Vocabulary Section

Vocabulary about The Story behind Twilight, my favorite book:

Synonym:

Sparkly – coruscant
Ex: The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire.

Nameless – unidentified
Ex: I was so intrigued by the nameless couple's story

Scrawled – scribble
Decipher - decode
Ex: decipher the stuff I'd scrawled across the page in the dark.

Vocabulary about "The multicultural world"

Examples:

Racial groups
Ex: There too many racial groups in our world.

Official Languages
Ex: Each country has its own official language.

Diverse Country
Ex: The best way to have an intercultural experience is to meet people from diverse countries.

Vocabulary about "The World @ Work"

Examples:

Voluntary Work
Ex: A way to take advantage of Gap Year is to do voluntary work, such as teaching or working in an orphanage.

Adventure Activities
Ex: In the gap year, people often do Adventure Activities, like rafting, farming...

Texts

The Place that caused an impact on me in Lisbon

One of the places of Lisbon that I like the most and caused an impact on me is where Padrão dos Descobrimentos is. Visiting this place marked me, because when I went up on that grandious and meticulously carved carvel I felt as if I were surfing the drift in search of the unknown as, D. Henrique and many other heroes to explored the seas. This feeling happens because this fascinating monument is very well located in Belém in the margin of Tejo river, in a single area which is particularly impressive in light of the Sunset.

The point of view of someone I saw in Mouraria

I’m writing today because I’m very irritated. Well I was enjoying the fresh air of my street on the window when a tour of poorly educated kids passed in here, that people without any manners come her and take pictures without asking permission in a respectful street, what do they think of themselves?And the teacher is the same, she has no considerations for anybody, I don’t know what they teach at school, but good things aren’t for sure, they are equal the children.In my time nothing was like this, if we were rude as they were to me, yes because I told them not to take pictures because this was not a museum they were extremely rude to me, we were soon punished with rulers.

The photo I liked the most

This is one of the pictures I took in the trip, I really liked this one, because it shows he concentration of houses and cars, which I had already referred, and also the irregularity of the streets, the countless stairs that let anyone breathless, the lamps, the old fashioned tiles and also the buildings with an old fashioned architecture, but strangely well used.

Biography

She was born in an unknown village named Pereiros, on the 7th of October of 1961. She emigrated to Bourges, a city in the centre of France when she had only five years old, where she lived with her parents and her 5 brothers till she had 22 years old and get married and come back to Portugal, to live in the capital. She finished her studies and decided to do a course of trade which had a duration of three years. This course have a written part which was realized in a school and a practical which was realized in a shopping centre, Auburn. In this centre she had her first job, where she remained till she come back to Portugal and start working in a bar/restaurant named Taiti. She is hard working, fighter, happy and always ready to risk. Without any doubt she is my idol.

“In the west, you marry the one you love. In the east, we love the one we marry.”

These two sentences portray two types of marriage, the arranged marriage happens in the east and the love marriage happens in the west.
The arranged marriage is the union between two people who do not know each other, a union without love, only for duty. The grooms have no choice, have no opinion about who will share their life. These marriages are often made for economic or religious reasons.
There are still people who agree with this type of union because they think that parents must chose the wife for their sons or the husband for their daughters, its believed that grooms and brides do not have the maturity to make this choice and the parents know what is better for their family.
The love marriage is the union between two people who love each other, who want to share a life and want to be happy with each other. The groom has the right to choose his bride and vice versa.
There are people who believe and defend love marriage, and I am one of them, because a successful marriage only happens if there is respect and affection for the other person, if they want to keep a compromise and love each other.