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Talking about your family

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Você tem uma família grande? O que você gosta de fazer quando passa um tempo com sua família?

Falar de família pode ser uma boa maneira de começar uma conversa em inglês, por isso é útil você saber o que dizer, como também saber perguntar.

First, let’s review the vocabulary by looking at the family tree:

Next, let’s learn how to talk about them. Watch the video below and make notes of the possible ways.

Now talk about your family. Introduce them. Say who they are. Add details to make your answer longer and more interesting.

Here is one more video that gives you examples of how to talk about your nuclear family, your extended family, your paternal side of family and maternal side of family, that is the relatives on/from your dad’s side and on/from your mom’s side of the family.

Food groups

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We have already learned how to talk about diet, weight, height, together with some good phrases for expressing what happens during the time you’re on a diet. Now we’re going to learn about the food groups so that we can have/hold a long discussion about this subject.

Foods from the basic food groups provide the nutrients essential for life and growth. In particular, vegetables, legumes, and fruit protect against illness and are essential to a healthy diet.

 The food groups are:

  • Dairy and/or their alternatives: the foods in this group are excellent sources of calcium, which is essential for strong and healthy bones. Most adults do not get enough dairy in their diet. For your heart health, pick from the many low-fat or fat-free choices in the dairy group. Choosing fat-free or low-fat milk and yogurt, as well as lower-fat cheese, gives you important vitamins and minerals, with less fat. Not many other foods in our diet contain as much calcium as these foods.
  • Fruit: fruit provides vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and many phytonutrients (nutrients naturally present in plants), that help your body stay healthy.
  • Grain (cereal) foods: always choose wholegrain and/or high fiber varieties of bread, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles, etc. Refined grain products (such as cakes or biscuits) can be high in added sugar, fat and sodium.
  • Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beans: our bodies use the protein we eat to make specialized chemicals such as hemoglobin and adrenalin. Protein also builds, maintains, and repairs the tissues in our body. Muscles and organs (such as your heart) are primarily made of protein.
  • Vegetables and legumes/beans: vegetables should make up a large part of your daily food intake and should be encouraged at every meal (including snack times). They provide vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and phytonutrients to help your body stay healthy.

VEGETABLES OR PROTEIN

Are you confused about whether to count beans and peas as vegetables or protein foods? Try this—count them in the vegetable group if you regularly eat meat, poultry, and fish. Count them in the protein foods group if you are a vegetarian or vegan or if you seldom eat meat, poultry, or fish.

OILS

If possible, use oils instead of solid fats, like butter, when cooking. Oils are high in calories, but they are also an important source of nutrients like vitamin E.

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/know-your-food-groups

https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/healthy-eating/nutrition/the-five-food-groups

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/food-variety-and-a-healthy-diet

Carwash: one of the world’s biggest corruption investigation

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Tomorrow we celebrate the Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil, which represents the end of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic. I think it comes in handy now, to refresh our memories concerning what the Carwash Operation has accomplished.

The Carwash Operation (Operação Lava Jato) began as a local money laundering investigation and has grown into the largest investigation in Brazil. The state prosecutors from the Carwash Task Force have been on the front line of investigations in Brazil since April 2014. Dealing with one of the world’s biggest corruption scandals, the Petrobras case, they have investigated, prosecuted, and obtained heavy sentences against some of the most powerful members of Brazil’s economic and political elites.

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https://www.graphicnews.com/en/pages/35295/

How tall are you?

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We have already learnt how to talk about weight, diet, together with some good phrases for telling what might be happening during this time. Now we’re going to learn how to express height.

Listen carefully to the video.

How tall are you? I’m 183 cm tall.

or

What’s your height? My height is 183 cm.

We use tall mostly for people, trees, buildings with many floors, and a few other things like factory chimneys or electricity pylons, which are higher than they are wide.

How tall are you?

There are some beautiful tall trees in the park.

In other cases we usually prefer high.

Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe.

The garden has very high walls.

But in measurements, we use tall for people, and we prefer high for things.

I’m 5’5″ tall.

That tree is about 30m high.

Got it? 😉