Women’s rights and gender equality are taking centre stage in 2020. This year’s theme for International Women’s Day (8 March) is, “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”. Together, we need to mobilize to end gender-based violence; we have to call for economic justice and rights for all; bodily autonomy, sexual and reproductive health and rights. We want technology and innovation for gender equality; and feminist leadership.
The following video reveals that inequality is old news for working women.
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Hey girls! Do you usually wear your hair up or down?
Now, boys and girls! What kind of hair style do you have? What color is it? How long is it?
My hair is brown and wavy. I have shoulder length hair.
I usually tie my hair up in a bun. Sometimes I have a ponytail. I rarely wear it down.
Now carefully look at these two videos. The first one shows the basic vocabulary. The second one adds a lot more vocabulary and different ways to talk about hair.
Some of the styles are quite outdated but, never mind… Just write down everything that you can use to describe your hair. 😉
Sempre que um feriado cai próximo ao final de semana e algumas empresas, escolas, fazem um recesso na quinta e sexta, ou segunda e terça, chamamos em inglês de long weekend. Podemos dizer também, athree-day weekend, quando o feriado cai na sexta ou na segunda, e a four-day weekend, quando o feriado cai na quinta, com recesso na sexta, ou na terça, com recesso na segunda.
No inglês britânico o termo mais comum, que corresponde à feriado prolongado é bank holiday weekend.
E o que vem aí para nós no Brasil? Carnival! That’s how we spell it in English!
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 perguntar:
How is your long weekend going to be?
How are you going to spend your four-day weekend?
Where are you going to spend your long weekend?
What are you going to do this long weekend?
Agora que tal usarmos estas perguntas, acrescentando algo mais, para falarmos sobre este feriado de Carnival?
Complete as frases:
1- Carnival is a ________________ and it always ___________ ____ Tuesday.
(Carnaval é feriado e sempre cai numa terça-feira.)
2- It’ll be ____________________________________.
(Será um feriado de quatro dias.)
3- Carnival is a day off and it’s not a ____________________ holiday.
(O Carnaval é um dia de folga, e não é um feriado nacional.)
We’ve recently learnt about catching up, that is what we do after we haven’t seen someone for some time. And one way to ask about what the person has been doing is: What have you been up to?
It’s a very useful question. Do you know what it means?
Listen to this video and make notes of the questions and possible answers.
be up to sth
to be doing something: What are you up to at the moment?
