Ancrispa: Diário de Bordo

Ancrispa 9 55
Correction: (four years and a half to be more precise)

I needed an adjective and not an adverb there... :oops:
COMO COMBINAR PALAVRAS EM INGLÊS
Nesta aula, o professor Denilso de Lima, autor do livro "Combinando Palavras em Inglês", ensina como as collocations (combinações de palavras) podem ajudar você a falar inglês com mais naturalidade. ACESSAR AULA
PPAULO 6 49 1.3k
Don´t sweat the small thing, Ana. And you should not be worried about being no spring chicken at the time, because it´s never late (or early) to learn something.
Your English going from strength to strength, and if someone say otherwise, please let me know and we will throw the book at him! ;)
I am proud of you, Marcio, Cinnamon, Marcelo, and the list would go on and on... Really, you guys have learned a lot, one can see from your sharing, interactions, and writings.
Your feedbacks and participation have been relevant, this only improves the learning network that is what the Forum is.
Not to mention that you have an eye for detail, a fresh enthusiasm, and very good perception and critical skills! I am happy we have lots of people like this here, the right sort of learner. That can read critically and with a newfound competence to communicate about your own experiences with English.
Here goes a collective congrats to you all.
Ancrispa 9 55
PPaulo
Thank you for your words.

At this point, I think I’ll venture to give my candid opinion on this matter.

I don’t know how to level up my English anymore. I’m deeply unmotivated.

It seems my passion has gone away.



It’s no one else’s fault but mine.
PPAULO 6 49 1.3k
Whoa! Chill out my buddy, your English is good and you know that!
All and each of us have our "plateau" times, in wich we think we are not making progress (or that we won´t make progress, don´t matter what.)
Not so. Make approachable goals, go there, and compare you with you (not others) from months ago, years ago. And don´t be so hard on yourself.
Studying English have to be fun, so don´t push yourself when don´t feel like it (unless you have to, as when someone has to take a TOEFL test or something...next week.)

http://www.lingholic.com/reaching-a-pla ... out-of-it/

Here a link to learn English with music, a good thing is that is effortless, or almost. (and music is a good thing in life, ain´t it?) :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJPMwnWGB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfMoQa8bOgc
Marcelo Reis 1 3 96
I real an article on how to become a lifelong learner yesterday. Look for some like this, they give you a boost to keep on going.
Ancrispa 9 55
PPaulo
Thank you very much for the link about the plateau. I’ve just read it. It was beautifully written. It was the light at the end of the tunnel. ;)

It showed me that I can change some of my habits and even my materials. I’ll start looking for new resources.

I’m going to start studying again taking a different approach.

I’d like to thank you once more for your help.

Marcelo Reis
Thank you for your suggestion. I’ve read some articles about it.
I found these two particularly interesting:

http://www.bluepencilinstitute.com/home ... -tips.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Lifelong-Learner
POWER QUESTIONS
O professor das celebridades Daniel Bonatti ensina várias técnicas para você ter conversas melhores mesmo com conhecimentos básicos de inglês. Com as power questions você vai aprender a direcionar a conversa para onde quiser e com isso alcançar seus objetivos na comunicação. ACESSAR AULA
PPAULO 6 49 1.3k
Now you are talking! and thanks for sharing the features, the one Wikihow one speaks volumes...
And thanks to you too, Marcelo.
Marcelo Reis 1 3 96
These are good ones, too! Just found the one I read yesterday:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/lifelong-learner/
Ancrispa 9 55
Marcelo Reis


Thank you very much for the link. I’ve read it. It gives precious tips.
Ancrispa 9 55
Tricia and Bill dialogue:
Bill: My dear you’ve been looking down in the dumps lately. What’s the matter?

Tricia: I must confess I’m not happy with my body. The ageing process has started in my life, and I’m feeling its side effects on me.

Bill: God! For a moment, you really worried me. Stop being foolish. We all get old eventually.

Tricia: For you it’s easier to say that you are not becoming a giant pear. You’ve always been a massive polar bear. Besides that, my face is full of wrinkles. I’m looking like Darth Vader without the mask.

