VIV'S ENGLISH NEWSLETTER

By Viv Quarry. Edition Number 2 The Second of December 1997.

Study English in England with Cicero International - See Viv for information & discount.

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 Here's the xmas edition of the newsletter, including your invitation to the annual xmas drink at the Queen's legs pub in Lagoa (See map below). It will be at 9.00pm on Saturday the 6th of December.

The idea is to have a social evening in which people with a common interest (learning English) and their partners can meet, practice their English - if they want to, and perhaps try their hand at a game of darts!

Try to arrive before 10 o'clock as the darts doubles event will start then. The cover charge is 11 Reais per person with live music later. Please try to tell Viv before Friday 5th if you've said you will come but won't be able to make it as I have reserved a table for us.

What's New?

Did you know that Viv has a library of English books and magazines that you can borrow free of charge? As well as novels for native speakers, I have a range of books with vocabulary adapted for people learning the language. Here are a list of the readers appropriate for Upper Intermediate students:

Of mice and men

(John Steinbeck)

Our mutual friend

(Charles Dickens)

A guide to Britain

The birds & other stories

Daphne Dumaurier

Pride and Prejudice.

(Jane Austen)

Wuthering Heights

(Charlotte Bronte)

The Jacaranda Tree

(H.E. Bates)

The kite and other stories

(W. Somerset Maugham)

Intermediate students:

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

As the inspector said... (Short stories)

The Blue Lagoon

Rip van Winkle.

Sherlock Holmes. (Micheal Dibdin)

If you would like to see the full list of books available, which includes books for other levels, teaching and computing books, just ask Viv.

You can also borrow back issues of the following magazines:

Business Week

Commuter Air

Cosmopolitan

En Route (Air Canada)

Fortune

Good Housekeeping

Highlife (British Airways)

Icaro (Varig)

Marie claire

Newsweek

Speak Up magazines (Globo)

The Economist

Time

Books can be borrowed for up to ONE MONTH, reference books and magazines for ONE WEEK. If you realize that you are not going to be able to finish a book, please return it as soon as possible.

If you're thinking of doing a course in the UK, I have information on schools and prices. Overleaf is the first piece of student's work. I hope to include more in later issues.

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