sábado, 30 de abril de 2011


COMO SE DIZ O VERBO "NASCER" EM INGLÊS?


VAI PENSANDO....



VAI PENSANDO....



PRONTO?



JÁ PENSOU?



E AÍ?



ACHOU?



CLARO QUE NÃO ACHOU!!!!

POIS NÃO EXISTE A TRADUÇÃO DIRETA

PARA O INGLÊS....
...

VOCÊ NUNCA TINHA PENSADO NISSO,

NÃO É MESMO?



PARA DIZER O VERBO "NASCER"

EM INGLÊS,


HÁ NECESSIDADE DE

SE USAR UM DOS
SIGNFICADOS DO VERBO

"TO BEAR"
NA VOZ PASSIVA!

TO BEAR - BORE - BORN(E) = GERAR, DAR À LUZ

VEJA ESTE EXEMPLO COM ESTE SIGNIFICADO....


She had borne six children by the time she was thirty.


Ela tinha dado à luz seis crianças quando ela tinha trinta anos.


PORTANTO, PARA DIZER "NASCER",

USAMOS A PASSIVA:
TO BE BORN

que no passado fica....

WAS BORN ou WERE BORN


I WAS BORN IN 1996.


EU NASCI EM 1996.


WHERE WERE THEY BORN?


ONDE ELES NASCERAM?




I HOPE IT HELPS YOUR ENGLISH! TAKE CARE

segunda-feira, 25 de abril de 2011

"COMO SE DIZ "PULAR CORDA" EM INGLÊS?

QUEM NUNCA PULOU CORDAS?


É UM BRINCADEIRA SUPER SAUDÁVEL,

NÃO É MESMO?


COMO DIZER ISTO EM INGLÊS?

TO JUMP ROPE

OU AINDA

TO SKIP ROPE


O NOME DA CORDA QUE VOCÊ UTILIZA

PARA FAZER A BRINCANDEIRA É


JUMP ROPE ou SKIPPING ROPE!



AGORA, NÃO DEIXE DE ASSISTIR AO VÍDEO

ABAIXO. É UM INTERVALO

DE UM JOGO DE


BASQUETE NOS E.U.

ASSISTA ATÉ O FINAL E

OBSERVE QUE


O GRAU DE DIFICULDADE VAI AUMENTANDO....

ENJOY IT!


quinta-feira, 21 de abril de 2011

LESSON 19 - VOCABULARY

LESSON 19 - VOCABULARY

COMPLETE USING THE VOCABULARY
YOU LEARNED IN THIS LESSON:

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS!


a) An _______ is a formal request for something, like a job, a credit card, or a place in a university.

b) Have you ever been called for a job __________?

c) The man in the lesson has already filled out eleven job applications. He would like to ____ an interview, but he hasn't _____ any interviews yet.

d) Not a ______ person helped me when I fell on the street.

e) Work can get tough in the middle of a term but ____ and it'll be OK.

f) John seems ________ for the job.

g) Mike's just _________ a senior editorial job.

h) Jerry does not have any job right now. He is _______

i) Have you ever ______champagne?

j) I take a shower ______ a day.

j) Do you think the strawberry ice cream they serve at this restaurant ____ like real strawberries?

k) I don't like whiskey because I think it is a ______ drink.

l) After drinking 10 glasses of beer, Nancy got _____________

m) Gary drank too much champagne at his his sister's wedding.
Now he has a _______


n) Susan _______ with a terrible hangover.

o) I know from ________ that Tony never keeps his promises.

p) Some of the questions at the interview were rather ________ .

q) Are you _______ anyone to take you home after class?

r) Sally is at the bus stop. She is _______ for bus 4578.

s) How many _______ do you take with you when you go to the beach?

t) If you were going to fly to New York, and you were taking a Teddy bear with you, would you check it, or would you ________it ____?



SEE THE ANSWER BELOW:
.
.
.
.
a) application
b) interview
c) get - gotten
d) single
e) hang in there
f) well qualified
g) landed
h) unemployed
i) drunk
j) once
k) strong
l) drunk
m) hangover
n) woke up
o) experience
p) awkward
q) expecting
r) waiting
s) suitcases
t) carry .... on



COMO SE DIZ "ABRIU O SINAL" EM INGLÊS?


