Business English Glossary - Termos Essenciais de Business English em uma prática planilha revisada e atualizada (2009)

O 'Glossário de Termos de Negócios' contém mais de 5.500 palavras e expressões essenciais que abrangem todos os aspectos do mundo dos negócios, incluindo mercado de ações, comércio internacional, direito, contabilidade e marketing. A planilha é prática e fornece um vocabulário especializado para empresários, executivos, estudantes e tradutores, úteis para a comunicação do dia-a-dia no trabalho e nas viagens internacionais.

É uma ferramenta essencial para todos aqueles que utilizam o inglês no trabalho e necessitam de uma resposta rápida para termos nem sempre ensinados em cursos regulares e/ou livros didáticos.

Alguns termos: fundo de renda fixa, taxa de câmbio flutuante, ação de despejo, carta precatória de citação e penhora... todos os termos e expressões em português com suas respectivas traduções/definições ao lado.


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Business English Tips >>>> Dicas de estudo para o inglês de negócios

Learning Business English


Business English Exercises
http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html
Over 130 exercises related to business English.

Business English Podcast ( Practice your listening! )
http://www.businessenglishpod.com/
Learn English with free business English MP3 podcasts. Each podcast covers useful language for all types of business situations and language skills.

Biz/ed
http://www.bized.ac.uk/

"Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers." Their Internet Catalogue has extensive worldwide links. The list of web sites and other resources are mostly oriented to the British academic community.

Business Help Page by Ruth Vilmi
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/BusinessHelp/

Business Meetings
http://www.stir.ac.uk/celt/staff/higdox/Vallance/Diss/fp.htm

Business Meetings has been designed for students who wish to review English structures associated with business meetings. It is a hypertext program that takes the form of a decision maze.

p://www.formavision.com/ellis/Series.htm">Ellis Business Series with information in English and
Ellis Business Series with information in French
an award-winning product worth looking at.

Internet-Based Projects for Business English
http://aei.uoregon.edu/esp/
Kay Westerfield and Leslie Opp-Beckman have a gold mine of a site. Not to be missed! Behind terminology, projects and resources, you'll be surfing for weeks. Excellent resource.

Tips for Business Writing
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/LangHelp/Writing/index.html
in Ruth Vilmi's extensive site
Dictionaries and Glossaries


Dictionnaires et Ressources | Dictionaries & Other Resources
http://www.volterre-fr.com/dictionnaires.html
In Volterre-Fr
Magazines, Newspapers & Online Media


Newspapers Online in France & Worldwide
http://www.volterre-fr.com/newspapers.html
in Volterre-Fr

CNN Financial News
http://cnnfn.com/
Business Resources


WebEc
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/WebEc.html
Web Virtual Library: Economics. "WebEc is an effort to categorize free information on economics on the WWW." A pretty huge collection of information!

Stock Market Yellow Pages
http://www.StockMarketYellowPages.com/
This site allows you to search for public companies based upon their descriptions.
Professional Organizations


BESIG
http://www.besig.org/
BESIG, the Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL, is a professional body representing the interests and serving the needs of the international business English teaching community. BESIG's members are mainly teachers of Business English and include both native and non-native speakers of English.

TESOL
http://www.tesol.org/
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages - TESOL

Alexander Vieira
www.alexandervieira.com.br

English Learning Tips and Ideas for the Coming New Year >>>> Dicas para o seu inglês em 2009

English Learning Tips and Ideas for the New Year
Key Tips for Your New English Learning Year

Making New Year Resolutions is a common tradition at the end of the year. Here are a number of great tips to help you improve your English learning in the coming New Year. Choose a few tips for your own English New Year's Resolution.

Learning Tips
Ask yourself weekly: What do I want to learn this week?Asking yourself this question every week will help you stop and think for a moment about what is most important to you. It is easy to focus only on the current unit, grammar exercise, etc. If you take a moment to stop and set a goal for yourself every week, you will notice the progress you are making and, in turn, become more inspired by how quickly you are learning English! You will be surprised at how this feeling of success will motivate you to learn even more English.
More on how to improve your general approach to learning English

Quickly review important new information shortly before going to bed.
Research has shown that our brains process information that is fresh in our brains while we sleep. By shortly (this means very quickly - just a glance at what you are working on at the moment) going over some exercise, reading, etc. before you go to sleep, your brain will work away on this information while you sleep!
Other ideas on how your brain works

While doing exercises and alone at home or in your room, speak English aloud.
Connect the muscles of your face to the information in your head. Just as understanding the basics of tennis does not make you a great tennis player, understanding grammar rules does not mean you can automatically speak English well. You need to practice the act of speaking often. Speaking by yourself at home and reading the exercises you are doing will help connect your brain to your facial muscles and improve pronunciation and make your knowledge active.
More on improving your English speaking/pronunciation abilities

Do five to ten minutes of listening at least four times a week.
In the past, I decided I needed to get fit and went jogging - usually three or four miles. Well, after not having done anything for many months, those three or four miles really hurt! Needles to say, I did not go jogging for another few months!
Learning to understand spoken English well is very similar. If you decide that you going to work hard and listen for two hours, chances are that you will not do extra listening exercises any time soon. If, on the other hand, you start off slowly and listen often, it will be easier to develop the habit of listening to English on a regular basis.

