COMO DIZER
A FRASE "NÃO CUSPA NO PRATO
QUE COMEU" EM INGLÊS?
NÃO TENTE TRADUZIR
LITERALMENTE....
EM INGLÊS, DIZ-SE....
DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU
TRADUZINDO AO PÉ DA LETRA....
NÃO MORDA A MÃO QUE TE ALIMENTA...
LEGAL, NÃO É MESMO?
MEC 3 – MID TERM REVIEW – KEY
01. COMPLETE USING A SUITABLE WORD OR EXPRESSION FOR EACH DEFINITION
01. stage manager
02. stunt man
03. stunt
04. martial arts
05. dull
06. tarantula
07. practical joke
08. whoope cushion
09. catastrophe
10. bloody
11. to backfire
12. bowling
13. bad sport
14. to beat
15. to strangle
16. to do sth with one’s bare hands
17. approval
18. stamp / seal of approval
19. to have / to win one’s stampo of approval
20. to feature
21. misfortune
22. classic
23. to set the scene
24. live (note: the vowel “i” in the word ‘live’ has the same sound as in “night”)
25. to broadcast
26. proper
27. backstage
28. news anchor
29. to tick away
30. clue
31. indisposed
32. spokesman
33. doomed
34. to subsidize
35. misguided
36. to fake
37. host
38. to make sth up
39. to run
40. wheelie
41. buildup
42. to attempt
43. stack
44. sunset
45. sunrise
46. push sth over
47. thud
48. failure
49. mannequin
50. roll it
51. to make believe
52. live
53. to start with
54. to get into sth
55. spot
56. to molt
57. virgin
58. memorable
59. originally
60. contestant
61. nubula (plural: nubulae)
62. outer space
63. gibberish
64. to give away
65. to get one’s breath
66. to sweat
67. to figure
68. to be taken aback
69. unsettling
70. smooth
71. auditor
72. gypsy
73. to be dying
74. to be in hot water
75. word has it
76. station wagon
77. lemon
78. seminar
79. pedant
80. to brag about / of
81. to accomplish
82. observation deck
83. to hot wire
84. juvenile correction center
85. nightmare
86. showtime
87. conductor
88. toasted
89. dressing room
90. to bore the heck out of sb
91. to doze off
92. vulture
93. to hover
94. principal
95. conception
96. thereby
97. aside
98. crippling
99. to lie
100. peer
101. profound
102. speech pattern
103. standard language
104. sub-par
105. to radio
106. airliner
107. midair
108. tangy
109. wacky
110. freak
111. to bask
112. spotlight
113. newfound
114. to ban
115. fitness
116. fraud
117. to bound (for)
118. unavoidable
119. poorly
120. feature
121. famished
122. to do away with
123. role model
124. glutton
125. to exploit
126. delight
127. climatologist
128. tornado
129. famine
130. plague
131. to foresee
132. blessing
133. widow
134. widower
135. to shoot down
136. to bail out
137. to get in touch with
02. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERBS IN PARENTHESES.
01. playing *(the action in progress)
02. play *(from the beginning to the end)
03. shake / shaking
04. skating
05. swim (calling attention)
06. studying
07. waiting
08. dozing off
09. using
10. finding
11. burning
12. (to) find
13. (to) fix
14. have
15. tell / telling
03. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH EITHER ONE, PERSON, WE, OUR….
01. one
02. one’s
03. you
04. your
05. their - themselves
06. one
07. our
04. EXPRESSIONS FROM INSIDE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
01. freak
02. freaked …out
03. hangover
04. accomplished
05. boasting / bragging
06. word has it
07. fake
08. dull
09. broadcasting
10. dull
05. COMPLETE…
01. should you accept
02. should Joanne quit
03. have I seen
04. will he able to