Bill: You must be feeling utterly unhappy. Let me see if I can help you. What makes you unhappy about your body?
Tricia: Flabbiness, my dear Watson. Flabbiness is my archenemy at the moment.

Bill: I’ve got the solution for it. From now on, we are going for a walk every day together. What do you think?

Tricia: Well, if you are saying that for real, if we exercise ourselves on a daily basis, perhaps there will be a glimmer of hope for me.
Bill: Of course, my dear! You are overreacting! Who knows if one day we aren’t going to join in the Berlin Marathon?

Tricia: Dear, let me ask you a question. How many beers have you drunk so far?

Bill: I can’t give you an accurate number, but I’ve been drinking since the rugby match “Argentina vs South Africa” started.
Tricia: I see. Why don’t we postpone this conversation and come back to it when you will be sober?

Bill: Excellent! You’re a mind reader. I was just wondering when I could come back to the telly and keep watching the rest of the match. You are an amazing wife! I’m a lucky man!
Ancrispa 9 55
Correction: :P ;)
Tricia and Bill’s dialogue;

Instead of “How many beers have you drunk so far?”- wrong liquids are uncountable in English, when I wrote that I was thinking in Portuguese and forget about the rule.

You should read: “How much beer have you drunk so far?”
Or “How many glasses of beer have you drunk so far?”
POWER QUESTIONS
O professor das celebridades Daniel Bonatti ensina várias técnicas para você ter conversas melhores mesmo com conhecimentos básicos de inglês. Com as power questions você vai aprender a direcionar a conversa para onde quiser e com isso alcançar seus objetivos na comunicação. ACESSAR AULA
PPAULO 6 49 1.3k
Don´t sweat the small things, and it´s a good sign that you can find and correct your own slips. That´s a real improvement.
And congrats on your creative writing. ;)
Ancrispa 9 55
Thanks my friend!
After posting this little story I dreamt about that question “how many beers have you drunk …?” and I realized that was wrong. So the next day I woke up and that question was still popping up into my head. I had to write the correction to get rid of it.

I think my English is improving after all the hard work.

I can see my mistakes and correct them. I'm happy. :P
PPAULO 6 49 1.3k
By the way, Ana. I think it could be used in a colloquial ways (then non-formal language), so many hits we can find on the web...
Perhaps because the answer would be a variegated lot.
For example, if we take the question "How much coffee should you drink?" or similar question, you take those hits and will see that the answers in the features usually express numbers like "three-to-five cups" etc (when normally we would think on terms of "a lot" or "much", since coffee would be uncontable as well). Maybe it´s thinking about this ''putting numbers to it" that made you do that.
So, don´t beat yourself for that, it´s a thing that I won´t sue you for. I would think you were thinking about colloquial ways, or perhaps it´s getting in use, don´t know.
But it´s a good thing that you can think in terms of acquired knowledge and remember a topic (the one of countable/uncountable nouns), that´s what I meant. It´s interesting how the mind works! I relate to your feeling of expressing something, or being studying something and get thinking about it, until I can get it solved. Then I get back to it, sometimes in a new way or opinion. That´s learning indeed.
Ancrispa 9 55
Tricia has made up her mind. She is going to have a plastic surgery. She’s going to tell her resolution to her husband Bill.
Tricia: Honey! I have got wonderful news!
Bill: Have you won the football pools?
Tricia: No. It’s something much better than that.
Bill: What can be better than to become filthy rich?
Tricia: Your wife is going to look like twenty years younger.
Bill suddenly falls off his chair.
Bill: What? How on earth is that possible? “*%$#@*”!”
Tricia: I’ll have a plastic surgery.
Bill: Where?
Tricia: On my face, of course!
Bill: Are you sure about that? I mean you maybe regret after doing it.Look at all celebrities who had a plastic surgery and they turned out looking like Yoda. Don’t get offended. I’ve always been a loyal fan of “Stars War”, and Yoda is in fact one of my favourite characters, but he isn’t exactly a beauty role model.
Tricia: You are not helping, Bill. You must be a good husband. Where is your enthusiastic support?
Bill: My dear let’s be practical. How much will this surgery cost?
Tricia: 15 thousand pounds.
Bill: What? How do you expect we are going to pay that?
Tricia: It’s quite simple. I’ve figured out a way to fulfill my dream.
Bill: Heavens! Now the nightmare has turned out into a dream! God! Can I say no?
Tricia: Of course not. We are going to sell that bloody old motorcycle of yours.
Bill: What? My motorcycle!
Tricia: I’ve already put it on the internet. We have received three offers so far.
Bill: Now. You’ve crossed the line. You’ve put my motorcycle on sale without talking to me first? You who are always talking about dialogue in a relationship! What an outrageous thing to do!!!!!
Tricia: Calm down! I was just kidding. I’ve been saving up some money. Dear, I would never sell that hideous motorcycle. I know how much you are attached to it.
Bill: You should have more respect for my health! I was about to have a heart attack!
Tricia: My surgery will be in three days.
Bill: Hold on a minute! Have you already settled everything?
Tricia: Yes. And you are going with me.
Bill: So Mandrake, what we are going to do with the kids?
Tricia: I forgot to mention. My sister is going to come over.
Bill: Now it is official. My house will become the Dracula’s castle.
Tricia: You have to promise me you will be nice with her.
Bill: Your sister is a real pain in the neck. I can’t promise that.
Tricia: Bill, sometimes in life we go through difficult situations, but we must struggle to overcome obstacles. You know every cloud has a silver lining.
Bill: When does Dracula arrive?
Tricia: I believe she may enter through that door at any minute. Listen! The bell is ringing! It must be her! Go and open the door!
Bill: I won’t open it. You invited Dracula. You should welcome her.
Tricia: Please be nice. I’ll go to open the door.
Tricia: Hi Patricia! It’s been ages since the last time we saw each other. I really missed you! Give me a hug!
Patricia: Hi Tricia! I really missed you too! How are the kids?

