Lesson 10 The city of Lisbon is too noisy.

Currently the neighbourhoods are far from being considered silent due to intense car traffic. Consequently noise levels already approaching the limits humanly allowed. In certain areas of the capital and certain hours, the noise surpasses even what the human being can consent in terms of health, fact that is pre occupy the air quality and noise, dependent on the Directorate-General for the environment. According to a study prepared in Lisbon, it was proved that the path of Light is one of the noisier areas where, during rush hour in the morning (from 08:00 to 9:30), noise reaches the 81.7 decibels. Since, as we all know, noise levels exceeding 80 decibels can affect health, noise pollution is now a priority subject for the Secretary of State for environment. Agnes: it is impossible to have lessons in this room. The noise from the street is so much that I can't concentrate. Ricardo: I can't! I think we should tell professor for him trying to change the room. John: the problem is that we're going to have another test tomorrow and I get nervous just thinking about the confusion of traffic and horns in this Avenue. Agnes: there is evidence that noise levels in the city of Lisbon, are approaching the limits humanly allowed. Richard: and we, students, we were harmed. We at midterms, we're all exhausted and on top of that, we have to endure this deafening noise. John: what's worse is that our health may be affected. Lesson 9 Stress has been one of the most talked about diseases of the twentieth century. In an increasingly competitive society , in which all require a lot of themselves and the other , people live under stress . It is known that a large number of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes , ulcers , nervous depressions are caused by stress The way the work affects our way of life is very important. THE most people spend more time at work than at home, with the family. In fact, we spent about 100,000 hours of our lives at the place of job. When the work is particularly causing stress, there are some factors that should be considered. For example, improving lighting, reduce the noise and confusion, (re) decorate the workplace. However, it is good to seek solutions to alleviate or even avoid the stress. Hobbies, vacations and sports are healthy forms of relaxation that aju dam people to distract the mind and see the problems differently.

Dr. Vazquez: I'm so tired Today. I think I need a vacation, at least one weekend out of town. D. Helena: you gotta be careful, Alfonso. The doctor told you that you have to rest more and slow down the pace of work. In addition, you have dedicated very little time to the family since you agreed to this new position. Dr. Vazquez: Look who's talking! Your work has absorbed almost by 12:0 am day! D. Helena: what an exaggeration! But I'm different. Can I be depressed during a couple of days, but after a good night's sleep I'm fresh as a lettuce. You, not. You're angry, with headaches and you lose sleep, what sucks. Dr. Vazquez: Finally! Are the problems of modern life. . Lesson 8 It is no longer necessary to leave Lisbon to live a nice hot day. Aqua park in the heart of Alto Restelo, young people, and not only have a good opportunity to have fun, without having to be hours in endless queues traffic to cross the bridge over the Tagus River. The new water park capital is undoubtedly a different world. There we found a wide range of entertainments: swimming pools, water slides, waterfalls and fast, not to mention restaurants and terraces. And all this is excited with games, prizes and surprises. Are provided, yet, beyond the existing amusements, festivals music and other initiatives that the Ministry of Youth has been promoting. Silva: Lately I've been working too much. See you there I spent the entire weekend, here in the Office, putting things in order. Vilar: have you been looking tired. Silva: and I'm really tired. But what about your weekend? Vilar: look, yesterday we went for a ride for Malveira and I can't tell you how I enjoyed that fresh country air. The contrast with the city air is huge. Silva: really is and Lisbon is by far less polluted than most European capitals. Vilar: You defended by large lung that is Monsanto, in addition to the small lungs such as Campo Grande, in the heart of Lisbon. Silva: speaking of Monsanto, I'd like to take the kids to the new water park. Then Yes, people have fun away from the noise and pollution. Vilar: and you could very well!

Lesson 7 Lisbon has for some time two new stars. This is a couple Miami Dolphins who, along with his team of handlers, was assigned for two years to our Zoo. Despite the climatic differences. Sissy and Flipper as well call themselves artists, are already well adapted to their new home to their new

