one subject of my spoken english class - ILLIGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM MEXICO TO USA Illegal immigrants from Mexico and other countries, included Brazil, crossing the border to the US. I know this is a very hard subject to take a position about, it is controversial. We all know most of them have their needs, they have big and poor families, they didn´t have the opportunity to go to school, and they don´t have anything, but the faith in a better life after crossing the border to the paradise.,Besides this, there are a lot criminals such as" coyote" and others take advantage of the situation and make the things worse.s We know also they are important to the US, because americans have a high level of instruction, so they don´t work in basic jobs, bad-payed jobs . We know in the US we don`t find anymore americans driving taxis, trucks, working at restaurants, and so on. So, these kind of jobs and others have to be done for someone. We know there are a lot of ways to do this, to go to the US under the law. Maybe this people don´t know this way and/or they don´t believe they are able to make it. Once in the US, they don´t have an opportunity to take instructions, to go to school, because they have to work, and will make the level of US´s instructions decrease. So, this is an endless discussion that has to include governments, politicians, people and other authorities to find satisfy all those parts. Personally, I would like to move to USA, but to be one of them, to live there as an american, to improve someway that amazing country they built. It is unfair to go there to get in their way, disturb them.

about my today´s class Today I had an awesome spoken class with a new teacher. She, like me, loves travelling, so we have a lot of subjcets to talk about. As she is from Atlanta and I visited that lovely city two years ago, we had to catch up on things such as, food, schools, music, sighseeings, and so on. I told her that I missed an opportunity to visit the Jimmy Carter museum, because I knew about it just when I was back to Brazil. As Atlanta has the Coca-cola headquater I enjoyed one-day visit there and It was worthy. In the company´s museum they showed the whole history of the company, how it began, the bottles, trucks and the way they used to sell and delivery the products.I could drink for free Coca-cola´s products made worldwide, and I could see a huge and amazing safe where they brag about beeing the place they keep Coco-cola ´s secret. Beeing or not, it awaked our curiosity. I also visited a huge square with a lot of trees, which floor is made by bricks and in each brick there is a name of its sponsor engraved on it. This space was built for the Olimpics games in 1996. Also, I visited CNN center, when I had the opportunity to meet a lot of worldwide famous journalist and knew how they send the news to our houses.I could also enjoy a basketball game in Phillips Arena, a dazzling spectacle which I will not forget, completely different from those we have here in Brazil. Each one has a ticket with a number on it and no one use your seat, Everything is clean and organized, the subway takes people untill very near the stadium and nobody steps on anyone. About the food, I have heard that it is called soul food, because it is delicious and uses to fried everything and butter in the most of the dishes.

what happend today in my spoken english class As always, our class was amazing. The much we talk, the much I learn. We talked about a problem we had last sunday when I lost power, we had a blackout in my hometown and the class was break off, suspended, This often happens here in my country, because the main source of power, energy, is the water,in hidroeletric plant. As we are living in a long period of time without regular rain as we had in the past, lakes are empty, we are living in a dryness, in a drought, Besides that, we have save water in our houses, by reducing the time taking shower, avoid washing sidewakers, doing the loundry outside in private stores, and so on. Each family has to save at least thirty per cent of water or will be fine or will have the supplyment of water cut as punishment. Well done for us, because we didn´t plan anything, we have the habit to postpone decisions, to put it off, thinking that thing, problems will be solved by god or for themselves without efforts. Now we have to pray to god and all saints to send rain to fill the lakes and normalize our situation. Also she taught me the usage of some idioms, such as wine and dine, two peas in a pod, light on you feet, two left feet, blind date.My wife and I will comple twenty five years beeing married, so I will wine and dine her Also, we talked about things we have to do in Brazil in order to clean water, to change the way people are using the the water, and the environment.