More on improving your listening skills
Look for situations in which you must speak / read / listen to English
This is probably the most important tip. You need to use English in a "real world" situation. Learning English in a classroom is important, but putting your English knowledge into practice in real situations will improve your fluency in speaking English. If you do not know of any "real life" situation, create new ones for yourself by using the Internet to listen to news, write English responses in forums, exchange emails in English with email pals, etc.
More on English on the Internet


By Kenneth Beare
ESL Guide

Christmas Vocabulary

In most of Brazil, Christmas is a family celebration and it carries the European traditions, particularly from Portugal, brought by the Jesuits. Between December 24th and January 6th, there is an event in the most traditional regions called Folia de Reis, which consist in processions through the city singing Christmas carols for the "Menino-Deus" (The "Baby Jesus") and the Three Kings.

However, in most of the southern cities, as well as in the largest cities of the Southeastern Region, like São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte the celebrations resemble in many ways the traditions in Northern Europe and North America, with the Christmas Tree, the exchanging of gifts and Christmas cards, the decoration of houses and buildings with electric lights and the Nativity Scene. In some cities like Curitiba, there are some decoration contests, when judges go to some houses to look at the decoration, inside or outside of the house, and decide the most beautiful house. The Christmas Eve is the most important day. In the midnight between December 24 and December 25, the churches celebrate the "Missa do Galo" (the Rooster's Mass).

CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY

advent: the arrival of someone or something important

Advent: the coming (or second coming) of Jesus Christ; the month leading up to Christmas

angel: a spiritual being acting as a messenger of God (usually shown as a human being with wings)

berry: a small round fruit

Bethlehem: the small town in the Middle East believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ

candle: a cylinder of wax with a central wick (like string) which burns to produce light

chimney: a vertical pipe in a house that allows smoke and gases to escape from a fireplace (Father Christmas traditionally enters a house through its chimney)

Christ the title of Jesus (also used as His name)

Christian: a person who believes in Christianity; also an adjective

Christianity: the religion based on the teachings and person of Jesus Christ

Christmas: the annual Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas Day is on 25 December)

Christmas cake: a rich fruit cake covered with white icing, eaten at Christmas

Christmas card: a greetings card that people send to friends and family at Christmas

Christmas carol: a religious song or popular hymn that people sing at Christmas

Christmas Day: 25 December, the birthday of Jesus Christ

Christmas Eve: the evening or day before Christmas Day (24 December)

Christmas holidays: the holiday period for about a week before and after Christmas Day

Christmas present: a gift or present given at Christmas

Christmas tree: an evergreen tree (often a spruce) that people decorate with lights and ornaments at Christmas

cracker: a decorated paper tube that makes a sharp noise ("crack!") and releases a small toy when two people pull it apart

decoration: something that adds beauty; ornament

egg-nog: a traditional Christmas drink made of alcohol with beaten eggs and milk

Father Christmas: an imaginary being who brings presents for children on the night before Christmas Day (also known as Santa Claus) - traditionally an old man with a red suit and white beard

fireplace: a partly enclosed space in a house where people light a fire for warmth
frankincense a gum used for incense, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus

gold: a yellow precious metal, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus

holly: an evergreen plant with prickly dark green leaves and red berries

Jesus: the name of Christ, the central figure of Christianity (believed by Christians to be the Son of God)

Joseph: the husband of Mary (the mother of Jesus)

magi: the wise men from the East who brought gifts for the baby Jesus

manger: a trough for food for horses or cattle (used by Mary as a cradle or bed for Jesus)

Mary: the mother of Jesus

mistletoe: a parasitic plant with white berries, traditionally used as a Christmas decoration

myrrh: a gum used for perfume or incense, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus

nativity: the birth of a person

the Nativity: the birth of Jesus Christ

nativity play: a play that people perform at Christmas based on the birth of Jesus
new year the start of a year; the period just before and after 1 January

New Year's Day: 1 January

New Year's Eve: 31 December

ornament: an object that adds beauty to something; a decoration
present a thing given to somebody as a gift.

reindeer: a deer with large antlers found in some cold climates (believed to pull the sleigh for Santa Claus or Father Christmas)

Santa Claus: an imaginary being who brings presents for children on the night before Christmas Day (also known as Father Christmas) - traditionally an old man with a red suit and white beard

shepherd: a person who looks after sheep

sleigh: a sledge or light cart on runners pulled by horses or reindeer over snow and ice

snow: water vapour from the sky that falls as white flakes and covers the ground
star a bright point in the night sky which is a large, distant incandescent body like the sun

the star of Bethlehem: the star that announced the birth of Jesus and guided the wise men to find Him

tinsel: a decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil, traditionally used at Christmas

turkey: a bird like a large chicken, traditionally eaten at Christmas

White Christmas: a Christmas with snow on the ground

Xmas: abbreviation or informal term for Christmas

Christmas Expressions

Merry Christmas!
Happy Christmas
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Wishing you a prosperous New Year
All the best for the coming year
Seasons Greetings!





sources: wikipedia and englishclub