Trick or treat - (expression) when children dress up in frightening or strange clothes on Halloween (= 31st October), especially in America and Canada, and visit people's homes to demand sweets or a small amount of money (www.freesearch.co.uk);
Playing with words: Shit x Sheet x Chat x Short x Shorts x shot x shoot x shut
Take a look at www.freesearch.co.uk there are such a really interesting thinngs to know about this words! But in portuguese:
Shit: cocô (e todos os mesmos usos que fazemos da palavra aqui no Brasil);
Sheet: folha geralmente de papel;
chat: bater-papo;
short: pequeno;
shorts: roupa (mesma coisa que no português - é uma palavra no plural SEMPRE!!!)
Shot: atirar (verbo - passado simples e participio passado;
shoot: mesmo verbo do acima, porém esta é a forma presente);
some words:
brisket: carne de peito;
den: espaço quieto/ esconderijo/ debaixo da escada;
basement: porão;
loft: sótão;
Monte Rushmore: The biggest sculpture in U.S.A. about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodor Roosevelt e Abraham Lincoln. Take a look at this site: (in portuguese), and know a little about this interesting sculpture. Is it copy or creation?!
Medicine: remédio = medicina Eg.: Take the medicine (tome o remédio); a career in medicine (carreira em medicina);
I feel pretty sick today! : Me sinto muito doente hoje - me sinto adoentado;
Some good expressions to use you´ll find at: http://www.catho.com.br/jcs/inputer_view.phtml?id=7843 there are positive and negative expressions to use as always as you can!
Temptation: something that makes you want to do or have something that you know you should not - tentação (portuguese);
Sugar loaf: Pão de açúcar; sendo: loaf x bread, quando loaf: significa um pão que é dividido e assado em pedaços individuais e, ainda algo que pode ser dividido em pedaços! Enfim eu não concordo com essa idéia de deixar os outros colocar some nas nossas coisas aqui no brasil... mas como somos muito solícitos com os estrangeiros e, agradamos facilmente quem vem pra cá desde o tempo do descobrimento... então aparecem essas coisas! Agora vai você dar nome em monumento deles, vai?! (rs)
Have a nice week! See you on class!
Bye-bye! Lu.
Sunday 16 September 2007
Thursday 6 September 2007
Sobre os verbos irregulares - tabela completa
Gente,
Estou colocando um link para a tabelinha completa dos verbos irregulares que achei no site: http://www.sk.com.br/sk-irrve.html ,uma vez que algumas gramáticas não trazem. Em uma das aulas precisávamos saber sobre o verbo forgive... e, pra dizer a verdade, surgiu um ponto de interrogação bem grande quando olhamos na minha gramática para confirmar se este era um verbo irregular ou não! Consultem a tabela, decorem, tentem usar os verbos nas lições, criem frases, montem textos engraçados, ou qualquer outro que seja de sua preferência, tragam pra mim para correção e, aproveite bem toda essa informação!
Uma boa semana! Bom feriado para todos! Enjoy it!
Teacher Lu.
Estou colocando um link para a tabelinha completa dos verbos irregulares que achei no site: http://www.sk.com.br/sk-irrve.html ,uma vez que algumas gramáticas não trazem. Em uma das aulas precisávamos saber sobre o verbo forgive... e, pra dizer a verdade, surgiu um ponto de interrogação bem grande quando olhamos na minha gramática para confirmar se este era um verbo irregular ou não! Consultem a tabela, decorem, tentem usar os verbos nas lições, criem frases, montem textos engraçados, ou qualquer outro que seja de sua preferência, tragam pra mim para correção e, aproveite bem toda essa informação!
Uma boa semana! Bom feriado para todos! Enjoy it!
Teacher Lu.
Sunday 2 September 2007
Reach - Glória Estefan - Music exercise
Hi students! I´m back after a long time without posting anything I left you something interesting! Take a look and enjoy!
This is an exercise (a music) to help you about the pronunciation, I hope you enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSik5a1Wuc - Watch the clip and try to put in order by yourself, the music I mixed below:
* some words are together, separate them too!
* those sentences isn´t in the right order, and I didn´t cut them as it´s in the original music.