And the conversation goes on…..

I’ll write another text about the plastic surgery….. ;)
Telma Regina 9 65 608
Another good text Ana. I'd make these change:

Tricia: Please be nice. I’m going to open the door / I'll open the door.
POWER QUESTIONS
O professor das celebridades Daniel Bonatti ensina várias técnicas para você ter conversas melhores mesmo com conhecimentos básicos de inglês. Com as power questions você vai aprender a direcionar a conversa para onde quiser e com isso alcançar seus objetivos na comunicação. ACESSAR AULA
Ancrispa 9 55
Tricia has had her plastic surgery. She is in the hospital single room, in bed sleeping.
Bill is beside her and he is watching her sleeping. Then he stares lovingly at her wife’s face and thinks: “God! What they’ve done with my poor wife! Now the Darth Vader has turned into Rocky Balboa! How can a human being do such a thing with another human being?”
Tricia wakes up. She looks at Bill and says: Honey, I’m a survivor!
How do I look like?
Bill: Can I be honest?
Tricia: Give me the mirror.
Bill: Honey, right now you are looking like Rocky Balboa after the fight with Ivan Drago. However, the doctor said that it’s normal. You’ll have to wait for a while to see the positive outcome of your plastic surgery.
Tricia: Give me &*¨%$#mirror!
Bill: Are you sure?
Tricia: Yes!
Bill: Are you quite sure?
Tricia: Give me the *&¨%$#@* mirror!
Bill: Here it is. But I must warn you, before you let your feelings run high.
Tricia: Crap! Crap! Crap! Holy crap! I’m looking like Frankenstein!
Tricia bursts into tears. Bill is desperate. He tries to calm her down:
Bill: Don’t cry. It’s just a paradoxical situation; you are looking like ugly now to become beautiful eventually. You won’t be like that forever! Besides look at the bright side –Darth Vader is dead! Your wrinkles have vanished! Isn’t it gorgeous?
Tricia: You are right, dear. I have been reborn from the ashes like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.
Bill: You must think like that.
Tricia: Bill?
Bill: Yes?
Tricia: Do you still love me?
Bill: My dear I’ll love you even if you stay with these lovely swollen purple eyelids. Nothing will change my feelings for you. To be honest with you, my love for you would fill the Amazon River, if it was drought. And it wouldn’t be enough. The river would overflow, for sure. I tried to compose a poem to demonstrate my love. I’ve read on internet that the Amazon River is the largest in the world.
The doctor comes into the room.
Doctor: How are you feeling?
Tricia: I’m good doctor, despite my awful appearance.
Doctor: Let me see. OH! It’s lovely! After two weeks you’ll see the successful outcome of my meticulous work. The nurse will come to give instructions and then you can go home. You must remember, my desert flower, the sun is your enemy.
And the doctor leaves the room.
The nurse comes into the room.
Nurse: Good afternoon! I’m here to give you instructions and to help you to get ready to go. How are you feeling?
Tricia: I’m utterly outraged for having chosen a doctor with such an inflated ego.
Nurse: Don’t take him so seriously! Doctor Jack is famous for his enormous ego. In fact, we the nurses gave him a nickname. Would you like to know it?
Tricia: Of course! I’m eager to hear it!
Nurse: We nicknamed him “Ken (Barbie’s boyfriend) the chosen one.”