neighbors-the seals who rub elbows daily in a magnificent water spectacle that is filling the Portuguese public measures. As we all know, dolphins are smarter animals of our plane ta. Their stunts always attract large numbers of visitors to zoos or aquariums and especially children are always delighted to see the views These mammals: give jumps into the air, play basketball and even sing and dance for the spectators. However, there is evidence that life in captivity, in addition to not be very fun, can bring different problems. In fact, the dolphins live in Sin US tanks and often suffer from heart and infectious diseases. Lena: they gave us tickets to get the kids from daycare to the Zoo. Grace: and we also have tickets for dolphins? I hear it's very interesting. Lena: we have, we have. So you have to call to make sure what days is that There are show. Grace: and how do you match? Lena: rent a truck. So we can spend the afternoon, you get a snacks for kids: make a sandwich and it takes milk. Free: daycare is already informed? Lena: Yes, I talked to the Director who was very enthusiastic. Is marked a meeting for tomorrow with the educators of childhood. lesson 6 When he was Mayor of Lisbon, Nuno Abecasis said in interview the newspaper "Expresso", about the project from the top of the Lumiar, who confessed to be your great adventure in Lisbon "and his second in the world:" I did Cahora Bassa ", recalled. The former President said he wanted to end the slums we shame-"because it is not who was going to live to be ashamed of," he said. The Mayor also said that they were called sociologists to work in project, because it is not only to give a home to the inhabitants of the areas degraded, but rather restore its human dignity. "We also know that We are creating a new development within the city and that, therefore, must be generated new jobs. Thus, the Secretariat of State of the Work has already been contacted to promote accelerated courses in Alto do Lumiar. " This is a long-term work: sixteen years of construction are planned.

Lena: it is very difficult to our work here in the neighborhood. Are very poor people, of low level social and that the first contact talk to us with two stones in his hand.

Teresa: in fact is this slum will be completely destroyed the medium and all these people have to be relocated.

Lena: and we can't limit ourselves to give a home to the inhabitants of the areas degraded.

Teresa: of course not. Our role is to restore their human dignity. I Think the Chamber has hired sociologists to form a team with us.

Lena: and I need a whole set of social infrastructure, such as markets, libraries and educational establishments. It should not be forgotten that children also somehow will be rehomed. Teresa: Yes. This implies the construction of kindergartens, primary schools, Preparatory and secondary.

Lesson 5 Millions of years ago a volcanic region eruption brought out an island in the ocean Atlantic. Its humid climate and warm gave rise to a lush vegetation. In the 14th century, after the journey of d. Afonso IV, the Portuguese were aware of the existence of the island. However, just after the official discovery by John Gonalves Zarco and Tristo Vaz Teixeira is that the Islands became known. Zarco and Vaz Teixeira discovered Porto Santo island first. The two browsers had gone to the coast of the port of salvation during a violent storm in 1418, which led them to baptize the island with the name of Porto Saint. After a year sailed to another island, also deserted. Landed in Machico and gave his discovery the name of Madeira Island, due to the dense forests that covered. In order to cultivate the land, burned all the trees and it is said that the island was on fire for seven years, as a fire in the middle of the sea.

Lesson 1 Nuno: Already we arrived, father? Dr. Viar. Already. Now we go the remaining portion of the way the foot. D. Helena: there on that corner was the Caf Central. Remember Afonso? . Vilar. Of course remembers. We passed there the nights and to the bottom there was a bandstand where played the band of the village and where they were made the Sunday popular dances became They had balls and everything!!! It was a well developed village! You do not enjoy with our distractions. It looks at that everyone had fun immense. We put ours better clothes and we went to dance. We danced inside for the night, we made marches and we sang.it Was how I met your father . Dr. Vilar. It is true. It had your mother fifteen years and I had seventeen. Ins: And could the girls be up to afternoon in the street? D. Helena: Well, not always. But on holidays and on day of party in the village the grandparents they were not objecting. Dr. Vilar. Besides, it was a small way and everyone was knowing herself. They were good times, it adopts. Dr. Vilar. Moreover, it was a small way to everyone was known. They were good times, daughter.

Lesson 2
D. Helena was born in a village and there she lived till seventeen years. she was living with the parents and it was studying in Viseu. Every morning she was catching the van for the city and only was returning to the end of the day, because after the classrooms she was giving tutions to the kids of primary. she was earning some money that it was guarding to complete the trousseau thing what at that time was sacred. At weekends the monotony was broken: popular dances were done, where it was touching the band of the village, and vine people of other nearby lands. In that from these weekends, Dr. Vilar, who in the height was walking in an internal college also in the North, and one group of friends resolved to go to one of these Sunday dances. From there they were resulting flirts between the girls of the village and the boys of the college. Normally they were ephemeral relationships, but there was one that was maintained and even gave in marriage: it of D. Helena With Dr. Afonso Vilar.

