Aprenda inglês com Harry Potter na Polônia:w88poker

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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 w88poker wizardry.

Students from all over the world have flown in to do w88poker role play in this w88poker makeshift Hogwarts.

Now organisers want to w88poker cast a spell on potential w88poker investors. It's so they can buy their own castle and make this a permanent attraction.

Transcriçãow88pokerportuguês:

Se você pensou que se tratavaw88pokeruma cenaw88pokerum filme da série Harry Potter, acertouw88pokercheio.

Esse castelo na Polônia foi transformado numa escola temporáriaw88pokermagia.

Estudantesw88pokertodas as partes do mundo foram participarw88pokeruma w88poker encenação neste Hogwarts w88poker improvisado.

Agora, os organizadores querem w88poker enfeitiçar potenciais w88poker investidores. Desta forma, eles poderão comprar seu próprio castelo e transformá-lo numa atração permanente.

Vocabulary:

w88poker wizardry - the practice of magic; great skill in a particular area

w88poker role play - pretending to be another person in order to learn something

w88poker makeshift - improvised, pretend

w88poker cast spell - say words which are supposed to have magical powers

w88poker 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.

w88poker 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