Mutant Virus

Hello! Today i'll talk to you about health in our country. What i'll talk is very important do our population: yesterday Ministry of Health confirmed 20 cases of mexican virus (a.k.a 'Gripe Suína' in Brazil) in our country, spread in six states - eight cases in São Paulo, five in Rio, four in Santa Catarina, one in Minas Gerais, one in Tocantins and one in Rio Grande do Sul.
Eight of them are cases of contamination inside of country and there are 19 suspects cases in study.
That flue is resident in more than 57 countries and the most infected are EUA, Mexico and Canada.
It's important know the true: that sickness is caused by an virus called influenza A and seems like an ordinary virus but it isn't! Influenza A is an mutation, that's because it is so dangerous when it isn't threated. Doctors don't know how fix it and they just threat symptoms.
Well, we hope people get better and doctors find the best way of cure.

A.K.A = also known as = também conhecido como...
spread = espalhado
flue = inFLUEnza = gripe (abreviação do nome do vírus da gripe)
more/most =mais
sickness = doença
seems = parece
ordinary = comum
dangerous = perigoso
threat/threated = tratar, tratamento e etc.
how to fix = como curar
we hope = esperamos

Education - New kind of national test to join in University

Good Night! Today i will tell you about the news on education of our country.
This year, the Ministry of Education decided to change the vestibular concourse and now, the students will have the same test in every universities of country. Well, some universities didn't agree with that decision, like Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) but the others universities of state had agree, at least partially.
Yesterday, may 23, happened one simulation of National Exame of High School ( called ENEM, in portuguease) in Gigantinho's stage, with 7 thousand students to try their knowlege. The exame iniciated at 13 pm and it had one hundred questions of math and science. Today, more one hundred questions of language and science and one composition! This event was promoted by the University ESADE.
This weekend, lots of students had lost the oportunity to do this simulation because the number of vacancies was limited. But in june 20 and 21, they gonna get another chance. The inscriptions will happen along this week, with 8 hundred vacancies.


Vocabulary:

to change = mudar
agree = concordar
partially = parcialmente
thousand = mil
weekend = fim de semana
week = semana

First Talk

Hello my name is Marina, i got eleven years old and i'm here to write a lot of news for you! Here, we will talk about all kinds of news, like education, health, economy, environment, sports, politics and some curiosities. I will also write an vocabulary with the most difficult words in my text, for better understanding.

Vocabulary:

health = saúde
better = melhor
environment = meio-ambiente
understanding = compreensão