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Easter! A long weekend?

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Este está sendo um feriadão, ou um feriado prolongado para você?

A palavra mais comum para dizermos feriado em inglês é holiday. Existe a expressão day off, cujo significado é dia de folga, mas, dependendo do contexto (sempre ele!), pode também ser usada com o sentido de feriado.

Se quiser falar fim de semana prolongado ou feriadão, você pode usar as expressões long weekend, three-day weekend quando o feriado cai na sexta ou na segunda, e four-day-weekend quando o feriado cai na quinta, com recesso na sexta, ou na terça, com recesso na segunda. O termo bank holiday weekend é usado no inglês britânico.

E as perguntas mais comuns antes e depois de um feriado prolongado são a respeito de seus planos para ele: 

  • What are you going to do this long weekend? or What did you do this long weekend?
  • How is your long weekend going to be? or How was your long weekend?
  • How are you going to spend your three-day weekend? or How did you spend your three-day weekend?
  • Where are you going to spend your long weekend? or Where did you spend your long weekend?

Agora pratique, completando as frases com as palavras ou expressões que faltam:

1- Friday was a _____________________.

(Sexta-feira foi feriado.)

2- It was ____________________________________.

(Foi um feriado de três dias.)

3- There are many ____________________in Brazil.

(Há muitos feriados cristãos no Brasil.)

4- Next long weekend, Corpus Christi, ________________ a Thursday this year.

(O próximo feriado prolongado, Corpus Christi, cai em uma quinta-feira este ano.)

5- Last Thursday I was _____________________________. (four words)

(Quinta-feira passada, eu estava em clima de feriado.)

6- I _______________ the holiday at home.

(Passei o feriado em casa.)

Agora confira suas respostas:

1 – holiday; 2 – a three-day weekend; 3 – Christian holidays; 4 – falls on; 5 – in a holiday mood; 6 – spent .

Use essas expressões e saiba mais sobre feriado e feriado prolongado.

Jesus Christ has risen! Hallelujah!

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Kelley Mooney sings her version of this classic song. Listen to it, look at the lyrics below, look up the words you don’t know and appreciate (realize, be conscious) what was done for us.

A crown of thorns placed on His head

He knew that He would soon be dead

He said, “Did you forget me, Father did you?”

They nailed Him to a wooden cross

Soon all the world would feel the loss

Of Christ the King before His Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

He hung His head and prepared to die

Then lifted His face up to the sky

Said, “I am coming home now Father, to you”

A reed which held His final sip

Was gently lifted to his lips

He drank His last and gave His soul to glory

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

The soldier who had used his sword

To pierce the body of our Lord Said, “Truly, this was Jesus Christ our Savior”

He looked with fear upon his sword

Then turned to face his Christ and Lord

Fell to his knees crying Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Took from his head the thorny crown

And wrapped him in a linen gown

Then laid him down to rest inside the tomb

The holes in his hands, his feet and side

Now in our hearts we know he died

To save us from ourselves, oh Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Three days went by, again they came

To move the stone, to bless the slain

With oil and spice anointing

Hallelujah

But as they went to move the stone

They saw that they were not alone

For Jesus Christ has risen, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

To err is human, to correct is divine

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You’ve probably heard the phrase, “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

It was written by the English poet Alexander Pope, in his poem An Essay on Criticism, in 1711, at age 23. A wise young man who remained in ill health throughout his life, read avidly and was able to support himself as a translator and writer.

But, would the “error”, the “mistake” be the problem?

Wouldn’t the problem be in the “judgment” we make on ourselves as well as on others?

According to the National Science Foundation, the average person has around 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are apparently negative and 95% of our thoughts are repetitive.

This is also true for our learning process, where “judgment” can do a lot of damage. We all make “mistakes”, as we are all, as human beings, “works in progress”.

What if we were able to stand back (not judge) and see that we are on our journey and that not choosing the best way sometimes, allows us to get to know a better one.

First let’s look at this proverb.

Below is very good listening, vocabulary, and content practice. You will hear a lot of the words and expressions we have been learning (task, figure out, solve, on the flip side, struggle, look at, discussion, looks like, procedure, leftovers, approach, worth it). Watch carefully. Take notes of the words you identify. Turn on subtitles if you need them.

To err is human – and can promote learning | Nikol Rummel shines a new light on failure in her talk and focuses on its productivity for learning. She argues that struggling can help activate relevant prior knowledge and allows us to gain a deeper understanding of a problem, and can thus prepare us for learning more successfully from subsequent instruction. 

Dr. Nikol Rummel says:

“Struggle is not only okay, it is in fact productive for learning”.

Catch up: more meanings

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The previous lesson explains the figurative meaning of to catch up, which is to talk with someone you know and you have not seen for some time to find out what they have been doing or to exchange or to learn the latest news or information.

Now we are going to review that and look at some different meanings. Listen carefully and take notes.

— phrasal verb /kætʃ/ past tense and past participle caught /kɔt/

  • to go faster so that you reach the person or vehicle in front of you

You go on ahead. I’ll catch you up in a minute. (catch somebody up)

We left before them, but they soon caught us up again. (catch somebody up)

If you hurry, you should catch up with them at the bridge.

She is really fast, and I couldn’t catch up with her.

fig. We’re a young, growing company, and we’re trying to catch up to the competition.

  • to do something that you have not been able, or did not have time to do earlier:

The deadline’s tomorrow. How are we ever going to catch up in time?

I just want to go home and catch up on some sleep.

I have to catch up on my reading.

She’s staying late at the office to catch up with/on some reports.

I have some work to catch up on.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/catch-up

Take part in it!

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The following words guide my teaching since day # 1:

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

William Butler Yeats

And that’s what I believe in!

I’m committed to making you take part actively in your learning process, to become involved in a way we can light the fire, we can clear a path, form a connection and develop a genuine interest and passion for communication, for exchange in the English language. 

And I truly hope you grow stronger in the knowledge of our amazing English-speaking world as well as to your full potential!

And try not to focus only on the journey’s end, but instead, enjoy what you are becoming along the way.

I welcome you all! We’ll create magic! At least for me: this is magic!

Andrea Althoff