about my two last weekends In the easter weekend I went to my sister´s house, which is about 200 kilometers from my hometown. Her fathers-in-law are fighting tooth and nail for their lives, they are hanging on by their fingernails for their lives, and she doesn´t have time to come to my house, because she has to help taking care with them. She has a daughter who, besides been my niece is my goddaughter. So, we had a good time there, had a catchup, drunk some beers, ate a nice food. In the last weekend I went to attend a course to learn how to use my time properly. i was in the place I like to go to practice meditation, with a lot of mountains, valleys, native forest, without tv, internet, cell phone and beverage. The food is vegetarian, organic and produced in the local. It was a time to recharge my mind, my soul and reconect with my essence. So, I took advantages of thouse trips to develop a conversation, using some idioms, phrasal verbs and brush up my pronouciation, to improve my English. I invited my teacher, Taylor, to visit the site: www.brahmakumaris.org - It is not about religion, they take part of UNITED NATIONS for the peace, and they say and I believe we can controll our mind avoiding a lot of sickness, such as stress, depression, anxiety, among others. We started to talk about my whole life, but I lost power, we had a blackout. Next time I would like to keep talking on this subject to learn a lot of new words, to use the verbs in the past tense and to talk how fast the time is running, how fast the world is changing. I´m gonna try to schedule my class to saturday or another time on sunday, because I´m gonna travel on a business trip next sunday afternoon.

about a travel experience Two years ago I went to the US with my wife to visit Texas, Georgia and Florida. In Texas we visited Dallas, we enjoyed all the sightseeing, but the most beautiful was to visit a country stylle city, where there were a lot of stores, restaurants and other places in country stylle, but the most amazing place was Billy Bobs, a large place, as big as quarter or block, nice restaurant, stores, and an unforgetable steak house, a place to country music concert, and large arena where they make rodeos. From there we went to New ORLEANS, and we enjoyed the great music, jazz, the nice spicy food and funny people. The pace and atmosphere of the city are unique, marvelous, and we visit a lot of sightseeings. From there we went to Atlanta, another big city, full of nice atractions to enjoy. The trip from New Orleans and Atlanta itself was amazing, once we travalled by car.. There we visit coca-cola company, CNN tv, and we went to basketball game for the first time. Everything was organized, clean and we could watch the game in peace. From Atlanta we travelled to Miami by car enjoying the perfect roads the have in the US. As we were hungry, we stopped at Dennys to have lunche. We had a tasteful lunche and ordered two apple pine for desert. The waiteress brought one apple pine and one cheescake, both of them delicious. When we ordered the bill, we saw they were charging only one desert. We told the waiteress they had forgotten to charge one desert. She told they didn`t have two apple pine, so they served one chesscake for free. For this and others I love the US. Congratulations, americans. For this kind of actions among other values you built the most powerfull nation of the world in such a small period of time. Keep up, americans, and god bless you all in your way. I would be love to american and be part of thie success.

what happend today in my spoken english class It was another profitable spoken English class. We talked about renting a car, making a reservation at a hotel, solving some problems. We took advantage of this class to practice the usage of phrasal verbs and idioms. We talked about making a reservations at a hotel, making the check in, solving some problems, like when someone is inside a elevator and it stops working. This people has to ask for help to take the baggage to the room, once in the room, this people has to order for extra towels, sheets and pillow case. We talked about some parts of the car, like flat tire, wheel, windshield, windshield wiper, gas pedal, break pedal, traffic lights.She taught me the usage ot the phrasal verbs RUN OUT OF GAS and RUN ON FUMES, when someone is almost without gas in his car. We talked about how to get the driving license in the US. I learned that someone can get a driving permit to drive a car until this person gets the driving lisence. We talked about the bad idea to turn back the car to the renting car company without gas, once touse companies charge a very expensive price for the gas they have to supply the tank. So, it´s better to turn back the car to the renting car companieswith at least he same level of gas you pecked up the car.

My mistakes Dear Robert Simpson, Thank you a lot for correcting my mistakes. I make them all the time. Please, keep up with this helpful work. Cheers Vicente

what happend today in my spoken english class I had very nice spoken english class today. My teach is very nice and know how to keep the student motivated.We talked on phrasal verbs and idioms, my weakest points. She showed pictures of people, things and situations related to the phrasal verb or idiom we were talking about, and it helps me a lot to memorize. I think this is the best way o learn how to use them properly. Once each one of them has a lot of diffrent meanngs.