Arquivo do Autor: marcoscarvalho

Writing about education in your country

TOPIC
A friend is considering moving to your country to study. Write a paragraph
explaining a bit about education in your country. What is an important
trend? What's typical? What's your position on these ideas?

The education in Brazil goes through terrible problems.
First, the government's expected that education in Brazil solve alone.
Second, the teacher training is very weak, beyond their low wages. Everyone
in the country is concerned about have children or not. The private school
are really expensive and all are geared for college entrance. Students from
public school suffer from neglect and constant strikes. The best
universities are public and you should be prepared for those problems
mentioned and run out other ways to complete your degree.
I'll help you!! Come here!

Writing about your hopes and dreams

Hello Mom, Tammy and I dream to work from home. I hope that it will happen
in the next few months because I'll be named for the positions that I
applied for in a selection some days ago.
All employees in this company work from their homes. Working from home,
makes people happier and more motivated because of a series of advantages.
After that, I can return to Goiania/Brazil and stay near to you. I really
want to go back.
When I was there last month, I saw you, Mariana and my mother in law were
very cheerful. It made me very happy and sometimes I think I'm being unfair
to not go back.

Writing about tv in your country

In my country, there are too many channels from other countries on TV.
Almost all of these channels are from the US and of course, bring all
violence together.
The Brazilian government created a law to have some Brazilian program for
the wider audience on all channels. If we didn't do this, we'd watch only
programs coming from abroad countries.
I feel strongly that despite cooking shows, some TV companies have been
seeing that need to change your program grid to raise their audience. They
are creating educational programs. The cartoons has been improving too.
After Netflix, some channels are decreasing the number of commercials and
it's help a lot. It's a lot of horrible information.

Responding to a job advertisement

Hi Josh,
My name is Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira.
I'm from Brazil and I'm writing in response to your computer programmer
opportunity.
I'm system analyst in Telefonica and I've been working for 8 years. I have
a high experience in Java Technology. I've developing through Spring, SOA
and Restful Services.
I don't have problem to change of my country and my family would like to
change to another country for improve our lives. I'm married and I have a
daughter. My English is good but I've working to improve it.
If you have any doubt about me, you can ask me. I'm available for interview
anytime.
I have attached my CV to this email.
Regards,
Marcos

Achieving your goals

Vocabulary:
travel around the world, write a novel, run a marathon, make a lot of
money, work from home, learn to dance.

Now give each of these people advice.
You can always take singing lessons.
Have you thought about doing volunteer work?

What is your dream for the future?

Correct phrases to use:
In my childhood, my dream was to be famous.
My dream is to open my own business.
To speak a language better and have the opportunity to work abroad.

Brain It On

"Brain It On" is an excellent puzzle game for mobile phones.
The main goal is to draw shapes to solve challenging physics puzzles. For example, if you draw a ball at the top of the screen, this ball will fall and jump until be stable. So, you need draw something that will solve the problem fast and with the least possible designs.
When you reach the goal, you pass to another more difficult level. It's an extremely addictive game! When you start play this game, you will want to go through all the stages as quickly as possible.
Let's play together!
Download the game!

Writing a Short Business Proposal

The current problems are applications made by software factory.

The responsible know how their applications should work and the factory wants to charge us to do knowledge transfer. I am proposing to write how the flow should work through business analyst, select some developers and when have new demands, these developers spent some time to learn that.
The biggest disadvantage is to spent more time than real, but even with knowledge transfer, we will have problems with that.
So, what do you think is better for us?
Go ahead and do that?

Best regards,
Marcos

Summarizing a Networking Event

Hi everyone. I just returned from QConSP 2016.

The event was a success. There were many people with interesting ideas about how build up monolithic applications. Most prefer to break into smaller applications, to have better defined responsibilities. I agree too and I made some great contacts to help us.

But the focus of the moment is machine learning. Everyone is learning that, to implement in their company. I think we could look for this and see where we could implement this. Who knows, automated call center?

I will make a presentation to show you the news.

Best regards,

Marcos

Proposing a Solution to a Work Issue

I've been working for a telecom company in Brazil. It was bought buy another giant telecom company and merger has caused a big problem. The headquarters is in São Paulo but the rest of company in Curitiba and I felt bad with your conditions. A solution was show service. Some workers were fired but people who weren't fired did excellent work. Integrate the systems and show that your process is better than the headquarters. People continue to be upset, but now, things will be different.

Accidents and Injuries

A cyclist here in Curitiba, Brazil, was riding his bicycle in a street exclusive for buses. He didn't noticed that 2 buses would meet and when he noticed, he tried to pass between them. But the rear wheel caught him and bruised him. After that, he was taken to hospital and he moderately injured. I am shocked about that. This street has a lot of buses and there are a lot of cyclist who ride there. This street section has an exclusive lane for bicycles and people do not respect it yet.

