “Don’t
you even know the history of our country?!”.
It is my generation of adults who have not taught you some things, or, rather, in many cases, have indeed taught some of you
to “hate” history and other related subjects. I know that I was taught, here in the United States, by my collection of teachers,
to hate history. Now it is a hobby of mine. Yep, I read it for pleasure now, in spite of the way my grade school, high school
and college teachers taught it, almost all of them.
I was not too surprised recently to learn from a talk by American historian, David McCullough, that 70% of American high
school history teachers do not even have a college major (“area de concentração”) in history. The math and science teachers
are generally qualified, but not the ones in liberal arts (“ciências humanas”), the subjects that make us think and develop a
critical sense – it is easier to manipulate lambs than lions. The way most liberal arts courses are taught doesn’t prepare us
students even to differentiate between a good and bad donut, much less between a serious political candidate and a blatant
cynical opportunist.
Some of you have great history teachers, and intellectual parents. I had neither, but they loved me – that’s the most important
thing. Later on, in Brazil, with my friends, I started learning and liking history and other related subjects, and thus recovered
from my hypnotizing “education”.
Here are the lyrics to a song that I love, by a singer that I love, Bobby McFerrin, accompanied by the great cellist, Yo Yo Ma.
Hush Little Baby, is a traditional song that we sing to children here in the States. I am sending you all the you tube link,
below. Assim, you can watch and listen to it if you’d like, or even learn and sing it if you have the time.
Hush Little Baby
Hush, little baby, don't say a word.
Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.
And if that diamond ring is brass,
Papa's gonna buy you a looking glass.
And if that looking glass will break,
Papa's gonna buy you a chocolate cake.
When the chocolate cake you eat,
Papa's gonna buy you a puppy sweet.
And if that puppy, puppy won’t bark,
Papa's going to buy you a horse and cart.
And if that horse and cart break down,
Papa's going to buy you a big toy clown.
Hush little baby, don’t you cry,
Mama’s going to sing you a lullaby.
Here’s the You Tube link of “Hush Little Baby”, with Bobby McFerrin and Yo Yo Ma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GczSTQ2nv94
Abrassos,
Phil
Carta do Magdal
Principais Testes de Inglês que você poderá fazer para obter a sua certificação internacional
Existem vários exames de avaliação de proficiência em inglês para não nativos. Quatro são de grande
abrangência e reconhecimento internacional: o TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), o TOEIC
(Test of English for International Communication), o IELTS (International English Language Testing
System), e o CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English).
O TOEFL e o TOEIC, utilizados pela Phil Young’s English School para medir a proficiência de seus
alunos, são os dois exames norte-americanos mais conhecidos. O TOEFL é administrado pelo Educational
Testing Service (New Jersey) e o TOEIC por uma subsidiária. O TOEFL tem como objetivo principal avaliar o inglês de
quem pretende ingressar em universidade dos Estados Unidos ou Canadá, portanto, com vocabulário e textos mais voltados a
temas acadêmicos, ao passo que o TOEIC, criado posteriormente, é mais indicado para quem quer comprovar proficiência em
inglês voltada ao mercado de trabalho. No Brasil, o exame norte-americano Michigan também é conhecido, não tendo
entretanto o mesmo reconhecimento no plano internacional.
O IELTS e o CPE são os dois exames britânicos mais conhecidos. O IELTS tem um objetivo semelhante ao TOEFL porém é
de responsabilidade da University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), um departamento da University of
Cambridge (UK), em conjunto com o British Council, e predomina na Inglaterra, demais países do Reino Unido, Austrália e
Nova Zelândia.
O CPE é o mais avançado de um conjunto de 5 exames criados para avaliar diferentes níveis de proficiência em inglês,
também de responsabilidade do UCLES. Embora o CPE também sirva para comprovar proficiência em inglês de candidatos a
cursos superiores no Reino Unido, seu objetivo é mais genérico, procurado muito na Europa por aqueles que querem
demonstrar proficiência em inglês voltada ao mercado de trabalho. A série completa de exames é:
KET (Key English Test) - Cambridge Level One
PET (Preliminary English Test) - Cambridge Level Two
FCE (First Certificate in English) - Cambridge Level Three
CAE (Certificate in Advanced English) - Cambridge Level Four
CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) - Cambridge Level Five
Pictures
-
Students having fun on campus
-
Upper Advanced I Students in their Individual Presentations
-
Trip to Universal’s Islands Of Adventure
-
Photography Workshop with Teachers Jeise and Dafny
-
Students stretching before going for a run with Teacher Brian and Students playing basketball in the pool
Movie Session
Monday, July 20, 2015
MOVIE – Interstellar
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
7:15 pm
Meet at Apollo Hall.
7:30 pm
Movie starts.
10:20 pm
Movie finishes.
That’s all for today, Folks. Phil News.