So now how would you say, “Estou me incomodando muito com minha família.”
Remember, sometimes we can’t say something using the words that the dictionary shows as the translation of the words we want. We say it in a different way. And how do we know that? Well, with…
Neste final de semana, haverá um feriadão, ou seja, será um fim de semana prolongado. Você sabe como dizer “feriado prolongado” em inglês?
Sempre que um feriado cai próximo ao final de semana e algumas empresas ou escolas fazem um recesso na quinta e sexta, ou segunda e terça, chamamos em inglês de “long weekend”. Você pode dizer também, a “three-day weekend”, quando o feriado é na sexta ou na segunda, ou então se o feriado é na quinta, com recesso na sexta, ou na terça, com recesso na segunda, podemos chamar de “four-day weekend”.
No inglês britânico o termo mais comum, que corresponde a “feriado prolongado” é “bank holiday weekend”.
E as perguntas mais comuns antes de um feriado prolongado são: Como será seu feriado? Com você passará o feriado? O que você fará neste feriado? Em inglês, você pode dizer:
How is your long weekend going to be?
How are you going to spend your three-day weekend?
Where are you going to spend your long weekend?
What are you going to do this long weekend?
Ah! E respondendo a pergunta acima, “Nossa Senhora Aparecida” é considerada a santa padroeira do Brasil.
Complete as frases com as palavras ou expressões que faltam:
1- Monday is a _____________________.
(Segunda-feira é feriado.)
2- It’ll be ____________________________________.
(Será um feriado de três dias.)
3- There are many ____________________in Brazil.
(Há muitos feriados cristãos no Brasil.)
4- Next long weekend, All Souls’ Day, ________________ a Friday this year.
(O próximo feriado prolongado, Finados,cai em uma segunda esse ano.)
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically disrupted every layer of the education sector, from early childhood through higher education.
In March of 2020, almost everyone thought schools shutting down would be a temporary situation and that students would be back in class like normal in no time. Last-minute plans were made with a rush to figure out virtual teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Roughly half a year later, normal is nothing close to where we are.
Now, many people still don’t feel safe going back face-to-face, i.e., in-person yet. Government, schools, and universities are planning for a beginning like no other we have seen in the past. Although they are left uncertain on how to proceed, they are coming out with different plans which can be:
fullyvirtual;
hybrid, blended model or schedule;
in-person teaching with remote students;
teaching online and in-person simultaneously.
The threat of potential exposure to COVID-19 is scary. Some fear is acceptable because it makes you vigilant about taking precautions, but too much of it can do more harm than good.
I know there is some stress and worry for those who are teachers or parents who have a child that is going back to school in-person, whether full time, every other day or every other week. They all worry about the kids’ adjustment to new methods to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus.
So, to talk about that, possible combinations are:
in-person, face to face, classroom-based, *traditional / virtual, online, remote, distance / blended *LEARNING/TEACHING
in-person/ remote, virtual STUDENT
hybrid, blended MODEL or SCHEDULE (under)
remote, online, and hybrid INSTRUCTION
being taught remotely, online or in a hybrid remote/online FORMAT
Right now, there are still a lot of questions about how resuming this school year will look. Many fine details need to be worked on, like markings on the hallways, walls, and desks as reminders of the safety measures, or the rules everyone will have to follow.
One of the only places masks will be able to come off inside of the buildings is in the cafeterias when students eat.
With all the rules, you might expect students to have a hard time, but some say that they are willing to follow the rules because they want to be back. They miss their teachers, the environment, the staff, the cafeteria, and all that interaction.
I believe government, institutions, teachers, and parents should all do what it takes to keep kids safe and get them the education they need.
Information Technology (IT) now dominate our lives. We use computers, the internet, mobile phones, scanners and printers to make our lives a lot easier. We have increased dependence on them, and most of us are not able to get byon a day-to-day basis without them as well. There is nothing more frustrating than when a computer isn’t working properly (e.g. when you can’t move the cursor – the arrow, on the screen) or isn’t working at all.
We will look at the vocabulary connected tocomputers and laptops (portable computers) when they have problems and ways to solve/fix them.
Read the following conversation between Juan and Peter. Peter is having problems with his laptop before givinga short Power Point presentation in a meeting.
From the context, try to guess what the meaning of the words/phrases in bold are. Then do the quiz at the end to check if you are right.
Juan: ‘What’s happening Peter, you look frustrated?’
Peter: ‘My laptop won’t turn on. It was working before, I don’t know what’s wrong!’
Juan: ‘Is it plugged in?’
Peter: ‘Yeah, I have connected it to the electricity, but that shouldn’t be important because the laptop’s battery still has charge or power.’
Juan: ‘Are you sure that the socket in the wall has power? Try to plug it into another socket.’
Peter: ‘I’ve tried that already and the socket has power. I thought that there may be a problem with the powercable, but it’s working fine with the other laptop here.’
Juan: ‘I had a problem with my desktop computer last year where the wires had come loose in the power cable. So I had to replace the power cable. You can use my laptop to show it.’
Peter: ‘Thanks Juan, but I only saved the presentation to my hard drive. So I can’t show the presentation on your laptop.’
Juan: ‘Can you remember when I had that problem with my laptop in July. When suddenly the screenfroze and the laptop wouldn’t respond when I pressed any of the keys on the keyboard or when I moved my finger on the touch pad. Sometimes it recovered and I could continue to use the application, but other times it crashed and stopped working completely. So, I had to reboot the laptop. It was so frustrating, because I sometimes lost all of the work I’d been doing. Then the applicationdidn’t load at all, so I couldn’t even use it then. The technician told me it was a softwarefault with the application. So he just reinstalled the application and it’s been working fine.’
Peter :’I’m happy for you, but I don’t have any power to the laptop, so it’s not a software fault. It seems like a hardware fault.’
We’re now going to work on an online quiz, which will give us a definition/description of each of the words/phrases in bold from the above text. Fill in the blanks with one of these words/phrases in bold. Only use one word/phrase once and write it as it is in the text. Click on the “Check Answers” button at the bottom of the quiz to check your answers.
Okay! I think it’s very important for us to know how to talk about that, although I truly hope none of these problems happen to you! 😉
