Aprenda inglês com Harry Potter na Polônia:sportbet365

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If you thought this was like a scene from the Harry Potter movies then you'd be right.

This castle in Poland has been transformed into a temporary college of sportbet365 wizardry.

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Now organisers want to sportbet365 cast a spell on potential sportbet365 investors. It's so they can buy their own castle and make this a permanent attraction.

Transcriçãosportbet365português:

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Vocabulary:

sportbet365 wizardry - the practice of magic; great skill in a particular area

sportbet365 role play - pretending to be another person in order to learn something

sportbet365 makeshift - improvised, pretend

sportbet365 cast spell - say words which are supposed to have magical powers

sportbet365 investors - people who give money to commercial ventures in expectation of making a profit

Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

sportbet365 wizardry / role play / makeshift / cast a spell / investors

1. A man accused of plotting to kill the adoptive parents of a friend he met on the internet told a court it was just "__________".

2. Dressed in his white witch robes, he will make a circle of stones and burn incense while __________ invoking earth, air, fire and water.

3. A shopkeeper in New Delhi is doing his bit to help raise children out of poverty by setting up a __________ school underneath a railway bridge.

4. The Dubai development is 15 minutes from a golf course and the sea and half an hour from the busiest international airport in the world.

In 2007 __________ put down tens of thousands of dollars but have so far received nothing.

5. Younger audiences are targeted with productions like The Magic Flute which combines opera and animation, and the superb National theatre of Scotland show Dragon which uses puppetry and other __________ to tell a universal tale.

Answers:

Source: Double death plot was “role play” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8166090.stm

2. Dressed in his white witch robes, he will make a circle of stones and burn incense while casting a spell invoking earth, air, fire and water.

Source: White witch to tempt Nessie http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/2981386.stm

3. A shopkeeper in New Delhi is doing his bit to help raise children out of poverty by setting up a makeshift school underneath a railway bridge.

Source: The makeshift school helping India’s poorest children http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21507893

4. The Dubai development is 15 minutes from a golf course and the sea and half an hour from the busiest international airport in the world.

In 2007 investors put down tens of thousands of dollars but have so far received nothing.

Source: Amid fears of more bubble trouble, who’d buy in Dubai? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31988871

5. Younger audiences are targeted with productions like The Magic Flute which combines opera and animation, and the superb National theatre of Scotland show Dragon which uses puppetry and other wizardry to tell a universal tale.

Source: Edinburgh International Festival woos a younger audience http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-31945062