Learning to talk about your daily routine is very important, and we’ll look at the basic vocabulary you need to do that. If you’re already comfortable with this vocabulary, skip to the next video.
If you need more practice, try the interactive game.
In the following two videos, you will learn to talk about your daily routine by observing Bob’s routine. He will take you along with him for part of his daily routine and explain everything he does in his day in clear and easy-to-understand English. You will learn many new English words and phrases.
Listen carefully a few times, make notes, and pay special attention to phrasal verbs, verbs + prepositions, and collocations (a frequent or a particular combination of words).
Wow! We do lots of things during our day, don’t we?
This is You’ve Got A Friend performed by the worldwide cast of Beautiful (in quarantine) for The Actors Fund.
Listening to this song is good enought, but to make it even better, go to lyricstraining, select a game mode from beginners to expert, and work on the lyrics! It’s so fun and it’s a super way of learning and practicing your English!
“When you’re down…” You know what ‘down’ means! We have already looked at that! So now, enjoy the song!
About four months ago, our governor, here in one of the southernmost states in Brazil, ordered a lockdown. The Coronavirus COVID-19nightmare was just reaching this part of the world.
The pandemic came, and apparently is at its peak now, or not… There’s a lot of controversyabout it.
We were placed on lockdown one more time about a week ago, but it was already lifted. So, Blumenau is not in lockdown anymore.
“When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with Covid-19, we can’tafford to silence or demonize professionals with different views. Even worse, we can’t allow questions of science, medicine, and public health to become captives of politics. Misinformation about Covid-19 is abundant and today, more than ever, we need vigorous academic debate.
Since Covid-19 first emerged at the end of 2019, thousands of scientists have been working to answer fundamental questions. How lethal is it? How many people have already had it? If so, are they now immune? What drugs can fight it? What can societies do to slow it? What happens when we relax our public health interventions? Can we develop a vaccine to stop it?
Scientists agree that it will take 18 months or longer to develop a vaccine. Even for cloth masks, we see arguments on both sides.
Some believe that nations which instituted social distancing but with fewer lockdownrestrictions, are pursuing the wisest course — at least for that country — while others favor the strictestlockdown measures possible. We think it is important to hear, consider, and debate these views without hostility.”
So, here we are! What do you think about all this? How do you feel about it?
This text contains excerpts from the article https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/27/hear-scientists-different-views-covid-19-dont-attack-them/, which were selected with the solely purpose of providing a basis for class discussion, through vocabulary learning and practice of an issue we’re all experiencing. A couple of more difficult words were replaced by more easier ones, to facilitate understanding.
No estudo do inglês, o ditado popular ver para crer precisa ser substituído por ouvir para crer.
Em primeiro lugar, ainterpretação fonética da ortografia em inglês apresenta diferenças em relação ao português.
Em segundo lugar, e mais importante, a correlação entre ortografia e pronúncia em inglês é notoriamente irregular. Isso quer dizer que, o mesmo grafema (letra) não corresponde sempre ao mesmo fonema (som), isto é, não tem sempre a mesma interpretação, a mesma pronúncia.
Para aqueles que não têm contato frequente com a língua falada, com a forma oral do inglês, a interferência da ortografia na pronúncia das palavras pode ser nociva e persistente.
A pronúncia do sufixo “_ed”, indicador de passado nos verbos regulares do inglês, é um problema muito comum para brasileiros. O problema é agravado pelas três pronúncias que o sufixo “_ed” pode assumir.
A seguir, dois excelentes vídeos, que juntos elucidam e ilustram a correta pronúncia.
With special thanks to my student Afonso for sharing this last video with us.