Bill, Tricia and the nurse burst out laughing.
Ancrispa 9 55
Episódio de hoje: “Autoajuda para a cunhada”
Tricia is in her bedroom sleeping. Bill is in the kitchen with Patricia; they are making lunch for the kids. Let’s check the conversation between these two:
Patricia: I want to tell you sth.
Bill: What is it?
Patricia: I’m dating.
Bill: What?
Patricia: Yes. He is a handsome Brazilian man.
Bill: Good Lord! And he thought “This guy must be crazy. Brazil is famous for its beautiful women and he decides to date the ugliest Englishwoman I’ve ever seen! How weird! Indeed, quite unexpected! I didn’t see from that coming! Amazingly odd! I must know this guy.
Patricia: Why are you looking at me like I was an alien or something quite similar?
Bill: There’s nothing wrong about the way I’m looking at you. I just thought you would never date in your life.
Patricia: Now you are being an */#$%¨&*!
Bill: I don’t want you to get the wrong message. To me, you are a kind of eccentric woman.
Patricia: Why do you mean by that?
Bill: Let’s be honest. Although you are remarkably intelligent and possess a highly cultivated mind, you are not stunning. In fact, if I could choose a character that resembles you, I would say that Chewbacca is the best option.
Patricia: Are you out of your mind? You cannot be that rude! Where are your manners? Don’t you look yourself in the mirror? You aren’t Daniel Craig. You are ugly as hell. If I’m Chewbacca you are Jabba the Hutt; if you want to play with the Star Wars characters.
Bill starts laughing.
Patricia: Why are you laughing about? This is a tragedy!
Bill: I’m laughing because you’ve just evolved from Dracula to Chewbacca!
Patricia: What? Did you use to call me Dracula? Why?
Bill: Because you are terrible.
Patricia: In what way?
Bill: Besides being a moaning Minnie, you are outrageously short-tempered! I’ve always been afraid of you!
Patricia: You know I don’t care about my appearance. I know I’m not a beautiful woman, but as you said before, I have other qualities.
And Patricia starts crying…
Bill feels touched by seeing the fragility of his sister in law. So he clumsily tries to comfort her: Look, I’m not saying that to make you sad. I’m just saying the truth because you are dating now, and if you are able to accept constructive criticism, you will know how to take advantage from this conversation. You are smart.
Patricia: Maybe you are right. I’ll try to be more patient. I won’t complain about everything anymore. I’ll try hard to be more optimistic and value the things I have.
Bill: I’m glad to hear that. You are not a bad person. We should always practice positive thinking. I’ve learnt that from your lovely sister. We must ensure our own happiness.
Patricia: You are right. And I forgive you for calling me Chewbacca. I know you have a great sense of humour.
Bill: Now my dear sister in law, let’s make our lunch, shall we?
Patricia wipes out her tears and starts laughing.
Telma Regina 9 65 608
Resposta movida para a primeira página. Parabéns Telma Regina!
Ancrispa 9 55
Episódio de hoje: Novela Mecicana, Charles Dickens e gol da Alemanha, gol da Alemanha, gol da Alemanha, gol da Alemanha..... ;)
Bill: Why don’t you invite your lovely boyfriend to come over? I’d really like to know him. You know the Brazilian Daniel Craig.
Patricia: Humm… I detect a touch of sarcasm in your voice. Actually, he is the spite image of Carlos Daniel, the lead character of a famous Mexican soap opera.
Bill can’t stop laughing. And that reaction provokes an infuriating response:
Patricia: Stop being utterly stupid! You look like a caveman!
Bill: I’m sorry. You’ve just passed a contradictory message to me. I mean, you are a smart woman and you are entirely familiar with a Mexican soap opera! I’m flabbergasted!
Patricia: Dear Lord! You are married to a woman, caveman! Women like soap operas! What’s wrong with them?
Bill: Nothing.
Patricia: Can I go on?
Bill: Please, I’m deeply excited to hear your explanation. I mean, there is a cogent explanation, isn’t there?
Patricia: Of course, there is. The cogency of my explanation is that there is a lot of fun in a Mexican soap opera. In fact, we can even establish a comparison between a Mexican soap opera and Dickens’ books.
Bill can’t stop laughing again.
Bill: What a Mexican soap opera could have in common with one of the greatest writers from the Victorian period? I can’t figure it out!
Patricia: You are such an uncultured man! The lead characters from Mexican soap operas generally go through hell before getting their happy ending, and it is exactly like Dickens’ lead characters such as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and Great expectations. And the villains are also as bad as the worst.
Bill: Oh, I see. Who is Carlos Daniel?
Patricia: He is a lead character from “La usurpadora”. He is a good guy and handsome like my boyfriend.
Bill: Are you going to ring him up? I do want to know him.
Patricia: Wait a minute. You want to know him to talk about the fateful final game against Germany, don’t you?
Bill: Of course, I need to see his reaction. After all, it’s not every day that I have the chance to talk with a Brazilian guy about that fateful day for Brazilian football.
Patricia: Well, all I can say is that it’s a sore point for him. Wait here. I’ll ring him up. Perhaps you can know him today.
Patricia leaves the room. She comes back.
Patricia: He is coming. He is curious to know you too.
Bill: Really? Why?
Patricia: Because I told him you are crazy about football.
After half an hour the Brazilian boyfriend arrives.
Bill: It’s the doorbell. It must be him!
Patricia: Wait here. I’ll open the door.
Patricia and the Brazilian boyfriend come into the room.
Patricia: Bill this is Felipe my boyfriend.
Bill: Hi, nice to meet you.
Felipe: Nice to meet you too. Let’s talk about football. Patricia told me you are crazy about it.
Bill: Well, since you mentioned the topic, let me ask you: What did you feel when you were watching the 2014 world cup final?
Felipe gets visibly agitated however; he doesn’t lose his control, and calmly answers Bill: To talk with an utter sincerity, it was one of the worst moments of my life, I mean, I couldn’t believe that it was happening. It couldn’t have been worse.
Bill: As a matter of fact, it could have been much worse. The score wouldn’t be 7 but 10 or 14 goals. I think German players felt pity and didn’t dare to score more goals.
Felipe gets nervous. It’s so painful to him.
Bill gets embarrassed. He tries to calm down his Brazilian friend.
Bill: Look I didn’t mean to make you sad. I only mentioned that if the German players wanted, it could have been much worse. But look at my national team; we were eliminated after just two matches!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t you see? We share something in common; our national teams desperately need a refreshing change!!!! Do you drink?
Felipe calms down. He looks at Bill.
Felipe: Yes, I like beer.
Bill: I’m glad to hear that. I have beer in my fridge. Would you like to grab one?
Felipe: Sure!
And both go to the kitchen to drink a bit and talk more about football.
Ancrispa 9 55
Episódio de hoje: A professora de francês que fazia chover
Tricia has fully recovered from her plastic surgery. She is helping one of the kids with his homework. I forgot the name of the kids, I mean, it’s been ages since the last time I mentioned them so, I’m going to call him kid, if you don’t mind. ;)
Tricia: So my precious kid, let me help you out with your French homework.
Kid: Thanks, mommy.
Tricia: So, kid what’s your French teacher like?
Kid: She’s nice and she knows how to make rain.
Tricia: What, dear? What do you mean?
Kid: Madame Claire makes rain every time she speaks. It’s really funny.
Tricia: Sweet, I still don’t understand. Could you be more specific?
Kid: I’ll give you an example. Today I had a doubt about the verb parler (to speak) in the past simple (passé composé) and when I asked her, she came to me and started making rain. And suddenly, it was raining like cats and dogs, mommy.
Tricia: Lord!!!!!! I got it! When your teacher speaks droplets of saliva comes out of her mouth!!
Kid: Exactly!
Tricia: Of course she does that unintentionally.
Kid: I think she doesn’t know that she spits while talking.
Tricia: Oh, dear, it’s excruciatingly embarrassing, isn’t it?
Kid: Mommy, can I ask a question?
Tricia: Sure.
Kid: Why do you choose difficult words when you speak?
Tricia: You mean the adverb excruciatingly.
Kid: Yes, what does it mean?
Tricia: It comes from the adjective excruciating, and it means extremely, for example, excruciatingly funny, excruciatingly humiliating….
Source:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/pt/tr ... uciatingly

