Have you already experienced that? Have you already got confused when you entered a building and were trying to find your way around?
So remember that what we understand as “térreo” is the first floor for the Americans.
I hope you don’t get lost now! 
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?
Amanhã será feriado. Mas será um long weekend? Não. Para a maioria das pessoas, este final de semana não será um long weekend, não será um feriadão, ou seja, um fim de semana prolongado.
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, a three-day weekend, quando o feriado cai na sexta ou na segunda. Se o feriado cai na quinta, com recesso na sexta, ou na terça, com recesso na segunda, podemos chamá-lo de four-day weekend.
No inglês britânico o termo mais comum, que corresponde à feriado prolongado é bank holiday weekend.
Mas em breve haverá um long weekend, e tenho certeza que todos já estão pensando e fazendo planos para usufruí-lo. Será o…
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:
Agora que tal usarmos o vocabulário destas perguntas, acrescentando algo mais, para falarmos sobre este feriado de Proclamation of the Republic ou Republic Day?
Complete as frases:
1- Republic Day is a ___________________ and it __________________________ Friday this year.
(É feriado na Proclamação da República, e cai numa sexta-feira este ano.)
2- It’ll be ____________________________________.
(Será um feriado de três dias.)
3- There are many ____________________in Brazil.
(Há muitos feriados nationais no Brasil.)
4- I’m in a ___________________________.
(Estou em clima de feriado.)
5- We’ll _________________ the holiday at home.
(Vamos passar o feriado em casa.)
Agora confira suas respostas!
1 –holiday/falls on; 2 – a three-day weekend; 3 – national/public holidays; 4- holiday mood; 5 – spend .
But before we enjoy Republic Day, let’s observe All Souls Day by praying for our departed loved ones.
Quer ver mais sobre feriados? Clique aqui.
https://blog.influx.com.br/como-se-diz-feriado-prolongado-em-ingles
https://blog.influx.com.br/exercicio-de-pascoa-e-feriados-em-ingles
We have already learned how to express ourselves concerning diet and weight. Now we’ll look at some more phrases used to talk about that.
So here are the phrases that you can use:
Okay! Now go for it!
I have been talking about diet this week. Then a student sent me few jokes. Or would that be a few jokes?
There is a difference between few and a few.
Without a, few usually have rather negative meaning. It may ‘suggest not as many as one would like’, ‘not as many as expected’, and similar ideas.
Few people can speak a foreign language perfectly.
A few is more positive: its meaning is generally closer to some. It may suggest ideas like ‘better than nothing’ or ‘more than expected’.
You don’t need to go shopping. We’ve got a few potatoes and some steak.
Compare:
His ideas are difficult, and few people understand them.
His ideas are difficult, but a few people understand them.
So, going back to the question put at the beginning of this post, what my diligent student did was: he’s sent me a few jokes about diet! Thanks Afonso!