AO QUERER DIZER "ABRIR O SINAL" EM INGLÊS

REFERINDO-SE AO "SEMÁFORO", NÃO TENTE

USAR O VERBO "OPEN" NESTE CASO!

A EXPRESSÃO ADEQUADA EM INGLÊS É:

THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS TURNED GREEN

VEJA ESTE EXEMPLO....

The traffic lights turned green as we approached the junction.

O sinal abriu (ficou verde) assim que nós nos aproximamos do

cruzamento.




quinta-feira, 14 de abril de 2011

JOKES IN ENGLISH


TEACHER: “WHAT DO WE CALL SOMEONE


WHO INSISTS ON TALKING


WHILE NOBODY IS INTERESTED


IN LISTENING TO THEM?”

STUDENT: “I KNOW THE ANSWER!!”

TEACHER: “SAY IT!!”

STUDENT: "WE CALL THEM 'TEACHERS'”




VOCABULARY:


CALL SOMEONE = CHAMAR ALGUÉM


WHO = QUE, QUEM


WHILE = ENQUANTO


NOBODY = NINGUÉM


INTERESTED = INTERESSADO

quarta-feira, 13 de abril de 2011

segunda-feira, 11 de abril de 2011

quarta-feira, 6 de abril de 2011

SÓ PENSA NISSO!!!!!


TEACHER: COMO SE DIZ:

"VOCÊ SÓ PENSA NISSO?"

CONFESSO QUE APRENDI

COM MEU AMIGO "LUCIANO CANTÃO",

POIS TAMBÉM NUNCA

PAREI PARA PENSAR E NUNCA ME

PERGUNTARAM.... E VOCÊ?

SABE COMO DIZER ISSO EM INGLÊS? NÃO????

QUANDO A GENTE APRENDE, A GENTE VÊ QUE É

TÃO SIMPLES..... ONE TRACK-MIND fazendo uma

tradução grosseira....

"uma mente *pensamento" de um caminho só....."

VEJA A DEFINICÃO E O EXEMPLO

QUE EXTRAI DO

CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY.....


have a one-track mind

to think about one

particular thing

and nothing else

AND NO, BILL, I WASN'T

TALKING ABOUT SEX -

YOU'VE GOT

ONE-TRACK MIND!!!!

I HOPE YOU LIKED IT!



sábado, 2 de abril de 2011

LESSON 18 - VOCABULARY

LESSON 18 - VOCABULARY

FILL IN THE SENTENCES USING THE WORDS YOU LEARNED IN LESSON 18 AND CHECK THE ANSWERS:

a) We _____ just before we left.
b) We have to take a _______ in case the lights go out.
c) The last time we went camping, we slept in ________
d) John is married with five _______
e) When I arrived, Susan was ______
f) We use ______ to keep insects away.
g) Do you have a ________ in your house? If you get hurt you can use it.
h) We did not study lesson 21 _____
i) When we go camping we put food in a ____ to keep it cold.
j) When the two parts of a tractor trailer turns like 90 degrees angle we say it has ______
k) After the truck jackknifed it _______
l) The direction we are going it the direction we are _____
m) Cars on one _____ go east and cars on the other ____ go west.
n) A ______ is a road with few traffic lights and higher speed limits than city streets.
o) _______ is a more formal word for driver used in written documents and news broadcasts.
p) An ______ is a highway that is wider, has a higher speed limit, and no traffic lights. The word _____ is more common in the East. In the West, the word "freeway" is more often used.
q) Because of the storm, the weatherman _____ people not to go out unless absolutely necessary.
r) On my ____ to work, I take Brazil street.


ANSWERS:





a) packed
b) lantern
c) sleeping bags
d) kids / children
e) heading out
f) insect repellent
g) first-aid kit
h) yet
i) cooler
j) jackknifed
k) overturned
l) bound
m) side - side
n) highway
o) motorist
p) expressway - expressway
q) advised
r) route

sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2011

PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE LESSON 128

IN LESSON 128, WE STUDIED

THE PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE.


HERE GOES A VIDEO LINK IN WHICH

YOU HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH

A CLASS BEING TAUGHT BY A NATIVE


ENGLISH TEACHER.

I SUGGEST THAT YOU WATCH IT!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AV87L3urv4