Kid: Can I ask another question?
Tricia: Bien sur mon petit chou. (Of course my sweetheart).
Kid: When will “the real you” come back?
Tricia: Dear, I didn’t understand. I’m right here in front of you.
Kid: Mommy, the funny lines on your face. Where did they go?
Tricia starts laughing.
Tricia: Dear, I have to tell you that those lines aren’t going to come back. They are dead.
Why, do you miss them?
Kid: No, I find it rather strange when I look at you and don’t see them. And when I talk with dad he still has those lines. Why?
Tricia: Because, dad hasn’t done any plastic surgery yet, perhaps, in the foreseeable future. By the way, we can those lines wrinkles.
Kid: I don’t want dad’s wrinkles change.
Tricia: why?
Kid: Because if the wrinkles vanish, we can’t play with him anymore.
Tricia: what do you play with him?
Kid: Can you keep a secret?
Tricia: Of course.
Kid: He doesn’t know, mom. But when he comes here to play with us we call him Mumm-ra! And we are the thundercats!
Tricia gives another hearty laugh.
POWER QUESTIONS
O professor das celebridades Daniel Bonatti ensina várias técnicas para você ter conversas melhores mesmo com conhecimentos básicos de inglês. Com as power questions você vai aprender a direcionar a conversa para onde quiser e com isso alcançar seus objetivos na comunicação. ACESSAR AULA
Ancrispa 9 55
It’s been ages since the last time I wrote something in English. Let me try to tell another story.
Tricia is eager to buy a new notebook. She has heard about a sale at the mall. She has made up her mind that she is going to buy the best notebook. She decides to tell the news to her husband.
Tricia: Bill
Bill: Yes, honey.
Tricia: I want to buy a notebook.
Bill: Oh Lord! Lord have mercy on us !
Tricia: Don’t be farcical! I’m perfectly able to buy a notebook without anyone’s help.
Bill: Did the mobile phone purchase didn’t ring any bells?
Tricia: You can’t compare the Sun with the Moon. They are both planets but they are poles apart.
Bill: Have you been reading National Geographic lately?
Tricia: My beloved husband, pay attention to my valuable, precious words: I’ve been reading everything from the Guardian to Vogue magazine. I’m an inquisitive person.
Bill: Can I go with you? I would love to watch you asking questions to the shop assitant.
Tricia: Ok. Let’s go.
Bill: Now?
Tricia: Why not? Do you have anything important to do at the moment ? To save the Earth, by chance?
Bill: I love your sarcasm. Let’s go.

