Computer Literacy – Multimedia Narrative
Pro. Vera Menezes
Student: Tatiana Gomes Almeida
Once Upon a Time...
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a city called Nova Lima born a little girl. It
was a rainy day in late December. This girl had a dream, to be a great
ballerina.
When
she was six years old, her family moved to a very small town, Ladainha .
Unfortunately, in that town there was not ballet classes,
so she could not go ahead with her dream. At that time, she had no interest in English or any other language.
As that city was not that developed, the only place she had access to it was at
school. But teachers had not a very good English.
She lived there for six years. Then
she went back to Nova Lima. The first thing she did was to attend ballet
classes.
Her interest for English started
when she and a friend became fans of band called Spice Girls. The girls watched
MTV during the whole day in order to see their
idols’ video clips.
Besides
watching TV, they listened to the album
all the time. You cannot imagine how terrible it was to hear they singing!!!
Not for their voices, but for their English…It was very bad! Actually “Spice Girls” was a
kind of rehearsal of what would come later.
One day, while watching a MTV show,
our protagonist and her friend saw a video from an unknown band. It was love
first site. They did not even know the name of the song neither the name of the
band, and then started the search for information. But how they would find it?
They had no access to internet and the band was not very famous yet. One month
later, while they
were watching another TV show called
suddenly, Xuxa announced a video clip, MMMBOP. And when they saw
it, they could not believe. “Wow! It’s the band!!!”
From this day on, the girls started
looking for everything related to that band, Hanson.
It was also at this time that in our protagonist started attending to English
classes because she wanted to know what the three guys from Tulsa were saying.
Tatiana really loved the English classes, it was a way to know not only about the language
but also about the culture. She knew that the learning process was slower than
she wanted but she kept doing her best to improve her skills. The first opportunity she had to proof
her knowledge was in the first time her favorite band came to
Our heroine passed through a big
dilemma in her life: what career she would choose. So many options, but a few ones she
liked. She looked at the list of the courses UFMG
offered without knowing what to do. Then she saw, Letters, and though:
“Ok, I like English, Letters is a good option!” so that is how she
entered at 
.
There she had the opportunity to
improve her English even more by making disciplines such as Phonology, Syntax, Oral
Skills, The History of English, among others.
Now she is graduating 
and
became an English teacher 
. She teaches
adults and children.
Although it is not a money making profession 
, it is very rewarding to see people that
did not know anything in a foreign language recognizing sounds and words.
She knows that there are many more
to better in her English. Some day she intends to go abroad
to
do it. For a while she keeps studying and listening to music, specially to her favorite band. Actually, is
through it that Tatiana keeps in touch with English. As she is part of a
community of fans provided by the band, in which they have many discussions on forums
and because of this she has friends from the whole world.
Their conversations are in English, obviously!
People say that being fan of a band
is waste of time, but as you could see, it served as a motivation to Tatiana to
learn a foreign language.
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