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Brazil Carnival School Project

Filed under: Ask Us - February 14th, 2006

Your Question

Please could you send me some information on your mardi gras carnivals for a school project in the UK thanks.

Our Reply

We’d be glad to help you with your school project. Unfortunately, however, we don’t have any printed literature, but we do have extensive information about the Brazilian Carnival on our Cities in Brazil website (http://www.cities-in-brazil.com). Below I’ll post some links which may help you with your Brazilian Carnaval project.

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
http://www.cities-in-brazil.com/rio-de-janeiro/rio-carnival.php

Carnival in São Paulo
http://www.cities-in-brazil.com/sao-paulo/sao-paulo-carnival.php

Carnival posts in our Weblog
http://www.cities-in-brazil.com/weblog/index.php?s=carnival
http://www.cities-in-brazil.com/weblog/index.php?s=carnival&paged=2
http://www.cities-in-brazil.com/weblog/index.php?s=carnival&paged=3

Carnival Pictures
http://www.cities-in-brazil.com/gallery/cat4.html

You may also like to use Google to search our entire website for the term ‘carnival’:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.cities-in-brazil.com+carnival

Best of luck with your project!

Teaching English in Brazil

Filed under: Ask Us - February 14th, 2006

Your Question:

I recently applied to complete my student teaching in Rio de Janeiro. If selected, I will be student teaching in an English speaking school. I was just wondering if you could tell me a little bit about a typical Brazilian first grade classroom.

Our Reply:

Well, the typical first grade classroom will obviously be composed of little kids screaming their heads off. Of course I am kidding now because in grade 1 they are still little angels. So, most schools here in Brazil have dress codes. All the kids will be required to wear the same uniform. If you will be teaching english, be prepared for the kids to start off very quiet becasue they are intimidated to speak english, but once they become comfortable, the will most likely be extremely outspoken. Kids here are not quite as polite and respectful as they are in North America. It is most likely that the kids will come from wealthy families as well, because not a lot of people can afford to put their children in english emersion classes due to the expense.

Hope this helps.

Cities in Brazil thanks you for your question.