* you can try to translate it by yourself too, it´s such a beautiful lyric!
some dreams live on in time forever those dreams, you want with allyour heartand i'll do whatever it takesfollow through with the promise i madeput it all on thei'd reach somuch higherbe stronger linewhat i hoped for at last would be mineif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touch the skyfrom that one moment in timeseeing more the higher my lifei'm gonna be strongerknowing that i've tried myvery besti'd put my spirit to the testif i could reachsome days are meant to berememberedthose days we rise abovethe starsso i'll go the distancethis timeseeing more the higher i climbthat the more i believeall the more that thisdream will be mineif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touchthe skyfrom that one moment inmy lifei'm i madeput it all on thebe mineif i could reach, higherjust linewhat gonna be strongerknowing those dreams, you want with allyour heartand that i've tried myvery besti'd put my spirit to the the skyfrom testif i could reachif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touchthe skyfrom that one moment inmy lifei'm gonna be strongeri'm gonna be so much stronger reachsome days are meant to yes i ami put my spirit to the days we rise abovethe starsso i'll go the testif i could reach,if i could, if i couldif i could reachreach, i'd reach, i'd reachi'd reach, i'd reach somuch higherbe stronger
* This music was made by Gloria Estefan in 1996 for the Olympic games in Atlanta. Since that time it turns popular. About this amazing artist and her life and goals you can take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan, or if you´d like to share any interesting informations about it, with other English students, you can send it to me by email and I´ll post it here! I´ll be glad about it!
** Even if someone has this music as MP3, please send it to me that I´ll prepare the class activity! I also need the music: "Friday I'm in love" - The Cure, to prepare some activities too!
Expressions and words:
Guardar rancor: RESENT
Sapateado: TAP
Ficar na net: stay on-line.
AWHILE: for a short time;
WOUND UP: Very anxious, nervous or angry; E.G.: She gets quite wound up before a match.
HUNGER: a strong wish or desire; E.G.: I´m hunger for an adventure;
ATOLL: atol (portuguese);
Sumary: indice (portuguese);
dodging: desviando (portuguese);
glances: to give a quick short look;
straining: peneirando (portuguese);
swear: jurar (portuguese);
Stuck: unable to move/ fixed;
* try to use those words to create a new text, and bring me to correct!
That´s all for today! Have a nice first week of september!
This is an exercise (a music) to help you about the pronunciation, I hope you enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSik5a1Wuc - Watch the clip and try to put in order by yourself, the music I mixed below:
* some words are together, separate them too!
* those sentences isn´t in the right order, and I didn´t cut them as it´s in the original music.
* you can try to translate it by yourself too, it´s such a beautiful lyric!
some dreams live on in time forever those dreams, you want with allyour heartand i'll do whatever it takesfollow through with the promise i madeput it all on thei'd reach somuch higherbe stronger linewhat i hoped for at last would be mineif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touch the skyfrom that one moment in timeseeing more the higher my lifei'm gonna be strongerknowing that i've tried myvery besti'd put my spirit to the testif i could reachsome days are meant to berememberedthose days we rise abovethe starsso i'll go the distancethis timeseeing more the higher i climbthat the more i believeall the more that thisdream will be mineif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touchthe skyfrom that one moment inmy lifei'm i madeput it all on thebe mineif i could reach, higherjust linewhat gonna be strongerknowing those dreams, you want with allyour heartand that i've tried myvery besti'd put my spirit to the the skyfrom testif i could reachif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touchthe skyfrom that one moment inmy lifei'm gonna be strongeri'm gonna be so much stronger reachsome days are meant to yes i ami put my spirit to the days we rise abovethe starsso i'll go the testif i could reach,if i could, if i couldif i could reachreach, i'd reach, i'd reachi'd reach, i'd reach somuch higherbe stronger
* This music was made by Gloria Estefan in 1996 for the Olympic games in Atlanta. Since that time it turns popular. About this amazing artist and her life and goals you can take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan, or if you´d like to share any interesting informations about it, with other English students, you can send it to me by email and I´ll post it here! I´ll be glad about it!
** Even if someone has this music as MP3, please send it to me that I´ll prepare the class activity! I also need the music: "Friday I'm in love" - The Cure, to prepare some activities too!
Expressions and words:
Guardar rancor: RESENT
Sapateado: TAP
Ficar na net: stay on-line.
AWHILE: for a short time;
WOUND UP: Very anxious, nervous or angry; E.G.: She gets quite wound up before a match.
HUNGER: a strong wish or desire; E.G.: I´m hunger for an adventure;
ATOLL: atol (portuguese);
Sumary: indice (portuguese);
dodging: desviando (portuguese);
glances: to give a quick short look;
straining: peneirando (portuguese);
swear: jurar (portuguese);
Stuck: unable to move/ fixed;
* try to use those words to create a new text, and bring me to correct!
That´s all for today! Have a nice first week of september!
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