Advising on a Website Design Spec

Dear client,

I have just received information regarding your website design spec. But I have some doubts yet.
I understand that our main goal is to increase the business.
First we would like show a description product in a new page. One page for each product, being that these pages should have some images.
Second, a new page for 60-day money-back guarantee, describe how works and added value that clients have. Contact page and finally, create a main page well interactive for users have better navigation possible.
I would like create a page with testimonials too. How do you prefer this page? Connected with the products or branded? So, we achieve in the end a client with more interest in your products.
What do you think? Is this you expected?
It's important include some keywords in a website code. When people use search engine tools, show your products in the first of the list.
Please, let me know if you have any questions. Our company want achieve your interest in all points.
If you have any new suggestions, this is the moment.

Thanks,
Marcos

Summary of week’s meeting.

Orlei said we have three new projects to work on.
First, Alcatel, that Marcellus will work on.
Second is Sophia, where Marcos will be a system architect and his goal is to help the software factory.
Last, Heverton should discover about the Victoria Project. Heverton said that Victoria Project should change the way of inventory equipment. But has anyone written about requisites for that.

Action Item:
Heverton should discover and write requisites in wiki for anyone that would like to read.
Marcos should contact the factory to know how many people will work in the project.
Marcellus should finish his job as soon as possible to change the project.
Thanks
Marcos

Complimenting People on Their Outfits

My style is definitely casual outfit. I have just this type of clothes. I like to feel well. Nothing too tight and too flashy. But I feel handsome with this clothes. My wife loves when I put a wonderful, new, navy blue, cotton polo t-shirt. I always wear with jeans and a nice casual shoes. In Brazil, there's no problem to go with casual clothes to work. Of course, better go with new clothes. If you be a manager, you need go with social clothes.

The Do-Over

I just saw 'The Do-Over'. It's Adam Sandler's new movie, made in 2016 and was directed by Steven Brill. The film tells story about two friends that are unhappy their lives. They decide to fake their own deaths and start over with new identities. These new identities were dead people and they try resolve the case. The story is very confused. This movie was the worst movie that I watched in Netflix.

Talking About a Relationship

When Tammy entered in high school, I was monitor of her class. I helped new students understand how CEFET works. I remember when I saw her. She was wonderful, tall, and had a beautiful laugh. I wanted to get to know her. But Tammy's colleague was interest in me. She thought that her colleague was crazy. After that, we started to get closer. We always talked and Tammy met my friends. Before we started dating, I dated a friend for a short period of time and Tammy realized that she loves me! We are together today, after 13 years. We have a wonderful daughter that is 1 year and 6 months old and we are very happy.

Marcos

Summarizing Decisions

I live near the Atlantic Forest. Always I can, I go there to feel the pure air of wildlife. It's amazing. You can go hiking or riding bicycle. Itupava trail is the best choice for you that want to know there. The trail was opened by the Indians and after that, became an important way to carry on things to the Port of Paranagua. The trail was made of rocks and there are a lot of falls to see and visit. Beyond the view is be wonderful. You will like it!

Marcos

Letting Someone Know You’ve Arrived

When I lived in Brasilia, Brazil, I've always visited Chapada dos Veadeiros. There is a great place to visit. There are wonderful falls. One of the ways of Chapada has eleven falls to see. The water is very cold, but the weather is very hot. So, take waterfall bath become the best thing you can do. Valley of the Moon is the best known attraction of Veadeiros. The river São Miguel runs between huge granite rocks carved. It looks like are lunar craters. The city has special climate. People use light clothes and there are bars that play reggae music. I need return there.

Marcos

Describing a Vacation

June 3
Hello Marina? How are you and your family? I hope well. I was in Curitiba and there is amazing. There are a lot of wonderful places. The city is famous because their parks. People are fun and polite. The food is delicious, but what I delighted was floor rib. I waited for rib about 5 hours, but it was offset every minute. I hope come back soon.
Love, Marcos

Giving Details About Someone’s Life

I was born in 1985. I grew up in Brasilia, Brazil. When I was a teenager, my family moved to Goiânia because our parents live there. In high school I met Tammy. I fell in love and we are together today. We married in 2012 and Tammy got pregnant in 2014. That year was born a little, beautiful, wonderful daughter. Her name is Mariana. She was born on December 16th, 2014. I graduated from high school when I was 19. In 2011, Tammy and I moved to Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. We live here now and I work at Telefonica. I graduated from University this year and I already start Post-Graduate in Software Engineering Agile. Now I studying English for new positions for my life.
May 30, 2016

Enjoy
Marcos Carvalho