This story hasn’t finished yet.
Ancrispa 9 55
Tricia and Bill are at the mall. They are in a computer shop.
The shop assistant comes closer and asks: Can I help you?
Tricia: Yes. I want a notebook. But it can’t be an ordinary one; it must be the best computer ever.
Shop assistant: Yes, Ma’am. The best computer I’ve got is this one “Pegasus Extreme”.
Bill can’t hold his laugh.
Bill: Really? Are you trying to take my wife in?
The shop assistant got offended.
Shop Assistant: Sir. We work with the best brands on the market: Pegasus Extreme, Monster Edge, Surprisingly Good and the last but not the least “Power is everything”.
Bill: What about the traditional ones?
Shop Assistant: These are the traditional ones.
Bill: Young man, have you been drinking?
S.A: Sir, you are way out of line.
Tricia: Honey let’s buy the Pegasus Extreme. It has a catchy name -“Pegasus Extreme”. I liked it a lot.
Bill: We don’t buy a computer because of its name. We should search for its quality, durability and reliability…
Tricia starts crying.
Bill got puzzled.
Bill: For heaven’s sake, why are you crying?
Tricia: I’m crying because you’ve just showed you care about my purchases!!!! It’s like that credit card ad: A husband who cares about his wife’s purchases – It’s priceless!!!!
Bill laughs his head off.
Bill: My dear, let me buy a computer for you, ok? I’ll buy the best on the market. You can trust me.
Tricia: Brilliant! Do I have to give you the money?
Bill: No. It will be my present for you.
Tricia: Lovely! Let’s go!
The shop assistant look at the weird couple leaving the shop.
Telma Regina 9 65 608
Ana, your text is good as always. I found one minor mistake at the end of it:

