If you went to the UK tomorrow and talked to someone in their twenties, would you understand the slang they are using? I recently picked my 26-year old niece´s brains about British slang and selected some expressions, phrasal verbs and words that may help you grasp what´s going on in a dialogue. EXPRESSING HAPPINESS To …
If you live in São Paulo state, the question “CPF na nota?” may be familiar to you whenever you pay for goods in a shop. If you buy something in a shop in the UK, probably the first question you will be asked is ‘”Would you like to purchase a bag?” or simply “Want a …
If you teach high school groups or if you are considering to work with teenagers at school, then you must know that this requires some particular skills from us. Teenagers are very passionate, curious, and typical. If you leave a good first impression and make them admire you, they will just fall in love with …
After my last post on reading comprehension tips, I have decided to write about tips to teach speaking. The tips have three different sources, which are between parentheses. The ones which were written by me are based on my teaching experience. Following are twelve tips meant to help students get the most out of …
In our last post we saw that you can bake chicken and potatoes, aside from all the sweet stuff like cookies, cakes etc. Today we are going to see what we can ROAST. Curiously, both chicken and potatoes show up in the top 20 occurrences of ROAST followed by a noun, first word to the …
TO BARF VOMITAR; “CHAMAR O HUGO” I’m going to barf. Vou vomitar. Barf é uma palavra onomatopéica: seu som reproduz o da ação descrita (tal qual o Hugo da gíria brasileira). > > to chunder (AUS); (to) puke WOW SUCESSO EXTRAORDINÁRIO He’s a real wow with the girls. Ele faz um sucesso danado com as garotas. …
Buckle up to fasten a seatbelt (colocar cinto de segurança) The pilot of the plane asked the passengers to buckle up as there would be some turbulence ahead. O piloto do avião pediu aos passageiros que colocassem o cinto de segurança porque haveria alguma turbulência à frente. Tuck in 1) to make, esp. a child, …
Rio2016: 20/08/2016: o Brasil ganhou inédito ouro olímpico no SHOOT-OUT Pergunta: Por que quando um jogo está empatado mesmo após a prorrogação, e “vai para os pênaltis”, é hora de “shoot-out”? Uma vez que “to shoot-shot-shot” por si já significa atirar, disparar, chutar bola, ação de rápida movimentação, para que o OUT? Resposta: OUT …