Cold front approached Brazil

A severe cold front is expected to reach Brazil this week.

And it’s so good when we can talk about the things that are happening around us in English, don’t you agree? So notice the nouns related to weather, and the verbs we combine with them.

Heavy rain is forecast for this week, and a large mass of polar air is expected to make it snow in some cities in Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul by Wednesday evening.

The cold front is also going to hit the Southeast, Center-West, and even some northern states.

In the next few days, temperatures will drop between 8 and 10 degrees. The relative humidity, the gusts of wind, the frost, and, consequently, the wind chill factor will make us feel the cold even more intense.

To learn how to talk about the weather click on What’s the weather like?

Daily routines

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 notesand pay special attention to phrasal verbsverbs + prepositions, and collocations (a frequent or a particular combination of words).

Wow! We do lots of things during our day, don’t we?

What do you do every day? What is your typical day like?

Did your daily routine change after the COVID-19? Are you working from home?

Work on these questions using the vocabulary and phrases that you have learned.

You’ve got a friend…

Wow! Four months already! The virus, safety measures, lockdown, herd immunity, work from home, remote classes, feelings, good messages, songs, a poem… All that to give you content and language support to get through this challenging time of our lives. And support is something that a true friend gives us when we need. So, here it goes:

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!

Saying email addresses

When you say an email address:

Remember that @ is pronounced ‘at’ and . is pronounced ‘dot’: reservations@beachhotelbern.com is ‘reservations at beach hotel bern dot com’.

Sometimes there is a . in the person’s name: jeffery.amherst@britishcouncil.org is ‘jeffery dot amherst at british council dot org’.

_ in an email address is called ‘underscore’: teaching_ job@english_academy.com is ‘teaching underscore job at English underscore academy dot com’.