The shop assistant looks at the weird couple leaving the shop.

An observation: text of speech should be in inverted commas, for example:

Tricia: "Yes. I want a notebook. But it can’t be an ordinary one; it must be the best computer ever".
Shop assistant: "Yes, Ma’am. The best computer I’ve got is this one “Pegasus Extreme”".
OEstudantedeIngles 2 16 113
Hey =)

Single inverted commas are also possible

'Yes. I want a notebook. But it can’t be an ordinary one; it must be the best computer ever'.

;)
Ancrispa 9 55
Patricia is going to get married. Everybody is happy. Let’s see the dialogue between Bill and the Felipe “ The Saviour”.

Bill: “ Felipe, are you sure about getting married to my sister-in-law?”
Felipe: “ Of course. She’s the woman of my life, la femme de ma vie, a mulher da minha vida.”
Bill: “Well, let me tell you a story.”
Felipe:"Ok.”
Bill: "When I was a little boy.I had a puppy. Tutu was his name. I loved that dog. We used to do everything together. As time went by, he grew up and became a very aggressive dog. He started to attack everyone. My father told me that the only viable solution to the problem was to give him away to the dog pound. That news broke my little heart. I cried for many days. When the dog catcher appeared to take him, I couldn’t see. I just ran away as fast as I could. I wanted to disappear from the face of the mother Earth.
Felipe: “ For God’s sake Bill! Are you trying to establish a paralell between Tutu and Patricia? It’s impossible. It’s like to compare Brazil and the Moon! Why are doing this?”
Bill: “ Don’t take me wrong, I just want to help you. Chewbacca , I mean Patricia is astoundingly smart ,but she can be extremely difficult sometimes.”
Felipe starts laughing.
Bill: “Why are you laughing? There’s nothing to laugh about. On the contrary, you are in deep water my friend.”
Felipe: “Don’t worry. I know all her qualities and flaws.”
Bill: “ Felipe”
Felipe: “What?”
Bill: “ Now I understand that add of your country. That one which you translated for me.”
Felipe “ I remember it! Let me say it in English: “ I’m Brazilian and I will never ever give up”.
Bill: “ I must say you are the bravest man I ever met.”
Felipe: “ It’s love Bill. Real, deep love.”
Bill: “ I got it. Like the Pandas when they have cubs. Genuine love.”
Felipe: “ I must say that you have a quite peculiar spectrum of life.”
Bill: “ No. I’m just honest. Ruthlessly honest.”
Felipe: “ Honest man, shall we grab a beer?”
Bil: “ Sure! Let’s go!”