Lesson 2-1 Nuno: good afternoon. We are journalists and we'd like to visit the Harbour and ask a few questions to fishermen. Mr. Antnio: Ah! So is the gentlemen that I was expecting. Please following me. They wanted to take pictures, wasn't it? Nuno: Yes, Yes. George: and I needed to interview some fishermen to complete the

reportage. Mr. Antnio: o Manell Shows the facilities here to the continent. Jorge: despite taking a very hard life, gentlemen are fishermen long ago, right? 1 . fisherman: look, I was seven years old when I started to go to sea with the My father. 2 fisherman: because it is almost all we started early and then ... It's something that We are in the blood, you know. 1 . fisherman: it is a hard life. Formerly was still worse. We didn't have a so modern fleet. 2 fisherman: Moreover there was so much information not so much instruction as There are now. George: I mean that nowadays to be fishermen must take a course? 2 . fisherman: we go to school and learn a lot. 1 fisherman: and now there's these schools fit for specific training. 2 fisherman: Oh ofcoursel the boys will be better prepared for the sea. Is not as before, we didn't know anything.

Lesson 3 Nuno and Jorge were in the Madeira to do a report on the activity of the island's fishing. While the Nuno took photographs of the port and the boats, Jorge Interviewed some fishermen who were working there. In addition to tourism and agriculture, fishing is another means of survival for the Madeira. One of the most important fish to the island is the Black Sword. This fish is in the great depths between 800 and 1600 meters deep and you can only catch it in two places in the world: in the seas surrounding the Madeira and close to Japan. Allied to this activity is another very tasty: the local cuisine. One of the dishes more delicious and typical of the island are precisely the black scabbard fish fillets.

Lesson 3-1 In the editorial staff of the newspaper in Lisbon Nuno: good morning, Pedro. Here we are back. Chief Editor: Yes, but with one day of delay in the date We had a deal. Jorge: we had some problems with the photographs I We had taken in the port of Cmara de Lobos. Nuno: how it was necessary to repeat part of the work on following, we could only go to Porto Santo on Tuesday. Jorge: There, the port guard told us that fishermen who they had been talking with us had not yet arrived. I had gone to the sea and just returned from morning. Nuno: However we had to postpone the return flight to Funchal And Chief Editor: ready, ready. Are excused. Let's take a look at that job. You must leave in the supplement(addition) of next week. Lesson 4 Grandmother: Hello, my son. Give me a kiss, When did you come back? Nuno: I just arrived, I haven't even been home yet. Grandmother: and so the story went well? Nuno: This first phase is a bit tiring, but very interesting. Already We're doing this job since January and at the end of the month we have to

Go back. Well, Grandma, but tell me, how old are you. Fifty? Grandmother: Now, don't play. I walked into the club of the seventy. Nuno: so here's this little gift. It's just a memory, because you already know that I'm always empty pocket. Grandmother: Why'd you spend money on me, son? Your presence is that Account. Nuno: thanks, Grandma. But where are the others? I haven't seen them in two Months. Grandmother: the Ins is in college and your parents never come home before Of 18:30. Nuno: we had dinner at home or lets celebrate your birthday somewhere? Grandmother: Eat at home. I own I prepared dinner and your MOM just brings a cake. Nuno: I'm glad. There's no place like Grandma's cooking and restaurants I am Fed up. Lesson 4-1

Nuno's mother and Agnes was doing tidying up in the storeroom, when found some letters of the time in that still dated Dr. Alfonso Vilar. This, in time, He attended a boarding school famous for trying to impose its discipline Students. D. Helena decided to recall some steps of those letters. In the morning we got up at six o'clock. Make the beds, clean the clothes and let's take a shower. After we went down to the 1 floor where the mess hall. We have breakfast almost in complete silence and then go to the Chapel of the school and saw the mass of seven. At eight o'clock start classes and we don't stop at noon for lunch. In the afternoon we do gymnastics and around five till seven o'clock we were at the library: we study, consult books, but We can't talk. ' Lesson 5 Nuno: and remember when I and Ins did tantrum(made a scene Jhallahat) because we didn't want to eat soup? Mother: I remember very well, Nuno. They were finishing by eating it by force, otherwise not they were going out from the table. Father: That's right. They were always making a few lovely scenes. Your grandmother does not happy to put up with. Ins: The grandparents are lovely, aren't they? Grandmother: I wonder how it will be with you. Look what it takes a lot of patience and way to deal with children. Nuno: Never again I forgot what the Ins was doing when she was sleepy. Ins: what? Go, says speak on Nuno: get them the cushion and your handkerchief, would lie on the floor and were thus the rub it on her nose all this time. ins: and you? You had suckling (stanpan karna) till five years. What a shame! Grandmother: so, kids. Don't be angry. Now I will tell you what your father used to do as a boy.