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Email in Brazil

Dec 30 2010

Though we don’t stop to think about it much, the pace of technology has moved incredibly quickly in the last decade, and it’s funny to think that in our lifetimes, the Internet was a new phenomenon. I recently came across a very funny video, a news report about electronic mail on a Brazilian news channel from 1990. Apparently, it’s the first TV report of its kind in Brazil, and it’s very fun to watch.

Have a look and see if you can answer the questions!

Questions

1. What was the original name for email in Portuguese?

2. What are some of the things you can do with email, according to the report?

3. What did you need to use email?

4. How many people used email in the whole country at the time?

5. How often can you access email, according to the report?

Listening Comprehension – Politics Meets Finance

Posted by polyana No Comments

Apr 26 2010

This year is a presidential election year in Brazil, and I’ve been playing around with this tool that the brokerage firm Souza Barros put together, called BOVAP (Bolsa de Valores Políticos) to help Brazilians learn more about their politicians. Watch the video below to see how it works and then try to answer some of the questions below the video, and let me know what you think of the initiative and if you’d like to play!

1. What popular notion is BOVAP trying to end?

2. What market’s logic does the tool use?

3. What do you buy and sell on BOVAP?

4. What is the currency the tool uses called?

Answers after the break

Reading Comprehension: Internet Dating

Posted by Rachel No Comments

Mar 24 2010

For today’s reading comprehension, we’re going to read a BBC Brasil article about an indigenous couple who met on the Internet.

Casal indígena se conhece na internet

Excerpt: “O casal Gasodá Suruí e Maria Leonice, ou Tori Tupari, seu nome indígena, se conheceu pela Internet e até casou pela rede. Eles são um exemplo de como as novas tecnologias estão permeando a vida dos povos indígenas no Brasil. “Muita gente não acredita em internet, eles acham que é uma ilusão”, diz Tori.”

Read the full article here

There’s also a neat little video with parts of the interview from the article, so you can watch that, too: